[Geany-Users] Problem open files using relative paths (windows)

[Matthew Brush]

On 13-10-16 10:34 AM, Nick Sartor wrote:
> Hi all. I'm having a bit of an issue launching geany from the command line
> in windows.
> The issue is when I launch Geany from 1 dir to open a file in another dir.
> For example, if I'm in c:\foo\bar\some\path\ and I want to open file
> c:\foo\bar\file.txt I would type:
>
> "c:\Program Files (x86)\Geany\bin\Geany.exe" ..\..\file.txt
>
> it creates a new file instead c:\file.txt for some reason.
> "c:\Program Files (x86)\Geany\bin\Geany.exe" c:\foo\bar\file.txt
> works fine.
>
> Here's the batch file I use for notepad++ that I modified for geany, but it
> gives the same issue:
>
> @echo off
> REM calls geany with file to open from command line
>
> if "%~1"=="" (
>      start /I /B "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\geany\bin\geany.exe"
>      ) ELSE (
>      start /I /B "" """C:\Program Files (x86)\Geany\bin\geany.exe" %1
>      )
>
> any one have any ideas?
>

Actually, it sounds kind of like the bug that this fix resolved:

https://github.com/geany/geany/commit/eea7ffbff0c5bf14a9662483d989c4213f1392f7

If you aren't using Geany 1.23.1 release, you should try that.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush