Well, I found out what happened, as I stumbled upon both the problem and
the fix just a couple minutes ago.  Apparently gedit lets you edit what
the keyboard shortcuts for commands are, and the help files doesn't say
a thing about it (I did look for such a feature, and I didn't find it).
How you do that is if you hold Alt+'underlined letter of menu' (F for
File, E for Edit, V for View, S for Search, T for Tools, D for
Documents, and H for Help) it opens the menu and then you can either
press the underlined letter for the specific command you want or use the
arrow keys to navigate through the menus.  If you have a command
highlighted you can press 'Backspace' to erase the existing keyboard
shortcut (if it has one) and then you can input a new keyboard shortcut
for it.  I was just doing some rapid fire pasting (Yes, I still use the
alt shortcuts for that rather than the others.) and hit 'Backspace'
twice before 'Escape' to exit it and then a bit later noticed I'd
inadvertently erased and changed the shortcut.

Good news, it isn't a bug, but an undocumented feature that caused the
problem.  Bad news, despite the rather long list of people watching this
bug I accidentally found the fix myself, and what exactly was happening,
before anyone who might be involved in creating updates for gedit was
able to post what the problem was.

As a moderate request, could it get expedited that the feature gets
added to gedit's offline help files?  I don't know if it'll make a
difference for anyone else, but I doubt it could hurt.

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