Editor can't edit

[Eric Feliksik]

Sven Wagschal wrote:
> Arnold Maestre schrieb:
> 
>> Now you open a terminal, and type "sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst".
>> Your shell asks for your password, you give it, and you get a gedit
>> window, running with superuser privileges, where you can edit the
>> file, don't you ?
>>
>> One of the problems I see here, is that there is no GUI-fied way of
>> getting a root editor. Sure, gksuexec is in the "System Tools" menu,
>> but it is basically useless since it asks for the root password. Could
>> we have a sudo version ?
> 
> 
> But you needn't a terminal, you can use "Run Application", the last 
> entry of the applications menu, typing gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst.
> Now one should be able to properly edit ones menus.
> 
> 
> 

When I did that (gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst), gedit opened 
~eric/'/boot/grub/menu.lst. Note the <'> symbol after my homedir. Of 
course, the file didn't exist and gedit showed an empty file.

Is this a bug?

Eric