> That's some weird argumentation if you ask me ... sound to me your trying to 
> say: 
> "_If its not there ... it must be not 'that' useful. As any (and all) Geany 
> user that felt the want/need for it could and would have coded/added it to 
> Geany_"

No, what @codebrainz is saying is that if it's not there it's 99% of the time 
because nobody wrote the code, usually because they didn't want the feature bad 
enough to step up and do it.
His statement is not 100% correct as I e.g. myself have occasionally worked on 
features I didn't want for myself, but as Geany is not run by a big team and is 
all volunteer effort, most of the time new features come from the people that 
wrote the actual code.  The more active team members will often work on some 
feature that was proposed a user and that they liked, but most of the time 
features that "core developers" don't particularly fancy need the contribution 
from the user(s).
We try our best to review proposals and code (although lately we're lacking 
manpower with time on their hands, I for example can unfortunately only 
allocate a little bit of time for Geany ATM), so if someone comes with an 
implementation we'll try and review it and integrate it if we think it's good.  
Criteria for "good" include not interfering with other features, robust and 
conforming code, and for big features sometimes that it couldn't be implemented 
as a plugin just as well.

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