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From: jrp@rducky.uucp (JIM PICKERING)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: BRIEF lookalike for Unix?
Summary: Is there a set of Brief macro files for Emacs?
Message-ID: <1991Feb25.204655.15705@rducky.uucp>
Date: 25 Feb 91 20:46:55 GMT
References: <1991Feb10.213208.1059@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <786@jt.dk>
Organization: Technical Solutions, Inc.
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In article <786@jt.dk> erl@jt.dk (Erik B. Larsen) writes:
>mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>
>>A friend of mine has just moved from MS-DOS to Unix, and while he
>>likes all the neato-keen features that Unix has, he misses his
>>favorite editor, BRIEF.  So, I was wondering if anybody has heard
>>of a BRIEF lookalike that runs under Unix.  PD/freeware preferred,
>>but commercialware would probably be okay, too.
>
>>-- 
>>Marc Unangst                | "I think I have a bad disk.  Even though I
>>mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us   |  folded it to fit into my drive, it still
>>...!umich!leebai!mudos!mju  |  doesn't work..." -Caller to a tech support line
>
>
>If your friend are glad for Brief, I understand him.
>
>You see - Emacs is an editor, which works on most Unix system.
>Emacs was devolped before Brief, so Brief is the DOS answar of Emacs.
>
>You can get Emacs free from GNU.


Is there a set of Brief macro files for Emacs?

jim
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