[WBEL-users] Love the product...

[Jamey Fletcher]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Ed wrote:

> Scott Heisler wrote:

> > I do have one beef.... why does the distro not include PINE.  While I don't
> > use pine that often for e-mail (mainly for testing e-mail), I love pico.
> > It's very easy to use and has menus.  Every RH distro I've used since 5.2
> > has included Pine. Why would WBEL not include it?

> IIRC, UW Pine is not at all open source software, and no-one has 
> bothered to re-write it.  There is a GPL'd pico clone named nano, though.

This is correct - I don't believe RH9 had Pine, and RHEL (which WBEL 
clones) doesn't have it - however, I believe one of the after-market 
repositories has it available.

I have to agree, with respect to pico - I much prefer it for just getting 
in and banging something out in pure text to vi or emacs.  nano is a 
wonderful clone of that, however, fully GPL, and a quick symlink between 
pine and nano takes care of the fingers still having pico programmed it.  
And I believe doing so tells nano to go into compatability mode (which is 
mostly just a matter of not showing some options you do have - they're 
still available, just not as in your face.)

For example, nano adds find-and-replace.