On 7/22/22 16:14, Peter Boy wrote:
> there is a reason why vi remains so popular and widespread among professional system administrators.
And that reason is?
> And they have only a weary smile for this editor war.
It's not an editor war, at least from my POV. I'm only trying to get
some of the other people here understand that there isn't One True
Editor, and that people writing walkthroughs/HOWTOs should do so in an
editor-agnostic fashion.
In user forums there has been an increase in the number of (often hard to
analyze) problems that end up being caused by overly helpful editors that
replace ASCII characters with unicode glyphs (different space characters,
opening/closing quotes, different dash/minus) in configuration files. Some
advice on the choice of editor and ways to detect non-ASCII characters
could avoid this class of problems.