gedit shows wrong document statistics

[UlfZibis]

Ubuntu 12.10

- open file manager as root via "sudo nautilus"
- display properties of "/boot/grub/grubenv"
--> file size: 1.024 Bytes
- open file via double-click
- in gedit change 1 letter and save
- in gedit view document statistics
--> file size: 1.024 Bytes
- display properties again in nautilus
--> file size: 1.025 Bytes

This is strange I think!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Ma Hsiao-chun (mahsiaochun)]

Just 1 byte more, I guess it is because gedit adds a newline in the end of file.

[UlfZibis (ulf-zibis)]

I'm not sure, what you think is incomplete here?
Yes, gedit adds an additional newline, even if user doesn't want it, so this is a bug.
In case of file grubenv, it corrupts the file from being usable, as it should not have a newline at the end.

[UlfZibis (ulf-zibis)]

Additional dependency:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625955

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

upstream stated it's not a bug but a feature

you can change the behaviour with:
$ gsettings set org.gnome.gedit.preferences.editor ensure-trailing-newline false

[UlfZibis (ulf-zibis)]

upstream bug is again a bug.
gedit still shows wrong document statistics.