> Am 23.07.2022 um 21:24 schrieb George N. White III <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx>: > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 7:34 PM Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> 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? _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
