<p>When trying to open binary files, Geany appears to just do nothing. My initial reaction was that it opened a hidden copy of itself and the process hung. Currently, the way Geany handles this is just really weird. The only hint I get that it's doing this on purpose is this cryptic message, "file.ext does not look like a text file or the file encoding is not supported."</p>
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<p>...and normally, I have the status bar hidden, so it took me a while to even figure out why it wasn't opening the file. So, my request is that if Geany decides it won't open a file, to show a pop-up message. 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>
<p>Also, it would be nice to give a better message in the status bar like, "Geany doesn't support binary files" or "Geany won't open a file with any special nonprintable characters in it." The current message is way too vague.</p>
<p>...which as a side note is ridiculous that Geany doesn't open binary files, but I think that's been covered in other requests. Geany is the only text editor that won't even try to open a file with special characters. You really should make a "protected read only, display only binary mode..." or offer to launch the binary file in another editor that doesn't have Geany's restrictions.</p>
<p>But that's not my request....My request is to make this less a less disturbing user experience, by displaying better information to the user when the user attempts to open a non-conforming file.</p>

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