Tools of editors

Aaron Matteson fedora at cryptosystem.us
Thu Mar 4 02:52:02 UTC 2004


fred smith became daring and sent these 1.5K bytes,
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:47:33PM -0800, Aaron Matteson wrote:
> > Bevan C. Bennett became daring and sent these 0.5K bytes,
> > > edwardspl at ita.org.mo wrote:
> > > > Dear All,
> > > > 
> > > > Which tools are similar with "pico" and "pine" with Fedora Core 1 System
> > > 
> > > The closest descendant of 'pine' (a curses-based mail client) is 'mutt'.
> > > Another poster covered pico-like editors, although you may just want to
> > > use vi or emacs like most of the rest of the command-line universe. ;)
> > 
> > 
> > I could be wrong, but isn't mutt a decendant of elm?
> 
> I don't think it's a genetic descendant of either, but its original 
> author (Michael Elkins) had also done a lot of work on extending elm.

Now that sounds about right.

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