= Brf Mode =

Brf Mode is not a strict emulation of the old DOS editor `Brief' and does not turn Emacs into Brief.

Rather it provides an *accurate* implementation of specific features that I miss from `Brief'. 

Principally these features are:

* Line-mode cut and paste.
* Column-mode cut and paste.
* Fully reversible paging and scrolling.
* Temporary bookmarks.
* Cursor motion undo.
* Easy window management.

However they have been implemented in an Emacs-style. This means the functions respond to prefix args and where they override Emacs functions, they live on the Emacs key bindings as well as the original Brief keys.

Moreover, functionality has been extended to those parts of Emacs that were never part of Brief. For example, text cut/copied in line or column-mode can be saved/recalled in registers.

Also some functionality was never part of Brief nor Emacs (for example `List Bookmarks' and the mode uses the prefix `C-c C-b' for such commands.

= Details =

See the detailed description at the project homepage:

https://bitbucket.org/MikeWoolley/brf-mode/src/master/

= Installation =

Installing the `brf' package from MELPA is the easiest way.

Make sure [https://melpa.org/#/getting-started MELPA is in your package archives list], and `M-x package-install brf'.

`brf' can also be installed manually by downloading the archive directly from [https://melpa.org/#/brf MELPA]
or the project [https://bitbucket.org/MikeWoolley/brf-mode/src/master/ homepage].

Manual installation is really only necessary on GNU Emacs older than 24 and on XEmacs.

= Screenshots =

*Line-Marking Mode*

[[image:BrfModeLineMode]]

*Column-Marking Mode*

[[image:BrfModeColumnMode]]

*Bookmarks*

[[image:BrfModeBookmarks]]

*Bookmark Menu*

[[image:BrfModeBookmarkMenu]]

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