A BriefFamily editor, it's an open-source Brief clone.
Author: Adam Young Homepage: http://grief.sourceforge.net/ Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/grief Family: BriefFamily Platform: Console (AIX, HPUX, Linux, Mac OS/X, OpenBSD, Solaris Intel, Solaris Sparc, Winddows 2000/XP/Vista?, CYGWIN, Other UNIX) License: Q Public License
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.
Note: the Sourceforge page for this project has a Grief Programmer's Guide in PDF form giving usage instructions. No source or binaries are available. Beta release is scheduled for November 2014.