Hi,

I used EditPlus for coding years ago. It's really a great program, to be honest. But I've always tried to support the Free Software movement by at least trying to use as much GPL applications as possible. Therefore, when I resumed programming, I went to see if there was a free equivalent to EditPlus. And I was glad to find Geany.

However, I'm having a really hard time adjusting to it. Maybe it just does things differently and I'm simply not used to it, but I find that even simple tasks can't be accomplished. I just filed a bug report because I have a very large UTF-8 encoded file (about 18MB) and I can't convert it to ISO-8859-1 without throwing an error it shouldn't produce in the first place (I checked the file with an hex editor and encoding seems valid).

Now I'm having a really hard time using regular expressions to process an SQL file. In EditPlus I could do simple things like replace a duplicated line (replace '\n\n' with '\n') but Geany "doesn't find anything". I've tried both regular mode and multi-line. And I can't seem to make it to work.

Given the similarities between EditPlus and Geany, I'd like to suggest some more changes. For now, I'd be happy with having it to run properly.