Cannot put insertion point before first character unless line numbers visible

[Tommy Trussell]

I recently upgraded this laptop to 19.04 and noticed that this version of Gedit has an invisible "no insertion zone" between the documents list on the left and the first character (first column) of text on every line, so that (at least on this system) there's no way to use the mouse/trackpad pointer to click and put the insertion point BEFORE the first character on any line. Anything to the left of the second character turns into a "change width" cursor.

I was having to click to put the insertion point wherever it would go (usually between the first and second character) and look on this laptop keyboard for the arrow key, then arrow back into the first character position.

This situation also makes it impossible to select entire lines by clicking and dragging, because the first line will always exclude the first character. I suppose this is the most annoying one, because if there's a keyboard shortcut for expanding a selection I can never recall it.

The easiest workaround I have found is to turn on the display of line numbers
= Preferences --> View --> Display Line Numbers

This gives plenty of room to click the beginning of any lines, but of course if I'm editing prose the line numbers are a distraction.

BY THE WAY I am using the default setting "system fixed width font" which the preferences panel describes as Ubuntu Mono 13.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: gedit 3.32.0-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-25.26-generic 5.0.18
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Aug 30 10:16:39 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-10-20 (313 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-06-17 (73 days ago)

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Confirming issue with gedit 3.33.90 in Ubuntu 19.10