[plug] Discerning minds

[Shayne O'Neill]

If pine is installed, pico will be there. Nano is basically a pico clone.
Not sure which is more featureful, but both are my editors of choice.

--
 I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to
town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad.
- Jack Handey (And now, Deep thoughts)

On Fri, 27 May 2005, Daniel J. Axtens wrote:

> No-one seems to have mentioned nano. I can use it without learning
> funny vi/m editing commands: all the useful tools are on the command
> line. Futhermore, it's almost everywhere (except spark.plug.org.au:
> I've been meaning to complain about that, considering it is listed on
> the top 10 commands.)
>
> Xedit is OK, and runs on my P1, but it seems to have all the bad
> features of emacs (like Ctrl-Shift-Hyphen to undo, and crazy
> auto-indenting) without the the good features (like meta-! to get a
> shell, or adventure, or the psychoanalyst).
>
> > > So if you were forced into a choice of one or the other (vim/emacs)
> > > which would it be?
> Emacs. Without auto-indenting.
>
>
> On 5/27/05, Cameron Patrick <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au> wrote:
>
> > > So if you were forced into a choice of one or the other (vim/emacs)
> > > which would it be?
> >
> > *rolls eyes*  That sounds like a troll to me, but I'll bite anyway:
> >
>
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