Vijay Ramesh wrote:
[...] why doesn't Geany allow non-greedy matching, [...]
Most likely because Scintilla doesn't.
[...] how do people deal with this minute but massively irritating detail?
If your copy / paste / transformation actions are largely the same thing over and over, e.g. copy SQL table definition and transform into form-handling code or something, then you can create a script to perform the transformation. I do this with sed scripts, which I hook up as Custom Commands (see Edit -> Format -> Send selection to), but others probably use the Lua plugin. -- Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia "Let the laddie play wi the knife - he'll learn" - The Wee Book of Calvin