Xref: utzoo comp.sys.laptops:2467 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:8396 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: <6455@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca> Date: 9 Apr 91 13:31:19 GMT References: <6454@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca> Sender: root@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca Organization: Hydro-Quebec Lines: 26 In article I writes: >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 ||suuch 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. | I forgot to mention that CRISP as been ported on many UNIX platform and could be get by FTP at uunet.uu.net -- 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