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Apple also stopping shipping nano with macOS (as of 12.3) and went back to pico.
by jshier 4y ago
Apple also stopping shipping nano with macOS (as of 12.3) and went back to pico.
- klodolph 4y agoHuh, interesting. Nano is symlinked to pico. I never noticed, since I don’t use it.
- Fnoord 4y agoGNU Nano is GPLv3 which Apple boycots (its v3 since 2007 according to Wikipedia). Tells us GPLv3 works :-) not sure what the license of Pico is. My first text editor was Q&A on MSDOS, it relied on F-keys, and on Windows 9x I got used to ctrl as modifier. Pico/Pine and later Nano was a natural successor, easy to learn. I use Vim and ST now.
- assttoasstmgr 4y ago> not sure what the license of Pico is Apache 2.0. I've used pine as a mail reader for well over two decades at this point, mostly on big old UNIX boxes. GNU nano always felt like the knockoff version.
- Fnoord 4y agoRight,it got relicensed. Originally it was not available on e.g. Debian.
- sigzero 4y agoI don't even think Pico is in active development any more.
- sigzero 4y agoI wish they wouldn't do that. Nano is not Pico.
- klodolph 4y agoVim isn't vi, but vi is usually symlinked to vim. And sh is very often a symlink to something like dash or bash.