OK. I don't have leafpad or gedit on my system. When testing with vi (note that in post #10, the O.P. said that gedit and vi were used interchangeably), by running the command line:
I immediately get:
and about 10 seconds later I get:
noting that vi is stopped; not terminated. And about 10 seconds later, the fg $PID brings vi somefile into the foreground so I can edit somefile. When I quit vi, I then get a new shell prompt for another command.
When I attempted this, with identical code except I use gedit rather than vi it returned:
Saying that there is no such job? What do these errors mean?
Hi,
I unable to open any file using Vi editor,constantly getting the following error,
vi log.log
*** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x081af510 **
uname -a
Linux sekac092 2.6.5-7.244-bigsmp #1 SMP Mon Dec 12 18:32:25 UTC 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Also Note
ls... (8 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a shell script that i started editing, only in the midst of which i tried to save the changes i found that the file wasnt been provided with write/execute permissions.
I later have redone the changes and saved the file-
Just curious to know if there was any command wherein... (5 Replies)
helo
I install my product for koren language
I m uisng RHEL -4 operating system
now problem is whenever I open any file
vi filename
I got following error on the screen
E557: Cannot open termcap file
'vt100' not known. Available builtin terminals are:
builtin_ansi
... (1 Reply)
i have following query
e.g i want the VI Editor cursor at line number N instead of 0 while opening the file from unix prompt.
vi filename ??????
Can anyone help? (4 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
# cat a.txt
94,aqqc,62345907,
5,aeec,77,
# cat 1.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Date::Manip;
open(my $FA, "/root/a.txt") or die "$!";
while(<$FA>) {
chomp;
my @tmp=split(/\,/, $_);
if (index($tmp, "qq") ne -1) {
... (4 Replies)
I know how to check if any file has a unix process using a file by looking at 'lsof <fullpath/filename>' command.
I think using lsof is very expensive. Also to make it accurate we need to inlcude fullpath of the file.
Is there another command that can tell if a file has a truely active... (12 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to ask about the notepad++ text editor application, Although there are alternative and more great text editor in linux (gedit, geany, jedit) im still using the notepad++ sometimes cause for some of my own reason one of those is the minimalist text(what i mean is notepad++ has a... (2 Replies)
vi: syntax error at line 1: `)' unexpected
when I try to vi into the /etc/vfstab, the return gives me the above error.
how can resolve this so that I can have access into vi. (6 Replies)
Hi,
I am facing a problem regarding .csv file, my script does not read .csv file and if i open this file in vi editor and perform :wq option then only my script reads the .csv file.
Thanks (5 Replies)
Hello Experts,
I need to write a shell script to check if a file is open and something is being written to it. I want to know how OS handles it. I checked with lsof command but it is not working. For a test I did this.
while true; do echo `date` >>abc.txt; done
then I checked
lsof |... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: shekhar_4_u
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
gedit
GEDIT(1) General Commands Manual GEDIT(1)NAME
gedit - text editor for the GNOME Desktop
SYNOPSIS
gedit [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.
While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor. It can be used to create and edit all kinds
of text files.
gedit features a flexible plugin system which can be used to dynamically add new advanced features to gedit itself.
OPTIONS --help Prints the command line options.
--encoding
Set the character encoding to be used for opening the files listed on the command line".
--new-window
Create a new toplevel window in an existing instance of gedit.
--new-document
Create a new document in an existing instance of gedit.
+[num] For the first file, go to the line specified by "num" (do not insert a space between the "+" sign and the number). If "num" is
missing, go to the last line.
filename(s)...
Specifies the file to open when gedit starts. If this is not specified, gedit will load a blank file with an "Unsaved Document"
label. Multiple files can be loaded if they are separated by spaces. gedit also supports handling of remote files. For example,
you can pass the location of a webpage to gedit, like "http://www.gnome.org", or load a file from a FTP server, like
"ftp://ftp.gnome.org/robots.txt".
--list-encodings
Display list of possible values for the encoding option and exit
--version
Output version information and exit
BUGS
If you find a bug, please report it at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gedit.
AUTHORS
Paolo Maggi (paolo@gnome.org)
Paolo Borelli (pborelli@katamail.com)
James Willcox (jwillcox@gnome.org)
Federico Mena Quintero (federico@novell.com)
Chema Celorio
24 Apr 2006 GEDIT(1)