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Brief was a programmer's editor for MS-DOS written by Underware, and later acquired by Borland. BRIEF was an acronym for Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing Facility. The keyboard layout used in Brief became popular, and was implemented in or emulated by other editors. The BriefKeyboardLayout is how people interact with BriefFamily text editors.

Brief Family Text Editors:

The Original:

Brief - A powerful programmable text editor for DOS

Clones:

Boxer is a Brief clone (and more) (its name is a rather obvious joke on Boxer...)
CrispEditor from Vital is one of the few remaining BriefFamily editors.
Short is a Brief clone.
Terse is a TinyEditor? (4K) using the Brief keyboard layout
Perisoft Brief Freeware Windows clone of the original Brief editor
Zeus is a Windows editor that feels like the original Brief editor on which it was based.

Emulators:

Emacs - ubiquitous editor, versions for most platforms
Epsilon - EMACS clone, runs on Windows and Unix
JED - Multiplatform text editor by John E. Davis. Runs on UNIX, VMS, DOS, and Windows platforms
Kinesics Text Editor - Freeware text editor for Windows and Linux
MicrosoftVisualStudio has emulation for Brief as well as LugaruEpsilon.
MultiEdit - Windows editor
RimStar is an editor infuenced by the original Brief.
SlickEdit - runs on Windows and Unix
TheSemwareEditor is an editor that emulates the Brief keymap.
VEDIT - Windows editor
VIM - ubiquitous VI clone, versions for most platforms