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<p>it's not a great idea to stick more blocking dialogs in the normal flow for normal users</p>
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<p>That's why I suggested only accepting one filename for a new file. But actually it could allow multiple new filenames so long as no existing filenames are also passed.</p>
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<p>it would be better to just create two aliases (or shortcuts, bat(ch) scripts, etc) which run Geany in either mode, depending on the preference</p>
</blockquote>
<p>That doesn't work - I want to create new files and open existing files <em>in an existing instance</em>.</p>

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