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Nice! 
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Who said Mac's are no use!
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So somebody finally found a use for it!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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I use mine (6 years old) to run Windows VM's for development when away from my SOHO. Fine machine, better than any others I have owned. First laptop came with OS/2.
Oh, wait... it is a horrible object of the dark side. Phew, fixed it. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Better than throwing it in the trash when Apple comes out with the next PC that doesn't have the same interface.
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"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I thought all C/C++ use vi?
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Real devs use emacs . Actually, I'm bi. I use vim mostly, but then use emacs when debugging. Maybe I'm just strange?
Keep Calm and Carry On
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vim & make and, sometimes, git.
Visual Studio on Windows, but I usually write C/C++ code on a Linux box.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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VS. No contest. Just the best IDE on the planet, bar none.
Thankfully, my days of EDLIN and vi are well past ... and Brief was the reason for that! 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: VS. No contest. Just the best IDE on the planet, bar none.
A real blessing, measured by my current headache.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I thought Brief was it when it came to full function editors.
It was great but VS has surpassed it like no other; it is now the best, no argument there!
What will we have in another twenty years?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Even today, Brief did some thigs I miss from VS: being able to edit - and see on screen at the same time - four or five different files was just wonderful!
Screen Split in VS just doesn't cut it. But it does so many, many wonderful things that you forgive the little bits missing.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I have never used Brief, so I don't know what I'm talking about to see four or five different files at once in it, but you can do that in VS can't you? Just drag the tab out of the main window, or right-click on the file in the tab bar and select 'Float'. If your tabs are top or bottom, you can have several windows around your screen to see them at once. If your tabs are right or left (like mine), the tabs take up a lot of space so getting several windows open simultaneously is harder.
I'm sure you have tried this before, and it isn't equivalent to Brief's method, but if not, have fun!
edit - you can even use Window snapping on them
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You can, but Brief did it better - you could open two or more windows on the same file so you could build an enum, a switch that processed it, and the methods that called all at the same time; or compare two lists and have them scroll together; or ... ah, I'm getting a tear in my eye now ... 
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Isn't this what Notepad++ does when duplicating a file to a second view?
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You can also duplicate a window in Visual Studio through the "Window -> New Window" commands, and drag the second copy to its own window in order to see two copies of the same file at once, but it doesn't sound as nice as Brief.
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What was the editor that used with ship with RMCobol called ? it kept every single edit you made in a seperate file until you ran out of space - wonderful - I've a feeling it was called M
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 19-Nov-20 16:38pm.
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These youngsters don't know what they missed. Brief could also go, what was it, 50 line mode? So very nice.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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43 or 50 depending on your hardware. Either was a massive step up from the standard 25 lines!
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Edlin nostalgia ain't what it used to be
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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