Pico (text editor)
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Pico (Pine composer) is a text editor for Unix and Unix-like computer systems. It is integrated with Pine and Alpine, email clients initially designed by the Office of Computing and Communications at the University of Washington.[1]
Quick Facts Developer(s), Initial release ...
Developer(s) | University of Washington |
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Initial release | 1989 (35 years ago) (1989) |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Unix, Unix-like |
Available in | English |
Type | Text editor |
License | Apache-2.0 (Alpine only) |
Website | alpineapp www.washington.edu/pine/ at the Wayback Machine (archived March 28, 2019) |
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From the Pine FAQ: "Pine's message composition editor is also available as a separate stand-alone program, called PICO. PICO is a very simple and easy-to-use text editor offering paragraph justification, cut/paste, and a spelling checker...".[2]