[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Request to change the user experience when attempting to open binary files (#1966)

[elextr]

>  Pop up messages are annoying, but it should do something to alert the user that it's not going to do anything with the file that the user requested to open.

A pull request to provide a popup with a "Do not show this again" checkbox and/or a preferences option to disable it would probably be accepted.

> "Geany doesn't support binary files"

Well it may not actually be a "binary" file, as the message says, the encoding may have been guessed/selected incorrectly resulting in binary data.  So this message is also misleading.

> .which as a side note is ridiculous that Geany doesn't open binary files, 

Feel free to rewrite Geany to not use C null terminated strings and binary files can be fully supported.




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