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<h3>Introduction to MinEd</h3>
Mined is a powerful text editor with a comprehensive yet concise and
easy-to-use user interface supporting modern interaction paradigms,
and fast, small-footprint behaviour.
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Mined provides 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).
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Mined supports full mouse control and menu system in plain-text terminals
(and it was the first editor supporting Unicode in xterm).
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Mined offers a full set of text and file management features, like
data loss prevention (<img align=absmiddle src=new-rot.gif title=2011.19>
using backup, recovery files, and file locking
interoperable with other editors, and file change monitoring),
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an interactive file chooser, and
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an interactive file switcher.
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Basically, mined is an editor tailored to reliable and efficient
editing of plain text documents and programs, with comfortable
features and intuitive interactive behaviour designed for this purpose.
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See <a href=design.html>Mined Design Principles</a> for some further
comments on the approach of making mined a useful editing tool.
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See <a href=features.html>Mined Features</a> for a more
comprehensive listing of mined features.
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See <a href=keyboard.html>Mined Keyboard and Keypad Functions</a> for a
quick guide to keypad assignments and basic keyboard functions.
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<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Presentation</h3>
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<i>on the 27th Internationalization and Unicode Conference</i>
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<li><a target=pdf href=http://towo.net/mined/mined_iuc27.pdf>Conference Paper</a>
<li><a target=pdf href=http://towo.net/mined/mined_iuc27-presentation.pdf><nobr>Conference Presentation</nobr></a>
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<h4>Interactive features</h4>
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<li>Intuitive user interface
<li>Logical and consistent concept of navigating and editing text
(without ancient line-end handling limitations or insert/append confusion)
<li>Supports various control styles:
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<li>Editing with command control, function key control, or menu control
<li>Navigation by cursor keys, control keys, mouse or scrollbar
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<li>Concise and comprehensive menus (driven by keyboard or mouse)
<li>"HOP" key paradigm doubles the number of navigation functions
that can be most easily reached and remembered by
intuitively amplifying or expanding the associated function
<li><img align=absmiddle src=new.gif title=2011.19>Interactive file chooser and
<img align=absmiddle src=new-rot.gif title=2012.21>interactive file switcher
<li>Proper handling of window size changes in any state of interaction
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<h4>Versatile character encoding support</h4>
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<li>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
<li><img align=absmiddle src=new-rot.gif title=2012.21>Character information updated to Unicode 6.1
<li>Extensive accented character input support, including
multiple accent prefix keys
<li>Support for Greek (monotonic and polytonic)
<li>Support for Cyrillic accented characters
<li>Support of bidirectional terminals
<li>Support of Arabic ligature joining on all terminals
<li>East Asian character set support: handling of major CJK encodings
(including GB18030 and full EUC-JP with combining characters)
<li>Support for a large number of 8 bit encodings
(with combining characters for Vietnamese, Thai, Arabic, Hebrew)
<li>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
<li>Han character information with description and pronunciation
<li>Auto-detection of text character encoding, edits files with
mixed character encoding sections (e.g. mailboxes),
transparent handling and auto-detection of UTF-16 encoded files
<li>Auto-detection of UTF-8 / CJK / 8 bit terminal mode and detailed features
(like different Unicode width and combining data versions)
<li>Comprehensive and flexible (though standard-conformant) set of
mechanisms to specify both text and terminal encodings
with useful precedences
<li>Flexible combination of any text encoding with any terminal encoding
<li>Encoding support tested with: xterm, mlterm, rxvt,
cxterm, kterm, hanterm,
KDE konsole, gnome-terminal, Linux console,
cygwin console, mintty, PuTTY
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<h4>Text editing features</h4>
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<li>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
<li>Search and replacement patterns can have multiple lines
<li>Cross-session paste buffer (copy/paste between multiple
– even subsequent or remote – invocations of mined)
<li>Optional Unicode paste buffer mode with implicit conversion
<li>Marker stack for quick return to previous text positions
<li>Multiple paste buffers (emacs-style)
<li>Optional rectangular copy/paste area
<li>Interactive selection highlighting (with mouse or keyboard selection),
standard dual-mode Del key behaviour
<li>Program editing features, HTML support and syntax highlighting,
identifier and function definition search, also across files;
structure input support
<li>Text and program layout features; auto-indentation and
undent function (back-tab), numbered item justification
<li>Systematic text and file handling safety, avoiding loss of data
<li>Visible indications of special text contents
(TAB characters, different line-end types, character
codes that cannot be displayed in the current mode)
<li>Full binary transparent editing with visible indications
(illegal UTF-8 or CJK, mixed line end types, NUL characters, ...)
<li>Print function that works in all text encodings
<li>Optional password hiding
<li>Optional emacs command mode
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<h4>Small-footprint operation, portability and interworking</h4>
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<li>Plain text mode (terminal) operation
<li>Optimized use of terminal features for a wide range of terminals,
including large terminal support (2015x2015) of recent xterm and mintty
<li>Instant start-up
<li>Runs on many platforms (including legacy systems):
Linux, <img align=absmiddle src=new-rot.gif title=2012.21>Android,
Unix (SunOS, BSD, Mac OS X, QNX, GNU Hurd, HP-UX, IBM AIX, SCO UnixWare, Ultrix, Tru64),
DOS (djgpp), Windows (cygwin, Interix), <img align=absmiddle src=new-rot.gif title=2012.20>OpenVMS, Haiku
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