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.

• Supported operating systems

  • Linux
  • Microsoft Windows (native/cygwin/mingw)
  • AIX
  • HP-UX
  • Mac OS/X
  • Solaris (SPARC and x86)

• Win32

  • grwin32-build#.exe WIN32 installer.
  • _grinit.example Example configuration, by default located within your windows 'USERPROFILE' directory (eg "C:\Documents and Settings\username"), as "_grinit".
  • dict-en.zip English dictionaries; place under the installation directory within the subdir 'dictionaries' (eg "C:\Program Files\Grief\dictionaries").

• Cygwin

  • grcygwin32-build#.tgz Cygwin 1.7, 32 bit binary distribution tarball.
  • grcygwin64-build#.tgz Cygwin 1.7, 64 bit binary distribution tarball.

• source

  • grsrc-latest.tgz
  • grsrc-latest.zip Lastest source tarballs.
  • macsrc-build#.zip Macro source reference.

The latest build and information can be found at the links below:

* https://sourceforge.net/projects/grief
* https://github.com/adamyg/grief

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

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

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

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: May/2020

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