update: mined 2000.3 package available for SuSE Linux 8.0
An updated package of mined is available for SuSE Linux 8.0: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/mined-2000.3-0.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-src/mined-2000.3-0.src.rpm Mined is a text editor, small and easy to use, yet powerful. It is Unicode-capable, using UTF-8 encoding (also converts UTF-16 input).
From the CHANGES file:
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Changes from mined 2000.2 -> mined 2000.3
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Documentation:
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The manual page was updated and thoroughly revised.
Its primary source was transformed into HTML, roff/man format being
generated.
The mined web pages were updated and revised.
The file "doc/compilation" (with compilation hints) was updated.
Features:
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HOP '/' enters an indented Javadoc comment frame.
Interface:
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Options can be concatenated on the command line.
(mined -uu instead of mined -u -u enables Unicode line separators.)
Right-to-left script input support is now enabled by default.
The option -b toggles it.
Option -G disables (actually toggles) the display of certain control
characters as block graphics characters (enabled by default).
Option +G enforces use of block graphics for display of menu borders.
May be used if the "alternative character set" capability is not
configured in your system but your terminal does have the capability.
Set output delay (-d0..-d9) to none (-d-) by default in all versions.
The help command was unified on Unix and DOS versions. Not completely,
however, as calling a sub-programm ("less") through the "system" call
doesn't seem to work on DOS (it crashes or blocks terminal input
afterwards, even with cygwin). See also next comment.
A second help viewing mode is now avaible (HOP HELP, e.g. HOP F1). It
displays help information within mined itself, restoring the previous
editing state afterwards.
This is the default on MSDOS for the reason mentioned before.
Bug fixes:
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Fixed a screen-related pointer confusion after replacement with multiple
lines (embedded newline) which could result in a display bug and page down
could be blocked.
(Very minor) Just deleting the trailing line-end of a file is also
considered a modification (a file only modified this way would
previously not have been saved automatically).
(Minor) With UTF-8 auto-detection involved, the character count after
reading the file could be wrong (ESC ? would have been correct).
(Minor) The pop-up menu, when modified with HOP and thus becoming smaller,
used to leave the frame of its previous width on the screen.
(Embarassing) Although I was proud of "perfect responsiveness to
window size changes" I had just forgotten to implement that for
the case of a menu being open.
On DOS, editing a file with Unix line-ends, the function "append to buffer"
used to append the lines with MSDOS line-ends.
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Updated icu packages are available for SuSE Linux 8.0: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/icu-2.1-0.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/icu-data-2.1-0.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/icu-i18ndata-2.1-0.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/icu-locales-2.1-0.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/libicu-devel-2.1-0.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/libicu-doc-2.1-0.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/libicu21-2.1-0.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-src/icu-2.1-0.src.rpm For more information about ICU see the ICU home page at: http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/icu/project/index.html
[...] The International Components for Unicode(ICU) is a C and C++ library that provides robust and full-featured Unicode support on a wide variety of platforms. [...]
For a list of changes in the ICU 2.1 release see:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/2.1/
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From yudit's home page at http://www.yudit.org:
Yudit is a unicode text editor for the X Window System. She can do True Type font rendering, printing, transliterated keyboard input and handwriting recognition with no dependencies on external engines. Her conversion utilities can convert text between various encodings. Keyboard input maps can also act like text converters. There is no need for a pre-installed multi-lingual environment. Menus are translated into many languages.
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An updated package of mined is available for SuSE Linux 8.1 (and some older version of SuSE Linux): ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/7.1-i386/mined-2000.4-0.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/7.1-src/mined-2000.4-0.src.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/7.2-i386/mined-2000.4-0.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/7.2-src/mined-2000.4-0.src.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/mined-2000.4-0.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-src/mined-2000.4-0.src.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-i586/mined-2000.4-0.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-src/mined-2000.4-0.src.rpm The author about mined:
An editor that is small and easy to use but yet full of capabilities. Runs in plain text mode terminals. Supports Unicode. Provides mouse control and menus.
From the CHANGES file:
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Changes from mined 2000.3 -> mined 2000.4 (Sep 2002)
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Interface:
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Made use of advanced xterm mouse tracking modes.
