[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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