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Other related URLs
Latest version of gnuclient/gnuserv is available at Martin Schwenke's site <http://meltin.net/hacks/emacs> or possibly <ftp://ftp.wellfleet.com/netman/psmith/emacs>.
Paul Smith comments: ...I suggest you move to gnuserv. It is much better than the one that comes with Emacs. Gnuclient brings up a file in a new frame. Also it includes a "gnudoit" app which executes arbitrary elisp on the Emacs server, allowing things like window manager buttons that invoke Gnus or VM (or RMAIL or whatever), etc.
(require 'gnuserv)
;; here's the part that uses the existing buffer
(setq server-done-function 'bury-buffer
gnuserv-frame (car (frame-list)))
(setq gnuserv-frame (selected-frame))
(gnuserv-start)
(message "gnuserv started.") |
Visit <http://clisp.cons.org> or contact Bruno Haible haible@clisp.cons.org. It has been suggested using CLISP inside XEmacs, for replacing the existing byte code engine.
[Reginald S. Perry <perry AT zso.dec.com>, XEmacs-L 1998-07-02] Clisp is a GPLed implementation of Common Lisp. Its flavor is that it has a CLTL1(Commom Lisp, the Language Vol. 1) feel but they have implemented a large portion of the passed votes in CLTL2 so they are sort of ANSI. There are a couple of cool things about Clisp. First its executable size and memory footprint is surprisingly small for a full-blown lisp implementation....Clisp may be a good portable solution for people who don't have access to Unix to run CMUCL, Linux to run Allegro CL, don't have the cash to get Commom Lisp on Windows or want to use a CL based XEmacs but is running on OS/2 or some other system that commercial lisp vendors wont port their wares to.
Common Lisp Hyper Spec
<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/> Harlequin
presents the Common Lisp HyperSpec (tm), an HTML document
derived (with permission from ANSI and X3) from the ANSI
Common Lisp standard (X3.226-1994). In hard copy, the ANSI
Common Lisp standard is nearly 1100 printed pages describing
nearly a thousand functions and variables in sufficient detail
to accommodate hosting of the language on a wide variety of
hardware and operating system platforms. While the paper
version remains the official standard, we think that as a
matter of practice you'll find the Common Lisp HyperSpec much
easier to navigate and use than its paper alternative.
(setq package-get-remote '(("ftp.xemacs.org" "xemacs/beta/incoming"))) |
There has been talk on making let to work like in modern languages, i.e. binding variables locally(lexical scoping), and converting to Common Lisp, possibly replacing Elisp altogether. It's big a task and won't happen soon, but it is on the sketch board. <http://www.xemacs.org/Architecting-XEmacs/index.html>
About Emacs package easy-mmode.el Incompatible re-implementation of XEmacs add-minor-mode, see articles http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-beta/199908/msg00701.html and article http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-beta/199908/msg00706.html and article http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-beta/199908/msg00816.html
Why GNU?
Article by Denis Havlik published under mandrakeforum.com Quotes used by permission of Denis. This article no longer exits, due to Mndrake relabelled as Mandriva.
"First part of the speech was "why did I start GNU project" info. Official RMS biography only says: Stallman graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a BA in physics. During his college years, he also worked as a staff hacker at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, learning operating system development by doing it. He wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor there in 1975. In January 1984 he resigned from MIT to start the GNU Project. Without stating the REASON why he left the MIT lab and started GNU project."
"When Richard M. Stallman started his programmers career, world of programming was much different from what it looks like today: back then, ND-agreements and shrink-wrap licenses simply didn't exist, and sharing code was considered normal behavior. Then someone came to idea that he can make a lot of money by NOT sharing the source code, and started the avalanche which ultimately led to Single-click patent and UCITA. The form in which RMS first encountered this brave new world for the first time was somewhat bizarre: Xerox donated a laser printer to the MIT lab he worked in, and this printer was controlled by proprietary software. This printer was great, but it often jammed, and "no source" meant that they had no way of implementing the "printer jammed" warning as they did for other printers, used in the lab. As you can imagine, walking up and down or camping next to printer turned out into a somewhat annoying experience... Worse yet, some time later, Stallman actually met a college which had source code of printer controlling software, and refused to share it because he signed the NDA! Instead of accepting this bizarre situation as "normal", RMS turned around, quit the job at MIT and started the GNU project. (the rest is a history)"
Biography of Guy Steele who designed the original Emacs
Guy is also the author of book "Common Lisp the Language, 2nd
Edition". The bio used to be located at
http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/organick/past/GLSbio.htm and the current
location unknown, so the text has been copied here.
