What's new in Mined 2015.25
Mar 30, 2015
- Editing:
- Transparent editing of encrypted files. Using filters configurable by file type (configured in $HOME/.minedrc).
- Enhanced auto-indentation, bullet list and numbered list support.
- Enhanced smart spaces/dashes/arrows/minus.
- Interaction:
- Revised flag menus and header line.
- Configurable appearance of menu background (in $HOME/.minedrc).
- Enhanced double-click and focus-then-click handling.
- CUPS printer selection.
- Character handling support:
- Configurable character information in status line ($HOME/.minedrc).
- Additional character transformation support for Italian, East European, Tatar, Bashkir.
- Character information includes Unicode named sequences and spacing combined status.
- Support for ISO 8859/EBCDIC Next Line character (NL U+0085).
- Character encoding support:
- EBCDIC support ("bracket" codepage CP1047 as used by z/OS USS).
- Option -E disables text encoding auto-detection, using locale instead.
- Updated some character encoding tables according to libiconv 1.14. Added some character encodings.
- Dropped the bogus idea of merging JIS X 0213 and EUC-JP code tables. Offering EUC-JP and EUC-JIS X 0213, and their Shift_JIS counterparts.
- File handling:
- Handling directory access failure when opening menu.
- Enhanced disk file modification or replacement detection.
- Additional mechanisms to prevent data loss in case of file I/O errors.
- Interworking / Interoperability:
- Using new features of xterm 280 to finally achieve the distinction between all (modified) keypad keys.
- Preventing editing screen from being spoiled by other processes.
- Adusting menu colours to detected terminal colours.
- Mouse handling workaround for rxvt-unicode quirks and cygwin console multi-character split-ups.
- Workarounds for query problems with mlterm, old xterm, cygwin console, and 'screen'.
- Revamped CJK terminal features and fixed some width handling cases.
- DOS versions (djgpp, Turbo-C): Fixed Ctrl-space, ^R, ^C.
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed handling of interrupts while reading file.
- Fixed new unnamed UTF-16 text to actually be saved as UTF-16.
- Fixed text encoding auto-detection on unsigned char platforms (since 2000.14).
- Fixed pasting invalid UTF-8 as digit '8' in non-UTF-8 text.
New in Mined 2014.24.2 (Jul 8, 2014)
- Character information:
- Updated to Unicode 7.0.
- Editing:
- Improved and fixed JavaScript/HTML highlighting.
- Improved and fixed line end handling in search/replace.
- Interworking:
- Interworking with Windows PowerShell and xterm 306 dim mode.
New in Mined 2014.24 (Jun 5, 2014)
- Internationalization and Character information:
- Revamped smart quotes feature.
- Revised Quotes menu according to investigations of international styles.
- Supporting opening quotation mark repetition for new paragraphs.
- Automatic French quotation marks spacing.
- Primary/alternate styles controlled by locale environment or option.
- Tuned special title casing (Shift-F3) e.g. for Dutch "IJsselmeer".
- Updated to Unicode 6.3.
- Editing:
- File tabs and file name tab titles for quick file selection and browsing.
- Revamped rectangular text selection.
- Toggle with Alt-mouse-move during click-and-drag.
- Consistent selection to mouse position (even on shorter lines) including shifted lines.
- Revamped and enhanced HTML and scripting highlighting.
- Distinct highlighting for HTML/XML/JSP attributes and values.
- TAB width 2 enabled in addition to 4 or 8.
- Smarter clipboard pasting (cygwin/Windows).
- User configuration:
- Enhanced user configuration features.
- Preferences specific for file name pattern or terminal type.
- Consistent handling of preferences when editing multiple files.
- Added cursor style setting preference.
- File handling improvements:
- Terminal interworking improvements
- (mlterm, tmux, older xterm, missing terminfo, CJK in 'screen')
- Bug fixes:
- File handling: Various pipe handling fixed.
- File handling: Detecting "quota exceeded" write error.
- Case conversion function fixes.
- Handling search expressions with ^M or \r.
- Keyboard: Ctrl-Backarrow again deleting only one character.
- Fixed some menu handling cases.
- Fixed input of typographic apostrophe in some cases.
- Made file basename visible in long prompt lines.
- HTML highlighting cases, especially after insert.
New in Mined 2013.23.4 (Sep 12, 2013)
- Fixed build problems on Debian 7 64 bit.
New in Mined 2013.23.2 (Aug 22, 2013)
- Fixed build problems on newer Debian/Ubuntu.
New in Mined 2012.22 (May 10, 2012)
- User configuration:
- New user preferences configuration file $HOME/.minedrc.
- Interactive:
- Backarrow now also performs dual-mode function like Del (delete selection if active, or character left).
- Revamped keypad function modes and their setup, including more interoperable handling of Home/End keys.
- Enabled opening flag menu on terminals missing mouse right-click support (e.g. gnome-terminal).
- Editing:
- Revamped keypad function assignments, esp. for Shift-select mode.
- Support for Windows clipboard (Windows and cygwin version only)
- Interworking:
- Mouse moving interaction works in rxvt-unicode / urxvt as well.
- Shift-selection works in DOS version as well (key and mouse).
- Fixed terminal detection and attribute handling for 'screen'.
- Fixed paste buffer to work in DOSBox and Android.
New in Mined 2011.21 (Mar 12, 2012)
- Interactive:
- New File switcher: menu listing of opened files (tab-like).
- New Shift selection mode: visual selection with Shift-keys (Windows-like).
- Character information:
- Updated to Unicode 6.1.
- Interworking:
- Ported to Android
- Interworking enhancements both for more legacy systems and terminals.
New in Mined 2011.19.2 (Nov 18, 2011)
- File handling:
- This release features major enhancements in file management:
- Interactive file chooser to navigate file system.
- Backup files, interoperable with other editors; optional numbered backups.
- File locking, using interoperable lock files.
- Recovery files (if mined quits), interoperable with other editors.
- Checking/warning whether disk file was changed while being edited (2011.18).
- Enhancement and migration of file info storage (2011.18).
- Interactive:
- Mouse movement navigation between menus, especially to open submenus.
- Interworking and Deployment:
- Using glyph detection feature of mintty for optimal marker selection.
- Assigned HOP function to Shift-TAB and to keypad "*", to support laptop keyboards and some dumb terminals (KDE konsole, BSD console).
- Windows stand-alone package: Installing into Start Menu and Desktop.
- Enhanced Linux desktop integration (2011.18).
- Other interoperability and portability enhancements, including port to Haiku (2011.18).
New in Mined 2000.16 (Mar 31, 2010)
- 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 rememberd.
- 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.