pico is symlinked to nano because nano is based on the design (and
maybe the code) of pico. Pico was used in Panther but not Tiger and
not Leopard.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ which pico
/usr/bin/pico
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ ls -l /usr/bin/pico
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jun 22 17:22 /usr/bin/pico -> nano
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ uname -a
Darwin xray-lan.carcinogenic-studios.com 9.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version
9.3.0: Fri May 23 00:49:16 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.18~1/RELEASE_I386
i386
James
On Jun 22, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Qingye Jiang (John) wrote:
> 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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