This Extended Brief editor emulator (Brief mode) was originally
based on the CRiSP mode emulator (listed below), with completely
rewriting over 17+ years. Almost all of the original Brief 3.1
Editor keys are implemented and extended.
A lot of editor behaviors were also adapted to Emacs. One example
is that this Brief emulator is able to respect `visual-line-mode',
`toggle-truncate-lines' and hidden/abbreviated mode texts (which
usually shown as "..." in Emacs) such as org-mode, hideshow mode
and hideif mode (hide C/C++ "#ifdef" conditional compilation units,
another package that I had rewritten). When texts are hidden at
cursor line, Brief line-oriented commands like line-cut, line-copy,
line-deletion ... will operate on all hidden lines.
For a full key commands list of this Brief Mode, please read the
file `README.org' in this package.
For a complete description of the functions extended, please search
the "brief.el" source code for ";;; Brief Extension:".
Main TOC is:
* Visual mode, line truncation and hidden texts
* Fast line number computation cache
* Huge clipboard/Xselection texts
* External Xselection helper programs `xsel' and `xclip'
* Fast cursor movement
Key Binding Compatibility Note
Platform Compatibility Notes
Enabling Brief Mode
Cygwin 2.x Users
Based CRiSP version info:
CRiSP mode from XEmacs: revision 1.34 at 1998/08/11 21:18:53.
CRiSP mode was created on 01 Mar 1996 by
"Gary D. Foster "