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