Well, its a similar concept from differing domains, code editing, and tree 
viewing (commonly filesystems).

IME the former uses "fold/unfold" for the hiding of contiguous blocks of code 
whilst the latter uses "expand/collapse" for an information hierarchy.  
Certainly the underlying widgets do so:

http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#Folding

https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkTreeView.html#gtk-tree-view-expand-all

Emacs, Qt creator use fold/unfold, Eclipse does not have folds on the text 
buffer, but shows the structure in a tree view in a separate pane and uses 
expand/collapse in that tree view to fold/unfold the text, yes it uses both 
terms to describe the action.

I think its fine for Geany to follow the historical usage and leave both terms.

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