mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) (02/11/91)
A friend of mine has just moved from MS-DOS to Unix, and while he likes all the neato-keen features that Unix has, he misses his favorite editor, BRIEF. So, I was wondering if anybody has heard of a BRIEF lookalike that runs under Unix. PD/freeware preferred, but commercialware would probably be okay, too. -- Marc Unangst | "I think I have a bad disk. Even though I mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | folded it to fit into my drive, it still ...!umich!leebai!mudos!mju | doesn't work..." -Caller to a tech support line
roger@wrq.com (Roger Fulton) (02/11/91)
Check out crisp, which can be FTP'd from wuarchive.wustl.edu, in /usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume7/crisp1.9. -- Roger Fulton roger@wrq.com
src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) (02/12/91)
mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes: >A friend of mine has just moved from MS-DOS to Unix, and while he >likes all the neato-keen features that Unix has, he misses his >favorite editor, BRIEF. So, I was wondering if anybody has heard >of a BRIEF lookalike that runs under Unix. PD/freeware preferred, >but commercialware would probably be okay, too. there'a a beast called CRISP that even gives me smiling ibm faces etc :-) it's free/whateverware, and it's on wuarchive.wustl.edu in usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume7/crisp-1.9. -- Heiko Blume <-+-> src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de <-+-> (+49 30) 691 88 93 public source archive [HST V.42bis]: scuzzy Any ACU,f 38400 6919520 gin:--gin: nuucp sword: nuucp uucp scuzzy!/src/README /your/home
mundt@b11.ingr.com (mundt) (02/19/91)
I don't think there is a BRIEF editor available for Unix, but the
toll-free number for Solution Systems (BRIEF's authors) is
1-800-335-1166. Good Luck.
Noahal Mundt
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_______________________________________________________________________________erl@jt.dk (Erik B. Larsen) (02/21/91)
mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes: >A friend of mine has just moved from MS-DOS to Unix, and while he >likes all the neato-keen features that Unix has, he misses his >favorite editor, BRIEF. So, I was wondering if anybody has heard >of a BRIEF lookalike that runs under Unix. PD/freeware preferred, >but commercialware would probably be okay, too. >-- >Marc Unangst | "I think I have a bad disk. Even though I >mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | folded it to fit into my drive, it still >...!umich!leebai!mudos!mju | doesn't work..." -Caller to a tech support line If your friend are glad for Brief, I understand him. You see - Emacs is an editor, which works on most Unix system. Emacs was devolped before Brief, so Brief is the DOS answar of Emacs. You can get Emacs free from GNU. Regards Erik Bruijn Larsen Systemadministrator Jutland Telephone Company Denmark Email : erl@jt.dk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember: The Sun is always shining! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
jrp@rducky.uucp (JIM PICKERING) (02/26/91)
In article <786@jt.dk> erl@jt.dk (Erik B. Larsen) writes: >mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes: > >>A friend of mine has just moved from MS-DOS to Unix, and while he >>likes all the neato-keen features that Unix has, he misses his >>favorite editor, BRIEF. So, I was wondering if anybody has heard >>of a BRIEF lookalike that runs under Unix. PD/freeware preferred, >>but commercialware would probably be okay, too. > >>-- >>Marc Unangst | "I think I have a bad disk. Even though I >>mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | folded it to fit into my drive, it still >>...!umich!leebai!mudos!mju | doesn't work..." -Caller to a tech support line > > >If your friend are glad for Brief, I understand him. > >You see - Emacs is an editor, which works on most Unix system. >Emacs was devolped before Brief, so Brief is the DOS answar of Emacs. > >You can get Emacs free from GNU. Is there a set of Brief macro files for Emacs? jim -- Jim Pickering c/o Technical Solutions || (north) ..csustan!polyslo!rducky!jrp 829 Quail Court || (south) ..sdsu!polyslo!rducky!jrp Arroyo Grande, CA 93420 || (south) ..csun!polyslo!rducky!jrp (805) 473-1037 || (east) ..csufres!polyslo!rducky!jrp
gumbyltd@ronzoni.berkeley.edu (Dmitry Gokhman) (02/27/91)
I downloaded Crisp from wuarc and compiled under SunOS 1.2, it produced an executable which promptly hangs when run. Is there some trick, that I am missing? I tried to customize Emacs, to make it accept some of the basic Brief commands, but couldn't even get it to recognize the arrow keys or the function keys. I know there is a file sunkeys.el, but don't know enough about Lisp or Emacs to get anything going. I tried running Brief itself (what a gem!) under DOS windows (Sun's 286 emulation), but it's awfully slow. A Sparc 2 ought to do better, so the bottom line is: I'd prefer to get Crisp working. Any advice? BTW the Emacs manual says very little about customization except that it is possible. Please help, I really miss Brief and I am getting mouse elbow from using Textedit. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// - Mr. Gumby * \oo7 Dmitry Gokhman -> gumbyltd@math.berkeley.edu says: `/v/-* University of Cauliflower MY BRAIN HURTS J L Broccoli CA 94720 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////