* Text select and copy with highlighting by mouse dragging.
* Menu item browsing by mouse dragging.
If the mouse button is kept down, items are automatically selected
as the mouse is dragged over them.
An item is selected by either clicking the left button or
releasing the left or right button.
It is also still possible to open and change menus with click-release,
then select an item with another click (less finger-strain).
A "non-break space" (character value A0 hex) is now displayed by a
tiny middle dot (as used for TAB indication) in cyan colour.
Syntax highlighting
* Also toggled for .sgml files (as well as for .html/.htm, .xml, .jsp).
* Extended to JSP and HTML comments.
In order to avoid command confusion on slow remote connections where
escape sequences might come in deferred, the following commands were
changed:
* Disabled ESC <n> <cmd> which repeated the command n times when <n>
has only 1 digit (in that case the command might have been a
function key escape sequence).
Use ESC = <n> <cmd> instead, or use 2 or more digit repeat counts,
e.g. ESC 77- (to enter 77 '-' characters) or ESC 07x (to enter 'xxxxxxx').
* Changed ESC O which inserted the octal value of the current character.
Use ESC A instead.
When inserting an HTML marker on the prompt line (commands ESC H,
HOP ESC H) HTML tag attributes can be included; they are only inserted
for the starting marker, not for the closing marker.
The TAB width can be toggled between 8 and 4 while mined is running
(command ESC T).
Function keys of some terminals (esp. HP and Siemens) are ambiguous;
the preferred key set to be detected can now be configured
(environment variable MINEDTERM= xterm / hp / siemens).
The ESC u command displays additional Unicode script information.
The parentheses matching commands ESC ), ESC (, etc, now also match
HTML tags.
The character compose and input support function was revised.
Accent prefix functions were extended to support Unicode.
Additional mnemos were enabled, including TeX and HTML mnemos.
Features:
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Clever justification (auto-indentation):
With the justification command ESC j, clever auto-indentation is applied.
It uses heuristic detection of numbered items and program source comments.
(The old justification function that only considers configured margins
is available by ESC J.)
A Back Tab function was added. A Backspace from a position that is
only preceded by white space on the line will revert the input position
to the previous matching indentation level.
In both justification modes, automatic suppression of auto-indent
applies by heuristic detection of the speed at which characters
are entered. This is to allow unmodified pasting of text (using
e.g. xterm mouse copy/paste).
Checkout and checkin functions for version management systems added
(to File menu, command scripts "co" and "ci" must exist in path).
Introduced generic handling of shift state indication for function key
escape sequences (control/shift/alt and combinations).
No more "Unknown command" errors on unregistered function key variants.
By default they invoke the same function as the unshifted key.
The location of mined buffers can be configured with an additional
environment variable MINEDTMP ([SYS$]MINEDTMP on VMS). This supports
copy and paste operations among different machines.
Bug fixes:
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Revised case conversion and other Unicode character property handling.
Updated tables for wide and combining characters to new Unicode data.
Fixed some display bugs:
- Current line was cleared after prompt was aborted with mouse button.
- Search/replace including linefeeds could mess up the screen.
- Screen line could mess up on an incomplete UTF-8 sequence at the end
of a line in UTF-8 text and screen mode.
Fixed a bug with automatic line-wrap after entering space.
Fixed some terminal size detection problems after rlogin from DOS.
Under weird circumstances, the first empty line in a file not edited as
the first one could produce display and buffer garbage on SunOS.
Fixed some search pattern match bugs:
- with empty lines
- with replace and ^, starting in middle of a line (started replacement
at that position, not at start of next line)
- with ^, searching backwards (did not find in current line)
Removed restriction of regular expressions with Unicode characters:
search patterns ä* etc (UTF-8: ä*, â��* etc) do work now.
Manual hints and clarifications:
--------------------------------
A search pattern <pat>* matches a (zero or more times) repetition of
this pattern. In a final position within the search expression,
however, it matches one or more times this pattern.
Hex input code ^V # xxxx <space or RET>:
Works on the prompt line only in Unicode mode, exactly 4 hex digits
are accepted but are not echoed on the screen.
Improved description of special character input support in the manual.
Added overview chapter on input support.
