is mc OK for editing config files ?

Felix Miata mrmazda at ij.net
Wed Oct 10 00:00:42 UTC 2007


On 2007/10/10 08:36 (GMT+1000) Voytek Eymont apparently typed:

> I use mc and often edit config files with it's editor (httpd, postfix,
> amavis, and so on)

> I recently struck a problem where 'things went wrong' and I was told what
> follows,

> I'm *not* blaming mc for my problems, BUT just asking:

> is mc OK to edit config files, with regard to what I'm being told I need
> to do

I've rarely edited any config file with anything else. It might be that some
broken config file users might have a problem with a config file ending with
no newline, but I don't recall ever running across one, and it's plenty easy
to end the file with an extra <RETURN> just to be sure.
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