I have been using the text editor Brief or it’s offspring for over 20 years now. 🙂 So I am very familiar with Brief crisp keyboard mappings and wanted to continue usibg them with Gvim. This all came about because when I changed companies they didn’t have any licenses for it or any editors like it. So after a quick search on the net I found a set of macros that almost did what I wanted them to do. They are very old and the key mappings are incomplete.

The down loadable file below is the result of my tweaking and additions.

To install these key mappings on Linux, simply add the downloaded file to the directory $HOME/.vim/plugin

$HOME/.vim/plugin

Now you can restart gvim and the key mapping from Brief will be loaded up.

Download Brief/crisp keyboard mappings for Gvim.

The plugin file contains comments to show the keystrokes it will remap. If you do not already know the Brief keystrokes pick an editor that is freely available now and learn that.