user permissions problems

[andy baxter]

Jimmy Wu wrote:
> I am working right in the home directory
> the permissions, as listed by ls -l /home, for my jimmywu folder are 
> "drwxr-xr-x"
> the append  ">>" works
>  
> so the problem must be gedit
>
In that case, I don't know what else to suggest, except try a different 
text editor and see if that works until you can work out what's wrong 
with gedit. Scite is quite good IMHO.