[Github-comments] [geany/geany-osx] Mac - call geany from command line to open a file with only 1 geany instance (#21)

[Jiří Techet]

> Geany 1.37 does different behaviour for me on macOS. If I invoke it with no file argument then it opens a brand new Geany process and Window. However, if I invoke it with a file argument then it will open the file in the original Geany process window. This behaviour is a little unusual :-)

Yes, when you run Geany from the command line (without specifying any files to open), it creates a new instance (and yes, this is not quite a native behavior). I'm just trying to understand if this is some problem that makes Geany harder to use in some situations - clearly, if this happened for opening new files from the command-line, this would be annoying, but does one actually run `geany` without any files when another instance of Geany is already running?

This is in principle possible to fix by introducing one more command-line paramter to Geany to always reuse existing instance, I'm just trying to understand whether it's something worth doing (on linux running `geany` from the command lines without any files as arguments always creates a new instance so this functionality is missing in Geany itself).

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