Introduction to mined

Mined is a powerful text editor with a comprehensive and easy-to-use user interface 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.
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.

See Mined Design Principles for some further comments on the approach of making mined a useful editing tool.

See Overview of features for a more comprehensive listing of mined features.


Presentation

on the 27th Internationalization and Unicode Conference
  • Conference Paper
  • Conference Presentation
  • Screenshots

  • Mined with opened pull-down menu and with HTML syntax highlighting.
  • Mined with opened pop-up menu and with Unicode contents.
  • The HTML version of the Mined Manual also contains a number of illustrative screenshots.
  • Download


    Mined Overview