Dual monitor possible?

[Ashley Benton]

Nobody told me to use vim I just appear to have a book in from of me that
helped me with that and had no idea of what you are speaking about before
your message. I'll will certainly check out what you say
Thank you
Megan

On 10/5/07, Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> 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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