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Add to SafariWhen comparing pyvim vs pico, the Slant community recommends pico for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal text editors?” pico is ranked 18th while pyvim is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose pico is:
All command characters are shown at the bottom of the editor.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Fast development of new features
Pyvim is written in Python. It's a great language that allows for fast development of features and quick bugfixing.
It also relies on existing Python plugins to add even more functionality.
Pro Vim-like editor
Pyvim has some of Vim's features and shortcuts, as well as some custom improvements that are already built-in.
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 CLI only
Pyvim runs through the terminal only.
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.
