Unicode text editor MinEd ported to Haiku

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Hello,
on suggestion of a user of my text editor, I adapted it for Haiku.
It’s a text-mode (command line) editor with extensive Unicode support, menus and mouse control.
It’s user interface is much more intuitive and user-friendly than that of legacy command line editors.

The version updated for Haiku can be downloaded from http://sf.net/projects/mined

I’ve had a few issues with porting that I’d like to mention:
I assume these are the proper directories to install a command-line tool:
/boot/common/bin
/boot/common/documentation/man
/boot/common/data/mined

I guess this does not apply to command-line applications, but according to
http://haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/applications.html#install
applications should install into /boot/common/apps/ or /boot/home/apps/

  • however, these directories do not exist in the Haiku system I got installed
    (there is /Haiku/apps instead).

There is a bug in Haiku sed which I should probably report to the tracker system.

And there are a number of problems and deficiencies with the Haiku Terminal application which I should probably also post to the tracker system.

Thanks,
Thomas

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Great news. I would like to know:

To what extent is Mined customizable? (API, colors, menus, etc)

Is it scriptable?

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It’s not scriptable. But you are the third person recently to ask about it. So if you motivate me with a convincing use case, let’s see…
Some other aspects are customizable. The main aim of mined, however, is to provide a good user interface that works out of the box for everybody without the need to study first, and combine that with a rich set of editing features as well as interoperability.
Have you tried it? Any feedback?

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I personally like Minimum Profit its cli editor is my favorite aside nano/pico the graphical editor is quite lacking though IMO. And scripted as well…