[Github-comments] [geany] unhelpful error messages (#777)

[elextr]

> Geany: a powerful, lightweight code editor for which the user needs an internet connection to access the HTML manual to understand what the error messages don't want to tell you .

I presume you are building from git since the HTML manual is included in the tarball.

With a git build the manual should build and install locally if you have the tools to build it, the web access is a fallback so it becomes rare for there to be *no* manual available.

> There is also an iPhone "app" that will help the user find out what error msgs in Geany mean LOL.

Oh the fame :)

> I had a Geany project file that I opened from a different location it showed a warning that "one or more files " were not found. ( Or words to that effect ). I looked at status window and found three msgs relating to the three files it did manage to open and NO messages relating to any problems.

> It appears that the status reporting has an optimistic bias. Only success is reported.

Well the status message is probably part of the open functionality, so you got that for free no matter how the file was opened. Not showing failed session files I guess was a decision somebody made when they implemented projects. 

> I closed and opened and got no errors, presumably it had dropped the filenames it did not access the first time. Now all is rosy.

It re-saves the list of open files into the project file when you close, and this would not have included the files that didn't open.

> There should be entries in the status window reporting each problem.

Certainly make an issue for it, it will get lost as a single line in this issue.  

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