I often have to work with files that contain a few longer (as in: "4 screen 
widths wide") lines - which I would still like to see not wrapped around, since 
differences of similar lines a few lines above or below are much easier to spot 
that way.

But geany makes it almost impossible to mouse-click-drag-select a piece of 
those longer lines, as even the smallest deviation on the Y-axis with the mouse 
causes a wild auto-scroll back to where surrounding lines end, so correcting 
one's mouse-movement back to the line subject to selection does not help - the 
previous x-position is lost.

Can I somehow disable the unwanted auto-scrolling while click-drag-selecting?

Other editors, like "nedit", do the natural and right thing: If you get below 
or above your currently selected line with the mouse pointer, the selection is 
extended accordingly, to the line below of above, but the position of the text 
in the window does not change, so it is easy to just move back the mouse 
pointer to the line of interest without unintentionally leaving the correct 
x-axis position.

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