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Glad to see you folks coming up with many examples. For me it's more like a journey of constant sorrow, i'm hardly put coming up even with one example, but mayb

Glad to see you folks coming up with many examples. For me it's more like a journey of constant sorrow, i'm hardly put coming up even with one example, but maybe: - übertime on iOS = i hate time tracking, this rock solid app makes it bearable. - Brief (under DOSBox) just to remind myself that good, reliable, general-purpose text editors did exist at some point...

nichochar 10y ago
I can help you right now: you shouldn't be using iOS
vram22 10y ago
Wow, Brief. I used it, years ago. Very fast [1] and good text editor [2]. A few years back, in Boston, I was introduced to the person who wrote it. [1] It had all kinds of shortcuts for speed. I think I remember one where, if you pressed an arrow key for a short while, it would move the cursor (up/down/left/right) at some speed. If you held the key down for longer, it would guess that you wanted to move longer distances in the file, and move the cursor faster. May have used low-level assembly language techniques and code for speed. [2] A free version of it was available recently. I have it on my PC and use it sometimes these days.
- BruceEel 10y ago
  So cool you've met him! I believe he also authored SuperDuper on the Mac, another excellent piece of software I've used in the past. And yes, the speed and the quality of Brief. Especially the fact it didn't try to malloc the whole size of the file, rare nowadays. Opening a 40MB file on my Win98 PC with 8MB of RAM was, essentially, an instantaneous op. Fast forward to last week and one of the IDE's praised elsewhere in this thread, running on my corporate Lenovo with 12GB of RAM, warned me against trying to open an 8MB XML file. Well, at least it warned me, rather than just crashing...
  - vram22 10y ago
    Ha, good points ...
greggman 10y ago
I was a Brief (by Underware) user and back in 93 when I started using Windows for Workgroups I found Slickedit which has a Brief emulation mode. I'm still using it and still using all the brief key bindings (can't say it's totally stable though)
- BruceEel 10y ago
  Thanks, will definitely look into Slickedit. Back in the day, I was really impressed by Codewright's Brief emulation. I'd been trying to convince my boss to buy a team license when Borland bought the product and did it the same thing they did to Brief...

nichochar 10y ago

I can help you right now: you shouldn't be using iOS

vram22 10y ago

Wow, Brief. I used it, years ago. Very fast [1] and good text editor [2]. A few years back, in Boston, I was introduced to the person who wrote it. [1] It had all kinds of shortcuts for speed. I think I remember one where, if you pressed an arrow key for a short while, it would move the cursor (up/down/left/right) at some speed. If you held the key down for longer, it would guess that you wanted to move longer distances in the file, and move the cursor faster. May have used low-level assembly language techniques and code for speed. [2] A free version of it was available recently. I have it on my PC and use it sometimes these days.

BruceEel 10y ago
So cool you've met him! I believe he also authored SuperDuper on the Mac, another excellent piece of software I've used in the past. And yes, the speed and the quality of Brief. Especially the fact it didn't try to malloc the whole size of the file, rare nowadays. Opening a 40MB file on my Win98 PC with 8MB of RAM was, essentially, an instantaneous op. Fast forward to last week and one of the IDE's praised elsewhere in this thread, running on my corporate Lenovo with 12GB of RAM, warned me against trying to open an 8MB XML file. Well, at least it warned me, rather than just crashing...
- vram22 10y ago
  Ha, good points ...

greggman 10y ago

I was a Brief (by Underware) user and back in 93 when I started using Windows for Workgroups I found Slickedit which has a Brief emulation mode. I'm still using it and still using all the brief key bindings (can't say it's totally stable though)

BruceEel 10y ago
Thanks, will definitely look into Slickedit. Back in the day, I was really impressed by Codewright's Brief emulation. I'd been trying to convince my boss to buy a team license when Borland bought the product and did it the same thing they did to Brief...