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Pico Cheat Sheet

pico is a simple, display-oriented text editor originally developed for the pine e-mail client. pico is the default editor for SDF's bboard system.

Control Keys

(The key sequence Esc Esc x can be used instead of the combination Ctrl-x.)

Ctrl-A	beginning of line	Ctrl-N	next line
Ctrl-B	backward character	Ctrl-O	output file
Ctrl-C	cursor position	Ctrl-P	previous line
Ctrl-D	delete character	Ctrl-R	read insert file
Ctrl-E	end of line	Ctrl-T	spell check
Ctrl-F	forward character	Ctrl-U	paste
Ctrl-G	get help	Ctrl-V	forward page
Ctrl-I	insert tab	Ctrl-W	search
Ctrl-J	justify paragraph	Ctrl-X	save exit
Ctrl-K	cut region	Ctrl-Y	backward page
Ctrl-L	refresh display	Ctrl-^	set mark

Function Keys

F1	F5	F9
F2	F6	F10
F3	F7	F11
F4	F8	F12

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Pico Cheat Sheet

Control Keys

Function Keys