Geany text editor caret block

Question

I have Geany installed via apt-get on debian 8. I want to set the caret shape to be a block, but i can't find any filetypes.common in my .config/geany/filedefs. How can i do this?

Answer 1

You need to use Tools > Configuration Files > filetypes.common menu item.

It will automatically create .config/geany/filedefs/filetypes.common file for you.

You can also copy it manually from /usr/share/geany/filetypes.common.

In order to set the caret shape you'll have to change caret=caret line to caret=caret;;true.