Geany 1.28 Release (Windows and Linux) and Geany 1.29 and I think also Geany 1.27 and before
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I attached a small test file test.ini, but I had to rename it to test.ini.txt because github refused to upload test.ini [test.ini.txt](https://github.com/geany/geany/files/464268/test.ini.txt)