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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

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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