Screenshot of a sample B.R.I.E.F. session |
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| Developer(s) | UnderWare, Inc. |
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| Stable release | 3.1 |
| Operating system | DOS, OS/2, Microsoft Windows |
| Platform | x86 |
| Type | Text editor |
BRIEF was a very popular programmer's text editor in the 1980s and early 1990s.[1] 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. UnderWare moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1985. In 1990, UnderWare sold BRIEF to Solution Systems which released version 3.1, but a year later sold BRIEF to Borland. BRIEF was available for DOS and OS/2, and could run in a DOS console window under early versions of Microsoft Windows.
BRIEF is more accurately listed as B.R.I.E.F. - an acronym for Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing Facility. It is no longer sold by Borland.
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The original product features contain:
Some Vim and Emacs packages provide Brief functionality. There was more than one program written to provide Brief-like functionality:
The Brief keyboard layout became popular and was implemented in or emulated by other editors by providing a remapping of the keyboard shortcuts and editor behaviour.[1]