[Geany-Users] Missing Eclipse Features?

[Chris Spencer]

Hi,

I'm looking for a replacement for Eclipse, and I recently discovered Geany.
I've installed it and all of it's plugins from the Ubuntu 16 packages, and
now I'm trying to understand it's interface. It seems to have most of the
features of Eclipse, but a few major things are missing, so I'd hope
someone can confirm these are missing or clarify where they are.
Specifically:

1. Git integration

Eclipse's eGit plugin allows you to:
a. commit all changes in a project
b. view a graphical diff and resolve merges of all changes in a project
c. see all file changes and conflicts in a project's tree browser via
folder/filename icons

Does Geany have a plugin that does this? There appears to a git-changebar
plugin, but even though I created a project for my local git repo and
enabled the plugin, there doesn't appear to be any git actions shown
anywhere, nor is it reflecting any changes that are made. Unfortunately,
the git-changebar doc site (https://plugins.geany.org/git-changebar.html)
has virtually no documentation on how to use the plugin.

2. Multiple project browsing

I can create an arbitrary number of projects in Eclipse and edit files from
multiple projects simultaneously. How do you do this in Geany? I can create
and open a project, but I seem to be only able to view one project's files
at a time, which is a huge limitation.

3. Project wide file search

Eclipse has a feature to search all files in all projects. I see I can
right-click in Geany and select "Find in Files", but this doesn't appear to
work. For example searching for the string literal "ss FooBar(" returns no
files with matching content and a dozen error messages like:

    grep -nHIiF -- "ss FooBar(" (in directory:
/home/chris/git/myproject/src)
    /bin/grep: dir1: Is a directory
    /bin/grep: dir2: Is a directory
    /bin/grep: dir3: Is a directory

Am I missing something? Where are search results shown?

Other than that, Geany performs very well, and if I can figure out how to
plug these feature gaps, I'd really like to start using it. Memory-wise
alone, it's a huge improvement over Eclipse, which consumes 20% of my 8GB
of memory, compared to 0.5% with Geany.

Regards,
Chris
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