Geany 0.17

I've been using (and recommending) geany for some time, it's a far nicer and far lighter editor than gedit and has excellent syntax highlighting and symbol browsing support. One feature it was lacking has now been fixed in 0.17 - clear, simple handling of debian/control files. It's a real bonus for packages that have lots of binaries built from a single source - each Package: stanza is a separate section in the symbol browser and makes it trivial to skip between stanzas. gedit doesn't have a symbol browser available, even as a plugin, the perl syntax highlighting in gedit is unusable to me and anjuta is just too heavyweight and bulky for perl packages.

I've always liked the embedded terminal in geany (much cleaner than the equivalent in gedit) and the embedded scribble pad which is far more useful than having to create a unwanted file window and then being nagged to discard it. The iterative search in geany is simply the easiest I've found anywhere. Simple tools like ChangeLog template insertion, date stamp and licence text insertion, tab to space bidirectional conversion and easy indent control make editing so much nicer in geany.

So now I exclusively use geany for all my perl and shell work and anjuta for all my C/C++ work. gedit has finally been purged.