Fwd: Unicode text editor mined 2000 release 8

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- mined at towo dot net wrote:
> Date: Sat,  2 Aug 2003 23:34:24 +0200 (CEST)
> 
>                              ANNOUNCEMENT
> 
>                          mined 2000 release 8
> 
> Mined was the first text mode editor with Unicode support.
> 
> New features in this release:
> *	Major extension of CJK character set support: GB18030, 
> 	full EUC-JP, CNS (EUC-TW)
> *	Vietnamese VISCII character set support
> *	Auto-detection of UTF-8 / CJK terminal features
> *	Flexible locale configuration for both text and terminal encoding
> *	Smart dashes
> *	Multiple paste buffers (emacs-style)
> *	emacs command mode
> 
> Main enhancements:
> (for details see the change log)
> *	Revised Japanese input method tables
> 
> 
> Mined offers
> 
> 	Good interactive features
> 	* an intuitive user interface
> 	* command control and pull-down menus available
> 	* control and function key or mouse control
> 
> 	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 UTF-8 / CJK terminal mode and detailed 
> 	  features
> 	* Encoding support tested with xterm, mlterm, hanterm, cxterm, 
> 	  linux console
> 
> 	Many useful text editing features
> 	* many text editing capabilities, e.g. paragraph wrapping, 
> 	  smart quotes, 
> 	  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, DOS/Windows)
> 
> 
> More information (with screenshots, feature overview and change log) 
> and download are available from the mined web page at
> 	http://towo.net/mined/
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Thomas Wolff
> mined at towo dot net


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