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Linux-Announce Digest #211
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Linux-Announce Digest #211, Volume #5 Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:13:02 EDT
Contents:
COMMERCIAL: GroupWorld.net version 1.3 released (David Jameson)
Sun Studio Compilers and Tools for Linux-- Now Available! (xkoberoi@gmail.com)
Unicode text editor mined 2000 release 11 (Thomas Wolff)
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From: David Jameson <nospam12@groupworld.net>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: GroupWorld.net version 1.3 released
Date: 18 Aug 2005 00:50:08 GMT
We have just released version 1.3 of GroupWorld.net, which now
supports Linux.
GroupWorld.net offers secure, cross-platform web conferencing with
multi-user whiteboard, audio/video conferencing, desktop sharing
and a built-in programming language, for only $19.99 per month for up to 25
users. For more details and to register for a 30 day free trial, go to:
http://www.groupworld.net
Features include:
- Can be hosted from any Windows or Linux machine - no server necessary.
- Applets can be embedded in web pages or used standalone, like java.
- Users just go to your web page to log onto your meeting rooms. A small
500k browser plugin allows anyone with Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape
or Firefox to use the system, on either Windows or Linux (a Mac plugin
will be available soon).
- Example applications include: whiteboard, chat, video & audio chat,
message board, desktop sharing.
- AES encryption on all data sent to/from server, to ensure privacy
and security.
- Programming language and virtual machine, similar to C and java, allowing
you to customise the example applications or develop your own.
- Simple yet powerful API with built-in support for audio and video
conferencing, desktop sharing and GUI design.
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Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:40:27 CST
From: xkoberoi@gmail.com
Subject: Sun Studio Compilers and Tools for Linux-- Now Available!
Howdy,
The compiler team at Sun Microsystems is pleased to make available
preview builds of Sun Studio Compilers for the Linux OS. These builds
not only include preview versions of the compilers, but an intuitive
graphical Debugger and sophisticated Performance Analysis Tools-- all
packaged together into an IDE.
http://developer.sun.com/sunstudio/linux
These engineering builds are freely available to the Linux community
for evaluation purposes on x64 (AMD64) and x86-based systems. Newer
builds will bring additional functionality and improved quality, so
check back and get the latest software preview release.
Regards,
/kso
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From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
Subject: Unicode text editor mined 2000 release 11
Date: 18 Aug 2005 03:10:05 GMT
ANNOUNCEMENT
mined 2000 release 11
(July 2005)
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.
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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>
========================================================================
Major enhancements in this release:
Unicode support enhancements:
* Updated to Unicode 4.1.0:
* Case conversion, Script information.
* Combining character width properties.
* Han information (from Unihan database) for CJK characters.
* Radical/Stroke input method (to include new CJK characters).
* Added Hanyu Pinlu and Tang pronunciation information
(from Unihan database) to Han information options.
* Added generic and supplemental character input mnemonics
for new LATIN characters.
* Indication and character information of Unicode combining characters
now refers to the most recent Unicode version, not the actual
terminal capabilities.
Interactive enhancements:
* Conciliated keypad assignment preference conflict between Cut/Paste
functions (as propagated by mined) and character deletion / line
positioning functions (as often commonly expected):
* The more common Home/End/Delete function assignments to the
respective keypad keys are also easily accessible (e.g. Alt-Del).
* Documentation for alternative assignment option improved.
* Using Del without a paste buffer gives an additional hint on
alternative usage.
* Pull-down menus are now scrollable so they are always displayed
(also the large menus in small terminal windows).
* Additional assignment of "Delete single" function (to delete without
auto-undent, or to delete the last combining accent only) to F5
Backarrow.
* Additional commands (HOP) F1 F1 / Shift-F1 / Control-F1 / Alt-F1 to
display a help status line of (shifted) function key assignments.
* Slight revision of function key assignments to improve intuitive
usage and compliance with common usage.
Unification of DOS version function key assignments.
Interoperability enhancements:
* Improved detection of shifted function keys on various kinds and
modes of terminals.
