John,

it's always a matter of taste, of course. Regarding speed, as long as you keep MultiEdit running, I doubt that you will be able to notice the difference. It also sounds as if you never tried out the Session managaer and the Project options. As I wrote earlier, I used Brief for many years, but after I had used MeltiEdit for a few weeks, I gave up Brief.

>Tore,
>thanks for the generous offer of help with MultiEdit. I downloaded it and tried it for a day but after so many years using Brief I find any windows editor just too slow. With the old DOS Brief all the setup vars are simply DOS environment vars. I always have at least four projects going and have .BAT files to set up each one. I can set the Brief environment in the .BAT file, each one has a different Brief resume file, and then fire up the project I want with all the drives mapped, type B in the DOS window and be right back on the exact place in all the same .PRG files I had open the last time I worked on that project.
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>I have to admit though, I was amazed at how it worked exactly like Brief. All the same keys, etc. and at the same time being able to use the mouse to move around and mark things.
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>John.
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>>John,
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>>yes, I know which function you are thinking of, it's also implemented id MultiEdit. One tip. though. I started using MultiEdit in "Brief mode", but after a while I switched into MultiEdit default mode, which after a while proved to be much better. I must admit that I deleted and added a lot of code when I used the numeric + and - keys in Brief mode, standardizing on CTRL-C/X/V is easier to remember.
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>>By the way, it would be nice to hear your experience with MultiEdit, I may also be able to help you with specific features.
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