Re: Plain text editor.

> > It is reported that I need to use a plain text editor to do this.

> > Unfortunately I don't know what they are called and how to start one.
> > Any info would be just neato.
> > I've spent a few hours trying to find out.

> There are several different editors available for OD and most other
> Unix systems. Listed in terms of prevalence, they are:
> 
>         ed
>         vi/vim
>         Emacs
> 
> ed is archaic (in my opinion) but it is very powerful.  vi is a full

To me all three are archaic, but, then again, I've been a Mac user
since the time that the 128 was the hottest thing around so I'm no
great fan of memorising arcane key combos or mixing my text editor
with a shell (of course, that's all personal preference).

I'd suggest pico or nano (nano is a pico clone, it uses a different
licence... pico is most likely to be installed by default). They're
very user-friendly (compared to vi/emacs/ed) and behave like you'd
expect a word processor/text editor to behave. If you get stuck, just
RTFS (read the frigging screen) and you'll get unstuck!

PS To edit root-owned files, you'll need to use sudo or su or login as
root (depending on how your system is set up).

Eric.