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New package: Unicode text editor mined 2000


Mined 2000 - a powerful text editor with extensive Unicode and CJK
support
is now available as a cygwin package.


Quoted below:
* The original release announcement.
* The mined overview.
* Link to the mined home page and download information for the 
  original source package.
(As this is the first cygwin package for mined, I am leaving out the 
overview of changes from this mail.)


To install mined on cygwin, run the cygwin setup program, 
in the "Select Packages" menu, open the "Editors" category and 
select the mined package.


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                             ANNOUNCEMENT

                         mined 2000 release 10
                             (January 2005)

Mined is a powerful text editor with a comprehensive and easy-to-use 
user interface and fast, small-footprint behaviour.

It was the first editor that provided Unicode support in a 
plain-text terminal.
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, or Han character information).
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.


Mined is now co-hosted at sourceforge and has a mailing list 
which can be subscribed at
<https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mined-editor>


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Mined Overview

Good interactive features
* Intuitive user interface
* Logical and consistent concept of navigating and editing text 
  (without ancient line-end handling limitations or insert/append
confusion)
* Supports various control styles:
  Editing with command control, function key control, or menu control
  Navigation by cursor keys, control keys, mouse or scrollbar
* Comprehensive menus (driven by keyboard or mouse)
* "HOP" key paradigm doubles the number of navigation functions 
  that can be most easily reached and remembered by 
  intuitively amplifying the associated function
* Immediate adjustment if the window size is changed, in any 
  state of interaction

Versatile character encoding support
* Extensive Unicode support, including double-width and combining
characters,
  script highlighting, 
  various methods of character input support 
  (mapped keyboard input methods, mnemonic and numeric input),
  supporting CJK, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Arabic, and other scripts
* Support of bidirectional terminals, Arabic ligature joining
* East Asian character set support: handling of major CJK encodings 
  (including GB18030 and full EUC-JP with combining characters) 
  in either Unicode terminal or CJK terminal
* Support for a variety of 8 bit encodings (mapped to Unicode) 
  (with combining characters for Vietnamese and Thai)
* Support of CJK input methods by enhanced keyboard 
  mapping including multiple choice mappings (handled by a pick list
menu);
  characters in the pick list being sorted by relevance of Unicode
ranges
* Han character information with description and pronunciation
* Auto-detection of text character encoding, edits files with 
  mixed character encoding sections (e.g. mailboxes),
  transparent handling of UTF-16 encoded files
* Auto-detection of UTF-8 / CJK terminal mode and detailed features
  (like different Unicode width and combining data versions)
* Encoding support tested with:
  xterm, mlterm, hanterm, cxterm, rxvt, linux console

Many useful text editing capabilities
* Many text editing features, e.g. paragraph wrapping, 
  auto-indentation and back-tab, 
  smart quotes (with quotation marks style selection and auto-detection)

  and smart dashes
* Search and replacement patterns can have multiple lines
* Cross-session paste buffer (copy/paste between multiple 
  - even subsequent or remote - invocations of mined)
* Marker stack for quick return to previous text positions
* Multiple paste buffers (emacs-style)
* Program editing features, HTML support and syntax highlighting, 
  identifier and function definition search, also across files; 
  structure input support
* Text and program layout features; auto-indentation and 
  undent function (back-tab), numbered item justification
* Systematic text and file handling safety, avoiding loss of data
* Visible indications of special text contents 
  (TAB characters, different line-end types, character 
  codes that cannot be displayed in the current mode)
* Full binary transparent editing with visible indications 
  (illegal UTF-8 or CJK, mixed line end types, NUL characters, ...)
* Print function that works in all text encodings
* Optional emacs command mode

Small-footprint operation and portability
* Plain text mode (terminal) operation, supporting wide range of
terminals
* Instant start-up
* Runs on many platforms: Unix (Linux/Sun/HP/BSD/Mac and more),
  DOS (djgpp), Windows (cygwin)
* Makefiles also support legacy systems


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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
mined@towo.net


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