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/
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Thomas Wolff
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