Hi,

Geany 0.6 has been released.

Changes since Geany 0.5:

* added option to place new file tabs to the right or left of the tab list * improved file open dialog * improved scrolling of the compiler output window * rewrote most of the code for compiling files, now all settings are read from filetype definition files * now, you can drag files from a file manager into Geany and they will be opened * improved handling of filenames which contain non-UTF8 chars * added user-definable comment characters to all filetype definition files * implemented folding * added file properties dialog * improved search and find dialogs * Geany now creates a FIFO, to communicate between different instances for opening files in an already running instance * added filetypes SQL and (O)Caml * many small improvements * fixed lots of bugs, including #1419473, #1422135, #1421776 and #1441359 (for a complete list see the ChangeLog, also available on http://geany.uvena.de)

All downloads can be found on http://geany.uvena.de/ http://www.uvena.de/files/ or https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=153444

Some important notes: Be sure to backup any modified files in $prefix/share/geany. All of the filetype defintion files in this location will be overwritten since they all have changed. I'm sorry about that and I promise with Geany 0.7 it will be better because than you can overwrite these settings with files in your home directory. i rewrote most of the code which is related to the build menu item. Now you can define the compiler(also linker and view programs) path and options in the filetype definition files ($prefix/share/geany/filetype.*) and you can even use wildcards. The options are described in the files. I think with Geany 0.7 or 0.8 I will write some documentation for that, but at the moment there is no time.

*Important* Please use Geany with care, if you have newer GTK libraries installed. Since GTK 2.8.12 Geany seems to be very unstable and crashes very often. This bug still exists in this release, so I recommend to downgrade the GTk libraries or use Geany very carefully. Sorry, I try to find the bug.

I want especially thank Nick Treleaven, who sent me many patches for this release and Veit Wahlich who builds the Fedora Core 4 RPMs of Geany.

Another nice thing: Geany will be included in PuppyLinux 1.09 and it can be installed from the FreeBSD ports, yeah.

Happy Coding, Enrico