<p>You can use the <code>--socket-file</code> option to open a file in a specific instance of Geany. For example, if you execute these two commands:</p>
<pre><code>geany --socket-file=/tmp/geany1 /tmp/foo
geany --socket-file=/tmp/geany1 /tmp/bar
</code></pre>
<p>you get one instance of Geany with two open documents, <code>/tmp/foo</code> and <code>/tmp/bar</code>.</p>
<p>Here’s a script I use (on Linux) to have one instance of Geany per workspace: <a href="https://gist.github.com/vfaronov/6843c6bc817521bfab7e58fff139c525">https://gist.github.com/vfaronov/6843c6bc817521bfab7e58fff139c525</a></p>

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