select and write out a particular chunk of code outside to be used elsewhere.

This is not directly available in base Geany and AFAIK not in any of the plugins collection. Would be best in a plugin.

The workaround is to copy and paste in a new file, `select ctrl+c ctrl+n ctrl+v` and [saveactions](https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#instant-save) can even make it a file automatically and you can save-as with your own name.

insert from another file at the spot.

There is no ability to do anything with a closed file, it has to be opened, this ensures that encoding issues have been addressed so that non-UTF-8 content is not pasted into the buffer. When open `ctrl_a` selects the whole file for you to copy and paste.

select a code chunk and paste to a console such as R.

Not sure why you can't copy and paste to R, that sounds like an R problem. I don't have R but can successfully copy and paste into the Python terminal.

select and write out a particular chunk of code outside to be used elsewhere.

You could use the [context action](https://geany.org/manual/#context-actions) with a custom script, but note that this can be set per-filetype as well, in which case it's less convenient for this. You could use a script like so: <details><summary>Example script, use <code>script.sh "%s"</code> as the context action command</summary> <p>

```shell #!/bin/sh

# just in case, because it ruins the zenity call if set unset G_MESSAGES_DEBUG

target="$(zenity --title="Choose a file where to write the selection" --file-selection --save --confirm-overwrite)" || exit 1 printf '%s' "$*" > "$target" ```

</p> </details>

You can also abuse [*send selection to*](https://geany.org/manual/#sending-text-through-custom-commands) for this. It's kind of a hack because that feature is used to *transform* the selection, but you can still get away with it either by having your script exit with failure (then your selection won't be replaced), or have it send out the same data it got in, replacing your selection with the same contents.

<details><summary>Example script, use <code>script.sh</code> as the command</summary> <p>

```shell #!/bin/sh

# just in case, because it ruins the zenity call if set unset G_MESSAGES_DEBUG

target="$(zenity --title="Choose a file where to write the selection" --file-selection --save --confirm-overwrite)" || exit 1 tee "$target"

# and possibly: #exit 1 ```

</p> You can set custom [keybindings](https://geany.org/manual/#keybindings) for the first 9 configured commands.

I realised that if I use geany's terminal then I could select/copy/paste code chunks from editor there. I also got 2.0 compiled though still need to get debugger/spellcheck going.