WrapEarnPass left a comment (geany/geany#4627)
It's been 10 years since I used brew, but as far as I recall, brew doesn't use
the Apple filesystem. /Applications would be a dmg install from somewhere.
Brew uses /usr/local. Or used to. Seems like it may be in /opt now.
To determine where a brew install ended up, from the command line, ```brew info
geany``` should give you details about where it actually installed.
the 3rd line or so should print the install prefix.
brew should have created a symlink to the bin in /usr/local/bin/geany which
would be the way to launch the brew install. If you are launching geany from
Cocoa, via Menu or whatever, that is probably using the Apple filesystem and
launching whatever is in /Applications.
You could (not sure if still can), install two versions of the same application
to /Applications via dmgs by renaming the old one Something.old.app, and then
installing the new version Something.app next to it. As the written configs by
a correctly working geany are all in ~/.config on mac, which you can validate:
```
You can check the paths Geany is using with *Help->Debug Messages*.
Near the top there should be 2 lines with something like::
Geany-INFO: System data dir: /usr/share/geany
Geany-INFO: User config dir: /home/username/.config/geany
```
unless you delete ~/.config/geany your existing configs are unchanged. You
appear to have a config problem or a malfunctioning install though, so one of
your diagnostic steps should include removing your existing configs. mv'ing the
geany config to something else may be sufficient for testing. Or, if you do
have a symlink to the geany bin from brew, /usr/local/bin/geany -c
~/somewhereelsetotry will create an alternative config directory.
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