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GNU Emacs | Geany | |
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242 | 91 | |
4,230 | 2,972 | |
1.3% | 0.8% | |
9.8 | 9.2 | |
2 days ago | 7 days ago | |
Emacs Lisp | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
GNU Emacs
Posts with mentions or reviews of GNU Emacs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.
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How to combine daily journal with general database of people, places, things, etc.
If you want to spare a couple of detours, you probably could start with Emacs Org-mode according to Greenspun's eleventh rule: "Any sufficiently complicated PIM or note-taking program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Org mode."
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Microsoft is exploring adding a command line text editor into Windows, and it wants your feedback
Emacs: winget install GNU.Emacs
- Emacs and Shellcheck
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Free Tech Tools and Resources - MAC Lookup, SQL Tutorials, JSON Converter & More
GNU Emacs is a versatile, open-source text editor that offers extensibility and customization—a sort of self-documenting real-time display editor. Our thanks for the suggestion go to CartanAnnullator.
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VScode vs Others: the War on Code Editors
Emacs
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Proof of Concept clang plugin that automatically binds C/C++ -> Lua
Their DEFUN and DEFVAR macros for example let us define a function or a variable that will be available as a Lisp function, and can be used as an ordinary C function from the C code. Emacs is written in pure C99 language and works with both GCC and Clang I believe. We can just define a C function via macro, and it is auto exported and made available to Lisp. For example my first patch to Emacs was for this function (we added "count" argument to make it possible to skip enumerating files in a directory for the case when user code is just interesting if a directory is empty or not):
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What's you preferred inbox tool and why?
- digital world,, Emacs Org Mode with Orgzly and Syncthing (to synchronize between devices)
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How to fix Emacs constant freezing on long lines?
If you're like me and you are a hard fan of word wrapping, in emacs 29, it looks like they added two variables which you can modify so emacs would perform better (performance is still not as smooth as vscode): long-line-threshold and large-hscroll-threshold. long-line-threshold works this way: if there exists a line in the current buffer that has more characters than the specified value, emacs would start the performance functionalities. Also large-hscroll-threshold also work the same way as long-line-threshold but it starts the performance functionalities when the wrapped line becomes more than the specified value. I'm not exactly sure if the conditions for both long-line-threshold and large-hscroll-threshold should be met for the perfomance functionalities to be enabled or only one of them meeting the condition would cause the functionalities to start. You can also see if the functionalities are enabled in the current buffer by evaluating the function long-line-optimizations-p. If evaluating (long-line-optimizations-p) returns nil, it means the performance improvements aren't applied, if it returns non nil, it means they are enabled. You can read more in here: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/NEWS.29 . Search for "Emacs is now capable of editing" in that page and the section about these features would come up. You should also disable features related to bidirectional editing and stuff.
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Is the official GNU Emacs up to date?
Yes, the documentation is up to date. If you browse the commit history you will notice that many of the commits are changes to the documentation. Emacs is a living, breathing application and IDE.
Geany
Posts with mentions or reviews of Geany.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-28.
- NotepadNext – a cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++
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Geany 2.0 Is Out
right on the main page, there is a screenshot. If you click it, it takes you to more screenshots.
Open https://www.geany.org/ in a web browser like chrome or firefox
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What’s an free bare bones IDE for Python that works smoothly out of the box?
When I installed my IDE I just wanted something lightweight, so I went with Geany. I've been using it for years without trouble.
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What lightweight and open source Python IDEs would you recommend (if any) for Linux?
Link: https://www.geany.org/
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Scintilla is a free source code editing component with a permissive license
Take a look at Geany https://www.geany.org/ which uses scintilla under the hood and is blisteringly fast and lightweight and plugin friendly as well as FOSS.
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A distro for 12 year old laptops
AntiX is definitely going to be the fastest of the recommendations here. I have it on a Core Duo with 2G Ram and I am really a very big fan of that distro. It is all there, sometimes it takes a bit of time to get use to its quirks, but it is worth powering through. You have the option of three lightweight window managers and then there are two file managers that are used to give you some desktop functionality. Take some time to learn which one of those options you like the best. Here is a screenshot of my setup after fiddling with it a bit. For a lighter weight text editor/IDE check out Geany.
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CLion vs VSCode in 2023 for C++
Another FAST editor -- they call it a mini IDE -- for C++ and a bunch of other languages is Geany https://www.geany.org/
- It's the 9th anniversary of Geany not fixing C function highlighting. Join me in appreciating the utter state of FOSS. 🙃🙃🙃
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Bash script help
I did copy-paste your fenced code into an editor (geany). Some of the indentations use tabulators, other explicit spaces. I recommend to stick either with one, or the other. Note, good editors allow you to use the tabulator key and -- on the fly the editor inserts (an adjustable number of) explicit spaces into the source code. In case of geany, this is available from the GUI via Edit -> Preferences, then Editor -> Indentation. Get in touch with your peers/colleagues, and adjust this accordingly (e.g., 2, 3, 4 spaces per tabulator key/indentation level; frequently either 2, or 4). Once if you all agree on a format in common, exchange, maintenance and collaboration (think e.g., GitLab/GitBucket/GitHub) is going to be considerably easier. (No, I don't know if there is bash code reformatter as e.g., fprettify for Fortran, yapf/black for Python [where indentation actually is functional], or rubocop for Ruby.)
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What are some alternatives?
When comparing GNU Emacs and Geany you can also consider the following projects:
thonny - Python IDE for beginners
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
Atom - :atom: The hackable text editor
KDevelop - Cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP
Vim - The official Vim repository
notepadqq - A simple, general-purpose editor for Linux
notepad-plus-plus - Notepad++ official repository
spacemacs - A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
uemacs - Random version of microemacs with my private modificatons
org-roam-ui - A graphical frontend for exploring your org-roam Zettelkasten