Alpine, Pico, Nano question

Please excuse my Terminal newbie status; but here goes: I wish to install Alpine for email (I've downloaded, but not yet installed it). This brings Pico with it. My Terminal installation, of course, contains Nano. Fine. But as you adepts know, the standard Terminal configuration includes a "pico" command that redirects ("symbolic links"? Do I have that right?) to Nano. Isn't this going to cause a problem when Pico is, itself, installed? My intuition suggests that deleting the link might be the answer (I have no idea how this might be done), but then again +I haven't any right to intuition+. Thanks for help.

Glenn Waldmann wrote:
Please excuse my Terminal newbie status; but here goes: I wish to install Alpine for email (I've downloaded, but not yet installed it).
Why? Apple Mail is quite a bit more handy.
This brings Pico with it. My Terminal installation, of course, contains Nano. Fine. But as you adepts know, the standard Terminal configuration includes a "pico" command that redirects ("symbolic links"? Do I have that right?) to Nano.
Actually, I didn't know that. I had never heard of nano. It sounds like one of those "pico isn't free enough for me" political issues. I use vi.
Isn't this going to cause a problem when Pico is, itself, installed? My intuition suggests that deleting the link might be the answer (I have no idea how this might be done), but then again +I haven't any right to intuition+.
No, don't delete anything. Both nano and the pico link reside in /usr. You shouldn't change anything there. If you install alpine, it should install into /usr/local automatically. It is perfectly safe to install a copy of the real pico in /usr/local. alpine will probably use that local copy.

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