Comments on: Geany: The Linux text editor for ex-Windows users

By: Simon Oxley

Simon Oxley — Thu, 20 May 2010 08:35:01 +0000

Thanks for your comments David, I didn’t know about the Draw Spaces plugin. I’ll definitely check it out.

By: David

David — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:57:05 +0000

Gedit is *this* close to being the holy grail of editors in Linux, only to disappoint you with some really annoying quirk.

Gedit has the Draw Spaces plugin. It works quite well, but customizing the colors is a bit of a pain (there’s a blog on that topic here: http://www.codeistry.com/blog/2009/05/choosing-syntax-highlighting-colours-for-the-draw-spaces-gedit-plugin/).

For me the killer is that there’s no working plugin to setup tab/spaces rules on a per-file-type basis though. I like my HTML and CSS files to use tabs and my Python files to use spaces. You could use modelines, but meh…

So, VIM is it for now

By: Simon Oxley

Simon Oxley — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:33:14 +0000

@Jon – ha! I tried the WINE route too. I think you’ll get on ok with Geany, it feels very familiar after Notepad++.

You must let me know if you uncover any juicy Geany features or find any useful plugins.

By: Jon Winstanley

Jon Winstanley — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:52:49 +0000

Hi Simon, that editor looks great. I have struggled for a while using Notepad++ through WINE but this looks excellent. Thanks for the tip.