Geany was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies on other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a specific Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME.

Geany includes the following features:

• Syntax highlighting
• Code completion
• Auto completion of often used constructs like if, for and while
• Auto completion of XML and HTML tags
• Call tips
• Code folding
• Many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal
• Symbol lists
• Embedded terminal emulation
• Extensibility through plugins