I can fix it myself. Unfortunately I have a lot of other things that I'm doing (yes this post is something I think is important enough to say now), which means I have to get around to it first. As I understand it I need to make a seperate account to edit the wiki. If no one who happened to have had more free time did it in a while, I would've done it within a day or two if I remembered.

Anyway, it wasn't about "you need root access" (I think, based on how he asked) the original question. It was about "how do I edit in the first place", namely, what do I type to open the file at all. In this case, vi. The problem with not listing that (and your it's-listed-everywhere statement) is that unless you know what vi is, or have read enough stuff on here, to guess what to look for, you can't look for something like "how to use vi", as you don't even know there is a thing as vi.

Could he have figured out how to use something like vi by typing "how to edit files from terminal" inot Google? Yes. But even using a search engine, especially in a language not native to you, is an art form that some people just don't have the specific cognitive-processes shaping experiences to develop.

That said, I agree with your sentiments over all. There's a bunch of stuff that doesn't need to be covered, and there's plenty of people who don't search enough, for information that's available everywhere. But I just came from the completely Linux newb state a few months ago. And I know that sometimes you really don't just find something. You look for the most basic things and hit a wall because everyone assumes this is common knowledge. I was lucky to find a "Learning the Shell" tutorial online - until that I got like 4 commands simple enough to be memorable from excessive reading of this board. A bunch of the scripts that are documented on here I can look up and use but they make no sense given lack of more basic understanding so they aren't memorable.

Anyway, I like giving people the benefit of the doubt. He presented himself as someone who understood most of what he as asking about, that he did try to look around for an answer, just was missing one piece of information. I did write my usb internet from computer to N900 'guide' to an utterly ignorant thread, because I felt one was lacking, but usually I do not humor people who don't seem like they tried. The op did, hence the reply.