When I am editing a file in gedit and it is updated outside of the editor, gedit normally warns me of this. An exception is when I overwrite the file with a mv command at the command line with an older file. gedit probably needs to track backwards timestamp changes as well.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gedit 3.4.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Aug 9 14:33:08 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.
Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) reached end-of-life on April 28, 2017.
Do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported in a currently supported version of Ubuntu?
Please let us know if you do as I can't reproduce the issue with gedit 3.28 in Ubuntu 18.04. Alternatively, this bug report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.
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Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]