out of space on /root

David Fletcher dave at thefletchers.net
Mon Mar 13 14:10:30 UTC 2017


On Mon, 2017-03-13 at 15:00 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> I can expect when writing something. Some editors even fail to
> > properly do
> > italic text, I believe, while the resulting text does have it, or
> > proper
> > indents, I don't know (Drupal).
> It's a text editor. I'm writing text. Plain text. No formatting. What
> it looks like is irrelevant as long as it is legible. I generally
> avoid using fonts, bold and italic in writing anyway. If I do need
> them, I often use Markdown-style ASCII marku: *this* is bold, /this/
> is italic and _this_
> denotes underline.

+1
A text editor is for preparing source code, setting up config files to
get postfix and dovecot working to your requirements, etc. All that is
required is clarity on the screen so the actual font used for editing
is a configuration setting of the editor itself and should never ever
be part of the file being edited IMHO. I happen to use hack font for
GUI editing, and for my email.

If you want italics, underlining etc. you're using a word processor not
a text editor.

Dave




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