Do Know Evil – Tyler Mulligan’s Tips and Tricks

I was browsing around linuxappfinder.com today and came across Geany, which I’ve already gotten quite comfortable with.

Some features I found that make it similar to notepad++

- The hotkeys are very similar if not identical to notepad++ (gedit has different ones)
- It supports regex find/replace
- It supports ‘find in files’ – by using grep
- It’s a lightweight and efficient IDE

Some features Geany has that notepad++ doesn’t

- Status window with a history
- Scribble pad
- Built in terminal
- Color picker
- Support for projects
- Tight integration with my window manager
- The functions menu is expanded to contain all sorts of clever information that I can fold in a non buggy tree

Some features notepad++ has that geany doesn’t

- TextFX (neat macros that help you with string related pattern updates)
- GUI for changing theme colors
- Tabbed find/replace and find in all (nit pick)

Why I’m quickly choosing Geany over Notepad++

With tight integration with gnome (as opposed to notepad++ which I have to run through wine) and a package of dark themes which I was able to find quickly through the Geany’s FAQ.

I haven’t tried it on Windows yet but I’d imagine it’d run pretty well.. though you are missing out on a lot of things you can take advantage of in linux. If you’re a windows user and would like to give it a whirl, this will help you.

Due to a lack of funds and neglect I’ve lost xepic.com to squatters. It’s quite unfortunate because I’ve done a lot of marketing for it and now I’ve lost all meaningful back links. I don’t feel like wasting time dancing with these fools who repeatedly degrade the quality of the internet for their own benefit, so I opted to port the application to a new domain. I was able to pickup xepic.net, mirroring the old application exactly. This means all links work if you just replace .com with .net.

Porting the application was easy… I just had to change a few variables. What I’m more concerned about is all the back links coming from my sites, I have to go through and change all those before google docks me for linking to a ‘bad neighborhood’.

Live and learn I guess. It boggles my mind… around the same time I renewed 5 domains I didn’t really care about. Everything happens for a reason though I guess, right?