Cleany

A wrapper script for Geany projects.

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Introduction

cleany is a simple Bash wrapper script around Geany's executable which makes it easier to open projects. Every project gets its own complete configuration (both global and project-specific). Geany is started up in a mode suitable for working on a project as a directory of files.

Other than -h for help/usage message, only the last argument passed to cleany is processed, the rest of the arguments are passed directly to geany. The last argument is taken to be the project base directory. If the project doesn't exist, a new configuration will be created for it.

cleany passes a project-specific configuration directory using the -c option as well as passes a project filename to Geany.

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Usage

Create or open project in the current directory

$ cleany .

Create or open a project in another directory

$ cleany /else/where

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Tips

• Add the cleany script to your $PATH environment variable to avoid having to type its full path.
• Load the "ProjectOrganizer" plugin to get project-wide tags and a sidebar tree to navigate the project.
• Add .geany to your version control system's exclude list.
  • Ex. put /.geany/ in .gitignore file for Git VCS.

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Bugs

• Geany seems to clobber rather than honour the last_dir value in the [VTE] group of the initial project file. I would expect it to change directories in the Terminal to this directory, if specified.
• There's probably all kinds of command-line arguments that will be confused between this wrapper script and Geany itself. The above usage examples should be fine, however.

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Default directory structure

Below is an example of the resulting files on a fresh cleany project directory:

$ cleany foo
$ tree -a foo
foo
└── .geany
    ├── config
    │   ├── filedefs
    │   │   └── filetypes.README
    │   ├── geany.conf
    │   ├── keybindings.conf
    │   └── templates
    │       ├── files
    │       └── templates.README
    └── foo.geany

5 directories, 5 files