[Geany] Per-workspace instance of Geany

[Jon Senior]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:23:50 -0500
Randy Kramer <rhkramer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, from Neil's response to this thread, I see that there is a 
> misunderstanding somewhere--I did not intend to say that the changes 
> would be visible in both (or all) instances of the editor.  
> 
> But, that doesn't keep me from working on them just fine.
> 
> (And, if I save the file in one instance of the editor after making 
> changes, when I go to that file in an other instance of the editor,
> I'm warned that the file on disk doesn't match the one I'm about to
> edit, and I'm prompted to do things like reload the file.  (Nedit is
> an example.))

geany will do the same (I've made use of this in the past. Open a log
file in geany then re-run the code that generates the file and geany
will ask me if I want to reload the file). As I understand things, you
can force a new instance of geany, and you could open a file in both
instances. Personally if I want to look at one part of a file and edit
another, I prefer to use something passive like "less", which is far
less prone to accidental overwriting.

Jon