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Allows editing commands to be invoked using control key sequences.

Provides basic text editing features such as spell check and searching.

Quit or Exit your secure connection software. You'll be prompted to indicate whether you want to save your changes.Īt the % prompt, type logout and press ENTER or RETURN to log out of the ITS Login Service. Used to set a mark and then perform a delete/move operation on a block of text. Mark cursor position at the beginning of the selected text. You'll be prompted whether to save the buffer (your changes). To search for the same string a second time, press ^W to begin search and then press Return to accept the previous search string shown in square brackets instead of entering a new one.Įxit Pico. The search will wrap to the beginning of the file when it no longer finds matching strings. The cursor stops right before the first occurrence of the string. Search the file for a string of characters. Also, ^U can be used to 'unjustify' the last justification. Using Mark ( ^^), Cut ( ^K), and Undelete ( ^U) is a convenient way to move text to a new location in your file.

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Undelete the last line, series of lines, or marked block you deleted. If a word is misspelled more than once, you will be prompted to confirm the correction of each occurrence. If you don't want to change the spelling of a word flagged by the spell checker, press Return to continue the spell check. You can correct the word, then press Return to change it in the text.

You will be prompted at the bottom of the screen with each misspelled word. Use the arrow keys to navigate to the file you want, and then press Return to read in the selected file.Ĭheck the spelling in the file you are composing. You can then type ^T to see a list of files in your home directory. Pico prompts you for the name of a file in your IFS home directory. Output current buffer to file, saving it. Useful when you are editing a paragraph and the lines become uneven. Reformat the text in the paragraph the cursor is on so that it is left-justified and the right margin is ragged (a paragraph is separated by one blank line).

Insert a tab at the current cursor position. Move cursor up, down, to the right, and to the left.ĭelete the character at the cursor position. The mark feature ( ^^) allows you to mark any segment of text, cut it out ( ^K), move the cursor, and paste the text ( ^U) in the new location. The second ^ means to type a caret ( Shift-6). The first ^ indicates that you should hold down CONTROL. The mouse is not used to select text in Pico. To issue the Get Help command ( ^G), for example, hold down CONTROL and type g. A caret ( ^) is used to indicate the Control key. You issue most commands in Pico by holding down CONTROL and typing a letter. Start typing text or use any of Pico's commands. Pico opens a buffer (temporary storage for any text you type). Log in with your uniqname and UMICH password.Īt the % prompt, type pico and press ENTER, or RETURN. Open the Applications folder, then the Utilities folder to find it.

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Mac OS X: Mac OS X comes with SSH software called Terminal. For information about obtaining and using PuTTY, see Use PuTTY to Connect to Host Computers. Opening PicoĬonnect to the ITS Login Service ( ) using a secure system. This document provides instructions for using the Unix text editor Pico, a command-based text editor, on the ITS Login Service ( ).