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[Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu)]

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Ray Parrish schreef:

> You're mixing apples and oranges there. nano is a command line editor
>  which only works within terminal, not a true GUI editor like gedit,
> so of course it starts just fine with sudo. Maybe in Kubuntu they
> have expanded nano into an application that can run in it's own GUI
> window, but on Ubuntu, it's just an application which runs only
> within a Terminal window.

Kubuntu is just Ubuntu with a KDE desktop. There is no special magic for
nano. ;-)

> As to using the "&" with gedit, I sometimes want to use gedit for
> quite a while on more than one file in root mode, but have no need to
> keep the Terminal window open past the initial use of it to get gedit
> started in root mode. I'm not editing from the terminal window, I'm
> using a GUI application to do the editing. So, if I don't use the "&"
> and then close Terminal, it will close gedit before I'm ready for it
> to.

Then why dont you use ALT+F2 and type gksu gedit <file>? I find that
faster than Toepassingen <mouseclick> Hulpmiddelen <mouseclick>
Terminalvenster <mouseclick>

> I much prefer the full use of the mouse and other GUI niceties when
> I'm editing files, so I always use gedit, instead of any of the
> command line editors like pine, nano, etc... with all of their
> unusual key combos needed to control them. 8-)

I try to do as little as possible with the mouse, to avoid RSI.
Constantly switching between keyboard and mouse slows me down.
YMMV

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Amedee
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