<p>For my curiosity, what does the commands in the first post exactly do?<br>
It looks like PowerShell however, they don't work out of the box in a Windows 7 PowerShell.</p>
<p>Is it just creating a shortcut as it is done with the Windows GUI methods?<br>
If so, they should be handled by Geany by resolving the shortcut to its target before opening anything and then the target file is opened directly in Geany.</p>
<p>Though your report sounds more like there is something like real symbolic links on newer Windows versions?</p>

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