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From: Sybren Stuvel
Subject: Re: Editing menu.lst
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Mike Easter enlightened us with:
>> I want to edit the file menu.lst, which for some reason needs root
>> privileges to edit.
>>
>> I opened the terminal and typed edit boot/grub/menu.lst preceded by
>> sudo, gksudo, sudo nano, etc. and none of them worked. Can
>> someone tell me the proper command to edit this file and save it
>> after editing?
>
> One of the reasons some of us who grew up with GUI for the past 20+
> years absolutely hate commandlines.
Not being able to edit a file doesn't have anything to do with using a
GUI or not.
One of the problems with a GUI is that it's very hard to point at
something that isn't there. It's a problem even the ancient Egyptians
experienced with hieroglyphs. In a terminal, I can say "edit file XYZ"
even though that file doesn't exist yet - it will exist once I save
it. Starting an editor with an empty file that is automatically saved
to the correct location is simply impossible with a GUI.
Sybren
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