Ot: Re: [ltp] Thinkpad 600 CDROM woes

[Tod Harter]

License cops! <rolls eyes> I have to agree, VI is the pits. I've always 
installed pico on every server I manage, first thing. Nano sounds like an 
even handier thing though since you don't have to have pine just to get a 
text editor (though usually that turns out to be pretty handy as well).

On Tuesday 13 November 2001 21:33, you wrote:
> Daniel W. Schar said:
> > oh yah, also no pine, ie no pico, so it is a pain to use VI...
>
> Pine/Pico aren't "free enough" for Debian (or me either).  Use GNU Nano
> (http://www.nano-editor.org/) instead.  It is a perfect drop in replacement
> for Pico and is GPL.  Set up a link from pico -> nano and don't look at the
> upper left four characters on your screen and you'll never know the
> difference!  (I wonder if I could hack nano to display the name by which it
> is called in the upper left . . .)
>
> I think Mutt has a "Pinealike" mode, but I never figured it out.
>
> -Peter
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