Comment 9 for bug 379367

Oh yes, now empty files have also become an unknown concept. To create one, or empty out an existing file, you have to instead open a shell and do something like "echo -n > file". This is indeed most annoying!

And why (see #8) should a deficiency in an entirely different program on Red Hat affect gedit everywhere?

I don't care to think what mistakes are being made elsewhere if protests about something as utterly trivial as this are so obstinately being ignored, let alone the fact that someone thought it was a good idea to begin with and managed to have his change accepted...