This is an issue mirrored on all UNIX-like and UNIX systems.  gksu gedit
might suit you.  For practicality, running a GUI editor as root is a no-no.
 Nano is the way to go, as pico is bundled with pine, which is dead news.  I
just feel that starting up dependent gnome subsystems as root just to run an
editor is naive.  I used to run nedit on my IRIX system which is decent.
James

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Paul Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> If Indiana is intended to be a distro for widespread adoption by people who
> are not traditional Solaris users Vim (or Emacs) is a poor choice for the
> text editor on the Live CD.
>
> Nano or(something similarly 'braindead' as described to me on #opensolaris)
> is the way to go.
>
> Those who are smart enough to edit text files with Vim or Emacs will soon
> "pkg install vim" or whatever.
>
> I would suggest that future editions consider nano or perhaps pico. Or is
> there a simple way to edit text files with gedit as root?
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