Emulating "Brief" editor

Emulating "Brief" editor

2
NewbieNewbie
2

    15:06 - Feb 19#1

    Hello. I am prospective customer looking at UltraEdit/UltraCompare/UltraFinder

    When I started my professional life in the 80's I started using Brief and managed to stick to it till early 00's.

    Then I switched to MultiEdit, which offered a "Brief Emulation" mode. All it did was to set up key mappings to replicate the now arcane way Brief used them. You could do it manually, but that saved time, especially for new users.

    It is now time to retire MultiEdit and move to something more current. While the new features in UltraEdit will be great, it will be hard to re-train 35+ years of muscle memory.

    Does UltraEdit come with a setup file that sets up the key mappings to emulate the old Brief editor?

    Or, has someone done that privately and are willing to share the configuration files?

    I know I can do this myself, but I do not want to spend a day configuring a software that I am evaluating.

    Regards,

    Hamid

    Mofi
    6,48847432
    Grand MasterGrand Master
    6,48847432

      17:32 - Feb 19#2

      Neither does UltraEdit, Inc. offer key mapping files to emulate the key mapping of any other text editor nor have I read in the last 19 years of UltraEdit forums moderation that any UltraEdit user customized the UltraEdit key mapping to the default key mapping of a different text editor and shared the key mapping file with the UltraEdit user community. I know what you mean as I use UltraEdit mainly by keys since more than 20 years with my custom key mapping and it is always a nightmare for me when I temporarily switch to UltraEdit with default key mapping because I want to reply on a forum post with posting also the key mapping of the commands as set by default. I think, you have to unfortunately take the time and go in the key mapping configuration dialog from top command to last command and configure the hotkey/chord as used by you since 35+ years.
      Best regards from an UC/UE/UES for Windows user from Austria

      hwasti
      2
      NewbieNewbie
      2

        6:36 - Feb 20#3

        Thank you very much Mofi. Really appreciate the quick response.

        Regards,

        Hamid