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  • From: Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Re: Please tell me about BL3
  • Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:13:41 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 sheywood AT shentel.net wrote:

> Last time you wrote:
> > A suggestion for a smaller editor for BL3.
> >
> > E3 includes a built-in calculator. It also lets you use Wordstar or Pico
> > or Vim or Emacs commands and compile for any of them as default if you

But e3, like Joe, lets you use Pico commands, which I wyhy I included
e3pi. Can you got to top or bottom of a document with regular Pico or
Nano? It is a real pain to do this one page at a time on a long text.

> > edit an .h file first. It has a few things that I find annoyingly
> > missing
> > in Pico - go forward or backward one word, go to start or end of page.
>
> Pico is a very nice editor. I would suppose that most of the newbies
> are very comfortable with using Pico because most of them are probably
> already familiar with it and have some experience using it while running
> Pine. Many of those who start using BasicLinux already have some
> experience with running programs on a remote Unixish shell where they use
> the Pico editor. When they start leaning something which is somewhat
> very new to them such as BasicLinux it is nice for them to find themselves
> in an environment where they can use a very nice text editor which is
> already very familiar to them. There are many text editors which have
> more and better features than Pico, but Pico is one of the easiest text
> editors to learn how to use.
>
> Sam Heywood
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