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33.Dd March 15, 2005
34.Dt MINED 1
35.Os
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm mined
38.Nd emergency text editor
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.Nm
41.Op Ar file
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The
44.Nm
45utility is a simple text editor primarily designed for use when a
46system is booted single-user and has no
47.Pa /usr
48(and thus no access to
49.Xr vi 1 ) .
50Simple help can be obtained by hitting the F1 key while in the editor.
51CTRL+W writes out the file and CTRL+X exits the editor.
52.Pp
53The terminal type is hardwired to either an xterm or cons25 (video console).
54The editor understands stty
55rows and columns but is otherwise meant to be fairly minimal in scope.
56.Sh KEY BINDINGS
57.Bl -tag -width "Right arrow" -compact -offset indent
58.It F1
59HELP
60.It F2
61File status
62.It F3
63Forward search
64.It F4
65Global replace
66.It Shift+F3
67Backwards search
68.It Shift+F4
69Line replace
70.It Up arrow
71Move up one line
72.It Down arrow
73Move down one line
74.It Left arrow
75Move left one character
76.It Right arrow
77Move right one character
78.It Home
79File top
80.It End
81File bottom
82.It Page Up
83Scroll one page up
84.It Page Down
85Scroll one page down
86.It Esc
87Repeat last cmd # times
88.It CTRL+A
89Start of line
90.It CTRL+B
91Word backward
92.It CTRL+C
93Save from marked location to current cursor location
94.It CTRL+D
95Reverse scroll
96.It CTRL+E
97End of line
98.It CTRL+F
99Word forward
100.It CTRL+G
101Insert a file at cursor
102.It CTRL+K
103Delete from marked location to current cursor location
104.It CTRL+L
105Erase and redraw screen
106.It CTRL+N
107Delete next word
108.It CTRL+P
109Delete previous word
110.It CTRL+Q
111Insert the contents of the save file into new file
112.It CTRL+S
113Run shell
114.It CTRL+T
115Delete to end of line
116.It CTRL+U
117Forward scroll
118.It CTRL+V
119Visit another file
120.It CTRL+W
121Write current file
122.It CTRL+X
123Exit
124.It CTRL+Y
125Insert the contents of the save file at cursor
126.It CTRL+\e\\&
127Abort current operation
128.It CTRL+@
129Set mark
130.It CTRL+^
131Screen top
132.It CTRL+_
133Screen bottom
134.It CTRL+]
135Goto line #
136.El
137.Sh SEE ALSO
138.Xr ed 1 ,
139.Xr ee 1 ,
140.Xr vi 1
141.Sh HISTORY
142The
143.Nm
144utility first appeared in Minix.
145It was brought into PicoBSD for a
146time, and some work was done on it, then later brought into
147.Dx
148where some additional usability work was done on it.
149