I think I'll stick with my installed text editors. I never got Pine
working correctly anyway. For console mode,
I can use vi or vim as a console text editor.
Thanks for pointing this out.
Tim Holmes wrote:
>
> pico is part of pine actually. If you check out the man pages for it,
> the first few lines normally tell you where the syntax comes from.
>
> Name
> pico - simple text editor in the style of the Pine Composer
>
> I don't care much for pico, or pine so I never installed either one of
> them. I use mutt as my mail reader and I use vim which I love. But
> everybody knows about the wars that go on about editors. The only
> reason it's installed on the servers for our network, is that some of
> our users just don't know much of anything about vi or vim.
>
> I don't know if there are pico RPMs on the Mandrake CDs, but I think if
> you install Pine, it will install pico. At which point I'd do a chmod
> 0000 /usr/bin/pine so nobody can use it, and you will still have your
> pico. (Pine is a processor and memory hog. You'd think it was writen
> for Windows the way it acts!)
> tdh
>
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> | Hi Tim,
> |
> | I tried BlueFish and Scream seems to hang but I'll give it a go. If the
> | BlueFish gang hangs in there, over the next couple of versions they will
> | have a nice product. Apparently, IBM is offering HP Builder - a Linux
> | version and it should be a full working demo. The full price is about
> | $69. I'll let you know a little later. By the way, whay happened to
> | pico?
> |
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