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From: mark@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: BRIEF emulation
Message-ID: <431@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG>
Date: 2 Dec 89 00:20:50 GMT
References: <1126@intermec.UUCP> <5608@cps3xx.UUCP>
Reply-To: mark@jhereg.UUCP (Mark H. Colburn)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Open Systems Architects, Inc., Mpls, MN
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In article <5608@cps3xx.UUCP> usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes:
+Some of our DOS people are being dragged kicking and screaming to Xenix.
+They've been using Brief and miss it. However, one of the reasons they
+cling to Brief is they know all the keystrokes. Unfortunately, most of
+those keystrokes involve <alt>, <ctrl>, <shift> and/or function keys.
+
+If anything exists (and I doubt it) similar to what you're looking it's
+bound to be very terminal specific and still won't give them everything
+they want.
+
+However, if I am wrong, someone please send me a copy of the code so I
+can make it available to my users.

There are a couple of ways to deal with this.  The first is to get a copy
of the "CRISP 1.9" source code.  CRISP is a Brief clone that runs under
UNIX.  Support for Xenix is included in the package.

You could run emacs and then build the keybindings that you want.  I
wouldn't think that it would be too tough, but...

There is also a macro package available for Brief that maps the brief
keyboard into one that looks a lot like the GNU Emacs keyboard.  This would
allow your programmers to have a single interface to an editor, using Brief
on the PCS or EMACS on Xenix.

The macro package is available from the UnderWare Bulliten board.  Call
your Brief distributor for more details or call UnderWare directly.  The
number is in the manual.

I hope that this helps you out...

-- 
Mark H. Colburn                       mark@Minnetech.MN.ORG
Open Systems Architects, Inc.


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