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From: hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Lil' Jake - a nifty programmer's text editor. Who makes it?????
Message-ID: <40970009@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 89 22:47:33 GMT
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/ allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: 

>As quoted from <40970006@hpindda.HP.COM> by hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin):
>+---------------
>| At work I've recently moved from a PC to a Unix workstation. The     
>| workstation is great for everything, except that it doesn't have
>| Brief.  For any serious editing I still turn to Brief on a PC an
>| then upload my source to the workstation.
>+---------------
>
>Chances are that it *does*, or at least can.  Brief is derived from a Unix
>editor called Emacs; and the Gnu version of Emacs runs on virtually
>everything and costs only whatever it costs to fetch it from an FTP or UUCP
>site.
>
>++Brandon
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I'm really surprised to hear that Brief was derived from Emacs.  My 
frustration with Emacs, which is what I've been using on Unix, is 
what causes me to turn to Brief on the PC for major editing.

John Hardin
hardin@hpindda.hp.com
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