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Thread: Geany: make "home" go to start of line


hi all. i've switched gedit geany standard text editor in ubuntu , i'm pretty happy. there's 1 thing that's bugging me: when press "home" doesn't take me start of line - takes me before first non-whitespace char on line, ie *after* indentation.

i've got many years of muscle memory of "hit home , delete/press space" fix indentation , it's late me change idea how can tell geany home means "go start of line"?

in geany preferences, under keybindings, has "go start of line: home" already, irritating. discovered alt&home goes *actual* start of line, don't want have hit alt&home every time. if swap functionality of home , alt&home me think. can in config somehow?

noticed same behaviour in notepad++ on windows machine. common behaviour?

thanks, max

found answer - thought i'd leave here in case else googles it. in main geany config file, me `~/.config/geany/geany.conf`, there's line

pref_editor_smart_home_key=true

set "false" , sorted it. noticed when exit geany rewrites file, overwriting changes done externally, need close geany before making changes config file.


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