Mined is a powerful text editor with a comprehensive and easy-to-use user interface and fast, small-footprint behaviour.

it was the first editor that provided unicode support in a plain-text terminal. it now has 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 is an editor tailored to efficient editing of plain text documents and programs, with features and interactive behaviour designed for this purpose.