See for instance what VLC does. (Or Audacity for that matter.)
Geany’s feature set is large enough (let alone accounting for plugins) that it may warrant such an enhancement.
I just came across this issue/request post while doing a search for something else, yikes this was made in 2021. I actual made a post about this same request in the Discussions - Ideas section if anyone is interested https://github.com/geany/geany/discussions/4049
To be added via #4192, please see a screenshot and some remarks there.
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