How to have multiple instances of Geany in Fatdog? (Solved)

[superchook]

Is there an (easy) way of creating multiple instances of Geany in Fatdog64 as is standard in fossapup64 and some slackos?

[jamesbond]

Ken, can you please elaborate a bit?
What exactly do you want to do?

[step]

I'm not sure if this is what you want but option -i (force opening a new instance) seems to be related to your question

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geany -h
Usage:
  geany [OPTION…] [FILES...]

A fast and lightweight IDE.

Help Options:
  -h, --help                 Show help options
  --help-all                 Show all help options
  --help-gtk                 Show GTK+ Options

Application Options:
  --column=COLUMN            Set initial column number to COLUMN for the first opened file (useful in conjunction with --line)
  -c, --config=DIR           Use alternate configuration directory DIR
  --ft-names                 Print internal filetype names
  -g, --generate-tags        Generate global tags file (see documentation)
  -P, --no-preprocessing     Don't preprocess C/C++ files when generating tags file
  -i, --new-instance         Don't open files in a running instance, force opening a new instance
  --socket-file=FILE         Use socket filename FILE for communication with a running Geany instance
  --list-documents           Return a list of open documents in a running Geany instance
  -l, --line=LINE            Set initial line number to LINE for the first opened file
  -m, --no-msgwin            Don't show message window at startup
  -n, --no-ctags             Don't load auto completion data (see documentation)
  -p, --no-plugins           Don't load plugins
  --print-prefix             Print Geany's installation prefix
  -r, --read-only            Open all FILES in read-only mode (see documentation)
  -s, --no-session           Don't load the previous session's files
  -t, --no-terminal          Don't load terminal support
  --vte-lib=FILE             Use FILE as the dynamically-linked VTE library
  -v, --verbose              Be verbose
  -V, --version              Show version and exit
  --display=DISPLAY          X display to use

Geany is Fatdog's default text editor, literally "geany" is. Now, if you edit file /etc/defaultprograms, find this line
DEF_TEXTEDITOR="geany" and change it to DEF_TEXTEDITOR="geany -i", then every click on a text file icon will open that file in a new geany instance. Is this what you wanted?

[superchook]

Many thanks, Step. Your post above does exactly what I was looking for.
Ken