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[rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ricky is saying that the bug report is targetting the wrong people, and
that you will have more luck filing a bug at gnome.org, where you will
find the people responsible for the MAC port of gedit.

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Gedit 'hash' symbol missing in MAC OS X port
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553673
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Bug description:
Hi Gedit community.  
[GEdit version: 2.28.3]

First can I say thank you for doing a MAC port, great effort.  However, there is a REALLY SERIOUS error in that the 'hash' symbol - alt-3 on UK (British) keyboards does not work. I use gedit every day on my Linux machine and was delighted to discover a MAC port had been developed - yipee, I can do all my editing with the same great tool on all my computers :)  However, imagine my surprise when trying the MAC port for the first time and attempting to write C/C++ code, only to find the # symbol is not available!! making (OS X) gedit useless for programming. 

I did discover that it is possible to add a # symbol using the built-in TextEdit app, then copy and paste hash symbol into Gedit, but that is really not a reasonable solution.

I realise that the majority of users are on Linux and that Mac users are probably in the minority, but if this can be fixed soon I would be grateful.  I would like to use the same great editor on all my machines.

Thanks in anticipation.
Alan Lewis