About Guy L. Steele Jr. Guy L. Steele Jr. is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. He received his A.B. in applied mathematics from Harvard College (1975), and his S.M. and Ph.D. in computer science and artificial intelligence from M.I.T. (1977 and 1980). He has also been an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University; a member of technical staff at Tartan Laboratories in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and a senior scientist at Thinking Machines Corporation. He joined Sun Microsystems in 1994.
He is author or co-author of five books: Common Lisp: The Language (Digital Press); C: A Reference Manual (Prentice-Hall); The Hacker's Dictionary (Harper & Row), which has been revised as The New Hacker's Dictionary, edited by Eric Raymond with introduction and illustrations by Guy Steele (MIT Press); The High Performance Fortran Handbook (MIT Press); and The Java Language Specification (Addison-Wesley).
He has published more than two dozen papers on the subject of the Lisp language and Lisp implementation, including a series with Gerald Jay Sussman that defined the Scheme dialect of Lisp. One of these, "Multiprocessing Compactifying Garbage Collection," won first place in the ACM 1975 George E. Forsythe Student Paper Competition. Other papers published in Communications of the ACM are "Design of a LISP-Based Microprocessor" with Gerald Jay Sussman (November 1980) and "Data Parallel Algorithms" with W. Daniel Hillis (December 1986). He has also published papers on other subjects, including compilers, parallel processing, and constraint languages. One song he composed has been published in CACM ("The Telnet Song", April 1984).
The Association for Computing Machinery awarded him the 1988 Grace Murray Hopper Award and named him an ACM Fellow in 1994. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence in 1990. He led the team that received a 1990 Gordon Bell Prize honorable mention for achieving the fastest speed to that date for a production application: 14.182 Gigaflops. He was also awarded the 1996 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award.
He has served on accredited standards committees X3J11 (C language) and X3J3 (Fortran) and is currently chairman of X3J13 (Common Lisp). He was also a member of the IEEE committee that produced the IEEE Standard for the Scheme Programming Language, IEEE Std 1178-1990. He represents Sun Microsystems in the High Performance Fortran Forum, which produced the High Performance Fortran specification in May, 1993.
He has served on Ph.D. thesis committees for eight students. He has served as program chair for the 1984 ACM Lisp Conference and for the 15th ACM POPL conference (1988) and 23rd ACM POPL conference (1996); he also served on program committees for 30 other conferences. He served a five-year term on the ACM Turing Award committee, chairing it in 1990. He served a five-year term on the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award committee, chairing it in 1992.
He has had chess problems published in Chess Life and Review and is a Life Member of the United States Chess Federation. He has sung in the bass section of the MIT Choral Society (John Oliver, conductor) and the Masterworks Chorale (Allen Lannom, conductor) as well as in choruses with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at Great Woods (Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor) and with the Boston Concert Opera (David Stockton, conductor). He has played the role of Lun Tha in The King and I and the title role in Li'l Abner.
He designed the original EMACS command set and was the first person to port TeX.
At Sun Microsystems he is responsible for research in language design and implementation strategies, and architectural and software support, and for the specification of the Java programming language.
Software Licenses
Documentation licenses
Opinions on various licenses and terms
... GFDL'ed documentation with a GPL'ed program means that moving stuff between the documentation and the program is possible only for the copyright holder. This is tedious in the extreme when the program or documentation has multiple copyright holders. Note that there are multiple copyright holders whenever more than one person contributes creative material of more than about 15 lines, unless one of them is employing all the others (work-for-hire), or they signed written, paper copyright assignments. GFDL/GPL dual-licensing would be a good thing for that reason. --Nathanael Nerode 2004-09-22 <http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/09/msg00451.html>
The GNU FDL is considered by Debian to be a non-free license because of the part that contains "invariant sections" whereby you can make a section non-changeable. See "Draft Debian Position Statement about the GNU Free Documentation License(GFDL)" by Manoj Srivastava <http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.html>
4.3.1 The Word Emacs
In the early days, when memory was tight and machines slow people got upset how much memory Emacs used. And it still uses all the memory it can get if you use GNUS with unlimited cache setting. You heard this a lot back then. And no wonder Emacs uses so many key combinations, because Emacs is actually.... [this is from Gnus manual...] What the word in reality means, is explained in the Emacs FAQ. See also the Emacs distribution and file etc/JOKES.
