I don't have nano or pico?

[carljenkins]

At the command line I whereis pico : and a whereis nano and I get nothing?

I have vi. Do I need to install these?

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by carljenkins
I have vi. Do I need to install these?

It is entirely up to you.

If you are comfortable using vi, then you really don't need to bother installing pico or nano. I only use vi if I need a commandline editor as I work both on Linux and AIX and since vi is always installed on both.

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Before we start another 'best commandline editor' war again, let's not forget about the current thread just down from this one titled 'non GUI based text editor' (http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=92588)

[carljenkins]

Thanks.

I guess i should check my package manger to see if it's installed. I could swear I choose every option when I installed I don't get why they wouldn't be there?

[Zoist]

I don't know what nano is, but pico is part of the pine package. My fav text editor in the terminal. :)

[redcape]

Originally posted by Zoist
I don't know what nano is, but pico is part of the pine package. My fav text editor in the terminal. :)

Pico and Pine have licence problems and are going to be removed from Red Hat (and other distributions that are free software only). Nano is a free clone of Pico and has more features. Unfortunately there is no free clone of Pine yet.