Branch: refs/heads/master Author: Nick Treleaven ntrel002@gmail.com Committer: GitHub noreply@github.com Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2023 14:18:03 UTC Commit: b143e481ef472da1d49c8aabb3842ff20ba7b32c https://github.com/geany/geany/commit/b143e481ef472da1d49c8aabb3842ff20ba7b3...

Log Message: ----------- docs: Document Open dialog options (#2355)

* docs: Document Open dialog options

* Add Startup links

* Add *Opening files* heading

* More options applies to multiple files

Modified Paths: -------------- doc/geany.txt

Modified: doc/geany.txt 30 lines changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) =================================================================== @@ -391,27 +391,45 @@ help screen. General -------

- Startup ^^^^^^^ - At startup, Geany loads all files from the last time Geany was launched. You can disable this feature in the preferences dialog (see `General Startup preferences`_).

You can start several instances of Geany, but only the first will load files from the last session. In the subsequent instances, you -can find these files in the file menu under the "Recent files" item. +can find these files in the file menu under the *Recent files* item. By default this contains the last 10 recently opened files. You can -change the number of recently opened files in the preferences dialog. +change the number of recently opened files in the +`Files tab <#files-preferences>`_ of the preferences dialog.

To run a second instance of Geany, do not specify any filenames on the command-line, or disable opening files in a running instance -using the appropriate command line option. +using the ``-i`` `command line option <#command-line-options>`_. + + +Opening files +^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +Open dialog +``````````` +The *File->Open* command will show a dialog to choose one or more text +files to open. There is a list of file filters on the right with the +following items: + +* All files (default) +* All source - a combination of all the patterns for each filetype (see + `Filetype extensions`_) +* Individual filetypes + +Clicking *More options* will reveal controls to open files with a +specific filetype and/or encoding (see `Character sets and Unicode +Byte-Order-Mark (BOM)`_).

Opening files from the command-line in a running instance -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +`````````````````````````````````````````````````````````

Geany detects if there is an instance of itself already running and opens files from the command-line in that instance. So, Geany can

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