On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 09:09:28AM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> 
> The only GTK-based text editor on the pre-r1319 CD is Gvim, but it 
> doesn't use the standard GTK+2 text input widget. Mousepad does.
> 
> Besides that, Gvim is modal, Mousepad is modeless. We provide modeless 
> terminal-based editors, and used to provide Xedit (part of Xorg) as a 
> modeless GUI-based editor. Since Xedit is no longer on the CD (didn't 
> survive removal of bitmap fonts), I think that Mousepad is a good 
> replacement.

Thanks for the explanation!

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