Apparently, this is "expected behaviour" according to GNOME's devs (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor/-/issues/671), even though it doesn't make much sense to me.
Apparently, this is "expected behaviour" according to GNOME's devs (https:/ /gitlab. gnome.org/ GNOME/gnome- text-editor/ -/issues/ 671), even though it doesn't make much sense to me.