Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:54:52 -0700 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The question of moving vi to /bin Message-ID: <20090629155452.GG15815@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793F0F5@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> References: <70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793F0DF@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> <20090629042030.06e67db0@gumby.homeunix.com> <70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793F0F5@WADPEXV0.waddell.com>
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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" <Ggatten@waddell.com> 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.
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