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<p>Pop up messages are annoying, but it should do something to alert the user that it's not going to do anything with the file that the user requested to open.</p>
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<p>A pull request to provide a popup with a "Do not show this again" checkbox and/or a preferences option to disable it would probably be accepted.</p>
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<p>"Geany doesn't support binary files"</p>
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<p>Well it may not actually be a "binary" file, as the message says, the encoding may have been guessed/selected incorrectly resulting in binary data.  So this message is also misleading.</p>
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<p>.which as a side note is ridiculous that Geany doesn't open binary files,</p>
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<p>Feel free to rewrite Geany to not use C null terminated strings and binary files can be fully supported.</p>

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