From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 29 15:54:56 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21B161065670 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:54:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA10.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta10.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE0D28FC1B for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:54:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from OMTA21.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.72]) by QMTA10.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 9oJE1c0021ZXKqc5AruwRR; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:54:56 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by OMTA21.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 9rvs1c00C1f6R9u3hrvspc; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:55:54 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:54:53 -0700 Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:54:52 -0700 From: Charlie Kester To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090629155452.GG15815@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793F0DF@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> <20090629042030.06e67db0@gumby.homeunix.com> <70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793F0F5@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793F0F5@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.20 X-Composer: VIM 7.2 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: The question of moving vi to /bin X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:54:56 -0000 On Mon 29 Jun 2009 at 08:19:58 PDT Gary Gatten wrote: >Good to know, but I was just being a smart-a$$. I will have to try out >WINE though, been reading about it lately.. > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of RW >Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 10:21 PM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: The question of moving vi to /bin > >On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:15:12 -0500 >"Gary Gatten" wrote: > >> I like M$ "Notepad" - is there a version of that for FBSD? > >Actually, there is. Wine implements it's own version of notepad. Because it implements its own version of the multiline edit control, Notepad is just a thin wrapper around that, providing a main window to house the control and a menu to drive it. Wordpad is to the rich text control as Notepad is to the edit control. Probably (meaning I don't know it for a fact) they were both originally written as testbeds/demos for the controls, which are used throughout Windows. Kinda like the relationship between vi and curses, really -- except that vi was written first and then curses was abstracted from it.