default boot option

[lazer1]

On 21-Apr-09, Lucio Mario Nicolosi wrote:
>lazer1 wrote:
>> On 20-Apr-09, Preston Kutzner wrote:
>>> On Apr 20, 2009, at 3:36 PM, lazer1 wrote:
>> 
>>>> when I boot my computer, I am presented with a boot option screen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> eg various Ubuntu options,
>>>>
>>>> a Windows option and a Fedora Core option,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> how can I change the default option?
>> 
>>> edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst file:
>> 
>>> Find the line that starts with 'default' and change the number to  
>>> match the boot definition you want to be the default.  The boot  
>>> definitions are near the bottom of the file and each definition starts  
>>> with the word 'title'.  The list is 0-based, so your first definition  
>>> is actually '0', so you would use 'default 0'.
>> 
>> emacs says the file is read only!
>> 
>> I tried to log in as supervisor using:
>> 
>> su -
>> 
>> but it says:
>> 
>> Password:
>> 
>> then when I give the password I use to login
>> 
>> it says:
>> 
>> su: Authentication failure
>> 
>> !

>[snip]

>Try the Ubuntu way:

>:~$ sudo [your preferred text editor] /etc/boot/grub/menu.lst

 ^^^

for a moment I thought that was a smiley!


ok that functions now, the default boot is now changed,


in fact I used:


sudo emacs /boot/grub/menu.lst


GNU originally began with open source emacs, but today with Ubuntu what are
the recommended text editors?


are there any where I can get my preferred programming indentation style:


if( x )
        {
        if( y )
                {
                .....
                }
        }



where { and } are always aligned in the same column and 

a tab is a single character but 8 characters wide?


I dont want a tab reformatted as several space characters as that slows down

deleting tabs.


I really dont like emacs bizarre default formatting, where it REFUSES to 

accept various things.

a long time ago on Unix I managed to reconfigure emacs to do the above
formatting

but I have lost the notes I made of this!