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Subject:Yikes! Have I incited "list chill"? / PICO editor From:Patrick O'Connell <titanide -at- MICRO -dot- ORG> Date:Tue, 20 Jun 1995 11:23:09 -0400
Where have all the postings gone? :-)
I just wanted to mention, for anyone subscribed to techwr-l by way of a
UNIX shell account, a lovely little editor called PICO. I now use it on a
daily basis, both as part of a good-if-still-in-progress mail-reader
called PINE, and as my one-and-only stand-alone text editor.
PICO is absolutely marvelous -- the user interface is exTREMEly well
designed, and it's top-of-the-heap with respect to manipulating text
fragments in a UNIX environment. It makes "vi" look the the horrible,
ungainly beast that it is. In point of fact, I am using PICO to compose
this message.
The sources for PINE (and presumably for PICO) are available via FTP from
ftp.cac.washington.edu. If memory serves, there is a "pine" directory
straight off the root; the sources are somewhere below that.
