Veteran editors Notepad++ and Geany – good and Electron-free – hit milestones

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Although I'm a full time Vim (terminal) user, I like Geany a lot for the occasional visual scanning through of files, doing search and replace (which I feel is somehow easier in GUI text apps), or copy and pasting (which can be quirky for vim in the terminal).

If it would have just a bit more IDE-level plugins, for things like syntax highlighting, and a vim mode, it would be perfect!

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Had you tried installing the `geany-plugins` package, as I mentioned in TFA?

It is around 10x the size of the editor itself, but that's still only about 30MB, and I think it can provide most of what you ask.

Ah, I think I did at some point, and had forgot that it has vim mode. Neat!

Also was going to say there there isn't the same language level support as I get e.g. for Python in Vim with Jedi, but I see now there is a Jedi plugin for Geany: https://github.com/notetau/geany-jedi-complete

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