pico

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Text editor styled after the Alpine Composer.

Examples (8)

Start the editor

pico path/to/file

Start the editor with the cursor located n lines into the file

pico +n path/to/file

Start the editor with the cursor shown before the current selection

pico -g path/to/file

Define the quote string for files such as email

pico -Q "quotestring" path/to/file

Enable mouse functionality when run within an `xterm` window

pico -m path/to/file

Set the operating directory for `pico`

pico -o path/to/directory

Enable "view only" mode, which disallows any edits

pico -v path/to/file

Display all files including those beginning with a period

pico -a