Pico (text editor)
| Pico | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | University of Washington |
| Initial release | 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) |
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.
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...".