Q: What does the word "EMACS mean again?"
A: "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping"
(E)macs (M)akes (a) (C)omputer (S)low
(E)scape-(M)eta-(A)lt-(C)ontrol-(S)hift |
Insider joke:
What? You only have ctrl, alt and meta? Don't you know that
hyper and super add so much to the Emacs experience? Man, go
and get a real Emacs keyboard! |
4.3.2 New commands in Emacs
2000-12-03 gnu.emacs.help thread under subject "Re: Gnu Emacs 21?", participating writers Eli Zaretskii, Andre Spiegel, Stefan Monnier, Kai Großjohann and the answering guy: Per Abrahamsen
I need to graduate sometime
With sufficient Emacs training, you will gain access to command: M-x write-thesis RET
Err... I cannot find that in the manual... What does this command do when invoked with a prefix argument? I am also confused about the implementation of this command. How is the interaction between the supervisor and student simulated in lisp? And what function does emacs use to emulate extracting that last chapter before the deadline from the student, and the student getting the supervisor to actually read the damn thing. I tried an apropos search for "thesis-blood-from-stone" but got nothing....
Without a prefix argument, it writes a master's thesis. You get a PhD thesis when you invoke it with a prefix argument, and as far as I recall, the quality of the resulting work can somehow be tuned by using numeric arguments. However, to avoid flooding the libraries on earth, I have heard that the command can only be invoked exactly once per user.
Yes. You can imagine my dismay when I accidentally typed M-x write-thesis RET rather than the intended M-x write-the-sis RET. Perhaps when 21 is released I will get another shot. It is simply crushing to think I may have to write a thesis the old-fashioned way.
Don't just whine about it here! Submit a bug report with M-x report-emacs-bug RET If you find some point of the documentation lacking or unclear. How do you expect the Emacs documentation ever to improve if the users are too lazy to even report the bugs and deficits they encounter? Sheesh, kids these days, they expect everything to be prepared for them, and have no sense of giving back! When I was young, we didn't ask what Emacs could do for us. We asked what we could do for Emacs. Kids of today could learn *a lot* from that!
What does the command do if you call it programmatically?
Writes multiple theses, of course. What did you expect? Please read tutorial (type C-h t) before bothering with such elementary questions. Each message costs the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars.
(Poor fellow replied...) And you there, yes, you man. Don't attempt to answer a question when you obviously haven't a clue. Maybe you "tested" the command, and it did as you said, but that is just an accident. The type of thesis generated depends on 1) the previous generated thesis1, and 2) an examination of the content of all the files the user have opened with Emacs2. It is not like the command is magic or anything.
Footnotes: [1] So if the previous generated thesis was a Master Thesis, the next will default to a PhD. Thesis. [2] So use W3 to read as many relevant online articles as possible, before invoking the command. And don't browse for porn unless that is what you want to graduate in.
What a stupid user interface. Maybe you elders were content with something like that, but it is certainly not the type of thing users would expect in the 21st century. I bow before the enormous wisdom that must have gone into M-x write-thesis, but we need to find a way to use it effectively.
What if I need to write multiple Master's Theses before embarking on my first PhD? And what if I write multiple PhD theses, and then again, a Master's Thesis to qualify for yet another PhD? Clearly, these possibilities weren't considered at all when designing the user interface of M-x write-thesis; you elders were content with that simplistic default mode (and DON'T tell me that I just need to hack a few lisp expressions to get what I want. I'm not attempting to write a PhD about EMACS, and besides I've got other things to do than spending hours or even days for writing a thesis!).
