[Klug-general] Gentoo for the first time.

[Michael E. Rentell]

Thanks for two swift responses - both recommending nano.

That's a new one on me - but it worked.

Don't go away. There are bound to be other little wrinkles the author 
thinks are obvious and bears of little brain find incomprehensible. I'll 
do this if it kills me.

MikeR

On 12/11/10 10:13, David Halliday wrote:
> If the file is empty you can use cat (both to output the file and to 
> input data into it). You can also input data to a file with echo.
>
> You can try nano, pico, joe as possible editors.
>
> On 12 November 2010 21:51, Michael E. Rentell 
> <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com <mailto:michael.rentell at ntlworld.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     G'day all,
>     Linux Format this month has a tutorial on Gentoo. Oh good I
>     thought - I've got an old x86 PC lying around doing nothing so I
>     thought I'd give it a whirl to keep me awake in the afternoons.
>     All part of the self-improvement process.
>
>     All has gone very well until I read the line:
>
>     Open /etc/make.conf and set the following for the USE line:
>
>     USE="-gtk -gnome qt4 kde dvd alsa cdr"
>
>     Save and exit,....
>
>     Ha, how do you do that when the install system does not respond to
>     vi, ed or emacs?
>
>     Presumably an editor is needed to play with the file make.conf.
>
>     Am I missing something here?
>     MikeR
>
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