[LON-CAPA-dev] text editor without shell

[Martin Siegert]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 09:49:53PM -0500, Scott Harrison wrote:
> yes.. I think that is indeed the solution..
> (I was also thinking of an
> editor called joe; 'joe's own editor')..
> 
> thanks!
> 
> Scott
> 
> Matthew Brian Hall wrote:
> > 
> > pico?
> > 
> > <shudders>
> > 
Scott Harrison wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear All:
> > >
> > > Does anybody know of a good linux text editor that
> > > does not provide the user with a shell?  Even vi
> > > does.
> > >
> > > I'm thinking of setting up a sudo user for
> > > the lon-capa configuration files and/or
> > > critical administrative tasks.
> > >
> > > No worries.. :|
> > > JUST fishing for ideas... not embarking on
> > > an expedition...

Scott,

I must agree with Matthew's <shudders> remark.
pico is written by the authors' of pine.
pine has probably one of the worst security records of all packages that
get installed on a Linux box.
Thus, do you really want to use pico for security related work? <shudder>

Anyway, since pico is contained in the pine rpm the "proper" way of
installing it is:

# rpm -Uvh pine-4.44-1.62.0.i386.rpm
# cp /usr/bin/pico /usr/local/bin
# cp /usr/man/man1/pico.1.gz /usr/local/man/man1
# rpm -e pine

... you don't want to have pine lying around ... somebody might use it :-)

Cheers,
Martin