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From: doug@edson.UUCP (Doug Konrad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Editing large files
Message-ID: <119@edson.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 88 20:34:19 GMT
References: <1232@wjvax.UUCP> <340005@hpsrli.HP.COM>
Organization: Dept. of E.E., U of Alberta, Edmonton,Canada
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Summary: Brief isn't bad

In article <340005@hpsrli.HP.COM>, darrylo@hpsrli.HP.COM (Darryl Okahata) writes:
>
>      You obviously don't have an 8088-based machine :-).  In my opinion, Brief
> is too slow on an 8088-based machine.  On a '286 or '386, I imagine it's more
> than adequately fast.  ........
> 
>      -- Darryl Okahata
> 	{hplabs!hpccc!, hpfcla!} hpsrla!darrylo

As a very satisfied brief user, I just have to comment...

While it's true that on an 8088 machine, it takes a couple of seconds for
brief to get started, its plenty fast when I get right down to editing. And
I can live with the couple of seconds for an editor with regular expressions,
keystroke macros, compiled macro extensions, and automatic indentation of my
c and dbase programs. Automatic indentation means brief knows that I want
to indent an EXTRA three spaces after an "if" statement, etc.

I don't work for them, I haven't even spoken with them...

Doug Konrad