File permissions?

[Jim Byrnes]

NoOp wrote:
> On 12/24/2009 07:09 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>> I've been using Ubuntu for about two weeks now and am starting to get 
>> used to it.  However, coming from an OS/2\Windows world file permissions 
>> seem to be giving me some grief.
>>
>> Maybe if someone could tell me how to do a couple of specific tasks it 
>> would become clearer to me.  I have Jedit loaded on all three of my 
>> OS's. I have modified some mode files on the other OS's I would like to 
>> use on Ubuntu.  I copied them to a shared folder on Ubuntu but I can't 
>> copy them to /usr/share/jedit/modes which is where Jedit will look for them.
>>
>> In that same vein, if I wanted to edit one of those files with Jedit how 
>> could I get Jedit to open it for editing?
>>
>> Thanks,  Jim
>>
> 
> Others have given specific instructions etc.; here are links to a wealth
> of help & information regarding Ubuntu that you should bookmark and read
> through. The help.ubuntu.com site uses a custom google search engine, so
> you can enter searches just as you would in google:
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/
> https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/index.html
> https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/switching/index.html
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CommonQuestions
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo
> 
> /usr/share/jedit/modes is a system folder.
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxFilesystemTreeOverview
> 
> You'll need 'superuser' permissions to write the files there. So the
> simplest way via jedit is to use:
> 
> $ gksudo jedit <filename>
> or
> $ gksudo jedit <path-to-file><filename>
> 
> That will open the file in superuser mode (gksudo - or gksu is used
> because jedit is a graphical editor), and from there you can save the
> file to /user/share/jedit/modes.
> 
> But I reckon it's much wiser to follow Tim's advise regarding
> /usr/share/jedit/modes...
> 
> You might also find gedit of use:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/gedit
> it is installed by default on your system.
> 
> 
Thanks for the links, having them summurized in one spot is very helpful.

Regards, Jim