A sysadmin editor needs slightly more than to bea fast-starting thing that needs a minimal environment. It turns outthat sysadmins are picky people (well, at least I am), and there aresome small mistakes that otherwise competent editors can make that,unfortunately, make them non-starters for the job.

The first and the most classic mistake is automatically changing tabs tospaces or spaces to tabs. Just like programmers working on makefiles,sysadmins edit files where tabs are not interchangeable with spaces; aneditor

Here is one of my little peculiarities: for all that I use it a lot, Idon't really like vi . I use two or three editors on a routine basis(and at least one more every so often), and out of all of those, vi is my least favorite. But it is also the editor that I use the most,because over time it has become what I'll call my sysadmin editor.

Why I have drifted into using vi all the time is a roll call