Hi Michael,

Michael K. writes:

> Hey List readers,
>
> i use, under Dev1, XFCE and "geany 1.29" as my default IDE / Text editor.
>
> I observe my xsession-errors on this way also, long time ago. But, i
> can't open my ".xsession-errors" file whit any text editor?
>
> A "text editor" tells me on opening the file: this file is a invalid UTF-8
>
> what must i do to re-open my ".xsession-errors" in a text editor?

Since I don't understand why you would want to *edit* that file, I
suggest you use

pager .xsession-errors

to view it.

# I never understand why folks use an editor to just look at a file.

BTW, I use lv as my default pager. It does on-the-fly decompression,
encoding detection (I get a lot of Shift_JIS files ...) and allows you
to cycle through supported encodings (useful you have to deal with files
that have content with multiple encodings).

Hope this helps,
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