When Emacs prompt you with: Thesis level (default Master): press TAB to see a list of available choices, then type the name of the one you prefer. You can use TAB to complete the answer after typing a unique prefix, or (I know you young ones love this) choose an answer by clicking the middle button while the mouse pointer is above the answer in the Completions buffer. If you don't have a mouse and are afraid to type, you can even switch to the Completions buffer, move the cursor to the answer, and press RET to select it. Isn't that amazing!
I don't see how using the prefix argument to write multiple theses makes any sense at all. By what do these theses differ, then? They are all based on the currently loaded buffers, no? So am I supposed to actually READ them and find out which I like most or what?
And what if I write multiple PhD theses, and then again, a Master's Thesis to qualify for yet another PhD? I suggest using the prefix argument to distinguish between a Master's Thesis and a PhD Thesis, period. Very simple, very easy to understand. Just a pity that this change won't make it into Emacs 21.1 anymore, as we're already too late in the pretest.
This would make it inconsistent with self-insert-command. Or do you propose that self-insert-command should be modified as well, so the prefix argument changes the inserted character? I can see it now, C-u 2 i inserts k, C-u - 2 i inserts g. Another choice: Switch to XEmacs, and you'll have it. The code has been written since Emacs 18.62, but GNU refused to accept it because M-x write-thesis won't print the standard GPL blurb before the thesis and the assignment paper after it...
I wonder how do I choose between *roff and LaTeX as the thesis format? Hm. [time passes] Ah, see the variable write-thesis-format.
Just a warning, it doesn't work if you set it directly. Either call set-thesis-format from your .emacs, or set the variable with Customize.
[Q1] All this stuff seems to be very complicated to a beginner like me. Anybody can send me some code to put a easily accessible menu option to write my thesis? I don't see the point in spend time learning new key-combos and writing things only to write my thesis. Just two mouse clicks should be enough (or one, with the new buttons of the GNU Emacs 21).
[Q2] I remember a neat hack floating around that allowed you to specify the subject with a prefix argument, in case you've browsed too much crappy sites.
Prefix argument... sigh. Not me, but the standard thesis package has thesis-ignored-buffers, which is a regexp of buffer names that will be ignored when writing the thesis. People, please read the documentation before you bother poking around so powerfull editor as Emacs. It may accidentally shut down your local area's power grid if you press wrong key sequences (and don't try that at home!).
Homepage: and FAQ at http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
Download: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs
Cygwin: Emacs is in included in http://www.cygwin.com/
. Tip for debugging: xemacs -vanilla -debug-paths
In the download site, barebin has just the .exe's and a few other files, and is only useful in conjunction with the "src" tarball. This gives you the full source to everything, if you happen to want that. bin is usable by itself, but doesn't include the elisp source (that is provided by the "lisp" tarball). If you know you want the elisp source, you can just get "fullbin", which is basically "bin+lisp". leim is the Library of Emacs Input Methods, which is only of interest if you want to enter non-ascii characters in a convenient way. Emacs DOS port is (was?) maintained by Eli Zaretskii. See "NT Emacs Installation" <http://www.charlescurley.com/emacs.html> if the Emacs NT FAQ is too thick to for one coming from Windows background.
There are two versions of XEmacs available for Windows platform. A Cygwin version, which is more like the "real thing" and a native Win32 version, also called the 'netinstall' version. The development of native version is coordinated by a mailing list at xemacs-nt@xemacs.org. If you are willing to contribute or want to follow the progress, mail to xemacs-nt-request@xemacs.org to subscribe.
Win32 native: ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/windows/setup.exe
Official: ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/binary-kits/win32/
http://www.xemacs.org/faq/xemacs-faq.html#Q1_0_10
ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/beta/
Hyperarchive: http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-nt/
5.2.1 Compiling XEmacs with Cygwin
[Cygwin-L 2000-07-28 Rod Whitby] XEmacs 21.1.10, 21.2.34 and 21.2.35 have all compiled out of the box for me with Cygwin 1.1.2 and the pre-release 1.1.3, using the following configure line for Cygwin. There is one small problem with building 21.2.35 where src/xemacs.exe is not getting the executable bit set during the build (when dumped from temacs.exe). Just "chmod ugo+x src/xemacs.exe", and type make again.
