Xref: utzoo comp.sys.laptops:2466 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:8395 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!s3!robert From: robert@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (R.Meunier 8516) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Emacs and Brief Message-ID: <6454@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca> Date: 9 Apr 91 13:27:32 GMT References: Sender: root@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca Organization: Hydro-Quebec Lines: 22 In article cb@tamarack12.timbuk (Chris Brewster) writes: >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. And there is also a clone of BRIEF on the net name CRISP. CRISP v1.9 is near version 2.1 of BRIEF and v1.11 coming in a few days is compatible with version 3.0 of BRIEF. -- Robert Meunier Institut de Recherche d'Hydro-Quebec Ingenieur 1800 Montee Ste-Julie, Varennes Internet: robert@ireq.hydro.qc.ca Qc, Canada, J3X 1S1 maintainer: BASIC mailing list request to basic-request@ireq.hydro.qc.ca