On Saturday 18 March 2006 23:08, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > > I always use vi to edit config files . I don't know how to use vi . Only > just > a couple of commands ( insert , for insterting text , wq for Save and Exit > and q! for exit ) and that was all i needed . > Agreed - a handful of commands is all you need to get out of trouble. > > I don't know why that was Kostas' recommendation. > > Vi knows only plain text file ( for as far as i know ) so even by accident > i can't possibly save in another format , so i can't possibly damage the > file beyond recovery . Fair comment. > fstab is a plain text file . Most of the configuration files are also > plain text files . > Now , you may use even Write from OpenOffice if you wish BUT you have to > remember to save it as a PLAIN TEXT file . That's why you succeeded with > Kwrite , Kwrite didn't altered the format of the file so it was ok . > I've never been convinced that 'plain text' from a word processor is really plain text. I think that once, long ago, I experimented and found that many text editors wouldn't open a file that had been created that way. Of course things may be different now, but I wouldn't risk it. The biggest problem for a newbie is that it may not be clear which apps are indeed text editors and not word processors. Anne
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