(In reply to Atri Bhattacharya from comment #5) > Created attachment 767512 [details] > Gedit preferences Feeling a bit awkward now, but that screenshot helped There is a Preferences tab to find when the focus is on gedit. I must say, this is quite an intuitive place to hide the preferences, but this indeed does invalidate this bug. Thank you for your support and education, and please feel free to close this once more.