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  1. Nano Editor by Joel+Rowbottom · · Score: 2 · on Pine/Pico License Misconceptions
    Those of you who like pico but want more functionality may like nano, which is a pico clone with lots more functionality (same sort of thing as vim and elvis are to vi).

    It's got a nice small footprint, and does things like "Go to line no." and a more intelligent search and replace function.

    And it's open-source ;)

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  2. a month to learn by QuantumG · · Score: 2 · on Eazel On The Ropes

    god damn.. I've been dissin' vi users for years now and for some strange reason I recently decided "Damn it, I'm gunna learn that obscure stupid editor that you have to press 'i' before you can start typing and all the other mode lameness" and I figured it would take me a few weeks.. it took one day! one day and I had memorized half the command set and was up to my old level of efficiency in other editors, now I'm going beyond it. Ease of use often == lack of effort.

  3. Re:one possible good result of this: by QuantumG · · Score: 2 · on What Would Happen To Linux If BeOS Were GPL'd?

    my favorite missing feature in pine ;)

    Hey man.. go grab nano, a clone of pico, it rocks man.. it is so great, it has search and replace, go to line (the two big ones) and a couple of other cool features. It even has a "pico emulation mode" where it looks and acts exactly like pico. So if you don't want a multi-megabyte editor or an editor with obsficated key commands, go grab nano.

  4. Re: Yeah, why is the Linux kernel compressed? by ichimunki · · Score: 2 · on Why Software Still Sucks

    And if pico isn't powerful enough give nano a try, it's got the same friendly interface with some added features.

  5. Pico isn't free either! by Oskuro · · Score: 1 · on Wine Runs Word 2000 And Excel 2000

    Pico is under one of those UW restrictive licenses which doesn't allow distribution of modified binaries.
    It is also slow, old, and a memory hog.
    Nano is a GPL replacement, that retains compatability while adding new features like search&replace, regexp search, internationalization, mouse support...
    Stop using that non-free crap now! And while you are at it, switch to Mutt at the same time :>