Gedit - disabling "untitled document 1"

[rikona]

Hello Karl,

Wednesday, January 28, 2015, 10:33:59 PM, Karl wrote:

> On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 21:50 -0800, rikona wrote:
>> I've gotten quite irritated with Gedit - every edit generates a tab with "untitled
>> document 1" that has to be dealt with on closing. How can I keep gedit
>> from ever coming up with "untitled document 1" unless I tell it to.
>> Net searching did not offer clues, but maybe I asked the wrong thing...

> Please describe in excruciating detail exactly how you are starting
> gedit.

Mostly, I right-click on a file in konq and select "Open with gedit".

> I can only get an empty tab (one with "Untitled Document 1" or similar
> as its name) in many different ways:

> - if gedit is in my task bar (the Unity column of icons at far left of
> the screen), by choosing any of "Open a New Window", Open a New
> Document" or "Text Document".

> - if gedit is in my task bar, by middle clicking it (or left clicking
> it, if no gedit instance is currently running).

> - starting gedit from the application finder

> - clicking the "new file" icon in an existing gedit window

- selecting "File ->> New" from the menus in an existing gedit window

> - running gedit from the command line with no file argument

That's a lot of ways to get it... :-))

> I wonder if your gedit invocation has "--new-document" in it? You can
> find out starting gedit however you are starting it, then running this
> command in a terminal window:

>    ps ax | grep gedit

tried an experiment--

if from konq, I get:
.... /usr/bin/gedit   plus   what file name was opened-
opens with "untitled document 1"

if from Nautilus, I get:
....   what file name was opened, not preceded by
/usr/bin/gedit  - so there is a difference in how it's called-
opens without "untitled document 1"

- and  in both cases, a second line:
grep --color=auto gedit

How can I NOT get "untitled document 1", preferably on a permanent
basis, if I'm opening an existing file from konq, which I use most of
the time?

Tried a few more ways to open it - opens with "untitled document 1",
as you said, but closes without the extra, unneeded "save?" sequence -
it just closes if no changes were made. If "untitled document 1" were
there but added nothing extra to the close, that would be OK too.

Thanks for the comments...

-- 

 rikona