Pico (text Editor)

Information about Pico (text Editor)

A screenshot of Pico.

Pico is a text editor for Unix computer systems, and is integrated with the Pine email client, designed by the Office of Computing and Communications at the University of Washington.

From the Pine FAQ: "Pine's message composition editor is also available as a separate stand-alone program, called PICO. PICO is a very simple and easy-to-use text editor offering paragraph justification, cut/paste, and a spelling checker..."

Pico does not support working with several files simultaneously, and consequently cannot copy text from one file to another or perform a find and replace across multiple files. It does support string search to locate appearance of a particular text fragment in the file. Pico also supports search and replace operations by typing ctrl+w followed by ctrl+r, which will bring up an interface with which the operations are performed.

Pico is generally used by those who are new to Unix, but many experienced users compose email with it as well. Pico's interface is in many ways very similar to that found in Windows editors, such as Notepad.

By comparison, the powerful Unix-platform text editors such as vi and Emacs provide practically all functionality imaginable in a text processor, including regular expression search and replace, working with multiple files, and much more. However, they are generally harder to master and use, so many Unix novices choose to use pico. Unfortunately, pico's default mode includes automatic word-wrapping, which can cause problems when editing newline-sensitive configuration and source code files.

The GNU project has a clone of Pico called nano. Nano was developed because Pico's license is not considered to be a free software license since distribution of a modified version of the code is expressly forbidden.

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text editor is a type of program used for editing plain text files.

Text editors are often provided with operating systems or software development packages, and can be used to change configuration files and programming language source code.

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Pine is a freeware text-based e-mail client developed at the University of Washington.

Supported platforms

There are both Unix and Windows versions of Pine. The Unix version is text user interface based—its message editor inspired the text editor Pico.
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Company/developer: Microsoft Corporation
OS family: MS-DOS/9x-based, Windows CE, Windows NT
Source model: Closed source

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Notepad is a simple text editor included with all versions of Microsoft Windows since Windows 1.0 in 1985.

Overview

Notepad is a common text-only (also referred to as plain text) editor.
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Maintainer: GNU Project

OS: Cross-platform
Available language(s): English only
Use: Text editor
License: GNU General Public License
Website: www.gnu.
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In computing, a regular expression is a string that is used to describe or match a set of strings, according to certain syntax rules.

Regular expressions are used by many text editors, utilities, and programming languages to search and manipulate text based on patterns.
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Word wrap refers to a feature supported by most text editors that allows them to insert soft returns (or hard returns for some text editors) at the right-side margins of a document.
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newline (also known as a line break or end-of-line / EOL character) is a special character or sequence of characters signifying the end of a line of text.
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source code (commonly just source or code) is any sequence of statements and/or declarations written in some human-readable computer programming language.
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nano is a curses-based text editor for Unix and Unix-like systems, licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is a clone of Pico, the editor of the Pine email client.
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A free software licence is a software licence which grants recipients rights to modify and redistribute the software which would otherwise be prohibited by copyright law. A free software licence grants, to the recipients, freedoms
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The following is a list of text editors. For a list of outliners, see that article's external links.

Graphical and Text User Interface

The following editors can either be used with a Graphical user interface or a Text user interface.
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? 3.7 Free GPL Yes
Diakonos Pistos 2004 0.8.3 Free GPL Yes
e Alexander Stigsen 2005 1.0.1 $34.95 Proprietary No
ed Ken Thompson 1970 unchanged from original Free / Yes
EditPlus Sangil Kim 1998 2.31 $30 Shareware No
EmEditor Pro Emurasoft, Inc. ? 6.00.3 $39.
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