The line that made my night!

[pseydtonne]

alias typing='nedit -xrm "nedit*text.background: darkblue" -xrm "nedit*text.foreground: yellow"'

The above is not perfect (I'd prefer Prussian blue and maybe a sea foam green for the text), but it does convey what I want the text editor nedit to do when I use it for writing LiveJournal entries. I didn't have to dig all that long through the manuals. All I had to do was start myself over.

First, I typed "man nedit" and found out about the flag that overrides X defaults (-xrm) and the format it likes. This flag either has an obscure concatenation character or it just doesn't perform more than one tweak each time it's invoked. Then I made an alias for this string of crud so that I could get my desired colors each time I call up the program and added the string into my .bashrc file.

I also added this line to my .bashrc because my mod for my virtual consoles (which I'd added to my .bash_profile) wasn't getting called to my X terminals:

PS1="\@. \u is in \W\$ "

This way, I get the time, who I'm logged in as and the last directory I'm in each time I hit enter.

Yeeeeeee! Now all I need is some time to read the documentation I just found for the Grand Unified Bootloader and I'll be sound as a pound.

By the way, I had a fine day on the sales floor and I'm almost ready for bed.

-geek pride all the way, Dante