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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Mike Fabian