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From: tpm@ecs.soton.ac.uk (TP Monks)
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Subject: Re: BRIEF or Sage Editor -- Which is better ?
Keywords: BRIEF, Professional Sage Editor, CRISP
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Date: 27 Mar 91 09:39:04 GMT
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In <1991Mar20.073352.18783@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> rthien@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (mr  rj   thien) writes:


>  I am interested in purchasing a very good text editor.  Has anyone
>  got any experience with editors such as "BRIEF" or "The Sage Pro-
>  fessional Editor".  I interested in all comments!

Although I know nothing about Sage, Brief ended my quest for the
perfect editor - it does everything you need, and is very easy to add
macros to if you can program a bit of c.

>  I know that the Sage editor is rather pricey but is it worth the 
>  money.  Does it fulfill the claims associated with the advertise-
>  ment?  Will BRIEF perform just as well anyway?

>  I was also wondering if anyone knew an archive site that has an 
>  available PC Version of "CRISP" editor ( I understand it is
>  shareware or freeware) for Anonymous FTP.  Last week, an article
>  indicated that it has been successfully ported to several UNIX
>  platforms and it was originally written for the PC machines.
>  SIMTEL does not have it, who does ?

You can get it from wuarchive.wustl.edu in
/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume7/crisp1.9

I tried to compile it on a Silicon Graphics PI, but as yet it always
crashes before doing anything - I'd be happy to hear from anyone who's
had any successes on that front!

Tim Monks
Southampton University