Dual monitor possible?

[Leonard Chatagnier]

I've been following this thread for some time noting
the difficulty Megan is having with command line
instructions and being a newbie(noobie). I had much
the same trouble when I first switched from windows to
Debian linux. In this regard, why in the world are you
having her use vim?  I had the same trouble she has as
vim is much more complicated than nano and I use nano
all the time with sudo to modify any files I need to.
If sudo doesn't work as it wont on certain directories
then I just do su(yes I did establish a root account
as per Debian because it's more familiar than the
Ubuntu way).  There are some other issues with Megan
being able to explicitly follow instructions and, I
don't mean to be critical, so she doesn't need to have
additional complications.
Vim is powerful and more to the liking of experts,
which I'm not. I would recommend that Megan use:

sudo nano <file name to be modified>
Use the complete path name if you are not in the
directory that contains the file.
Make the desired changes, then hit CNTR-O(Writeout) to
save the modified file and CNTR-X(Exit) to quit nano.
Nothing to it and the function keys are shown at the
bottom of the editor page. So easy, IMHO.
Written from the newbie point of view and I hope it
helps Megan. Intending no offense to anyone.

Len
--- Ashley Benton <meggalen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you, that did work. Sorry I was tired and I
> read the book wrong,
> should have found out but I didn't. If I want to
> work with vim do I have to
> open it like that: "terminal$ sudo vim" or do I have
> to become root and open
> it once I am root?  If I have to become root how do
> I do that? Is it my user
> password or another? Sorry I didn't try it yet, just
> learning.
> Thank you
> Megan
> 
> 
> On 10/5/07, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > RE your problems with vim
> >
> > 1 - Make sure you started it with sudo.
> >
> > 2 - It's q! not !q
> >
> > If you open the file and change something, vim
> won't quit unless you
> > either save it (with :w) or tell it you really
> want to quit (with q!)
> >
> > If you aren't root, it can't save it, so it still
> won't quit after you
> > try that.  And !q means 'run a program called q' 
> not 'quit now!'
> >
> > Brian
> >
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Leonard Chatagnier
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