<p>The selection is maintained by Scintilla.  Its <em>definition</em> of the selection is that it ends at the cursor. You can request Scintilla changes that, but it is unlikely to happen because it will break all Scintilla based editors.</p>

<p>Geany cannot change the behaviour until it is changed in Scintilla.</p>

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