gedit problems

ffenliv · 08-09-2005, 05:33 PM

Howdy, I'm new to Linux, o please forgive any of my noobish ways here.

I set up fc4 with the server config, mostly just to play around with it, since i'm really sick of IIS.

I atttempted to open httpd.conf in gedit ... but it refuses to open, complaining about uknown character encoding. I know what the error is about, but haven't got the foggiest idea how to resolve it .. can anyone help?

Thanks,
Jer

Vgui · 08-09-2005, 05:44 PM

Is using another editor an option? I imagine something else could handle it.
My other suggestion would be to try to open gedit normally, then see if you can change the encoding from there.
But really...just use vi or something

ffenliv · 08-09-2005, 05:46 PM

i tried gedit, obviously, as well as open office - which at least gave me encoding options, but none seem to produce what i want .. the default producing a document some 3000 pages in length.

I'll try vi.

Vgui · 08-09-2005, 05:51 PM

The other option would be to try to cat the file into another file, or even go extreme and cat it then pipe it to xmessage and copy from there.

Code:

cat httpd.conf > testfile
gedit testfile

# or #

cat http.conf | xmessage -file -
# then open up a simple editor (such as Leafpad) and paste the xmessage contents into the file, then resave

Of all the things Linux can do well, text is one of them

Hope that helps.