[NCSA-discuss] editors in windows, Mac

[A. Michael Salim]

I use pine and I like pico in pine but personally I would not recommend
pico for programming.  The biggest issue with pico is that it always (by
default) thinks you are composing an email, and inserts line breaks even
as you are typing a programming, and other times.  That works great for
keeping emails looking nice and justified left and right.  But if you are
programming in Perl or python, arbitrary line breaks will kill you.  Any
editor that inserts "stuff" other than exactly what you typed, is
unsuitable for programming imho.

best regards

Mike


>
> I use pico for just about everything on unix systems. On windows I use
> Notepad most of the time. But there's also a pico available for Windows, :)
>
> (pico is part of Pine aka Alpine, but you can also install nano which is a
> stand-alone copy of Pico)
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