On Wednesday 20 March 2019 15:29:10 Peter C. Wallace wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, Moses McKnight wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:45:42 -0500
> > From: Moses McKnight <mo...@mcktex.com>
> > Reply-To: EMC developers <emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>
> > To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] removal of gedit as default editor
> >
> > On 3/20/19 1:01 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> Now we know of two victims. Stuart and I. :(
> >
> > Well, that would explain why it didn't get removed from
> > distributions!  2 glitches out of 2 million installs (<-random
> > number), and it is the official text editor for Gnome.
> >
> > I suspect a third person probably had a glitch, and he fixed it -
> > which is why no one else has ever had a glitch with it. ;-)
> >
> > I've used it for many years myself and use it pretty much daily
> > still and have never had it corrupt anything.
> >
> > Moses
>
> I use gedit frequently, and at one time (maybe 2 years ago) I had it
> corrupt a file (multiple pastes scattered throughout the file), but
> since then I have not had a re-occurance, I do suspect that this bug
> (which might be WM dependent) has been fixed
>
That makes 3, and thats much more recent than my last session which was 
at least 4, maybe 5 years back. Your description, Peter, fits it to a T.

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