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		codezero on Nov 28, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A vi-centric family tree of editors (2000) This is how I learned vi. I was a pico (now called nano) user but needed to edit the hosts file when Solaris was released for x86.

digi_owl on Nov 30, 2016 [–]

More correctly nano is a reimplementation of pico.

This, iirc, done because pico was part of the pine email client. And pine was covered by a iffy license.

codezero on Dec 4, 2016 | [–]

Ah, neat, I didn't realize it wasn't just renamed :)

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