On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 12:39 -0500, Moses O McKnight wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:06 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > As for editors, there are several available. I'm partial to the vi/vim > > offerings myself. > > > If you're going to recommend a command-line text editor to a newbie, I > would recommend nano over vi/vim any day! At least with nano you can > easily figure out how to type a few changes and exit, but with vi/vim > you have to learn how to think upside down with rags stuffed up your > nose, and then you have to memorize 100 commands! Every time I > accidentally run vim I have to figure out how to open the tutorial so I > can figure out how to exit the thing without killing the terminal. Then > I forget the commands before I run it next time :-) Enough of that rant > though... > > The easiest editor for most people will probably just be gedit aka "Text > Editor" in the Accessories menu. > > Moses
I agree. Does anyone have a shortcut for using gedit on root files? I end up using a terminal window "sudo su -, gedit". It would be nice to open gedit normally and then invoke root privileges. -- Kirk Wallace (California, USA http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ Hardinge HNC/EMC CNC lathe, Bridgeport mill conversion, doing XY now, Zubal lathe conversion pending Craftsman AA 109 restoration Shizuoka ST-N/EMC CNC) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
