On May 5, 2006, at 7:24 PM, dan_A wrote:
I was able to find the file the way Peter had written, made the
change directly in the file but was unable to save it. It wouldn't
allow overwriting. I then "opened" it in/through terminal which
opened the file outside of terminal, and I still was unable to
overwrite and save. How is this "private" file to be opened in a
text editor?
Go to Barebones,com and download TextWrangler. If you edit a file you
don't have permission to, it will ask for your admin password.
It's also callabe from the command line "edit <filename> brings up
TextWrangler.
An awesome free tool. needs 10.3 or better.
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