When comparing microflex vs pico, the Slant community recommends pico for most people. In the question“What are the best minimal CSS frameworks?” pico is ranked 27th while microflex is ranked 29th. The most important reason people chose pico is:
All command characters are shown at the bottom of the editor.
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Pros
Pro Small
Only 6kb unzipped, with buttons and a positioning system, and basic typography.
Pro Built-in cheat sheet for shortcuts
All command characters are shown at the bottom of the editor.
Pro Easy to use
Pico includes only the bare minimum of functionality needed to edit documents making it very simple.
Cons
Con No way to override command characters
Characters such as ^D, ^T, ^L, etc will always be interpreted as commands and there's no way to write them in text.
Con Lacks some commonly expected functionality even for a basic editor
Pico lacks search and replace functionality as well as the ability to work work with multiple files at the same time.