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<h3>Introduction to mined</h3>
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).
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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.
<p id=nodescr>
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>Overview of features</a> for a more
comprehensive listing of mined features.
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<h3>Mined Overview</h3>
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<h4>Good interactive features</h4>
<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:
<br>Editing with command control, function key control, or menu control
<br>Navigation by cursor keys, control keys, mouse or scrollbar
<li>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 the associated function
<li>Immediate adjustment if the window size is changed, in any
state of interaction
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<h4>Versatile character encoding support</h4>
<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>Support of bidirectional terminals, Arabic ligature joining
<li>East Asian character set support: handling of major CJK encodings
(including GB18030 and full EUC-JP <img align=absmiddle src=new-rot.gif>with combining characters)
in either Unicode terminal or CJK terminal
<li><img align=absmiddle src=new-rot.gif>Support for a variety of 8 bit encodings (mapped to Unicode)
(with combining characters for Vietnamese and Thai)
<li>Support of CJK input methods by enhanced keyboard
mapping including multiple choice mappings (handled by a pick list menu);
<img align=absmiddle src=new-rot.gif>characters in the pick list being sorted by relevance of Unicode ranges
<li><img align=absmiddle src=new-rot.gif>Han character information with description and pronunciation
<li>Auto-detection of text character encoding, edits files with
mixed character encoding sections (e.g. mailboxes),
<img align=absmiddle src=new-rot.gif>transparent handling of UTF-16 encoded files
<li>Auto-detection of UTF-8 / CJK terminal mode and detailed features
(like different Unicode width and combining data versions)
<li>Encoding support tested with:
xterm, mlterm, hanterm, cxterm, rxvt, linux console
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<h4>Many useful text editing capabilities</h4>
<li>Many text editing features, e.g. paragraph wrapping,
auto-indentation and back-tab,
smart quotes (with quotation marks style selection and <img align=absmiddle src=new.gif> 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>Marker stack for quick return to previous text positions
<li>Multiple paste buffers (emacs-style)
<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><img align=absmiddle src=new-rot.gif>Print function that works in all text encodings
<li>Optional emacs command mode
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<h4>Small-footprint operation and portability</h4>
<li>Plain text mode (terminal) operation, supporting wide range of terminals
<li>Instant start-up
<li>Runs on many platforms: Unix (Linux/Sun/HP/BSD/Mac and more),
DOS (djgpp), Windows (cygwin)
<li>Makefiles also support legacy systems
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<h3>Screenshots</h3>
<li><a target=_blank href=mined-html.png>Mined</a>
with opened pull-down menu and with HTML syntax highlighting.
<li><a target=_blank href=mined-uni.png>Mined</a>
with opened pop-up menu and with Unicode contents.
<li>The HTML version of the <a href=mined.html>Mined Manual</a> also
contains a number of illustrative screenshots.
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<h3><a href=download.html>Download</a></h3>
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