From the mailing list http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.geany.devel/7506
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We have had a report on IRC that running geany on the windows command
line will only open files in the Geany install directory unless you
use the full path.
eg C:\somepath> geany somefile.txt
will open installpath\somefile.txt not somepath\somefile.txt.
And with the "Open new documents from the command line" option set it
creates somefile.txt in the install dir since it doesn't exist there.
Suspicion is falling on
https://github.com/geany/geany/commit/775ef628688c69de34640e12666aed5762a80dff
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The issue started with geany 1.23 for win32 and is still present in the nighly build for may 10th 2013.
I'll fix this before the next release, I just didn't manage to find time for this.
@eht16 BTW no pressure, but I'd really like to make a point release with a fix for this and the fix for https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3607935&group_id=153444&atid=787791
Branch is started at http://git.geany.org/geany/log/?h=1.23
I committed a fix, er, a workaround for this issue to the 1.23 branch.
For master, we need another solution which is less hacky.