Brief macros
Marty Porter
By the way, is Brief still sold? I have a copy about 2-3 years old
and really like it.
Jan Gunnar Moe
updated for the new graphical interfaces of Windows and OS2 Warp. If Borland
do not want to do the job, they should sell this product to someone who will.
Jan Gunnar
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>>By the way, is Brief still sold? I have a copy about 2-3 years old
>>and really like it.
>Apparently. When Borland acquired Brief there were versions for OS/2
>and MSDOS. It would appear that Borland has not done a single rev
>since they took possesion of my favourite text editor that seemingly
>has no peer...
>Yesterday I got a flyer from Borland listing all their development
>tools... Brief is still there.
Jim Karpinski
> Could anyone point me to a source of Brief macros on the net?
There are still Brief macros on the Borland site. There are getting old.
(No new updates for awhile).
I don't remember the directory, but try looking around
ftp.borland.com
-Jim Karpinski
Murray Wilson
>> and really like it.
Brief was acquired by Borland who hasn't upgraded it or anything (as f
as I know) so your copy is probably "current".
There are also a number of Brief compatible editors available for a
number of platforms.
One of them is the editor I work on called Preditor/2 (which is derive
from the old Sage Professional Editor). Preditor/2 is an OS/2-PM
programmers editor that has a *real* good brief emulation, color synta
hilighting and a *lot* of other features (including a macro converter
convert Brief macros to PEL, our macro language based on awk). A demo
version is available at hobbes.nmsu.edu in /os2/demos/p2demo.zip. We
have a Windoze version in the works and the old character mode (DOS &
OS/2) Sage editor is still available (but it's not being upgraded).
I have also heard of Crisp, CodeWrite, Visual SlickEdit and other
editors that have good brief emulations.
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--Murray Wilson (murray...@compuware.com)
Preditor/2 - for untamed programmers
Matka
i have used the windows editor CodeWright ..it is good but it is
complex to setup and the designers just distributed varous
options and settings at random throughout the menus.
Any idea if borland plans to bring another version of brief ?
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VITAL
>It would be a real pity if Brief did disappear. It really deserves to be
>updated for the new graphical interfaces of Windows and OS2 Warp. If Borland
>do not want to do the job, they should sell this product to someone who will.
>
>Jan Gunnar
Why not try out CRiSP.The macro language is completely compatible, the keystroke
emulation is complete, plus it has a nice intuitive interface and comes
for all platforms.
Demos are on: ftp.uu.net//vendor/crisp
Betu
VITAL
>Is there ANY dos editor which matches Brief ?
>i have used the windows editor CodeWright ..it is good but it is
>complex to setup and the designers just distributed varous
>options and settings at random throughout the menus.
>Any idea if borland plans to bring another version of brief ?
Try CRiSP. Demos are on: ftp.uu.net//vendor/vital
It is really cool.
Worth Sparks
>Why not try out CRiSP.The macro language is completely compatible, the keystroke
>emulation is complete, plus it has a nice intuitive interface and comes
>for all platforms.
> Demos are on: ftp.uu.net//vendor/crisp
>
>Betu
It comes for most platforms but not OS/2. People like me that use
Brief for OS/2 cannot take advantage of Crisp until there is an OS/2
version (no, the windows version can't replace Brief for OS/2, we
use long filenames without even thinking about it).
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Murray Wilson
Why not try Preditor/2 for OS/2-PM. It has a very good Brief emulatio
and is very "Brief-like". We also have a macro converter to convert
Brief macros to PEL (our macro language based on AWK).
Preditor/2 also supports color-syntax hilighting, WorkFrame Integratio
background compiles, hex editing, browsing using TAGS files, multiple
file search&replace, 3 window modes (SDI, MDI and detached, which is
like several SDI windows and a control panel which lists all the buffe
(files)), and *lots* of other features...
Preditor/2 is *very* customizable, the "settings notebook" is very
extensive and allows a lot of customization that either is not present
or requires programming in other editors. Also source is provided for
all of the PEL routines which makes up the bulk of the editors's
functionality.
A demo is available at hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/demos/p2demo21.zip. Please
feel free to e-mail either myself (murray...@compuware.com) or
ray_m...@compuware.com if you have any questions, etc...
John E. Davis
<75663...@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
: I have also heard of Crisp, CodeWrite, Visual SlickEdit and other
It would probably not be to difficult to write a Brief emulation for jed.
If you send me keymappings and their description, I will attempt a Brief
emulation for the 0.97-10 release of jed (one week from now). Then you will
have Brief emulation on MSDOS, Unix, OS/2 and VMS.
--John