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I also use Geany as my GUI-oriented editor, both on Windows and Linux. I like that I don't have to think about different shortcuts when I switch between environments. And feels light-weight; doesn't get in the way. I'm not a big fan of elaborate IDE's. I do some work in MS Visual Studio (non-Perl-related stuff) and for all its bells and whistles I still wish for simplicity.


Dave

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Re^3: A good editor for Perl sources
by LanX (Saint) on Feb 28, 2012 at 12:18 UTC
    does Geany support correct/automatic code-indentation? When I took a look into it 2 weeks ago I wasn't able to figure out how.

    >I like that I don't have to think about different shortcuts when I switch between environments.

    indeed an ugly problem, I solved it by resetting/aliasing the usual control keys in emacs to mainstream - like x,c,v,a,z,f - which was tricky because I needed to elaborate some DWIM decisions to support the old functionality.

    And most people have such problems of conflicts with "muscle memory" of there fingers.

    E.g. I know people who try making there Firefox behave like VI with add-ons like vimperator.

    Cheers Rolf

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      Geay is based on Scintilla (SciTe), of course it does (see http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaRelated.html  )

      I tried configuring vim like firefox/notepad/scite with  gvim -g -y -p , its very close but unvariably the vim-ness kept popping up. I'm glad I knew enough to esc esc esc esc esc :D

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        If indentation gets confused in emacs I can reindent a selection or a single line using tab once!

        But setting "intelligent intendation" in Geany to Shift-Tab didn't help, it only produced fuzzy non-indented code on my platform.

        > gvim -g -y -p ,

        interesting, thanks for showing, will give it a try! :)

        Cheers Rolf

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