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An updated package of mined is available for SuSE Linux 8.1 and 8.0: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/mined-2000.5-0.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-src/mined-2000.5-0.src.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-i586/mined-2000.5-0.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-src/mined-2000.5-0.src.rpm The author about mined:
An editor that is small and easy to use but yet full of capabilities. Runs in plain text mode terminals. Supports Unicode. Provides mouse control and menus.
From the CHANGES file:
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Changes from mined 2000.4 -> mined 2000.5 (Dec 2002)
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Feature: Keyboard mapping
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Keyboard mapping for various scripts is available in UTF-8 mode
(both edited text and terminal must run UTF-8).
This maps keyboard input characters or short character sequences to
characters (or short sequences) in a different script.
In this release, mappings for Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, and Hebrew have
been integrated.
An active and a standby keyboard mapping are maintained. They can be
toggled quickly for text input with ESC k (or Alt-k), also on the prompt
line (e.g. for searching).
Command overview:
ESC k toggles between active and standby keyboard mapping
also on prompt line
HOP ESC k resets keyboard mapping to none (unmapped input)
ESC K opens the keyboard mapping menu
also on prompt line
HOP ESC K cycles through available keyboard mappings
Note: As some typical keyboard mappings contain ambigous key sequences
where one may be a prefix of another, a short delay is applied in
these cases to allow recognition of any such sequence to be mapped.
The current mapping is indicated by its two-letter script tag in the
flags area (top screen line), clicking on it cycles through the
available mappings (like HOP ESC K), clicking with the right button
opens the Keyboard Mapping menu (like ESC K).
With the environment variable MINEDKEYMAP the active or standby
mapping can be preselected. The value is a two-letter script tag to
set the active mapping, or it is prepended with "-" to set the
standby mapping.
Example: export MINEDKEYMAP=-gr will set Greek keyboard mapping standby.
Known script tags are:
ar -> Arabic
gr -> Greek
el -> Greek
he -> Hebrew
cy -> Cyrillic
ru -> Cyrillic
Options and further features
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Bidirectional terminal support:
To run mined on a bidirectional terminal (such as mlterm), disable the
scrollbar with the option -o.
In this mode, when displaying a menu, underlying text lines that
contain right-to-left characters are cleared first in order to prevent
display confusion between the terminal's bidi algorithm and the menu
position.
Mined's "poor man's bidirectional support" (which automatically places
right-to-left characters to the left of the previous character) was
disabled by default in order to support mined's operation with
bidirectional terminals.
Script colouring:
For better recognition of letters that belong to a certain script
(where similar looking letters may belong to other scripts),
text display uses colours to distinguish letters of various scripts.
This is preconfigured for Greek and Cyrillic (which share some letter
forms with Latin).
Compile-time configuration of further script colouring is available
with the file colours.cfg; it contains entries with the script name
(as listed in the Unicode data file Scripts.txt), white space, and
a colour index into the xterm 256-colour mode.
Two "flags menus" were introduced:
* one for the Keyboard Mapping (as described above),
* the other for Smart Quotes selection; it's popped up with the right
mouse button on the smart quotes indication in the flags area;
additional commands:
ESC Q or Alt-Q: also pops up the Smart Quotes menu
HOP ESC Q: cycles through available Smart Quotes
When a pull-down menu is opened with the middle mouse button, the
HOP version of its items is preselected (can be toggled with middle
mouse button as before).
-X disables display of the filename in the window title bar.
Changed default of -G option (enabling display of control characters
as block graphics) to be disabled.
Flag indications were slightly tweaked in order to make them more
intuitive.
Bug fixes:
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Fixed a rare bug with ESC u on illegal UTF-8 characters.
Clever justification now also considers the bullet sign as a
numbering (list item) character.
Back-TAB was tweaked not to apply directly below non-space text of the
previous line.
Fixed some bugs and inconsistent results with shortcuts for
composed character input.
Added composed character sequences for single-accented extended
Latin characters.
Extended diacritic transformation function (ESC _) to all
two-letter composed characters as configured for input support.
