On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:57:42 -0500 (EST), Lisi wrote: > On Monday 22 February 2010 14:45:11 Stephen Powell wrote: >> I earlier recommended gedit, which is a graphical text >> editor for the GNOME desktop environment. I thought that's what you >> were running. I didn't realize you were using KDE. > > Kwrite in KDE is a good compromise between vi and word-processors, and I > would > say is at a similar "level" to gedit in Gnome. Assuming KDE 3.5.x;
The reason that I don't recommend the use of word processors to edit text files, even though they *can*, is that by default they usually save their files in a word-processing format, rather than as plain text. Having no experience with KDE, I assumed that Kwrite was a word processor. Apparently not. My mistake. But I also wanted to give him some experience with an editor that can be used in a virtual console environment (i.e. with no X server running). Some day he may do something, such as hose up his X config file, that will prevent his X server from starting. As a matter of fact, I've helped a couple of users recently who couldn't get their X servers to run. The last I checked, one of them still can't. If Cecil can't use any non-graphical editors, he'll be up a creek without a paddle in this situation. Also, getting his Kwrite session to run as root is an additional complication. I don't know about KDE, but GNOME, by default, doesn't even allow the root user to login to the X console. Since I don't know how to get Kwrite to run as root, I suggested nano in a terminal session as root, which is very intuitive. In the final analysis, I don't care what text editor he uses, as long as he can get it to run under the root user. But I thought I should explain the rationale behind my recommendation. Besides, he used to use DOS; so the command line interface is not completely foreign to him. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/138608574.14187361266857081044.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
