On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Jennifer Look <jenlynl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am brand new to all this, and just starting to work my way through the > Django tutorial. I got to the "Database setup" step, where it says to edit > mysite/settings.py and I'm stymied. > The previous step was to start the development server. I should quit the > server before editing variables, right? > How do I edit the settings.py file? It seems like I should just be able to > open the file in a text editor, but I can't seem to figure our how from the > bask prompt. > > Thanks for any suggestions! > Jen >
You can use any editor you want, it does not have to be an editor you launch from the bash prompt. Common console based editors for *nix are vim, emacs, pico and nano, and there are a wealth of non console based editors like Kate, gedit, and I'm sure now I've mentioned those, a whole host of other people will mention their favourites also. When using the development server, you can in fact change things on the fly. Most of the time the development server is just sitting there waiting for you to make a request, and when it notices that you've changed any of the files it will restart itself. Cheers Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
