Pico

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bocvarcosit Pico (PIne COmposer) is a console-based text editor originally included with the Pine emailer package developed by the University of Washington. Pine is quite popular among novice users as well as advanced users wanting to make quick edits to documents.

There is also a clone of Pico available called nano which is developed by the GNU team. Nano features everything included with Pico as well as extra enhancements, the most popular being search & replace support.

A few quick commands with pico:

Command Explanation
Ctrl+A Move to the begining of current line
Ctrl+E Move to the end of current line
Ctrl+Y Move a page up
Ctrl+V Move a page down
Ctrl+K Cut current line of text
Ctrl+U Uncut (Paste) text
Ctrl+W Searches for text in the document
Ctrl+O Flush the current buffer to disk (saves the file)
Ctrl+X Exit pico allowing you to save the file


External Links

Pine Homepage