question on nautilus

[Paul Allen Newell]

Frank from Melville Theater gave me a solution that worked .... thanks !!!

On 8/4/2011 11:47 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> I am trying to change the default text editor in what I think is 
> Nautilus from gedit to vim. All the info I see online either addresses 
> it for another Linux flavor and/or seems to imply that I should see 
> Gvim as an option when I go into file->preferences (which I do not). I 
> spotted one link with seemed to imply that it might be something to 
> the effect of "/usr/bin/vim @1", but not enough for me to trust. I 
> tried searching in ~.local and ~.gnome* and ~.nautilus for any 
> reference to gedit thinking I could change a file, but found nothing.
>
> Suggestions? (and that includes a scolding for "why didn't you look in 
> the obvious place?" which is not obvious to me)
>
> Thanks,
> Paul