The GRIEF Editor, despite the fact this package was only formally released in 2013, its development has its roots from the 80’s as a Brief clone. This version of the editor has been actively used since the 1998.
| History | The GRIEF Editor, despite the fact this package was only formally released in 2013, its development has its roots from the 80’s as a Brief clone. |
| Authors | As for it development the main history milestones and authors are as follows. |
| Brief | Brief, BRIEF, or B.R.I.E.F., an acronym for Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing Facility, was a programmer’s text editor in the 1980s and early 1990s. |
As for it development the main history milestones and authors are as follows.
Author of the public domain MicroEmacs upon which GRIEF was originally based.
MicroEMACS is supported on a variety of machines and operating systems, including MS-DOS VMS and UNIX (several versions); which can be found within CUG archives.
Since that time a number of variations have been developed, such as MicroGNUEmacs (or mg) and uEmacs/PK.
Using MicroEmacs as a basis Paul Fox developed the original Crisp as an UnderWare Inc’s, later Borland 3.1 BRIEF™ clone/emulation, targeted for Unix™ and VMS.
This packages was known as CRISP, the Custom Reduced Instruction Set Programmers Editor.
The last public release was Crisp 2.2 in 1991 prior to becoming that is now CRiSP Visual Text Editor,
Paul Fox’s personal site is http://www.crisp.demon.co.uk, with the commercial site being http://www.crisp.com.
CRiSP is a programmers text editor designed to give user the
power and flexibility to edit large files on multiple Unix,
Linux, Windows and Mac platforms.
CRiSP started life as a programmers text editor with BRIEF
emulation, however after 15+ years of development, it now
includes just about every conceivable editing feature that
you could ever feel a need for, while still maintaining BRIEF
keyboard and macro emulation.
Paul Fox no longer maintains nor supports the Crisp 2.2 version.
Crisp was based in part on a mix of public domain and specialised components, included MicroEmacs.
The final source and several earlier versions can be found on old mail archive sites.
GRIEF has no connection with the current commercial product.
Heavily modified, replaced and extended the publicly released crisp2.2 to become what is now the GRIEF Editor.
Brief, BRIEF, or B.R.I.E.F., an acronym for Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing Facility, was a programmer’s text editor in the 1980s and early 1990s.
It was designed and developed by UnderWare Inc, a company founded in Providence, Rhode Island by David Nanian and Michael Strickman, and was published by Solution Systems and later Borland.
In 1990, UnderWare sold BRIEF to Solution Systems which released version 3.1.
Borland later purchasing BRIEF and the full suite of software tools from Solutions Systems.
Solution Systems closed permanently after the sale to Borland. Much to our loss, BRIEF is no longer sold by Borland.
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