Is BRIEF Compatible Editor for Unix?

duplex asks: "In the dark ages of DOS real programmers used BRIEF. This editor conceived at Borland (I think) had a very unique keymap which involved the Meta (Alt) key a lot. I got used to it and the mapping became my second nature. There are some great descendants of BRIEF on Windoze that do an excellent job at emulating the functionality (most notably Codewright and MultiEdit). Unfortunately there isn't a good one for Unix apart from CRiSP. I'm the breed that grew up using BRIEF in DOS so not having a BRIEF clone puts me off doing any serious Linux work. I wonder if there is perhaps a less known editor out there that supports the full set of BRIEF bindings. I can do away with syntax highlighting and whatnot but BRIEF bindings are a must. I'm not really into spending megabucks on CRiSP because the licensing of it is quite inflexible. There must be lots more developers who prefer BRIEF bindings over EPSILON/Emacs or VI. Is there a project aimed at bringing the power of BRIEF to the Open Source community?" Most of the Unix editors are configurable enough where even the keybindings can be changed. The submittor did mention that he did not like Emacs, but couldn't Emacs or its cousin X-Emacs be configured for the task? Couldn't VIM be scripted into BRIEF submission?

Comments

JED can emulate BRIEF

[Glenn R-P]

http://space.mit.edu/~davis/jed.html

Visual SlickEdit

[LordNimon]

http://www.slickedit.com/

I'm amazed about how few people know Visual SlickEdit. It is an amazing editor, and yes, it has some BRIEF compatibility. However, that's not it's strong point. It's very cross-platform (well, no Mac version, and the OS/2 version stops at 4.0), but mostly it's extremely powerful and configurable. You just have no idea how awesome this editor is until you've used it a couple weeks.

Unfortunately, it's closed-source and rather expensive. But I wouldn't use anything else.