Hey there,
Virgil Arrington via Users wrote:
For what it’s worth, I have only ever known Geany to behave the way you describe as aggravating. I’ve never thought twice about it as, to me, it is intuitive for the cursor to straight down to the next line at the same horizontal space position as it was in on the upper line.
Same here.
I use Geany on Windows 11 and, for me at least, it has always behaved this way.
I've used Geany on Ubuntu MATE and currently on Kubuntu and it has also always behaved this way. I've never tried Arch Linux, so it's possible there's something about that environment that influenced or influences Geany's behavior.