How can I make Geany's Markdown syntax highlighting agree with indented code blocks?

Question

Write the following in Geany

* Item 1
* My code block will go after this line break

    ```sql
    CREATE EVENT SESSION query_performance ON SERVER
    ADD EVENT sqlserver.sql_statement_completed(
```
* Item 3

and set the filetype to Markdown

you will then notice that the syntax highlighting is correct.

Now, indent the last line by four spaces, as I believe is the proper way to indent a code block in markdown.

* Item 1
* My code block will go after this line break

    ```sql
    CREATE EVENT SESSION query_performance ON SERVER
    ADD EVENT sqlserver.sql_statement_completed(
    ```
* Item 3

and then the syntax highlighting becomes incorrect. The rest of the document becomes highlighted as if it is part of the code block.

My question are as follows:

1. Is what I have done considered a correct way to indent a code block?
2. How can I prevent Geany from producing this incorrect syntax highlighting?

Answer 1

This will be fixed in the upcoming version (1.39 or 2.0). Though there is no release date set yet.

This was already reported in the Geany bug tracker at https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2797 and it was fixed in the Scintilla library, reported at https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/bugs/2247.

The current GIT master already has a newer Scintilla version with the fix included. You could install the current GIT version yourself, see https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#source-compilation for details.