./configure --with-x=no --site-includes=/usr/local/include \
--site-libraries=/usr/local/lib --with-dragndrop
./configure \
--with-mule \
--package-path=/usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-packages:/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages:/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages \
--cppflags=-I/usr/local/include \
--site-prefixes=/usr/local/pgsql \
--with_file_coding=yes \
--with-sound=native \
--with_msw=no |
See exellent free printing utility at http://www.lerup.com/printfile and some elisp code for it from page of [Joe Casadonte]
5.3.1 NT printing
Check variables printer-name and ps-printer-name in Emacs 20.3+. Package enscript.el has also been reported to work with NTEmacs. Try to find it from ohio LCD. According to [Barry Roberts] In network do this to connect your printer to win32
dos> net use /persistent:yes lpt1: \\server\printer |
Then use this lisp code
(defvar my-enscript-print-dest "prn"
"*Print destination (file).")
(defvar my-enscript-print-program
"d:/gnu/enscript/enscript.exe"
"*Absolute pathname of program.")
(defun my-enscript-print-buffer (lang program)
"Print buffer contents using GNU enscript 1.5"
(interactive
(list
(completing-read
"Pretty print language: "
'(("cpp" . 1)
;; Add more here ....)
nil nil "cpp"))
my-enscript-print-program)
(let* ((dest my-enscript-print-dest)
(headers-switch1
(concat "--header=" (buffer-name)))
(headers-switch2
(concat "-E" lang))
(out-switch
(concat "--output=" dest))
proc)
(setq proc
(start-process
"enscriptProcess" "*Enscript*"
program
"-T 4" "-r" "-C" "-G" "--columns=2"
out-switch
headers-switch1
headers-switch2))
(process-send-string proc (buffer-string))
(process-send-eof proc)
(message "Buffer %s Printed to %s" (buffer-name) dest))) |
Cygwin is complete Unix like emulation layer for use inside Windows. It includes almost all the familiar Unix tools that are expected by Emacs: diff, patch, ls, telnet, ssh etc. Installation of Cygwin happens simply running Windows installer program setup.exe where individual packages can be selected and upgraded. See Cygwin site for more information.
REPORTING CYGWIN PROBLEMS
It would be best if you provided as much details as possible for the cygwin mailing list when you report problems. Here are couple of commands that may prove handy:
$ cat /etc/setup/installed.db
$ cygcheck -s -v -r
$ strace -osomefile -f bash |
Note: Cygwin contains all needed terminal and connectivity programs: rxvt, ftp and ssh.
SSH - Putty
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
[Tom_Roche@ncsu.edu] Putty (the package, comprised of several
executables) provides several way to connect via SSH. The most
syntactically friendly (once configured) is 'putty', due to its
'saved session' facility.
If you start, e.g. with no options, configure a session, and save it (e.g. as 'sehr'), one can subsequently use a happy syntax (see second)
$ putty sehrlangname.physics.ncsu.edu
$ putty @sehr |
Putty also now has many more configuration options than formerly. Unfortunately, putty pops up a separate window, and has no command line help of which I'm aware. (And Putty in general has nonexistent documentation.) However: For a purely cmdline interface (only tested with w2k cmd.exe), one can use 'plink'. I haven't used it much: I only downloaded it for the purposes of this discussion, but I will try to use it more. For its cmdline help, just run 'plink' with no options. (Why can't 'putty' do that?). More usefully, one can do
$ plink -ssh username@sehrlangname.physics.ncsu.edu |
and get an SSH session in the current window. Unfortunately it seems not quite so friendly as putty; however this may be due to the servers with which I use it--Solaris 6 boxes using Kerberos with RSAAuthentication. Problems noted:* I encounter a minor initial glitch. After typing my password I get the prompt
?7?[r?[999;999H?[6n |
where '?' are what I believe to be escapes (the single char that looks like '<-'). I can either wait a few seconds, or type enter, whereupon I get the message
resize: Time out occurred |
After which, all is well, except that I get the raw escapes in my prompt. (putty handles this properly, but then, it's not character-mode.) The saved session functionality doesn't seem to quite work. If I do (-v for verbose)
plink -v -ssh @sehr
plink -v @sehr
plink -v -ssh username@sehr |
I get (excerpted)
username@sehrlangname.physics.ncsu.edu's password:
Sent password
Access denied
Authentication refused
username@sehrlangname.physics.ncsu.edu's password: |
and so on. Similarly without -v, but I get just the password prompt. pscp supports (what I believe to be) 'normal' SCP syntax. E.g. to copy from host to local cwd
pscp username@host.domain:/path/to/remote/filename . |
Putty also has an ssh-agent, pageant, with which I've previously had trouble (probably should retry the new code), and an experimental SFTP client, psftp, of which I know nothing. (I.e. even less than I know about the rest :-) In short: the Putty tools allow me to connect to the servers I need, but only as long as I type a password. I have never been able to get anything working with the Kerberos servers with which I must interact that didn't require typing a password.
