[Github-comments] [geany] Read standard input as new file (#780)

[elextr]

> If GOptionParser chokes on a single - (does it? I figured it would just pass it through), some code could be added to detect/remove - from argv before calling into the option parser, instead of dealing with it after the option parser.

Ahhh, I was looking at the `g_option` API that won't let you specify a `-` by itself as an option, but you are right it passes it through, and geany opens a new file called `-`,  and `--` also passes through too even though it is documented as "stop parsing options", so it needs filtering as well.

> Good point, it would probably need to detect, and convert from the terminal encoding, which may not be UTF-8.

The problem is that the output of the command may not be in terminal encoding either, it has to be selectable manually `--encoding=xxx` maybe, but that is of course more effort for the "somebody" implementing this capability.

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