Cheer up, I spent $100 for windows and it didnt work right either!
But seriously, from the command line you almost certainly have vim,
emacs, probably pico, and several other editors that will do the job in
the command line. Each of them will be well (but possibly cryptically)
documented. See for instance man emacs. It took me a while to get used
to reading man pages, but thats where the good stuff is. You can open
two terminals, one with the editor and one with the man page, and you'll
get it!
Good luck.
Gene
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> why is it my problems are ignored for stuff that has been answered a million
> times over yet i sit here with a linux prompt and no x windows
> :(
> xf86config doesnt work anymore so i cant use that, found an xf86config file
> that was optimized for my system yet i cant save it to linux, because i dont
> have pico, kedit made for xwindows! like that will work,
> spent $30 for linux mandrake and thinking i wasted money with lack of help
> and a system that linux just seems to hate
