Hi,

I used EditPlus for coding years ago. It's really a great program, to be 
honest. But I've always tried to support the Free Software movement by at least 
trying to use as much GPL applications as possible. Therefore, when I resumed 
programming, I went to see if there was a free equivalent to EditPlus. And I 
was glad to find Geany.

However, I'm having a really hard time adjusting to it. Maybe it just does 
things differently and I'm simply not used to it, but I find that even simple 
tasks can't be accomplished. I just filed a bug report because I have a very 
large UTF-8 encoded file (about 18MB) and I can't convert it to ISO-8859-1 
without throwing an error it shouldn't produce in the first place (I checked 
the file with an hex editor and encoding seems valid).

Now I'm having a really hard time using regular expressions to process an SQL 
file. In EditPlus I could do simple things like replace a duplicated line 
(replace '\n\n' with '\n') but Geany "doesn't find anything". I've tried both 
regular mode and multi-line. And I can't seem to make it to work.

Given the similarities between EditPlus and Geany, I'd like to suggest some 
more changes. For now, I'd be happy with having it to run properly.

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