[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Create correct path for filetype config files (#1482)

[Jiří Techet]

> Without the fix Geany does not copy the filetype files (albeit accidentally), so the user config doesn't hide the system config, so currently Geany does the right, but user unfriendly, thing.
>
> "Fixing" the paths will make Geany do the wrong thing again so it shouldn't happen alone.

The `filetypes.README` file inside the filedefs directory says:

```
Copy files from /usr/local/Cellar/geany/1.24.1/share/geany to this directory to overwrite them. To use the defaults, just delete the file in this directory.
For more information read the documentation (in /usr/local/Cellar/geany/1.24.1/share/doc/geany/html/index.html or visit http://www.geany.org/).
```

and the code does just that for the user. Apart from overriding default settings another use case is just to look at the default configuration and without this patch nothing is displayed. Finally, this works the same way as editing `filetype_extensions.conf`, `filetypes.common` etc. always worked and the same overriding problem existed there too.

I'd say if the user wants to override just something, he'll have to delete the parts of the file he doesn't want to override.

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