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. --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/787#issuecomment-164824625
