<p><a href="https://github.com/elextr" class="user-mention">@elextr</a> IIRC the UNC path for a SMB share is like <code>\\hostname\share\further\path\components\file.ext</code>.<br>
To be honest, I don't know whether it is possible to use such paths in Geany and I cannot test.<br>
Though, I guess using files from SMB shares directly in Geany is less common than opening files from drives other than C: and even if, SMB shares can be mapped to a drive letter and then handling in Geany should be fine again.</p>
<p>I'll prepare a PR for the change to not use <code>g_path_skip_root</code> on Windows.</p>

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