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gedit changed colors of text

Asked by Dean

Binary package hint: gedit

I am editing a text document I created with gedit. It is the gedit source package. The release is 8.04, the Hardy Heron release. I thought I could delete blank lines without changing the color of the text (which was black.) I deleted two blank lines at the beginning of the document. Now the words "of", "is", "and", "in", and "to" are displayed in red. Numbers are displayed in pink. "BIT" is in green. "---" and words following it are displayed in blue. What happened? How do I correct this?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jan 11 21:18:55 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
Package: gedit 2.22.3-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-26-generic i686

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This question was originally filed as bug #506269.

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Dean (dean-sowers) said : 		#1
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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) said : 		#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

Please go to gedit menu View→ Highlight mode: set to Plain Text

Hth

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#4

> changing the color of the text

= syntax highlighting

example:
http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/screenshots.html

usage:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/gedit
http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/
http://live.gnome.org/Gedit

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