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Pico

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Last reviewed Sep 2026

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What is Pico?

Pico is a simple, screen-oriented text editor for Unix systems originally distributed as part of the Pine email client from the University of Washington. It provides basic text editing with on-screen key binding menus, making it approachable for users unfamiliar with editors like vi or emacs.

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1.MANUnix Manual Page (roff/man-macro source)
2.MEFormatted manual page with me macros
3.UNXUnix text file
4.OPTSLinux configuration options file

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