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<p>Not newbie, but WFM, on <code><ctrl>f</code> the word under the editor cursor is put in the search box and selected so by default typing will replace it all.</p>
<p>What <em>is</em> newbie is not providing any information on the version of Geany and GTK and OS from the <code>Help->Debug Messages</code> that look like this:</p>
<pre><code>08:41:52: Geany INFO             : Geany 1.38 (git >= b524a58e), en_AU.UTF-8
08:41:52: Geany INFO            : GTK 3.24.20, GLib 2.64.6
08:41:52: Geany INFO            : OS: Linux Mint 20 (ulyana)
</code></pre>

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