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<li>The highlighting in the symbols list doesn't follow the editor, it's merely the one you selected last.</li>
<li>When you click on a name in the symbols list, it tries to go to the definition of that name (e.g. the line at which the function name is defined)</li>
<li>The statusbar is trying to show the function your are <em>in</em> (e.g. the scope at the cursor), and the line <code>def foo()</code> isn't really inside <code>foo</code>, as it declares it.</li>
</ul>
<p>So yeah, maybe it could be changed somehow to match what you expect, but I think that from my POV it's doing something sensible.  And yeah, it feels very close to <a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1325" class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load issue title" data-id="191895876" data-permission-text="Issue title is private" data-url="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1325">#1325</a>.</p>

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