Geany

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2018–2024), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Geany, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 10 complaints

Typing is so slow on Raspberry Pi that each letter appears only after a wait2024-09-27
Slow startup and tabs pile up, forcing periodic manual cleanup2023-10-21
Default parenthesis match colour change is too hard to see2022-05-24
Build menu limited to three filetype and three shared commands, shortcuts not editable there2022-04-08
Got stuck trying to configure the editor to work with Ruby2021-09-15
Regex replace doesn't work when entering regular expressions directly; needs arcane syntax2020-06-16
Resizing the window is incredibly laggy as the interface redraws2020-06-16
Can't jump to symbol definitions in unopened files, so searching is tedious2020-06-16
Find and replace menu is modal and confusing to use2020-05-09
Indentation detection guesses wrong, so the editor's indentation is off2018-03-10