serverguide methodology

[Kevin Cole]

Og Maciel wrote:

> I was actually thinking... what if we could write it "editor agnostic"? 
> Meaning, "with your browser of choice blah blah" and then we could point
> to a section where we could list a few options and let the reader
> choose... or continue using whatever rocks their boat...

Regarding editors, see my sig. ;-)  But seriously, you cannot go completely
editor agnostic:  You need to be sure to warn the user about issues such
as non-plain-text and automatic word-wrap.  So suggesting at the start a
list of "safe" editors would be good.  Once that's out of the way, moving
to the generic "edit this file" works for me.  (As for nano, I encourage
the use of "nano -kw" for editing most files.  "-k" so that you can kill
partial lines and more importantly '-w" to turn off auto-word-wrap.)

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