File permissions?

[Glenn Holmer]

On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 20:40 -0700, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 	I down loaded jedit and find it is a brand-new editor for 
> computer programing. It includes compilers in the package.

jEdit's been around for over a decade, and is in Ubuntu's universe
repository.  It's a programmer's editor, but does not include compilers;
rather it has syntax support for many programming languages.

>    Gedit will let me
> > change it but will not then let me save it.
> 
>         This proves it is a root file.

No, it means that the person trying to edit has read permission but not
write permission.  It does not mean that root is the owner.

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