<p>I never use this feature in Geany since it never seemed to work quite right (compared to other editors), so I'm just taking a stab here, but is it possibly because the modifier key on Windows is <kbd>Alt</kbd> and not <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> like it is on Linux?</p>

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