I too experience this bug, latest packages in unstable:
-- Package-specific info: Active plugins: - 'classbrowser3g' - 'latex' - 'colorschemer' - 'multiedit' - 'colorpicker' - 'snippets' - 'spell' - 'codecomment' - 'sort' - 'terminal' - 'modelines' - 'time' - 'externaltools' - 'git' - 'docinfo' - 'smartspaces' - 'textsize' - 'filebrowser' - 'drawspaces' - 'dashboard' - 'zeitgeist' - 'whitespaceterminator' - 'scroll-beyond' - 'smart_highlight' Plugins in $HOME: - markdown-preview - scroll-beyond - smart_highlight - whitespaceterminator Module versions: - glib 2.43.2 - gtk+ 3.14.5 - gtksourceview 3.14.1 - pygobject 2.28.6 - enchant 1.6.0 - iso-codes 3.57 -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gedit depends on: ii gedit-common 3.14.0-3 ii gir1.2-peas-1.0 1.12.1-2 ii gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.12.0-1 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.14.1-1 ii iso-codes 3.57-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.14.0-1 ii libc6 2.19-18 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.0-2.1 ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1 ii libenchant1c2a 1.6.0-10.1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+b1 ii libgirepository-1.0-1 1.42.0-2.2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.43.2-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.14.5-1 ii libgtksourceview-3.0-1 3.14.1-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpeas-1.0-0 1.12.1-2 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3 ii libxml2 2.9.2+dfsg1-3 ii python3-gi 3.14.0-1 ii python3-gi-cairo 3.14.0-1 pn python3:any <none> Versions of packages gedit recommends: ii yelp 3.14.1-1 ii zenity 3.14.0-1 Versions of packages gedit suggests: ii gedit-plugins 3.14.0-2 -- no debconf information