SecureFx
SecureFX is entirely different from sftp. It runs the FTP protocol
over an SSH session, securing the FTP data connections by sending
them through SSH tcpip-direct channels. sftp uses an ssh.com
proprietary file-transfer protocol over an SSH subsystem channel,
talking to the sftp-server on the other side. newer versions of
SecureFX implement sftp, too. http://www.vandyke.com/
About SSH and Zone Alarm
A while ago i had posted a message saying that ssh routinely gets disconnected on my computer. i now think i know why - the culprit seems to be zone alarm, firewall utility. I installed ssh on my new laptop and it never gets ssh disconnected.
It's blocking keep-alives. ssh keepalives are sent at rather long intervals of time, but as far as I can see (I didn't look into it too closely) once ZA has blocked one, the ssh connection will be unusable. You should find either pop-up alerts or logged rejections or both, depending on your ZA settings. Configure it to allow them through instead of blocking them! For example, the way I set things up, the destinations to which I use ssh are in the trusted zone rather than the untrusted zone. But presumably you could configure specific exceptions even for destinations that are otherwise considered untrusted by ZA. --Alan J. Flavell flavell@mail.cern.ch 2000-12-02 comp.security.ssh
MindTerm
Another nice program you can use to tunnel the CVS communication
over SSH is MindTerm. MindTerm is an SSH (currently v1.5) client
program written in 100% pure Java (non-certified). An ssh applet
which will forward X connections. They also do a java vnc client
with built in ssh encryption which is especially useful for
accessing a remote linux desktop from a windows machine with
nothing useful installed on it.
http://www.mindbright.se/mindterm/
All files must be put along the Emacs load-path. If you haven't defined your private lisp directory, it's time to mkae it.
% mkdir $HOME/elisp |
The content of the startup file $HOME/.emacs traditionally starts with couple of path definitions
;; $HOME/.emacs - Emacs startup file
;; Load library (c)ommon (l)isp
(eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
;; Define variable where the private elisp directory root is
(defconst my-root (expand-file-name "~/elisp"))
;; Add root directory and subdirs
(dolist (dir (list my-root
(concat my-root "/subdir1")
(concat my-root "/subdir2")))
(if (file-directory-p dir)
(pushnew dir load-path :test 'string=)))
;; End of example |
[Based on post 1997-08-22 gnu.emacs.help by Paul D. Smith] The first thing you should always do with any .el file you download is byte-compile it. Byte-compiling foo.el will create a file foo.elc which will load and execute a lot faster than the uncompiled .el file. (If you debug packages, then load the .el file instead, because the error gives then clear backtrace)
You can byte-compile a file from within Emacs with the command M-x byte-compile-file RET, or you can use this little command (I make it an alias):
$ emacs -batch -q -f batch-byte-compile <file> [<file>...] |
Note that if the package contains multiple .el files you might not be able to do this as simply, since some of them might need others to be compiled. However, most such packages come with a makefile to do this for you. Next, you shouldn't use an explicit file names like this:
(load "foo.el") |
in your $HOME/.emacs, since that forces Emacs to load the uncompiled (".el") version even if a compiled version exists. Instead, I use this syntax:
(load "foo") |
In this case, Emacs will first try to find "foo.elc" then, if that doesn't exist, it will look for "foo.el".
