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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers question about pico? Post 45154 by wmosley2 on Monday 15th of December 2003 09:31:28 PM
Old 12-15-2003
question about pico?

Quick question for all of you Unix gurus. What are your thoughts on Pico as an editor. I have been using this editor for the last week or so and have made a lot of headway with my script writing. However, I find a lot of the quirks associated with this editor to be quite annoying. For instance, I often find myself going from an ability to edit my existing script to unintentionally overwriting information - like if you were to select Insert in a normal text document. If Pico is considered old hat, what would you suggest instead?
 

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VITMP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  VITMP(1)

NAME
vitmp - edit temporary files SYNOPSIS
vitmp [VIM options] FILE... DESCRIPTION
vitmp is a wrapper around the VIM editor which may be used to invoke the editor in a way that is guaranteed to be suitable for editing tem- porary files used with programs such as crontab(1) and edquota(8). The instance of the editor that is invoked is /bin/vi. In particular, it is guaranteed that the file, if edited, will be overwritten in place such that the modified contents may be read back via a previously obtained file descriptor. Invoking the editor via vitmp also makes sure that no additional editor temporary files are used. Please note that vitmp offers no crash recovery capabilities. If the editor crashes during the overwrite, data may be lost. HISTORY
vitmp first appeared in Openwall GNU/*/Linux 1.0. AUTHORS
Solar Designer <solar@owl.openwall.com> SEE ALSO
crontab(1), vi(1), vim(1), edquota(8) Openwall Project 25 April 2002 VITMP(1)
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