Ah... Now I understand. Thank you so much.

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James Cornell 写道:
> pico is symlinked to nano because nano is based on the design (and  
> maybe the code) of pico.  Pico was used in Panther but not Tiger and  
> not Leopard.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ which pico
> /usr/bin/pico
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ ls -l /usr/bin/pico
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  4 Jun 22 17:22 /usr/bin/pico -> nano
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ uname -a
> Darwin xray-lan.carcinogenic-studios.com 9.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version  
> 9.3.0: Fri May 23 00:49:16 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.18~1/RELEASE_I386  
> i386
>
> James
> On Jun 22, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Qingye Jiang (John) wrote:
>
>   
>> I noticed that MacOS 10.5 has pico but not pine.
>>
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>> James Cornell 写道:
>>     
>>> This is an issue mirrored on all UNIX-like and UNIX systems.  gksu  
>>> gedit might suit you.  For practicality, running a GUI editor as  
>>> root is a no-no.  Nano is the way to go, as pico is bundled with  
>>> pine, which is dead news.  I just feel that starting up dependent  
>>> gnome subsystems as root just to run an editor is naive.  I used to  
>>> run nedit on my IRIX system which is decent.
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Paul Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>>>       
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>    If Indiana is intended to be a distro for widespread adoption by
>>>    people who are not traditional Solaris users Vim (or Emacs) is a
>>>    poor choice for the text editor on the Live CD.
>>>
>>>    Nano or(something similarly 'braindead' as described to me on
>>>    #opensolaris) is the way to go.
>>>
>>>    Those who are smart enough to edit text files with Vim or Emacs
>>>    will soon "pkg install vim" or whatever.
>>>
>>>    I would suggest that future editions consider nano or perhaps
>>>    pico. Or is there a simple way to edit text files with gedit as  
>>> root?
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