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  From: Daniel Callan <dcallan@dataline.net.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 11:42:55 +1000

Re: Pico wordwrap

At 13:36 19/11/98 +1030, Richard Russell wrote:
>unlinefeeded mail... I notice that pico (the pine text editor) sucks if
>you are writing programs, as it wraps the lines around, and can mess
>things up unless you take care... 

I love pico, but I used to have that problem too. I think it
was actually on this list that someone mentioned the fix:

Use "pico -w [FILENAME]" when you don't want wordwrap on.

Rejoice! You don't _have to_ use vi now :-P

Cheers,
-Daniel


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