[CLUE-Tech] my beloved pine and pico
Peter Motyka
peter at motyka.org
Thu Feb 5 13:47:11 MST 2004
There is a GNU flavor of Pico called Nano (http://www.nano-editor.org/).
As far as replacing Pine...? I would suggest Mutt, it is pretty simple to
use and is very tweakable.
Peter
Mike Staver said:
> I'm trying to use Fedora Core 1 today... and I'm very disappointed to
> see that Pine was dropped from the release due to some kind of license
> dispute. (I swear, if all the liceneses would just get along, linux
> would be sooo much better!) Anyhoo, I now would like to find a
> replacement for both command line email and my text editor. Pico was
> great - I learned it 11 years ago on Solaris, and I never looked back.
> I know of emacs and vi, but vi seems hard to use for me. Without
> starting a flame war, can someone please let me know which email client
> and text editors you think are the best... and most likely to not get
> dropped from a future Red Hat / Fedora release? Thanks.
> --
>
> -Mike Staver
> staver at fimble.com
> mstaver at globaltaxnetwork.com
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