Jul 21
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.
Jun 13
So it’s been another interesting stretch of not blogging. A quick recap involves school, work, play and Nexuiz (which is a cross between work and play). For school, I managed a project called Object Organizer which you can learn more about in the wiki. I learned a lot about code, projects and people during this experience. I hope to share some techniques, such as the jQuery AJAX login I’ve developed with you all soon.
I’ve been really busy with my Senior Project / Nexuiz Community, Nexuiz Ninjaz developing a web based statistics frontend for players to check their stats. It will be similar to an already existing statistics script but we plan on doing a few things different. As the project grows, I will post information I find interesting about the project(s).
My main computer died and my thinkpad was going haywire so I was able to get another computer from a friend in exchange for work and I did a fresh OS install on my thinkpad. Both computers use Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04, the desktop dual boots into XP 64bit. I’ve stayed booted into Ubuntu most the time. And I’ve done many neat things with syncing my laptop and desktop. Utilizing programs such as Synergy and Unison.
Ubuntu has improved drastically since I’ve lasted tried it. There are a few annoying bugs… like the fact that xinerama is buggy with games causing me to create a single monitor xorg.conf I run in a different tty just for games but the time I’m spending configuring, is time I was wasting on windows before. As crappy as having my desktop die was, due to good planning I was able to recovery everything I need and this event has gotten me back into Linux.
I hope to have something more for you next post but if you can’t wait, start reading some of my other sites :).
