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11 Responses to "Pico Gets No Love"

1. | Reply Mike Zornek
   Posted 06 Mar 2003 at 12:07am #
   

   I've never done much in emacs but for a long while I used pico to edit my httpd.conf files all over the place. It had the advantage over vi in that I could see the menu commands. These days I fire up BBEdit from the command line, but remember the good times with pico.

2. | Reply the invisible man
   Posted 06 Mar 2003 at 1:30am #
   

   man, i use pico for all my text editing needs. i haven't found the need to use anything else. i used it (recently) to edit my httpd.conf file, my .htaccess file, read traffic logs, etc.

3. | Reply Nick
   Posted 06 Mar 2003 at 5:34am #
   

   The quote should have read, "the pointless (and inferior) vi, or the highly configurable (and clearly superior) emacs."

   That's right ... I'm picking a fight. Hey, if the text-editor religious war is going to start up, at least it's on your site and not mine, right? 🙂

   --Nick

4. | Reply Kevin
   Posted 06 Mar 2003 at 8:36am #
   

   I prefer good ole "Joe's own editor - Joe". Much easier to operate that vi, and a lot less program than emacs. What ever gets the job done, right? 😉

   Check it out:

   http://sourceforge.net/projects/joe-editor

5. | Reply Advanced Combo Tricks
   Posted 06 Mar 2003 at 9:03am #
   

   Pico gets no love

   NSLog(); - Pico Gets No Love Back in the day, when I first started using UNIX-like operating systems, I loved pico. pico was all that I ever wanted. Even after taking on non-trivial system administration duties, personally and professionally, I still c...

6. | Reply codepoet
   Posted 06 Mar 2003 at 2:15pm #
   

   emacs? Kitchen sink.

   pico? De gallo.

   joe? blah

   vi? so-so.

   vim? Hell yes. Color that syntax, baby.

7. | Reply Christian Claiborn
   Posted 06 Mar 2003 at 3:08pm #
   

   ed is the standard text editor.

   I pity those of you who have never tried to edit the rc files of a SunOS box when the /usr partition won't mount. Wait, envy, not pity. Still, ed's the one you can always count on.

8. | Reply Ben Stiglitz
   Posted 06 Mar 2003 at 3:29pm #
   

   I've found that pico tends to be the choice of those who don't need to program in a non-stick (that is, GUI-less) application.

   Pico used to be my editor of choice, until I started doing lots of coding over SSH on a box without X. Given enough customisation (two hours of fiddling in my case), Emacs can really streamline your work. (Of course, your mileage may vary.)

9. | Reply zachk
   Posted 06 Mar 2003 at 4:13pm #
   

   i use pico to write my programs for my java class. i find it a much simpler and easier to use editor than emacs.

10. | Reply Aaron Linville
    Posted 06 Mar 2003 at 5:55pm #
    

    I encourage everyone (on a Mac OS X machine) to read:

    /usr/share/emacs/21.1/etc/JOKES

    Q. What does emacs stand for?

    A. Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift

    VI has two modes. One were it beeps at me, and one were it doesn't.

    🙂

    Anyway, I prefer gnu emacs for coding and general text browsing. With that said, I like vi for editing configuration files (and on machines that take longer than three seconds to load emacs).

11. | Reply le pape
    Posted 14 May 2003 at 2:16pm #
    

    What's Pico?

    Emacs user.