Hey folks, Sorry to pick such an eye-catching title. ;)
I compiled an .exe today on windows, via msys2. I never managed to do so before; I am a linux guy really. Anyway, I wanted to find out whether it was 32bit or 64bit. How retarded windows is!!! You can't easily find it out (ok you can, but you may need to install a SDK or something). Anyway. One solution was to look at the content after the PE string. At first I tried to use geany there, but geany whined: "The file "C:\aragorn.exe" does not look like a text file or the file encoding is not supported". Notepad.exe on the other hand showed the file content. And I saw the PE identifier and since I was on stackoverflow, I now knew that it was 64 bit. So please, anyone with commit rights, could this be changed on geany? A notification is ok, or perhaps a "do you want to open the file nonetheless"? Or, the simplest, to just open it as-is, like notepad does. As long as this is not possible, notepad wins. (Perhaps there are options to configure, but I think this is where notepad.exe has better defaults and perhaps also notepad++.exe). TL;TD: Geany should not refuse to open a file arbitrarily so. The user should decide at his or her own discretion. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2804
