GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 789336
gedit: Change the default font
Last modified: 2020-11-13 22:20:28 UTC
On this page: https://help.gnome.org/users/gedit/stable/gedit-change-default-font.html.en documentation is a bit obsolete. There is no preferences in gedit main window and should be opened from desktop top bar. It's not possible to find this for a normal user. Please, at least make better documentation on this page. An screenshot would be very useful for every new GNOME user.
Thanks for reporting this. Fixed in commit 8dc13d8c62eca2977d96ed60836da5fa88dc5607 ; fix should be included in gedit 3.38.2 and later.