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There is no limit on the number of files open in an instance of Geany unless somehow Windows is limiting it, there are users who have hundreds of files open. Sounds more like the interprocess communication in Windows is gumming up, but with no information about exactly what you are doing, the versions of Geany, Windows, etc can't help you and nobody can replicate the problem. |
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Sorry, I have already done the best I can to describe the problem. I will just accept that Geany is not for handling multiple files. |
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Tested on Windows 7 with Geany 2.0 and I can successfully open up to 15 files at once in Windows Explorer by selecting them and use the "Open with Geany" context menu action. I noticed when selecting more than 15 files, the context menu action "Open with Geany" does not appear anymore. This is probably some Windows limitation or setting we do not set. But probably OK for most users. @iahung3 can you check if there are any warnings or error in Help->Debug Messages when the described problem occurs? Also can you provide the list of files you are trying to open (maybe add a screenshot of the selected files in Windows explorer)? What is the difference between this and #3755? The read pretty much the same to me. |
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@eht16 so you think the problem is opening files at the same time, not the total number open as I thought? I guess it could be, the description is pretty bad. In that case, is the problem something to do with how explorer opens multiple files? Does it execute a command for each file or one command with all the files passed to it, in which case is the issue one of command length? |
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I'm opening files from Windows Explorer with
Open with Geany
. I found that after a certain number of files are opened, it will launch new Geany instances. Each instance has duplicated opened files with the others, but not all opened files are duplicated. This indicated that there is a threshold for the maximum number of files that can be opened in a single instance of Geany. Or, is it a bug?Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
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