[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Geany Dock locking up when typing or copying of text (#1540)

[hdaz000700]

Hi Geany Devs, 

I am having a bit of a problem with Geany 1.30.1, I use Geany on Windows and Linux and I have not been able to track down the issue. 

It started happening for one file around June 2017 after many years of using geany with no issue's. 

The file refuses to accept any typing or copying, after sometimes three, four or in the case of the attached jpg seven letters the file locks up and either adds LF or CRLF or some other chars over the top of the normal text appear, its then totally locked until I restart Geany.

I have been searching for the cause without coming to a solution, some time back in June when it started happening it kind of went away for a week or two now it happens constantly every time I open the file. 

- At  first I thought at first it was a line ending issue or some kind if it is I am not sure what I can do to fix the issue.

- I have tried changing the encoding of the file to see if this helped but so far it does it on every type of encoding I have tried (using UTF-8).

 - I also thought it might be an illegal character, or a character that geany does not like ((( but searching for a character in such a large file seems problematic ))). Does Geany give out any errors ?

 - lots of things go through my mind on what the cause could be but over time I have tested the geany and believed that it can / could handle larger files without issues. So I am hoping its not the size of the file that is now too big for Geany.

Required Infomation : 
    The version number of Geany
          1.30.1

    The version number of GTK+ (can be printed with geany -V)
Geany: Geany 1.30.1, English_United Kingdom.1252
Geany: GTK 2.24.31, GLib 2.50.3
Geany: System data dir: C:\Program Files (x86)\Geany\data
Geany: User config dir: C:\Users\darren.foster\AppData\Roaming\geany
Geany: System plugin path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Geany\lib\geany
Geany: Added filetype Arduino (61).
Geany: Added filetype Clojure (62).
Geany: Added filetype CUDA (63).
Geany: Added filetype Cython (64).
Geany: Added filetype Genie (65).
Geany: Added filetype Graphviz (66).
Geany: Added filetype JSON (67).
Geany: Added filetype Scala (68).
Geany: unknown : None (UTF-8)

I am hopeful that you have encountered this issue and there is a simple solution which means I can continue using the file as it has been a very useful up until now, .

If there is any more information I can provide please do let me know from where.

Help please thanks 
Daz

![geany_corruption](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/19715735/28181479-b40b7ba0-6800-11e7-9bbf-a7097cacff7b.JPG)


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