[ale] editors, was ... Re: Job listing

Jim Lynch ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
Fri Feb 6 08:41:59 EST 2009


Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Thu February 5 2009, Jim Kinney wrote:
>   
>> <GONG!!> Both are OT posts. The flame war is nano-vs-pico
>>     
>
> wait, I just ran ( from a terminal window:
> pico- top of window says: Gnu nano 2.0.7
>
> CTRL-X, then ran 
> nano- top of window SAYS... Gnu nano 2.0.7
>
> wait, dpkg says pico isn't installed...
>
> ii  nano           2.0.7-4        free Pico clone with some new features
> paulandcilla:/home/pbc# dpkg --list pico
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name           Version        Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> un  pico           <none>         (no description available)
>
>   
That's not unusual, if you install nvi, typing vi will bring up nvi, if 
you install vim, typing vi will bring up vim. 

Jim.


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