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Geany vs GNU Emacs

A side-by-side look at Geany and GNU Emacs. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Geany

Geany

Development

Geany is a lightweight, fast, and powerful cross-platform text editor. It has support for syntax highlighting for over 150 file types, code folding, auto-completion, symbol lists, etc. Geany is customizable and extensible via plugins.

lightweightfastcrossplatformsyntax-highlightingcode-foldingautocompletion
GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs

Development

GNU Emacs is a popular, open source text editor and computing environment. It runs on most operating systems and provides extensibility through an Emacs Lisp interpreter.

text-editoremacs-lispextensibleopen-source