<p>Using the number margin is just an easy way to select whole lines, so long as the selection is whole lines the new indent is part of the selection, but if only part of the line is selected Geany respects the users selection and does not modify its end points.</p>
<p>What you havn't described in your OP is in what use-case its actually a problem?</p>

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