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<p>You need a running instance of Geany already, for the open to send files through the socket.</p>
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<p>You're right, I didn't notice that it only works when Geany is already running.</p>
<p>I weren't completely sure if this issue has low priority because I don't know if there are valid use cases for such filenames or if this problem is a symptom of a higher priority problem.</p>
<p>Btw: It's possible to add quotes in the filename to change some messages:<br>
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