<p>Hi, I'm coming from TextMate 2 on Mac, and TextMate does a great job with projects - by essentially making it invisible (frictionless).<br>
You just open a folder, and that folder automatically becomes a project.</p>
<p>Geany could easily do something similar in my opinion. I don't know if the GNOME file picker allows you to pick either a directory or file, but if so, just do that and automatically create a new project file with the same name as the directory you 'Open'. If not, just have a separate "Project -> New from folder" menu option that is for choosing a directory.</p>
<p>If you implement this it will really make using Geany a lot nicer. Imagine being able to open up any random git clone you did and having everything 'just work'. Especially if you have the .editorconfig plugin installed.</p>
<p>Failing that, you could at least remove a little friction from the New Project form. I think if the path in the 'Filename' option is changed, it should automatically adjust the 'Base path' to match it.</p>

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