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It's software i really want to like. Unfortunately, the long start-up time makes me more often than not use something else.
by eggzeem 3y ago
It's software i really want to like. Unfortunately, the long start-up time makes me more often than not use something else.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoGeany is snappy as hell. Brand-new astroturf account?
- eggzeem 3y agoIt's (mostly) snappy once it's started. Which takes something like 5-10 seconds on my PCs. But it keeps previous files in tabs over restart. And with each new geany installation, snappiness deteriorates soon and tabs accumulate until i have a clean up session. Might be an user issue, but this is my primary geany experience.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoIf you've got tens of files on an old machine that's probably to be expected. It's efficient with large files, written in C, and on a modern computer could open that many easily. My six year old laptop opens ten files from an encrypted drive in 2ish seconds. I suppose it could load the interface first, then load the files, then parse and highlight them after the window is up, but don't feel like it would make a lot of difference until its done. You may find projects useful. Can open the dozen files for one project, then close it, then open the next group from another project. Instead of every file you potentially might want to work on.
- me_bx 3y agoOne of the releases from a few years (or months) back had this issue of slow startup whenever a certain number of files was opened. I experienced this a few months ago while installing the version included in Debian stable. Following Geany updates fixed the issue, as far as I remember.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoWhat are you talking about? I've never seen that. Many years and many machines. You've got something weird misconfigured somewhere like a plugin trying to do a failing dns lookup or something. However I have seen mystery hangs in general, which can happen to almost anything. I had a machine one time where a self-built version of midnight commander would always hang for several seconds on startup. Never saw that before or since. You can not say "mc takes something like 5-10 seconds to start up" even though it did on that machine that time. I don't remember the details, but it turned out to be some combination of environment/context ie a particular terminal on a particular client sshing to a particular server where mc itself was, env variables, and/or setting in a mc config file. Might have been something to do with locale or TERM, or.. . I really have no idea anymore. But the hang was fixed by hunting down the config problem, and I've never seen it before that, nor since.
- HKH2 3y agoYour computer is not as fast as the computers of the people who disagree with you.
- kykeonaut 3y agoNot necessarily. Once you are used to your editor opening in a few milliseconds, everything else feels like ages. I would argue the opposite: we have gotten used to slow software being the norm.
- shzhdbi09gv8ioi 3y agoGeany does in fact open in milliseconds. By visual comparison, I can't measure a difference in startup speed compared to sublime text.
- HKH2 3y agoedit: I've tried Geany again and it's way faster than what I remember.
- himo3 3y agoCudos to trying again. Sometimes our memories fail us. Was it of sufficient speed for your needs? It certainly takes longer to open than a couple of milliseconds. But I'm not aware of any GUI application that does. Not that I would actually notice anyhow, given display latency of ~16ms at 60 Hz anyways :D
- HKH2 3y agoActually I think within a second is fine. Either my memory is failing me or it has been optimised. Probably the former.
- bachmeier 3y agoIt's fast enough on my system that I open it from bash scripts when text editing is needed. It opens instantly.