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)
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Bryan Nystrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
>
> >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.
>
>
>
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