Originally Posted by
CaptainMorgan
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Netbeans is also open source! haha

Looks like you need to learn more about it before you say it has problems my friend.
Yes, I realize that Netbeans is open source and probably written in Java. Netbeans however, compared to Geany, is a hundred-thousand times more complex. I couldn't possible edit the Netbeans source with my current programing skills. I also didn't know that some of the things I mentioned are configurable... I've been up, down, forward, and back through the options.
I did look at Geanys source and found some configuration files that would allow me to change the syntax highlighting... I also found out why it wont run the application, but at the moment, there is nothing I can do about...