Gedit opens an "Unsaved document" on opening files with mouse

when I open files by double-clicking the file with mouse I always get one additional "Unsaved Document X".. which is very annoying, because I have to close tham all, and click "Close without save"... it happens in dolphin, nautilus and krusader.
when I try opening a file from terminal using "gedit filename" that does not happen.
it also does not happen if I open the files from within gedit.
any hints on how to fix this?
thank you
Last edited by pootzko (2011-06-05 12:29:51)

pootzko wrote:
felrood wrote:
It's not a bug, it's a feature!
Gedit seems to display data from stdin in a new "Unsaved document". For example:
echo "foobar" | gedit
To break the pipe opened by krusader, i replaced the command 'gedit %U' in krusader with this script:
#!/bin/bash
gedit $1 < /dev/null
man, you're a genius. thank you so much! :)
ps. perhaps a more global solution is right clicking Kmenu button -> edit applications -> find gedit there -> put "gedit $1 < /dev/null" in gedits command field -> save
That's an amazing solution!
Maybe better would be...
gedit "$1" < /dev/null
(with the quotes). That way we prevent gedit to open two files with each non-spaced name in the case that our file name had blank spaces.
(gedit foo bar -->one file for 'foo' && one file for 'bar')
Thank you,
DaviD.
Last edited by DjDaviD (2012-02-28 23:38:03)

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