SAMS Teach Yourself Red Hat® Fedora™ 4 Linux® All in One

Creating a File Using the Text Editor

Because you are still new to using Linux, we're going to start slow. One of the most common and basic tasks that you can perform with a computer is to create and edit a file full of text—letters, numbers, and words. So, as your first real Linux task, you're going to launch the text editor, compose a few sentences, and then save those sentences to a file that can be retrieved whenever you want to look at (or edit) those sentences again. You already learned how to launch a text editor window in Chapter 4, “Introducing the Fedora Core 4 Desktop.” If you need a refresher, remember to choose Applications, Accessories, Text Editor from the menubar at the top of your desktop. Launch a text editor now and enter several ...