Geany Portable Help

cross-platform goodness

Geany Portable is the popular Geany cross platform code editor packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can develop your code on the go. It has all the same great features as Geany including support for C++, Perl, Python, and more. Plus, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your projects with you wherever you go. Learn more about Geany...

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This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software. OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.

Portable App Issues

• Downloading a Portable App
• Installing a Portable App
• Using a Portable App
• Upgrading a Portable App

General Geany & Geany Portable Issues

• FAQ

PathSupport: You can add PATH support for compilers by configuring GeanyPortable.ini found in Other\Source. specify from the root of the portable device. Use @Drive for the drive letter. Specify in the format @Drive\Perl\bin\, etc. Seperate with multiple entries with a semicolon.

Custom Font Support: By copying GeanyPortable.ini to the GeanyPortable folder and specifying true under AddtionalFonts, GeanyPortable will seek to load custom fonts from the GeanyPortable\Data\fonts directory.  You may have as many or as few as you like.  Custom font support was implemented using techniques from PortableFonts by Wraithdu

Using Plugins: Please use the Geany Portable Plugins Package to install the plugins.

Special Thanks to

Bart.S for finding a fixing a bug with the langauge switching.