Editing .conf Files On The Gp2x

[prairiefire]

Anyone know how to edit a config file on the GP2X? It's just a text file with a different extension, but it would be useful to edit it on the device itself (such as changing my gmu configuration on the go, or gmenu2x for that matter.

 

[Shikkers]

Sterm+vi.

 

[prairiefire]

Sterm+vi.

thanks shikkers... how do you save the file now that you've edited it in the VI text editor? (for the non-linux inclined)

 

[Shikkers]

if you are in insert mode:
(esc) :w

 

[prairiefire]

if you are in insert mode:
(esc) :w

awesome. do you have a good link for me to learn these types of commands? also, if i want to delete a line of text (so i have hit backspace so there are no characters on a line, how do i delete the line?)

 

[Shikkers]

to delete a line (not in insert mode, get out using escape)

dd

u is undo btw if you "miss"

http://www.chem.brown.edu/instructions/vi.html

note: also dd is cut: if you press p you can paste that line.

vi is a very good mouse free text editor.

 

[prairiefire]

sweet. thanks!

 

[Blah]

Personally, I hate vi beyond what words can express. If you don't want to use vi, you can download nano2x which I fell is much more intuitive. But it doesn't work in sterm, you have to telnet into you gp2x from a computer (you can find instructions for that on wiki.gp2x.org).

 

[Shikkers]

Personally, I hate vi beyond what words can express. If you don't want to use vi, you can download nano2x which I fell is much more intuitive. But it doesn't work in sterm, you have to telnet into you gp2x from a computer (you can find instructions for that on wiki.gp2x.org).

Please no emacs vs vi argument. Thanks.

(BTW I use vi for everything)

 

[Blah]

What the hell does Emacs have to do with nano?

 

[fargo]

Me too hate Vi <_<

Nano, pIco onlY

 

[Shikkers]

What the hell does Emacs have to do with nano?

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/12/04/0326236

 

[Blah]

I already knew about the stupid emacs/vi war.

 

[gmiller1018]

I use vi for most everything but on windows you can use "wordpad" because it understands the "UNIX line ending" but "notepad" does not.

 

[prairiefire]

hilarious guys... another runaway thread.... the point is i'm not connecting to a computer. this is to edit files on the gp2x.. when i'm out. Shikkers, you've created a monster. Never used sterm before, or VI, nor unix... but i've taken your link and saved it as a .txt, (along with doing the same with the wiki that lists the controls for sterm0.4.1). now when i'm remote, i can at least check the commands, should i forget them. now i'm pretty determined to learn this stuff.

cheers,

Brett

 

[gmiller1018]

when I am out and need to edit I connect my gp2x to my laptop and telnet to the gp2x and edit the files. If I can't do the connectI copy them to the SD card and then use my SD reader (I aways carry it, the $3.oo one) and plug the USB into an available machine and "wordpad" the file.

 

[prairiefire]

another option, although pretty slow is to use enexfi to rename the config file to a .txt extension and use a text editor (i have KdiTor, anyone know of a better one btw?), then go back into enexfi and change the filename back to the original.

when I am out and need to edit I connect my gp2x to my laptop and telnet to the gp2x and edit the files. If I can't do the connectI copy them to the SD card and then use my SD reader (I aways carry it, the $3.oo one) and plug the USB into an available machine and "wordpad" the file.

sometimes when i'm out i bring my card reader and my gun and i find the closest person with me who has a laptop and i make him edit the files. less weight to have to carry around.

 

[gmiller1018]

I stopped carrying a gun when they told me I was no longer free to shoot people. But I do carry my SD reader in my GP2X case.

 

[Blah]

While we're on the subject of .conf files, could somebody please give me a copy of their GP2X's resolv.conf file, I need to fix that file. Its in /etc/