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What is mined? (Pronounce "min-ed")
Mined is a powerful text editor with a comprehensive and easy-to-use
user interface and fast, small-footprint behaviour.
For an overview of major features and highlights, see the file DESCR
or the overview in the HTML documentation (doc/overview.html or
http://towo.net/mined/).
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Quick start
See the file INSTALL on how to build and install mined from its
source distribution.
This installs the binary program, the manual page, the online help
file, and the runtime support library, to appropriate locations as
used by various systems.
Runtime support library
The Mined runtime support library is located in the subdirectory
usrshare of the mined distribution archive, or, depending on
system-specific installation, in a typical location like
/usr/share[/lib]/mined, /usr/local/share/mined, or /opt/mined/share.
Its contents is described in detail in the mined manual page.
The most important files are:
* Support for optimising a runtime environment:
- profile.mined
shell commands to set environment variables for mined,
template for inclusion in $HOME/.profile
- Xdefaults.mined
xterm configuration entries suitable for mined, template
for inclusion in $HOME/.Xdefaults or $HOME/.Xresources
- xinitrc.mined
shell commands to activate Xdefaults.mined,
template for inclusion in $HOME/.profile
- makeprint
script to search for or retrieve and build the
uniprint program from the yudit package
* Support for invoking mined in a suitable terminal:
- uterm
script to invoke xterm in UTF-8 mode
- umined
script to start mined in a separate xterm window, using UTF-8 mode
- mterm
script to invoke mlterm with suitable options (for bidi support)
- wmined[.bat]
(especially for Windows)
script to start mined in a separate rxvt window,
using Windows look-and-feel,
especially on Windows where rxvt is run in stand-alone mode
For Unicode (UTF-8) terminal operation on Unix / X:
* Use a fairly new version of xterm (>= version 145).
If you need to build an xterm binary program yourself, configure
the package with the script configure-xterm from the mined runtime
support library.
* Install Unicode fonts for your X server from
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts.tar.gz
and http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts-asian.tar.gz for
Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters.
Quick install: unpack these archives in a directory, e.g. $HOME/opt/fonts,
and make sure the X server is set up to include that directory in its
font search path:
xset +fp $HOME/opt/fonts
* Start xterm with the script uterm from the mined runtime support
library or with the uxterm command.
See http://towo.net/mined/, click "Unicode Howto", for more details.
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Platforms
Mined compiles and runs on major Unix environments and is intended to
remain portable to as many Unix environments as possible, including
legacy systems.
Mined also runs on Windows (cygwin) and on DOS (djgpp).
It used to compile under EMX and even still compiles under Turbo-C.
Mined also used to run on VMS but I could not check that lately.
See also README.cygwin for cygwin-specific hints on compilation,
installation, and setting up the terminal environment.
See also doc/compilation for an overview of makefiles and for
some platform-specific compilation hints.
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Copyright/license
For legal purposes, the GNU general public license applies (see the file
LICENSE.GNU).
The intention is that the editor mined may be freely used, compiled,
ported to other systems or adapted to specific preferences.
I do however appreciate that you please report any changes to
mined@towo.net for feedback and optional inclusion in further versions.
Also redistributions should not take license/royalty fees for the use
of mined or any derived version (it is not very clear to the software
community what exactly the GNU license means in this respect).
Redistributions within software collections are welcome.
Please notify them to mined@towo.net and if the distribution is on
a fixed media (CD), I appreciate being offered a free copy.
Although high effort was taken to prevent mined from loosing users'
edited data, no liability is accepted for any loss or damage whatsoever.
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Mailing list
Mined is also hosted as a sourceforge project <sf.net/projects/mined>
where a mailing list is available. To subscribe for information about
updates, or discussion, error reports, and feature requests,
or to send a mail, please go to the Mined mailing list page:
<lists.sf.net/lists/listinfo/mined-editor>
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