Brief Lookalike editor on Unix

[Rohit Mehrotra]

INTRODUCTION TO CRISP:

A lookalike/workalike of Brief editor on Dos called Crisp is available on 
Unix / Vax.

It is a FREEWARE program which has been successfully ported to SunOS, 
SCO Unix/Xenix, Esix, Interactive Unix, Ultrix, SysV, Berkley, AIX etc. 

There is a mailing list for the users CURRENTLY using Crisp. 

For more info on CRISP mail to owner-crisp-list at uunet.uu.net. INCLUDE
YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS AND THE PALTFORM INCLUDING O.S AND ENVIRONMENT
THAT YOU WOULD BE USING CRISP ON.

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 email from within the editor.

10) Cut and Paste between windows.

11) Multiple Undo unlike vi.

12) Can edit unlimited size file ( unlike Vi )

13) Doesn't line wrap but scorlls left and right makes reading code and
    data much easier.

14) Has complete programing language to allow you to build your own
    functions and assign them to keys.
    
15) When editing multiple files, one can switch between them in any
    order unlike vi.
    
16) Can have a window pop up to display the list of files in a directory,
    for editing.

17) It shows the column and the line number at all times. 


A 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.


NOTE: This posting is NOT meant to start a religous war on editors. If you
      like vi (I do/did too) or emacs it is great, however if you would like
      to see another one then check crisp out, you may like it.
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Rohit Mehrotra
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