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Erik,

I've been trying to ignore this quite bizarre thread, but you fired up my interest!

I remember Brief - Originally written by a company called UnderWare (or rather, at the time I bought a copy, it was them). I always thought the naming was a lovely pun!

For years, I've been wanting an editor that was as comfortable to use as Brief. I've tried quite a few: amongst them one called Crisp which has pretty good Brief emulation and recently SlickEdit which is not so good.

For a reason I can't remember, I decided not to follow up on CodeWright.

Question - Is it really as close to Brief as is suggested? By that, I mean, does it have very good emulation of the original Brief key combinations or does it approximate some?

David.

Erik,

I've been trying to ignore this quite bizarre thread, but you fired up my interest!

I remember Brief - Originally written by a company called UnderWare (or rather, at the time I bought a copy, it was them). I always thought the naming was a lovely pun!

For years, I've been wanting an editor that was as comfortable to use as Brief. I've tried quite a few: amongst them one called Crisp which has pretty good Brief emulation and recently SlickEdit which is not so good.

For a reason I can't remember, I decided not to follow up on CodeWright.

Question - Is it really as close to Brief as is suggested? By that, I mean, does it have very good emulation of the original Brief key combinations or does it approximate some?

David.

In conjunction with a job change I lost my beloved brief (I am an ardent non-bootlegger). Thus I started with CodeWright, oh how long ago was that?, using brief emulation for a while (I do not recall any problems). Then I worked with someone that used CodeWright in 'native mode' and, for fun, we did a couple of things with CodeWright and brief we actually found and used a copy of brief.

Even old dogs can learn new tricks and I switched to CodeWright in 'native mode' because I got convinced it was better (could do all brief could and more).

Since then I have only fond memories of brief and have forgotten more than I ever knew about it.

Erik