is mc OK for editing config files ?

["Voytek Eymont" <voytek sbt net au>]

dumb question:

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


> > > is this my problem.. ?
> >
> > Yes. Don't use "emacs" to edit system configuration files, use "vi",
> > which never leaves the last line of a file without a trailing a
newline, or
> > configure "root's" .emacs to always add the trailing blank. I last used
> > emacs in the 80's, so I don't remember the right elisp variable.


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Voytek