Text editing in text mode

[inktoast]

i need to change my /etc/lilo.conf and i was told to use something like pico to do it with but i cant get into x-windows so i was wonder how to open a text editor in text mode of debian. Remember no X-Windows, and if you feal like it how would it look like, what are the commands and ect....

[evil_roy]

OK..first ( as root ) type cp /etc/lilo.conf lilo.conf.orig This will be your backup copy just in case.

Then check out vi & emacs - here's the NHF's
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/tools/

Now unless you installed emacs you will have to use vi . Learn it because it will be on every *nix system you touch - others won't.

Pico is simple and great for little jobs like this & is CLI based (No X required), however it isn't free software and you won't get it with Debian. What you can get is nano . It's better than pico and free ( as in speech - they are all cost free)

Apt-get install nano