Yeah, I've got the Borland IDE w/ the Brief engine but it's way to much of a hog to use just as an editor. And it never really had the same feel. IIRC think the way it handled splitting into panes was really annoying, but I don't recall the details. It also wasn't as responsive as the real thing. To bad Brief run in the DOS box pegs CPU usage ... I think it's monitoring the keyboard interrupt or something.
Well, that was long ago. I'm certainly glad that vim is around. I had been using PFE, which is one of the better freeware windows-based editors, but I really missed all those "nasty" little keyboard commands. Hey ... did anybody ever port EDT (VAX/VMS) to the Wintel environment? It's "no keypad" mode was also pretty darned powerful ... although vi still wins out overall (26 copy/paste buffers ... wunnerful!) "ay) -- -Richard M. Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW! Bryan Nystrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Although I must admit that there was a day when "brief" was > >the best editor around for the PC platform ... too bad it never > >made it to a 32-bit edition. > > It did. (sort of). Borland ended up with ownership of Brief and put it into > most of it's IDEs. You can still do the "Brief" emulator editor mode in > Delphi, CBuilder, and JBuilder (sans the brief scripting). CodeWright, one > of the most powerful (IMHO) windows programmers editors (stand alone > editor), also supports Brief emulation quite well, plus it's fully > programmable. As you can probably tell, I'm a Brief fan from way back (1.0 > all the way up to the end). I've still got every manual and every box stored > away in my closet. Can't seem to part with them ;-(. <HOME><HOME><HOME> I > find it easier now to standardize on the regular windows IDE (CUA?) keys > now. > > (Epsilon was the "Windowized" vi editor that I recall everyone bragging > about way back. Oh, those were the days.) > > Bryan Nystrom > Natara Software, Inc. > > > -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
