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[Nick Bishop <915628@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Title:
  gedit automatically creates hidden .txt~ files

Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Every time I edit a .txt file with gedit and press "save" it automacally creates another hidden file with the same name and the extension .txt~ e.g. I open the file file.txt with gedit, I edit it, I press "save" and then changes are saved in file.txt and another hidden file with the name file.txt~ is created. I call these .txt~ files "hidden" because they can only be viewed with the "ls" command through the terminal. I tried editing .txt files with other applications like Geany and it just applies all the changes to the original file without creating any .txt~ file! I believe that it must be a gedit bug, but I'm not 100% sure. I realized that when I backuped my files in my external hard disk drive and connected it to a Windows PC and all the .txt~ files just appeared on the screen! Ever since I remove these .txt~ files through the terminal!
  This happens in Ubuntu 11.10 with gedit 3.2.3-0ubuntu0.1

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gedit 3.2.3-0ubuntu0.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Jan 12 23:13:53 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gedit
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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