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GRIEF - BRIEF clone

GRIEF - BRIEF clone

Introduction:

GRIEF is a full-featured console based editor offering a wealth of facilities on multiple Unix, Windows and Mac platforms. It edits plain text files and has numerous options depending on the type of work you are doing.

Based on a long standing interface, Grief is an intuitive and easy editor to both novice and seasoned developers, inheriting its clean user interface from the BRIEF family of programmers editors.

Brief, BRIEF, or B.R.I.E.F., an acronym for Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing Facility, was a popular programmer's text editor in the 1980s and early 1990s.

GRIEF 3.2.x build Tree:

The following environments and toolchains are supported.

• Actively tested operating systems.

  • Linux (gcc)
  • Cygwin (gcc)
  • Win32 (MSVC 2008-2022, Open-Watcom 1.9+, Mingw64/32 latest)

• Not recently tested, yet builds.

  • OS/X 10.4+

• Not recently tested, yet should build; with minimal effort.

  • HP/UX (gcc)
  • Solaris (gcc)
  • BSD Net/Free/Open
  • AIX (gcc)

• Defunct yet previously supported; effort assumed

  • OS/2
  • DOS (djgpp)
  • VMS

Examples

Installation:

Recent distributions are now bundled with an installer, the following shall prompt and then check for available upgrades. Note: Automatic checks wont occur at this time; functionality staged for a later release.

grupdater force

Distributions:

• WIN32 binaries

  https://github.com/adamyg/grief/releases and https://sourceforge.net/projects/grief

• Source

  https://github.com/adamyg/grief/releases

  To build from source, review the github workflows: https://github.com/adamyg/grief/blob/master/.github/workflows/build.yml

Status:

Please feel free to raise tickets on SourceForge when issues are encountered.

Other Resources:

Externally reviewed information regarding the development of BRIEF, can be found at the following

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_(text_editor)

Details about the commercially supported BRIEF clone CRisPEdit(tm), can be found at the following.

* <http://www.crisp.demon.co.uk>

* <http://www.crisp.com>

last update: June/2022

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