Help command line arguments don't work on Windows (-h, --help)

[codebrainz]

When you pass -h or --help to Geany.exe nothing happens, presumably because it's a "GUI" Windows application so doesn't get stdio handles. I tried with -v to but it doesn't work, I guess -h gets dealt with first by GOption* stuff.

[eht16]

Yes, ages ago I tried to deal with that and failed, obviously.
IIRC it would work with the -v trick which opens a new text console but I guess currently this happens way too late for --help.
I don't remember all details but some Windows guru told me that you can either have a GUI application which does not spawn a new text console by itself but then have no way to print to stdout/stderr. Or you have a text/console application which opens a new console window and then is also able to print to stdout/stderr.

At some point I stopped trying to get this to work because it is not that important. What we probably could get more easily is a simple GUI popup dialog which displays the help text.