web editors

sm plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:23:22 -0700 (MST)


> Actually, pico sucks for editing most stuff because of the damned
> "Long Lines Wrapped" feature which sees fit to wrap lines EVEN when
> you start pico with the do not wrap option... the potential to badly
> mung files exists,
>

Have you checked out recent versions of pico?  I haven't gotten that in a
while.

I use pine to read email, so in that case the text wrapping this is a boon
rather than a pain, as the output has to be read by humans.


> The editor I for those files is called "Crippled Pico".. and yes, its
> quite crippled, I developed it so people could use pico on a dialup
> BBS - basically all the file read/write options are disabled, it wont
> start without a filename, etc... but it supports lonnnnnng lines.

YOu have this available anywhere?