GEdit 0.9.0 works fine for me. Have you verified your permissions to the 
file(s) you are opening?

Dave

On Thursday 10 May 2001 11:59, thus spake Perry Hoekstra:
> Every file I open with GEdit (0.9.5) is tagged readonly.  Does anybody
> know if this is a feature I can turn off or a bug?  I hunted around the
> preferences and could not find anything.