Bo Berglund wrote: > Then I have to know what command actually starts the GUI text editor, > and I don't... Of course, it depends on which GUI text editor you want to run. gedit is a good choice. Just run: su gedit I'm almost certain it's installed by default. But if not, run: su yum -y install gedit > So I am not very keen on command line editors, really. That's fine. There's almost never a need to use one. >> >From that CLI... You've got a plethora of editors to call on, gedit, >> pico, nano, vi, vim, gvim, emacs, joe, etc., depending on what you've >> installed, of course. > > All are character based command window editors, I gather? No. gedit, gvim, and emacs (though this can be run in a command-line terminal as well) are all GUI editors (and there are many other GUI editors to choose from). Matt Flaschen
