What is a "document editor" in Monterey terminal?

[blackxacto]

I am not a programer, but I have used Terminal to do many simple things in the past, mostly paste in a command someone else has written, trusting the source. I have used Terminal in the past to modify a fusion drive. There are much fewer ways to change the interface, etc, than used to be. I want to make a "launch-time" Script by my instructions. I have made many application scripts using Script Editor, but never in terminal.

Are the instructions in the screen shot referring to Script Editor app, or is there a document editor in Terminal I have never used?

Hope from the article I added, you can tell what document editor they are talking about. I tried the terminal command and it does speed up TM backups, but as the article describes, rebooting erases the terminal command. So I am to create a permanent script app I think.

 

[Nermal]

I think it wants you to use something like "nano" to create a text file, but without further context I have no idea why you wouldn't just use a desktop app like TextEdit instead.

 

[bogdanw]

Are the instructions in the screen shot referring to Script Editor app, or is there a document editor in Terminal I have never used?

It's explained on that very page https://www.mackungfu.org/massively-speed-up-time-capsule-time-machine-backups

in the Terminal window, paste in the following single line…

sudo nano /Library/LaunchDaemons/nothrottle.plist

Instead of “You’ll open a document editor in the Terminal window”, they probably should have said “It will open a document editor in the Terminal window. “

 

[blackxacto]

It's explained on that very page https://www.mackungfu.org/massively-speed-up-time-capsule-time-machine-backups



Instead of “You’ll open a document editor in the Terminal window”, they probably should have said “It will open a document editor in the Terminal window. “

That doesn't help me. Its saying the same thing to me. Is there a doc. editing window in Terminal?

 

[blackxacto]

Or are they simply saying paste into terminal window?

 

[unrigestered]

there are a couple, like nano, pico, vim
you can also use the text editor from there by the "open" command

 

[blackxacto]

there are a couple, like nano, pico, vim
you can also use the text editor from there by the "open" command

Thank you

 

[unrigestered]

forgot to mention, that you could also write it directly in the terminal 🤓

the method would be:

cat > filenameyouwant

then type, or paste in the text

when done, hit CTRL+D

to view, or alter the text:

open filename

but of course you could do that from Finder if that's more comfortable for you