if you have problems with long line in pico use pico -w to turn of automatic
word wrap.
I think pico is the perfect quick editor, but I would hate to use it to write a
whole web site or some such project.
David Hedbor wrote:
> "geoffrey lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Ewwww...!! emacs!! urgh... it's so big and kludged ! :-)
>
> It might be big, but I use Emacs for A LOT of things, like writing
> this email for example. What I like with emacs other than the
> editor-part is being able to use it for so many things.
>
> > I use vi myself. but i guess pico is a good choice. it's nice and easy to
> > use.
>
> I must say I prefer jed. First of all its more emacs-like. Also it's
> more powerful than pico (which has problems with long lines for example).
>
> > So i gues the list of editors could be ed, vi , ex, and pico.
> > Please remember that the rescue _is_ a minimal distro, which is only for
> > getting your system back up. it is not a distro for daily use!! so i
> > wouldn't dream if adding more editors than necessary..
>
> If you have an ISO-rescue-image, there really isn't any reason why it
> would _have_ to be minimal other than to save potential download time.
>
> --
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> In table tennis, whoever gets 21 points first wins. That's how
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