E. Liddell wrote:

> If I recall correctly, pico was originally the editor for the pine mailer,
> and nano was a clone of it created to avoid licensing issues. �And yes,
> for the casual user who doesn't intend to immerse him- or herself in a
> command-line editor, nano is superior to either vi or emacs.

Regarding editors

If you have not heard of, there is "ne", which is my favorite command line
editor - unfortunately is not installed by default in debian and is not
available on other distros.
It is however impressive. I can recommend