On Thu, 06 Apr 2017 23:48:10 -0400, rickman wrote:

> On 4/6/2017 8:12 AM, Daniel James wrote:
>> In article , The Natural Philosopher
>> wrote:
>>> For linux with a gui, frankly it takes a lot to beat Geany for
>>> programming work.
>>
>> Geany is an editor with pretensions to being an IDE, but it's not
>> actually an IDE, and won't cut the mustard if what you want is actually
>> an IDE. As an editor it's pretty good ... but so is the Gnome text
>> editor, gedit (or "pluma" as Mate calls it on this system).
>
> I don't know if you realize it, but you said several times that Geany is
> not really an IDE without explaining what is lacking that makes it not
> "real".
>
> So I looked at Geany and it is interesting.  But they don't support the
> terminal emulation function under Windows.  In reading why I don't get
> what they are saying.  Can I get a translation?
>
> "Windows build differences
>
> Some features are missing:
>
>      embedded terminal emulation (VTE, as far as I know there is nothing
> equal for Windows) "
>
>
> Is VTE a package that is used to provide the terminal emulation in Geany
> and this package is not available (or anything like it) under Windows?
>
> I read something recently that said we can read words that have letters
> very jumbled as long as the first and last letter are right.  I get
> tired of correcting my typing errors and might start testing this
> threoy.  I wnoedr how mnay wlil fnid it obcejtnoialbe?

Geany on Linux has a panel that gives you access to the Linux command
line, a very useful feature.

I did not realise until now that it was missing from the windows version
(then again the windows command line is limited so maybe no so huge a
loss)



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