Brief

text editor

Version 4.50

• Supports Unicode files
• Supports regular expression search and replace, both Brief and Perl syntax
• Professional version comes with a pdf manual
• Preserves unsaved changes if the system is shutdown
• Detects if a file is modified by another application and allows reload
• Convert selected text to upper or lower case using

  Ctrl U

  and

  Ctrl L

• The case sensitivity and insert mode state are preserved when restarting brief
• Indents when splitting a line
• The mouse can be used to move the cursor
• Fix

  Alt Backspace

  behavior when used on last word of a line
• Typing after a search no longer deletes the string found
• Searching when text selection has started but the cursor has not moved results in the selection being expanded to the match rather than confined to the block
• Colors do not reset when Brief is started in a different size console
• The window can be maximized (zoom)
• Other minor fixes and improvements

Version 4.40

• Split screen windowing
  

    Alt Arrow 

  switches to another window
  

    F2        

  resizes a window
  

    F3        

  opens a window
  

    F4        

  closes a window
  

    Alt F2    

  toggles zoom
  

    mouse     

  click to switch windows, double click to zoom a window
• Search & replace stay within the marked area if one exists
• Defaults to original brief keys (

  KeyPad+

  copies,

  Insert

  pastes,

  Alt 0..9

  set bookmarks,

  Ctrl Home/End

  go to start/end of file, and

  Ctrl PgUp/PgDn

  go to start/end of page) . The keystroke mappings found in Version 4.00 - 4.02 can be enabled by pressing

  Ctrl Alt I

  .
• New keys:
  

    Alt P        

  prints the current file to the printer. If text is marked the marked area is printed.
  

    Ctrl R       

  sets a repeat count for the next command
  

    Ctrl K       

  deletes from the cursor to the beginning of the line
  

    Ctrl F       

  searches (alternative to

  F5, Alt S

  )
  

    Ctrl F4      

  closes the current file (alternative to

  Ctrl -

  )
  

    Ctrl Alt M   

  individual key remapping
  

    Alt Home/End

  move the cursor to the left/right side of the window respectively
• The

  Alt B

  switch to file popup window now allows files to be selectively saved or closed
• In addition to the primary

  F7/F8

  keystroke macro, four more programmable keystroke macros can be defined:

  F11/F12, Alt F7/F8, Alt F11/F12, Ctrl F11/F12

• Improved installer with a cleaner look and configurable target folder
• Recognizes more compiler errors from vbscript and pc-lint

• Alt KeyPad###

  now allows any ascii character to be inserted from 0..255 except for new line (10 & 13)
• Marking rows displays the mark all the way to the right edge of the page
• Compatible with more keyboard layouts including Hungarian and German
• A dozen other minor fixes and improvements

Version 4.02

• minor fixes

Version 4.01

• New keys:
  

    Tab      

  advances to the next tab stop
  

    Shift Tab

  moves to the previous tab stop
  

    Ctrl Tab 

  sets tab length
  

    Alt Q    

  expands all tabs in the file
  

    Alt J    

  jumps to a bookmark
  

    Ctrl M   

  centers the current line in the window
• Increase cursor size for readability

• Alt

  keys now function when caps lock is on
• The null character can be used for search and replace

Version 4.00

• First Windows version