[CLUE-Tech] my beloved pine and pico

[Greg Knaddison]

I don't know about licensing in the future and such, but I think that you'll be
very very happy when you type into your shell:

$ nano

For pine I have no recommendation.  It was also dropped due to security concerns
and "long term maintenance concerns" or something like that.  I did read that
there is a format file (or something like that) for mutt which makes mutt act
like pine.  Maybe that's your Nirvana.  Mutt seems like the most popular
non-pine text based email client.

Here's a pretty exhaustive though slightly dated review:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=UNIX+email+software+survey+faq+%222+of+3%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1999&as_maxd=5&as_maxm=2&as_maxy=2004&selm=mailfaq.2_1006754401%40ferret.ocunix.on.ca&rnum=1

If your reader screws up that URL do a google groups search for 
UNIX email software survey faq "2 of 3"

Greg

Quoting Mike Staver <staver at fimble.com>:

> 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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