On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:15:13 -0900
Greg Madden <gomadtroll@...> wrote:

> Looks like nano, except nano has pretty colors :-)
> 
> nano is installed by default by Debian, pico package is alpine-pico

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.

E. Liddell