[Github-comments] [geany/geany] New start flag: --wait (#1867)

[elextr]

That doesn't make sense, nothing in Geany is blocked.  

Without `-i`, the first Geany command (with a particular config) will, create an instance with a window for editing and continue to run until the user quits it, just like any other GUI application.  It doesn't need any special explanation.

The `-i` option causes Geany to create an independent instance which displays a window and continues to run so the user can perform the editing, until the user tells it to quit, just like any other GUI application. This is explained in [startup](https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#startup) and the command options.

While the first instance without `-i` is still running any other Geany command without `-i` (but with the same config) will not create a window and will request the first instance to open the file and do the editing.  Since it has no window, so no way for a user to tell it to quit, and having asked the primary instance to do the editing work, it has nothing else to do, so it quits automatically.  As explained [here](https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#opening-files-from-the-command-line-in-a-running-instance).

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