Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Guerra degli editor" in Italian language version.
«Text editors require fewer hardware resources to run – disk space, memory, and processor activity, meaning they are better choices if you have an older computer. In fact, the most basic text editors, such as vi and emacs have no graphical interface.»
«Gli editor di testo richiedono meno risorse hardware – spazio su disco, memoria e attività del processore, quindi sono una scelta migliore per chi ha un computer datato. Di fatto, gli editor di testo più basilari come vi e emacs non hanno un'interfaccia grafica.»
«Internally, Emacs uses its own multibyte character encoding, which is a superset of the Unicode standard.»
«Internamente Emacs usa una propria codifica dei caratteri multibyte, che è un sovrainsieme dello standard Unicode.»
«Due to legacy, different text editors treat hard tabs different. UNIX text editors prefer hard tab is 8 spaces, Windows text editors and IDEs (Eclipse) prefer that a hard tab is 4 spaces. Thus, hard tabs may break source code readability and editability if there is more than a single person editing the file. They will open the file in an editor with different tab settings, edit it and next time you open the file it is ruined and all indentations are wrong. This is even worse on white space sensitive languages (Python, CoffeeScript) as this might actually cause syntax errors or programming logic errors. However, you can avoid this problem in the first place if you do indentation using soft tabs (spaces) instead. Even if you were the single person in the world editing the text file, even you might switch the text editor in some point and accidentally shoot yourself in the leg.»
