Grief

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GRIEF, as a BRIEF clone, is a full-featured console based editor offering a wealth of facilities on multiple Unix, Windows and Mac platforms.

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  • Windows
  • Linux
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  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Lightweight

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  4.  Ad-free

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  • Developed by

    Adam Young
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  44 Stars
  •  10 Forks
  •  17 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jul 5, 2025 
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What is Grief?

GRIEF, as a BRIEF clone, 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.

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