Comment 63 for bug 34813

I think forking gedit is a little overboard. I am sure that a simple patch is all that is needed, and could be provided for those of us who need a resolution before the gedit dev's get around to fixing this.

I even think that a gedit plugin could probably be written to provide the same functionality. The great thing about open source software is where there is a manifest need, and people determined to fix it, patching or adapting an existing application is really easy. And if the patch is good enough, it gets merged.