                    mined 2000 release 9

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Mined is a text editor, small and easy to use, yet powerful.
It is Unicode-capable, using UTF-8 encoding (also converts UTF-16 input).
(Mixed 8/16 bit charsets as used for Chinese are also handled.)
It has mouse support (in text mode terminals), menus, a scrollbar and 
visible indications of special characters (esp. TABs and different line-ends).

Mined has an intuitive, simple way of operation. No modes.
Cursor positioning is intuitive and without weird limitations at line-end, 
no insert/append confusion.
Control-key layout is "geometric" for basic cursor movements (also known 
as "WordStar" layout). (Cursor keys can be used as well, of course.)
A "HOP" key amplifies any subsequent movement command (and some other 
commands) in an intuitive sense. This way, a lot of functions can be 
achieved quickly without remembering as many control or function keys.
(See help on "keyboard" for more details).

Mined handles changes of the terminal/window size immediately and 
correctly in any state of interaction (exception for the DOS version).

Mined offers security against file handling mistakes. It will not accidently 
overwrite a file that has not explicitly been opened for editing before 
without prompting. It will not exit from a changed text without saving 
or explicit confirmation. If it should crash (which has not happened for 
years) it still tries to save the text and even continue the edit session.
File handling errors are reported clearly and not crippled.

Mined offers support for paragraph adjustment (line/word wrap), HTML 
tag entry, identifier search, "tags" file search (cross-file search 
for identifiers), special input support (Unicode), smart quotes, 
Unicode combined characters, and more.
Search and replacement patterns may include new-lines.

Mined handles line-ends of different operating system and displays them 
differently. Full binary transparency is supported when editing.
