t***@towo.net
2010-02-24 00:32:56 UTC
ANNOUNCEMENT
MinEd 2000.16
(Feb 2010)
This release of MinEd introduces two major new features for which it
is a beta release and I would especially appreciate comments on them:
* Self-made interactive selection highlighting, meaning:
- Mouse selection highlighting now works in other terminals than just xterm,
including the cygwin console (from cygwin 1.7.2).
- Selection highlighting is also applied for keyboard selection.
A few options are offered to tune selection highlighting;
open the Paste buffer menu (from the Options menu or the "%=" flags)
and choose options in the visual selection section.
-> Del key changed: With new selection highlighting, the function of
the Del keypad key could finally be changed to meet more common
user expectations (dual-mode behaviour): if a visual selection is
active, delete it, otherwise delete next character.
* Rectangular copy and paste.
- Applying interactive rectangular selection highlighting.
The Windows stand-alone package comes with an install script and
registers MinEd for invocation from the Windows Explorer context menu
for text files.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary of major enhancements in this release:
Text editing features:
* New rectangular copy/paste area mode.
* Enhanced smart quotes algorithm and input support for apostrophe.
* Support fow Hawai'ian input.
Interactive:
* Self-made visual selection highlighting, supporting all terminals.
* Changed Del keypad key to more common behaviour.
* Calculated dim attribute for line markers in xterm and mintty.
* Enabled keyboard mapping (input method handling) for DOS/djgpp version.
* Menu navigation: On a submenu entry, cursor-right enters the submenu too.
File handling:
* The text position is now more easily remembered.
Interworking:
* For cygwin:
* Fixed creation of inter-window paste buffer in case hard link does not work
(on FAT or network drives).
* Enabled mouse navigation without button pressed for cygwin (1.7.2) console.
* With cygwin 1.7.2, mouse interaction will be enhanced.
* For mintty/cygwin:
* Various tuning measures to make optimal use of this fine terminal.
* The mined scrollbar is now enabled by default.
(For right-to-left text editing, reduce visual confusion with -o.)
* For DOS/djgpp:
* Enhanced keyboard interaction to Unix level.
* Avoid busy wait during keyboard input.
* Enabled Alt-shortcuts.
* For legacy systems:
* Enhanced terminal support by built-in fallback information.
* Improved handling of slow connections.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
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).
It was the first editor that supported Unicode in a plain-text terminal
(like xterm or rxvt).
Basically, mined is an editor tailored to reliable and efficient
editing of plain text documents and programs, with features and
interactive behaviour designed for this purpose.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
More information (with screenshots, feature overview and change log)
and download are available from the mined web site at
<http://towo.net/mined/>
Mined is co-hosted at sourceforge and has a mailing list
which can be subscribed at
<https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mined-editor>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thomas Wolff
***@towo.net
MinEd 2000.16
(Feb 2010)
This release of MinEd introduces two major new features for which it
is a beta release and I would especially appreciate comments on them:
* Self-made interactive selection highlighting, meaning:
- Mouse selection highlighting now works in other terminals than just xterm,
including the cygwin console (from cygwin 1.7.2).
- Selection highlighting is also applied for keyboard selection.
A few options are offered to tune selection highlighting;
open the Paste buffer menu (from the Options menu or the "%=" flags)
and choose options in the visual selection section.
-> Del key changed: With new selection highlighting, the function of
the Del keypad key could finally be changed to meet more common
user expectations (dual-mode behaviour): if a visual selection is
active, delete it, otherwise delete next character.
* Rectangular copy and paste.
- Applying interactive rectangular selection highlighting.
The Windows stand-alone package comes with an install script and
registers MinEd for invocation from the Windows Explorer context menu
for text files.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary of major enhancements in this release:
Text editing features:
* New rectangular copy/paste area mode.
* Enhanced smart quotes algorithm and input support for apostrophe.
* Support fow Hawai'ian input.
Interactive:
* Self-made visual selection highlighting, supporting all terminals.
* Changed Del keypad key to more common behaviour.
* Calculated dim attribute for line markers in xterm and mintty.
* Enabled keyboard mapping (input method handling) for DOS/djgpp version.
* Menu navigation: On a submenu entry, cursor-right enters the submenu too.
File handling:
* The text position is now more easily remembered.
Interworking:
* For cygwin:
* Fixed creation of inter-window paste buffer in case hard link does not work
(on FAT or network drives).
* Enabled mouse navigation without button pressed for cygwin (1.7.2) console.
* With cygwin 1.7.2, mouse interaction will be enhanced.
* For mintty/cygwin:
* Various tuning measures to make optimal use of this fine terminal.
* The mined scrollbar is now enabled by default.
(For right-to-left text editing, reduce visual confusion with -o.)
* For DOS/djgpp:
* Enhanced keyboard interaction to Unix level.
* Avoid busy wait during keyboard input.
* Enabled Alt-shortcuts.
* For legacy systems:
* Enhanced terminal support by built-in fallback information.
* Improved handling of slow connections.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
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).
It was the first editor that supported Unicode in a plain-text terminal
(like xterm or rxvt).
Basically, mined is an editor tailored to reliable and efficient
editing of plain text documents and programs, with features and
interactive behaviour designed for this purpose.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
More information (with screenshots, feature overview and change log)
and download are available from the mined web site at
<http://towo.net/mined/>
Mined is co-hosted at sourceforge and has a mailing list
which can be subscribed at
<https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mined-editor>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thomas Wolff
***@towo.net