Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gedit
Gedit massively screws up files whose lines are terminated by CR-LF
(i.e., Windows-style newlines, or 0D 0A in hex). It reads in a file in
8192-byte chunks, and then if a CR-LF combo happens to fall on a
boundary so that the CR is on one side and the LF is on the other, then
Gedit translates BOTH of them into a newline. The net effect is that
quite a few newlines get randomly duplicated here and there in any
reasonably long file with Windows-style newlines when you load it.
Time to find a new text editor. I've already wasted several minutes too
many discovering Gedit's design flaws and creating a pointless account
here.
** Affects: gedit (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: boundary chunk cr duplication lf newline size
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CR-LFs get duplicated whenever they fall on READ_CHUNK_SIZE boundaries
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/662051
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