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Sorry that I could not update mined in time for SuSE Linux 8.2. But updated packages for mined are now available here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/mined-2000.6-0.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-src/mined-2000.6-0.src.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-i586/mined-2000.6-0.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-src/mined-2000.6-0.src.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/mined-2000.6-0.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-src/mined-2000.6-0.src.rpm The author's announcement:
ANNOUNCEMENT
mined 2000 release 6
Mined was the first text mode editor with Unicode support.
New features in this release: * bidirectional terminal support handles Arabic ligature joining (LAM/ALEF) * new command to go backward and forward along text positions after search and other operations
Main enhancements: (for details see the change log) * Added recognition of mouse wheel control sequences and attached according behaviour - untested as I don't have a mouse wheel. * New key interpretations for shift-Return (shift-Enter) and control-Return (control-Enter) to insert Unicode paragraph separators and line separators respectively if Unicode line-end handling is enabled. * Improved coded and mnemonic character entry on prompt line. * Fixed display problems in separated display mode (for Unicode combined characters) on the status line. * Reviewed various commands for remaining fixes in UTF-8 handling.
Mined offers
Good interactive features * an intuitive user interface * command control and pull-down menus available * control and function key or mouse control
Many useful text editing features * extensive Unicode support, including double-width and combining characters, support for bidirectional terminals including Arabic ligature joining (LAM/ALEF), keyboard mapping and script highlighting * many text editing capabilities, e.g. paragraph wrapping, smart quotes, multi-line support in search and replacement patterns * program editing features, HTML support and syntax highlighting, identifier search * systematic text and file handling safety, avoiding loss of data
"Small-footprint" operation and portability * plain text mode (terminal) operation * instant start-up * cross-platform operation (Unix, DOS/Windows)
More information (with screenshots and change log) and download are available from the mined web page at http://towo.net/mined/
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Wolff mined@towo.net
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updated packages for the Unicode capable editor mined can be found here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/mined-2000.7-0.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-src/mined-2000.7-0.src.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-i586/mined-2000.7-0.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-src/mined-2000.7-0.src.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/mined-2000.7-0.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-src/mined-2000.7-0.src.rpm The author's announcement:
ANNOUNCEMENT
mined 2000 release 7
Mined was the first text mode editor with Unicode support.
New features in this release: * Enhanced East Asian input method support; selection menu for multiple character choices ("pick list"). * Support for editing CJK encoded files in UTF-8 terminal; major CJK encodings are supported (Big5, GBK, JIS, S-JIS, UHC, Johab).
Main enhancements: (for details see the change log) * Flag menus for all flags for more intuitive selection. * Enhanced and generalized coded character input (CJK / decimal / illegal code recognition). * Extended bullet recognition for clever justification (auto-indent). * Makefile for Mac OS X.
Mined offers
Good interactive features * an intuitive user interface * command control and pull-down menus available * control and function key or mouse control
Many useful text editing features * extensive Unicode support, including double-width and combining characters, support for bidirectional terminals including Arabic ligature joining (LAM/ALEF), keyboard mapping and script highlighting * East Asian character set support: handling of major CJK encodings in either Unicode terminal or CJK terminal * support of CJK input methods by enhanced keyboard mapping including multiple choice mappings (handled by a pick list menu) * many text editing capabilities, e.g. paragraph wrapping, smart quotes, multi-line support in search and replacement patterns * program editing features, HTML support and syntax highlighting, identifier search * systematic text and file handling safety, avoiding loss of data
"Small-footprint" operation and portability * plain text mode (terminal) operation * instant start-up * cross-platform operation (Unix, DOS/Windows)
More information (with screenshots and change log) and download are available from the mined web page at http://towo.net/mined/
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An [あ] too much Hello, I have installed 8.2Pro/OpenOffice1.02. Kinput2/Canna seems to run - at least, I can switch with Shift-Blanc into/out of Japanese Input. But after some times, I get an [あ] which persistently stays on top (Japanese input off/on doesn't matter) and mysteriously vanishes from time to time and comes back. See http://www.mkengel.de/linux/scrshot1.jpg and http://www.mkengel.de/linux/scrshot2.png How to get rid of this ? Thank you Michael
"Michael Engel"
An [あ] too much
Hello, I have installed 8.2Pro/OpenOffice1.02. Kinput2/Canna seems to run - at least, I can switch with Shift-Blanc into/out of Japanese Input.
