Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:53:19 GMT
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I am currently using brief at home on my MSDos PC and the PD version of Crisp on my Sun
at work.
I fell in love with brief the first time I used it. My favorite feature is the collum
cut and paste, this is a feature I have not found on any other dos editor. I find the
block cut and paste functions to be extremely simple and efficent. These are both features
I use a lot and the simple keystrokes make editing a joy instead of a chore.
Brief was designed and built as a programers editor and is well thought out. The keycodes
are all logical and easy to remember. I don't find much use for the macros or most of the
advanced features but all the straight forward stuff such as search and replace work well.
As for the new Comercial version of Crisp ( are you listening Mr. Fox? ) I was shocked,
dismayed, hurt, insulted, and generaly pissed off to find that my favorite editor had gone
from Public Domain $0.00, free, zilch, nada to comercial $300.00, overpriced, way out of my
reach, sorry I can't afford it, you won't sell many at that price. I would love to get the
new version of Crisp but I can't afford It. ( sorry paul, you just lost a sale ). They would probably sell a boatload of them if the price was under a hundred bucks.
