[ale] Pico and Joe

[ari]

pico is part of pine, in case you were wondering.

ari

Jerry Yu (zyu at tc.net) said this stuff:

> hi, denethor,
> 
> at command prompt in a xterm or VT. Type
> 1). 'pico',  to start the program if any and it is in your PATH env
> variable.
> 2) 'whereis pico', to locate where it is.
> 3) 'locate pico', to find all file entries containing 'pico'.
> 3.5) or use 'find / -name pico -print'
> 
> pico is more or less like notepad, with its commands at the bottom of the
> screen, ctrl as meta key.
> 
> If you are going to some serious work under UNIX/LINUX, vi worths a try. I
> like it so far. vim, the improved version, has syntax highlighting for c,
> perl, SQL, etc.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Jerry Yu
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> 
> On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, denethor wrote:
> 
> > Just wondering, I noticed that red hat 5.1 uses vi as an editor, I am
> > not used to this, but to joe or pico, does red hat 5.1 come with these
> > editors? I looked in the setup booklet, but didn't say anything, and
> > there are no manual entries for either, By upgrading to red hat 5.1 did
> > I lose the use of joe and pico?
> > 
> > if not, how do I go about starting them up, or using them..
> > 
> > 
> > thanks
> > 
> >