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From: jerry@gumby.Altos.COM (Jerry Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: editor
Message-ID: <4803@gumby.Altos.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 91 18:20:03 GMT
References: <1491@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> <1991Apr10.131643.16038@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1991Apr10.184259.2993@demott.com>
Reply-To: jerry@altos.COM (Jerry Gardner)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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In article <1991Apr10.184259.2993@demott.com> kdq@demott.com (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:

>    Brief is an excellent editor, but (IMNSHO) Epsilon is much better. 
>Version 5 can split screen vertically as well as horizontally, scroll
>horizontally, edit and manipulate rectangular regions of text.  The
>extension language is C-like, and most of the editor is written in the
>extension language (sources and compiler provided).

Brief can also split the screen both ways, scroll vertically and horizontally,
manipulate rectangular regions of text.  It has two macro languages: the
original LISP-like macro language and the new C-like macro language.  Just
like Epsilon, a large part of Brief is written in the extension langauage,
and the compiler and source is provided.

Brief has a much more intuitive user interface than the EMACS interface 
Epsilon uses.  And the recently released Brief 3.1 has mouse support.


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