(load "foo.el") |
But that's not good enough yet. You really should not use commands like load, load-file or load-library in your startup file, instead get familiar with require command. It' similar to load commands, but it only executes once. If the file is in emacs already, it won't be loaded again.
(require 'foo) ;; See the provide command inside the file. |
Even, that isn't good for hard core Emacs fan. Loading a package with either way takes time. What one wants is that package only loads when it is actually used. That's where autoload comes into picture. The file's installation instruction should instruct to tell you what statement to put in your .emacs. Say foo package contains couple of user callable functions foo-1 and foo-2 that are called from keys. You do this
;; Tell where the functions are located, in package "foo"
(autoload 'foo-1 "foo" "" t)
(autoload 'foo-2 "foo" "" t)
;; Then bind the functions into keys,
;; when key is pressed, the function call triggers loading
;; the package
(global-set-key "\C-cf1" 'foo-1)
(global-set-key "\C-cf2" 'foo-2) |
Ah. No more unnecessary package loading at the emacs startup. Wait, there is still more. Somebody has 100 autoloads in his .emacs, many Emacs hook settings, endless count of private function definitions to tweak all out of Emacs.., and it still takes too much time to load all the autoload definitions from .emacs
What you need is a booster: delayed loading feature provided by Tinyload.el. If you have read this far, then continue reading more from the Tiny Tools package documentation page.
When you start Emacs, the first file it loads is your $HOME/.emacs You can put any Emacs initializing commands there, like keybindings, color settings, package autoloads, c-mode customizations and many other things. After a while you have added pieces of code gradually to build up your own personal Emacs you notice that the startup file has grown to remarkable size and became complex. Here are some tips what you could do to arrange your setup better.
In order to cope with very large Emacs setup the files can be divided the setup to several files where each one deals with specific subject: key definitions, hook settings, Emacs default variable settings, font settings, Gnus news reader settings, dired settings etc. By doing this, one can conditionally load any of these startup settings and manage the specific area. Keep files in version control, like CVS/Subversion etc. (RCS is not that convenient) and put the startup files in separate directory. Don't mind that CVS repository now, if you're not familiar with it. Let's just say that CVS is a server based version control software. With version control, the files can be mirrored accross various accounts. The XEmacs/Emacs/Win32 differences are separated to their own rc files.
In the following example, we suppose that $HOME/elisp contains all the Emacs packages and sub directory $HOME/elisp/rc includes all the recource files (startup files) for Emacs customisation. The emacs.el doesn't have to necessarily contain many lines of code (for more advanced, see *tinyload.el). By making these symbolic links, nothing is kept in root directory:
% ln -s $HOME/elisp/rc/emacs.el $HOME/.emacs
% ln -s $HOME/elisp/rc/emacs-ding.el $HOME/.gnus |
In Windows the above commands would not work, because Windows version of Emacs does not understand shortcuts. Just copy the contents of $HOME/elisp/rc/emacs.el to $HOME/.emacs and so on. The loader file emacs.el contains as few lines as possible to load the real setup. Like this:
;; $HOME/.emacs begin
(load "~/elisp/rc/emacs-rc-root.el" )
;; $HOME/.emacs end |
The real loader emacs-rc-root.el Would then load the rest of the setup files as needed based on current host, the type of Emacs/Xemacs and other criterias. It is not possible to provide an example, because it will always be highly personal. Refer to dot-emacs links mentioned previously in this document for examples. Here are some ideas for recource files:
emacs-rc-root.el - Loader (the control center)
emacs-rc-ding.el - Gnus customizations
emacs-rc-dired.el - Dired customizations
emacs-rc-font.el - Font and color settings
emacs-rc-kbd.el - Emacs key bindings
emacs-rc-nt.el - NT/Win32 settings
emacs-rc-mail.el - RMAIL, mail, Gnus and other mail settings
emacs-rc-path.el - emacs paths: auto-mode-alist, load-path
emacs-rc-set.el - Basic Emacs configuration variables
emacs-rc-time.el - Calendar, appt.el settings
emacs-rc-vc.el - Version control settings
