[Github-comments] [geany] Help command line arguments don't work on Windows (-h, --help) (#787)

[Enrico Tröger]

Yes, ages ago I tried to deal with that and failed, obviously.
IIRC it would work with the `-v` trick which opens a new text console but I guess currently this happens way too late for --help.
I don't remember all details but some Windows guru told me that you can either have a GUI application which does not spawn a new text console by itself but then have no way to print to stdout/stderr. Or you have a text/console application which opens a new console window and then is also able to print to stdout/stderr.

At some point I stopped trying to get this to work because it is not that important. What we probably could get more easily is a simple GUI popup dialog which displays the help text.

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