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sdowney717
October 27th, 2009, 04:51 PM
i would like to be able to paste in a line of text like
/etc/somedir/anotherweirddir/stillanotherdir/somefilename

so many times on the forums people post lines to files and you have to go to the terminal to open these files.
ddarsow
October 27th, 2009, 04:59 PM
i would like to be able to paste in a line of text like
/etc/somedir/anotherweirddir/stillanotherdir/somefilename

so many times on the forums people post lines to files and you have to go to the terminal to open these files.

Try Gnome Do or Deskbar--either of these will do that. I prefer GnomeDo, but it is mostly because I am more used to using it I suppose.

With Gnome Do all you have to do is copy the desired location, paste (I just hit Ctrl+v) & hit enter.

The only downside I see is that often the scenario you present will want to open a file with sudo privileges and that must be done from the terminal. Either way, the terminal is your friend!
23meg
October 27th, 2009, 05:36 PM
i would like to be able to paste in a line of text like
/etc/somedir/anotherweirddir/stillanotherdir/somefilename

so many times on the forums people post lines to files and you have to go to the terminal to open these files.

Hit Alt + F2, paste the line, hit Enter.
VMC
October 27th, 2009, 05:46 PM
i would like to be able to paste in a line of text like
/etc/somedir/anotherweirddir/stillanotherdir/somefilename

so many times on the forums people post lines to files and you have to go to the terminal to open these files.

Maybe I'm missing the point here, but you can copy&paste the aforementioned text into gedit. Or do you mean to be able to have hypertext ability?
Tibuda
October 27th, 2009, 05:53 PM
What about Open Gedit > File menu > Open > Paste the file path > Click Ok. You would need to run Gedit as root if you don't have the rights to edit such file.
sdowney717
October 27th, 2009, 07:07 PM
What about Open Gedit > File menu > Open > Paste the file path > Click Ok. You would need to run Gedit as root if you don't have the rights to edit such file.
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i dont see any place to paste anything?
Tibuda
October 27th, 2009, 07:09 PM
i dont see any place to paste anything?

click on that pencil.
sdowney717
October 27th, 2009, 07:11 PM
thankyou very much!
that i did not know about.