...The original CBRIEF manual can be found at archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandBRIon3.1UsersGuide1992_9311365
I was always used BRIEF compatible editors. When I moved to linux, first I patched jove (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOVE), jove did the work for long time but jove does not support UTF8, so the last few years I use JED.
I suggest to see this project before continue http://grief.sourceforge.net and this https://github.com/nereusx/grief-fix
It should work on windows too, but I have no windows any more and I cant support it.
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