I noticed that MacOS 10.5 has pico but not pine.

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James Cornell 写道:
> This is an issue mirrored on all UNIX-like and UNIX systems.  gksu 
> gedit might suit you.  For practicality, running a GUI editor as root 
> is a no-no.  Nano is the way to go, as pico is bundled with pine, 
> which is dead news.  I just feel that starting up dependent gnome 
> subsystems as root just to run an editor is naive.  I used to run 
> nedit on my IRIX system which is decent.
>
> James
>
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Paul Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
>     If Indiana is intended to be a distro for widespread adoption by
>     people who are not traditional Solaris users Vim (or Emacs) is a
>     poor choice for the text editor on the Live CD.
>
>     Nano or(something similarly 'braindead' as described to me on
>     #opensolaris) is the way to go.
>
>     Those who are smart enough to edit text files with Vim or Emacs
>     will soon "pkg install vim" or whatever.
>
>     I would suggest that future editions consider nano or perhaps
>     pico. Or is there a simple way to edit text files with gedit as root?
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