021101 various people observed that Mandrake no longer includes Pine
& someone asked:
> Does that include its parts such as pico?
> It would be nice for pico to be included by itself if possible
> as it is one of the easiest to use text-based editors there is.

this was discussed recently & i recommended Joe,
which is included in 9.0rc1 & has a more powerful emulation of Pico;
i also recommended that Joe be installed under Office & Development.  

> Vi and emacs require a great deal of cryptic command string memorization
> while pico is all right there.

there are cat lovers & dog lovers and there are Emacs people & Vi people:
today anyway, it's Vim, which is as easy to use as you wish.
however, you are right that a little editor is sometimes all you need,
which is when you can turn to Joe or the MC editor (as someone else said).

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