Am 23.07.2022 um 21:24 schrieb George N. White III gnwiii@gmail.com:
On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 7:34 PM Joe Zeff joe@zeff.us wrote:
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.
Yes, thanks. I hadn't even thought of that in terms of our documentation. It’s an important fact we should explain.
Until now I think it’s only GUI editors that do that. What about text console editors? I know, vim, nano, and (hopefully) emacs don’t do that. Is there a list of potential problematic editors?