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Part of me has wished I had a fancy IDE like visual studio provides, but without the commercial license and heavy system resources. I usually find vim to be enough syntax highlighting and it is definitely light weight. Occasionally, jEdit or Notepad++ seems like the best compromise between small, fast and features.

This morning I found Geany. It feels like emacs without the memory requirements. It has tabbed files and function indexes. The view for each function or code block can be compressed/hidden easily.

Best of all, it doesn’t depend on either Gnome or KDE toolkits, so it doesn’t force specific desktop environment libraries to be loaded, reducing RAM requirements for half of us that use the othe OE.

I hope my fellow Linux users find this code editor – mini-IDE useful.