Thomas Roessler [mutt-users] <Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:55:19PM +0200>:
> Pine also includes a crappy editor (pico - which is nevertheless
> used by some people in order to ruin their configuration files), and
> a full-blown file manager (pilot, if I recall this correctly).
Pico is a pretty good editor for newbies (at whom pine was
originally targeted) :) Plus, it comes in handy when you just want
to type text and send out mail, rather than bothering with "esc :
foo bar" or "alt meta cokebottle" keybindings - a definite plus
which has helped several of my friends start using mutt faster than
if they'd have to learn vi / emacs :)
And no, it's not used for editing config files - just for basic
text editing :)
> (OK, we have a directory browser, too, and a tight integration
> between editor and mailer has a few pros.... ;-))
If integration was what they needed, people would use a package
that's a browser + mail / news reader + editor + .... (either
netscape communicator or emacs) :)
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