<p><a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=793526" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/b4n">@b4n</a>, ok, I missed the "are" that wasn't there (its "are a few" not "is a few" because the "are" refers to the multiple "few", not the singular "a", damn English) <g-emoji class="g-emoji" alias="grin" fallback-src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f601.png">😁</g-emoji></p>
<p>I was checking if <a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=16764864" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/andy5995">@andy5995</a> left something out because this doesn't sound right, "several" implies a low number.</p>
<p>Now that you made me count them, actually Geany has 21 options, in idiomatic English that is neither "a few" or "several".  In fact it is more like"quite a few" though of course it is indeed "only a few" compared to GCC (damn English) <g-emoji class="g-emoji" alias="grin" fallback-src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f601.png">😁</g-emoji></p>
<p><a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=16764864" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/andy5995">@andy5995</a> maybe combine the sentences into "For the command line options see the ...." and avoid the numerative ambiguity altogether.</p>

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