Linux / UNIX: Geany Lightweight Integrated Development Environment
If you wanted to quickly edit PHP, Java, C etc, Geany IDE is perfect. It is a small and lightweight integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Geany is known to run under Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, MacOS X, AIX v5.3, Solaris Express and Windows.
Basic features of Geany
=> syntax highlighting
=> code folding
=> code completion
=> auto completion of often used constructs like if, for and while
=> auto completion of XML and HTML tags
=> call tips
=> many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal and many other
=> symbol lists
=> build support (to compile, link, run programs)
=> plugin interface (C, Lua)
- Here's an introduction to using Geany's built-in features, including the IDE and built-in development capabilities at Linux.com : Fast, powerful Geany editor offers IDE features
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Now how do I compile and run Java (or any other supported language) with Geany in Windows?