I don't think this is an upstream bug (Gedit). It is caused by "GtkView" style selector in gtk-widgets.css in Ambiance theme, so that its child elemets inherit the style. See this post: http://www.fandigital.com/2012/07/ambiance-fix-gedits-highlight-current.html I hope this helps.
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