On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 at 04:32, Mike Miller via Users users@lists.geany.org wrote:
On 2023-11-11 06:58, Pryor, Mike via Users wrote:
Geany silently ignores my request to load the file. Rather rude behavior, I should say.
Reminds me of a mildly annoying issue—in that Geany will refuse to load a file with nulls or other "binary" data in it.
Sort of understandable, but it doesn't do anything but shrug it off.
There is a message to status and status bar, its not silently shrugged off. Since normally Geany will actually try all encodings it knows to see if they will work it does not show error messages from the converters unless debug is set or the encoding is selected in the open dialog.
That said, the open/encoding code has grown over time into a multi-headed hydra so would not be surprised if there are not "undocumented features" in it.
You have to take the file over to gedit or something to get a proper error about character encoding, etc. I long got used to it but it is a problem for new users.
Not sure if that is your problem, but may be part of it.
The other thing is that GTK apps typically don't handle opening from URLs, so make sure you have a properly mounted filesystem first. Either with fuse on UNIXy OSs or a Windows Drive Letter rather than UNC path, etc.
-Mike
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