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Huh, interesting. Nano is symlinked to pico. I never noticed, since I don’t use it.
by klodolph 5y ago
Huh, interesting. Nano is symlinked to pico. I never noticed, since I don’t use it.
- Fnoord 5y 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 5y 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 5y agoRight,it got relicensed. Originally it was not available on e.g. Debian.
- sigzero 5y agoI don't even think Pico is in active development any more.
- sigzero 5y agoI wish they wouldn't do that. Nano is not Pico.
- klodolph 5y agoVim isn't vi, but vi is usually symlinked to vim. And sh is very often a symlink to something like dash or bash.