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From: cb@tamarack12.timbuk (Chris Brewster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Emacs and Brief
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Date: 8 Apr 91 21:15:52 GMT
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In-reply-to: steiner@informatik.uni-kl.de's message of 5 Apr 91 16:00:17 GMT

In article <7704@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de> steiner@informatik.uni-kl.de 

Donald Steiner writes:

   Being thrust into the MS-DOS world by purchasing a laptop, I have a
   few questions regarding GNU Emacs-like programs for MS-DOS.  From
   perusing the various newsgroups it seems like there are three dominant
   ones: Freemacs & MG, both PD, and Epsilon's commercial product...

I have had the same question.  I wanted a program that would be compatible with
the GNU Emacs that I use at work.  I especially wanted some of GNU's features
such as multi-step UNDO and extensibility.  The most GNU-like program is
Freemacs, but the 64K file size limit is a real problem for me, and it doesn't
have UNDO.  Going by people's comments about other PC Emacs's, I think that they
would also fail to meet my needs.  But I have heard that the Brief editor is
fully configurable and extensible, *and* has multi-step UNDO and a lot of power.
If it's configurable, maybe it could be given an Emacs-like interface.  I'd be
interested in others' experience with Brief, and opinions about how well it
could be made to emulate Emacs commands.

Christopher Brewster
Cray Research Inc.
612: 683-5759
cb@timbuk.cray.com