[Geany] Lost all my scribble notes

[Lex Trotman]

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> Hello, Colomban!
>
> I think Geany didn't like when I deleted the line FILE_NAME_X=, and it
> created a new geany.conf for me... scribble_text is empty, but I wonder
> why was my previous session still restored.

Hi,

Removing one of the FILE_NAME_X lines will stop session loading at the
file numbered before, Geany stops at the first missing number, files
numbered after won't load, but that shouldn't affect scribble_text.

If geany.conf is broken, maybe locked or something as a result of
killing Geany, then a fresh copy is generated, but that wouldn't load
your session.

Some "wise after the fact" lessons:

1. don't hand edit config files unless you know what you are doing.

2. when you do, keep a backup (oh, of course, you can restore
geany.conf from your daily backup can't you :)

3. open Geany with --no-session to avoid loading dud files, but that
does mean manually re-loading the rest

4. as I found out recently, when loading large files, turn line
wrapping off (250Mb file took 3s vs 6 minutes)

Cheers
Lex

>
> Thank you!
> Teresa e Junior
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