rohit@dmdev.UUCP (Rohit Mehrotra) (01/09/91)
A lookalike/workalike of Brief editor on Dos called Crisp is now
available on Unix / Vax.
It is a SHAREWARE program (available from the uunet archive), which has
been successfully ported to SunOS, SCO Unix/Xenix, Esix, Interactive Unix,
Ultrix, SysV, Berkley, AIX.
There is a mailing list for the users of Crisp. For more info mail to
owner-crisp-list@uunet.uu.net.
To the question as to what brief is, it is an editor like vi, with the
following features:
1) It does not have two modes.
2) has context sensitive functionality i.e pressing the END key takes
you to the end of line, pressing it again would take you to the end
of page, and pressing it again would take you to the end of document.
3) It has all the regular expressions that vi supports with additional
functionality for block searching etc.
4) It has features like Column Cutting / Pasting etc.
5) Multiple windows, with the ability to zoom/unzoom a window.
6) Can be used for formatting documents, like autowrap etc.
7) Has a spell checker built in.
8) Has a template for editing C/Pascal/Assembly files, i.e typing "d"
followed by a space bar completes the do-while loop.
9) Can check/reply to mail from within the editor.
10) Cut and Paste between windows.
11) Multiple Undo unlike vi.
Any programmer from the DOS world would be able to tell more about it.
It is the largest selling editor in the DOS world. Cut and Paste, Formatting
etc is very simple in this editor, as it does not use two modes.
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