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Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose



On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:49:45PM -0700, Glenn English wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 19:23, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> > Honestly, I don't know that there is a good console "wordpad.exe" like editor.
> > nano is probably the closest to what you are looking for, with emacs being a
> > (much more complex but featureful) second.
> 
> Pico?

I don't know of any good reason to use pico instead of the suggested
nano, unless you're using pine and are only using pico as the built-in
editor. As far as I know nano entirely supersedes pico in all other
respects.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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