Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-m17n (25 mails)

[Mike FABIAN <mfabian@xxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxx

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Mike Fabian   <mfabian@xxxxxxx>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian
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