Cursor moves when line is selcted by clicking line number

[philiprbrenan]

When the line number is clicked to select the whole line, the cursor advances
to the start of the next line beyond the selected line even if the cursor is
originally nowhere near the selected line. Please consider allowing the cursor
to stay where it is as the user might not want to move the cursor but rather
keep it where it is. Thanks!

[elextr]

The selection is maintained by Scintilla. Its definition of the selection is that it ends at the cursor. You can request Scintilla changes that, but it is unlikely to happen because it will break all Scintilla based editors.

Geany cannot change the behaviour until it is changed in Scintilla.

[codebrainz]

Out of curiosity, why are you clicking on the line numbers (which causes a text selection) if you do not want the selection? Or is the Issue just that cursor is after the end-of-line \n instead of before it?