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<p><a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/simonhf/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/simonhf">@simonhf</a> what you describe is the normal behaviour of Geany on other platforms, it is a multi-tabbed application, so a request to open a file from the command line opens a new tab and the command finishes, so not tying up a terminal until you finish editing.</p>
<p>Of course doing that makes just <code>geany</code> without any arguments useless, so it does the only thing such a command can usefully mean, it starts a new geany.</p>

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