notepad and richedit - why?

[Shachar Shemesh]

Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:

>"Shachar Shemesh" <wine-devel at sun.consumer.org.il> wrote:
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>>I was going over the notepad code, and it is implemented using richedit. 
>>My question is - why? There is no functionality there that is not also 
>>available through the usual Edit control. The Windows notepad is 
>>notoriously implemented via the edit control. Is there a special reason 
>>why our notepad is different here?
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>Since we had no a way to display .wri and .rtf files provided by many
>applications (readme's, etc.) it was decided to simply extend notepad
>instead of creating a wordpad replacement from scratch.
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What's more, it seems the current notepad version does not load RTF 
files properly.

Am I missing something here?

            Sh.