ANNOUNCEMENT
mined 2000 release 9
(March 2004)
Mined was the first text mode editor with Unicode support.
It now has both extensive Unicode and CJK support offering many
specific features and covering special cases that other editors
are not aware of (like auto-detection features and automatic handling
of terminal variations).
And basically, it is an editor tailored to efficient editing
of plain text documents and programs, with features and interactive
behaviour designed for this purpose.
New features in this release:
* Position stack and return function also work across files
(esp. after identifier definition searches using tags file)
* Smart quotes: auto-detection of quotation marks style on
file loading
* Interactive Latin-1 / UTF-8 conversion support
* Support for VIM keyboard mapping files
Main enhancements:
(for details see the change log)
* Compact representation for character set tables and keyboard
mapping (input method) tables, reducing size of binary by > 700K.
* For Japanese encoded text on a UTF-8 terminal, the JIS
encodings that map to two Unicode characters are supported.
* Revised menu names for CJK encodings for better recognition.
* Character encoding auto-detection enhancements:
* Tuned CJK encoding auto-detection.
* Tuned CJK vs. ISO 8-bit auto-detection.
* Added VISCII auto-detection.
* Added Shift-JIS auto-detection.
* CJK encodings may be selected (or disabled) to be
taken into account for auto-detection.
* New functions for interactive character encoding conversion
(Latin-1 / UTF-8) to partially fix files with mixed encoding.
* Finer-grained scrollbar in a UTF-8 terminal, using
Unicode character cell vertical eighth blocks U+2581..U+2587.
* Added "paste previous" buffer function to Edit menu.
* Tuned various file loading functions (including character
encoding auto-detection) to speed up startup with large files.
* Fixed some GB18030 width assumption problems (e.g. with Euro sign).
* Various display fixes, esp. after replacements with newlines.
Mined overview
Good interactive features
* Intuitive user interface
* Supports various control styles:
command control, control-key and function key control,
and mouse control
* Pull-down menus available
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 text character encoding
* 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 capabilites
* Many text editing features, e.g. paragraph wrapping,
smart quotes (with quotation marks style selection and
auto-detection),
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: Linux/Sun/HP/BSD/Mac OS X,
DOS/Windows with djgcc/cygwin/EMX environments)
More information (with screenshots, feature overview and change log)
and download are available from the mined web site at
http://towo.net/mined/
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Thomas Wolff
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