Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 06:59:52 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Jos Chrispijn <kernel@webrz.net> Cc: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PICO port Message-ID: <20120401065952.514849ae@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <4F7823C5.8090709@webrz.net> References: <4F781F0F.5020305@webrz.net> <4F782346.1010901@FreeBSD.org> <4F7823C5.8090709@webrz.net>
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On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:45:41 +0200 Jos Chrispijn <kernel@webrz.net> wrote: > Hi Matt, > > Thanks, I guess I should take more attention on these critical > changes K-) > > regards, > Jos Chrispijn > > Matthew Seaman: > > On 01/04/2012 10:25, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > >> I have been out of FreeBSD some time, but when installing BSD9 I > >> can't locate pico anymore. What I did is: > >> - portsnap fetch > >> - portsnap extract > >> - portsnap update > >> > >> but pico seems to be completely gone? > >> Who can tell me what I oversee here? > > Use editors/pico-alpine instead. > > > > MOVED says: > > > > editors/pico|editors/pico-alpine|2008-09-01|No further development > > for pine, alpine has more features and is config-compatible > > > > Essentially the Pine project got reorganised, re-released under new > > licensing terms and renamed to Alpine. Hence the name change of the > > pico port. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Matthew There's also editors/nano and editors/nano-devel, described in the Makefile's COMMENT as: Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico clone It's virtually identical to pico, but with a few enhancements, such as the ability to set tab stops, which I like *very* much when editing shell scripts, C and other source code files (that is, when I'm not using an IDE such as kdevelop or whatever). It's become my *de facto* replacement for pico, which I used for years. -- Conrad J. Sabatier conrads@cox.net
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