But after some times, I get an [あ] which persistently stays on top (Japanese input off/on doesn't matter) and mysteriously vanishes from time to time and comes back. See http://www.mkengel.de/linux/scrshot1.jpg and http://www.mkengel.de/linux/scrshot2.png
This [あ] is from some other KDE application, nor from OpenOffice.
The input indicator in OpenOffice uses a wrong font and therfore only
displays boxes. The input indicator in your scrshot2.png which is
close to your writing position (after and below 日本語) is from
OpenOffice. The other indicator above is from some KDE application.
For example, if you open the KDE control centre and type Shift-Space
somewhere anywhere in the KDE control centre you will get this [あ]
indicator (you can do that anywhere, not necessarily over an input
field, you can already do that over the start page of the KDE control
centre).
If you switch desktops or minimize the KDE control centre, this [あ]
remains visible at it's former screen position. You can make it go
away if you focus the KDE control centre again and type Shift-Space.
In case of the KDE control centre it also goes away when you close the
KDE control centre.
But with some KDE applications you can't even close them.
For example, if you klick on
コマンドを実行...
(probably "start command" in English or "Befehl ausführen" in German).
in the start menu, you get the dialog box where you can enter a
command. Type Shift-Space there and the [あ] appears. Now close this
dialog by clicking on cancel or use the close button of the window
manager. The [あ] remains. You can make it go away by starting the
same dialog again and switching off Japanese input with Shift-Space.
I.e. to make the [あ] go away, you have to find the KDE application
where you switched on Japanese input, focus it again and switch
Japanese input off in that application.
Not that the desktop background in KDE is also a window and you can
also switch on Japanese input on the desktop background. I don't know
whether it is useful to be able to switch on Japanese input on the
desktop background, but currently Shift-Space is possible on the
desktop background.
Looks like a bug in some KDE applications. It doesn't happen with all
of them, for example in case of konsole the [あ] disappears when you
minimize konsole and reappears when you make konsole visible again.
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updated packages for the Unicode capable editor mined can be found here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/7.3-i386/mined-2000.8-0.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/7.3-src/mined-2000.8-0.src.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/mined-2000.8-0.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-src/mined-2000.8-0.src.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-i586/mined-2000.8-0.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-src/mined-2000.8-0.src.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/mined-2000.8-0.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-src/mined-2000.8-0.src.rpm The author's announcement:
ANNOUNCEMENT
mined 2000 release 8
Mined was the first text mode editor with Unicode support.
New features in this release: * Major extension of CJK character set support: GB18030, full EUC-JP, CNS (EUC-TW) * Vietnamese VISCII character set support * Auto-detection of UTF-8 / CJK terminal features * Flexible locale configuration for both text and terminal encoding * Smart dashes * Multiple paste buffers (emacs-style) * emacs command mode
Main enhancements: (for details see the change log) * Revised Japanese input method tables
Mined offers
Good interactive features * an intuitive user interface * command control and pull-down menus available * control and function key or mouse control
Versatile character encoding support * extensive Unicode support, including double-width and combining characters, support for bidirectional terminals including Arabic ligature joining (LAM/ALEF), keyboard mapping and script highlighting * East Asian character set support: handling of major CJK encodings (including GB18030 and full EUC-JP) in either Unicode terminal or CJK terminal * support of CJK input methods by enhanced keyboard mapping including multiple choice mappings (handled by a pick list menu) * Auto-detection of UTF-8 / CJK terminal mode and detailed features * Encoding support tested with xterm, mlterm, hanterm, cxterm, linux console
Many useful text editing features * many text editing capabilities, e.g. paragraph wrapping, smart quotes, multi-line support in search and replacement patterns * multiple paste buffers (emacs-style) * program editing features, HTML support and syntax highlighting, identifier search * systematic text and file handling safety, avoiding loss of data * optional emacs command mode
"Small-footprint" operation and portability * plain text mode (terminal) operation * instant start-up * cross-platform operation (Unix, DOS/Windows)
More information (with screenshots, feature overview and change log) and download are available from the mined web page at http://towo.net/mined/
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Wolff mined@towo.net
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