Xref: utzoo comp.sys.laptops:2459 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:8377 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!stanford.edu!agate!ronzoni.berkeley.edu!gumbyltd From: gumbyltd@ronzoni.berkeley.edu (Dmitry Gokhman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Emacs and Brief Message-ID: <1991Apr8.225928.17194@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 8 Apr 91 22:59:28 GMT References: Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Lines: 34 In article cb@tamarack12.timbuk (Chris Brewster) writes: >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 I've found Brief to be excellent with respect to all of the features described above. It probably could be given an Emacs-like interface but why ?!?!?!?! Brief interface is infinitely better than that of Emacs. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// - Mr. Gumby * \oo7 Dmitry Gokhman -> gumbyltd@math.berkeley.edu says: `/v/-* University of Cauliflower MY BRAIN HURTS J L Broccoli CA 94720 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////