mined (text editor)

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Mined (MINIX Editor, pronounced min-ed) is a terminal-based text editor providing extensive Unicode and CJK support, available under the GPL.

Mined was originally designed by Andy Tanenbaum and written by Michiel Huisjes as a simple text editor for the MINIX operating system in the mid-1980s.^[1]

Mined is available for Unix and Linux, Windows and DOS systems, and is included in the SUSE, Debian, Cygwin and FreeBSD distributions.

It was the first editor that supported Unicode in a plain-text terminal (like xterm or rxvt).

Contents 1 Features 2 See also 3 External links 4 References

[edit] Features

Mined is a modeless editor, with menus and mouse support, and key bindings optimized for intuitive and fast navigation (optionally WordStar like control key bindings).

It fully supports Unicode, including combining characters and bi-directional text, as well as converting to and from a large number of legacy encodings.

Mined also contains functionality usually only found in word processors, such as smart quotes.

[edit] See also

• List of text editors
• Comparison of text editors

[edit] External links

• mined homepage
• mined project page @ sourceforge

[edit] References