Bug#401015: gedit: please put the cursor at first column and row on opening a document

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

On 12/4/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/4/06, Sven Arvidsson <sa at whiz.se> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 07:18 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > > > Can you describe the bug that happens when you open a different file?
> > >
> > > I don't understand this question, especially since I mentioned that
> > > this behaviour becomes an issue when one opens a different file.
> >
> > Sorry, I might have misunderstood something. Do you simply have a
> > problem with the default behavior, that the cursor is restored to the
> > last position, or something else?
>
> On a different computer, the behaviour I complain against doesn't
> appear.  It actually works as intended. I'll check again on the
> offending system.

After a more thorough check of what the problem really is, I realize
that the bug title should have been something like "gedit should have
a better way to recognize files than just using the filename".

Here's my situation:
On CLI, I use some program to put some text into a certain file and
then open that file with gedit. I do this repeatedly while using the
same filename since I don't need the previous data anymore. Since
gedit thinks it's still the same file, it jumps to the same index that
it was with the old file.

Maybe this is a rare use-case, but I'd be so glad if you could fix it...