* Added keyboard configuration examples for Control-function key
detection for rxvt and mlterm to the runtime support library.
* Added script to support Unicode X font installation to the runtime
support library.
* Modified xterm start script "uterm" so that with newer xterm
versions (from 201) usage of the xterm built-in most recent version
of Unicode width data is enabled (which is often more current than
the system-provided locale version).
* Provided makefile for Interix.
Feature enhancements:
* Smart arrows added to optional smart input text replacements.
* New word case toggle function Shift-F3 cycling word casing between
all small, beginning capital, and all capitals.
* The "search corresponding bracket" commands ESC ( or ESC ) now also
match /* */ pairs and #if #else/#elsif #endif structures.
* New TAB expansion option (-+4 or -+8) that expands TAB key input to
an appropriate number of Space characters.
Further enhancements:
* Using paps (a Pango printing script) for printing if available.
* Added PC DOS encoding ("codepage 437") to available encodings.
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Mined Overview
Good interactive features
* Intuitive user interface
* Logical and consistent concept of navigating and editing text
(without ancient line-end handling limitations or insert/append
confusion)
* Supports various control styles:
Editing with command control, function key control, or menu control
Navigation by cursor keys, control keys, mouse or scrollbar
* Comprehensive menus (driven by keyboard or mouse)
* "HOP" key paradigm doubles the number of navigation functions
that can be most easily reached and remembered by
intuitively amplifying the associated function
* Immediate adjustment if the window size is changed, in any
state of interaction
Versatile character encoding support
* Extensive Unicode support, including double-width and combining
characters,
script highlighting,
various methods of character input support
(mapped keyboard input methods, mnemonic and numeric input),
supporting CJK, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Arabic, and other scripts
* Support of bidirectional terminals, Arabic ligature joining
* East Asian character set support: handling of major CJK encodings
(including GB18030 and full EUC-JP with combining characters)
in either Unicode terminal or CJK terminal
* Support for a variety of 8 bit encodings (mapped to Unicode)
(with combining characters for Vietnamese and Thai)
* Support of CJK input methods by enhanced keyboard
mapping including multiple choice mappings (handled by a pick list menu);
characters in the pick list being sorted by relevance of Unicode ranges
* Han character information with description and pronunciation
* Auto-detection of text character encoding, edits files with
mixed character encoding sections (e.g. mailboxes),
transparent handling of UTF-16 encoded files
* Auto-detection of UTF-8 / CJK terminal mode and detailed features
(like different Unicode width and combining data versions)
* Encoding support tested with:
xterm, mlterm, hanterm, cxterm, rxvt,
kde konsole, linux console
Many useful text editing capabilities
* Many text editing features, e.g. paragraph wrapping,
auto-indentation and back-tab, smart quotes (with
quotation marks style selection and auto-detection)
and smart dashes
* Search and replacement patterns can have multiple lines
* Cross-session paste buffer (copy/paste between multiple
- even subsequent or remote - invocations of mined)
* Marker stack for quick return to previous text positions
* Multiple paste buffers (emacs-style)
* Program editing features, HTML support and syntax highlighting,
identifier and function definition search, also across files;
structure input support
* Text and program layout features; auto-indentation and
undent function (back-tab), numbered item justification
* Systematic text and file handling safety, avoiding loss of data
* Visible indications of special text contents
(TAB characters, different line-end types, character
codes that cannot be displayed in the current mode)
* Full binary transparent editing with visible indications
(illegal UTF-8 or CJK, mixed line end types, NUL characters, ...)
* Print function that works in all text encodings
* Optional emacs command mode
Small-footprint operation and portability
* Plain text mode (terminal) operation, supporting wide range of terminals
* Instant start-up
* Runs on many platforms: Unix (Linux/Sun/HP/BSD/Mac and more),
DOS (djgpp), Windows (cygwin, Interix)
* Makefiles also support legacy systems
========================================================================
Thomas Wolff
mined@towo.net
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