emacs-rc-xemacs.el - XEmacs settings
emacs-rc-pkg-std.el - Standard Emacs package customizations
emacs-rc-pkg.el - Packages that do not come with Emacs |
A regular user cannot C-x C-f file directly, but using some other access method that changes the identity can. If FTP server is enabled, the file can be edited under another user identity:
M-x find-file /root@hostname:/etc/X11/XF86Config |
Sometimes the root isn't allowed to login (as with ssh defaults), but in RedHat it is possible to allow local root logins by editing /etc/ftphosts. In some systems editing /etc/ftpusers makes root access global, but that's probably bad idea because the FTP sends passwords in clear text. You can also use Kai's package Tramp which is intended to access remote files using rlogin, telnet, ssh or somesuch, but it can also use su to do this. This might do what you want:
(Using uuencode inline)
/r@suu:root@localhost:/path/to/file
(Using mimencode inline)
/r@sum:root@localhost:/path/to/file |
[Eli Zaretskii] You want the untranslated-filesystem feature. It is explained in the section "Text Files and Binary Files" (node name "Text and Binary") in the on-line manual, which see. This feature allows you to tell Emacs that certain directory hierarchies, or even an entire logical disk, require that files be saved in Unix EOL format. You can also control this on a per-file basis, by typing "C-x RET f undecided-unix RET" before saving the buffer (this only needs to be done once for each buffer). But if you routinely work with files that reside on Unix filesystems, the untranslated-filesystem feature is IMHO much more convenient.
Substitute DIRECTORY with the directory where you're compiling the files; like "$HOME/elisp".
% xemacs \
--batch \
--eval '(setq load-path (cons DIRECTORY load-path))' \
-f batch-byte-compile package.el |
To make compiling files easie, a shell alias command can help. Here "_emc" means "Emacs compile" and underscore is reserved for all user's private commands so that they don't clash with the ones that are there already in the system. Pay attention to the single and double quotes, because constructing alias command in (t)csh isn't always that intuitive. The load-path setting included extra path from where to look for more lisp files during compilation in case of compiling dependencies.
% setenv EMACS emacs
% alias _emc "$EMACS \
-batch -q --no-site-file \
-eval '(setq load-path (cons "'"~/elisp/"'" load-path))'\
-f batch-byte-compile \!*" |
Here is equivalent bash alias:
$ function _emc ()
{
${EMACS:-"emacs"} --batch -q --no-site-file \
--eval '(setq load-path (cons "~/elisp/" load-path))' \
-f batch-byte-compile $*
} |
Then you can write in shell prompt:
$ _emc some-lib*el # compile libs
$ _emc *el # then rest of the files |
Call C-x d or M-x dired, mark lisp files and press b to byte compile selected lisp files.
First thing to do if you encounter an error (it is that ding tune that you hear plus a message that appears in echo area) in Emacs, you must turn on Emacs debug. In fact I would like to recommend that you keep it permanently on.
;; `M-x' means, press ESC x or Alt-x; which one works
M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET
;; To have it permanently on, put this into your $HOME/.emacs
(setq debug-on-error t) |
To toggle variable easily inside emacs, put this into your .emacs init file and call M-x my-debug.
(defun my-debug ()
"Toggle Emacs debug on/off."
(interactive)
;; The normal debug flag
;;
(setq debug-on-error (not debug-on-error))
;;
;; Must be nil, otherwise it get's on your nervers
;; too much when yo hit C-g to interrupt inputs.
;; This only exists in New emacs releases.
;;
(if (boundp 'debug-on-quit)
(setq debug-on-quit nil))
;;
;; We want to see the track that lead to error
(if (boundp 'stack-trace-on-error) ;; Xemacs
(defconst stack-trace-on-error t))
;;
(if (boundp 'debug-on-signal) ;; This must *not* be on!
(setq debug-on-signal nil))
;;
;; Tell me about all errors
(if (boundp 'debug-ignored-errors)
(setq debug-ignored-errors nil))
;;
(if debug-on-error
(message "debug-on-error is t")
(message "debug-on-error is nil")))
;; End of code |
If you get an error from some package, immediately load the uncompiled version. The error message in byte-compiled format is usually impossible to read by any maintainer. So do this immediately when you encounter an error
Please report bugs of individual files with their associated contact functions. And they are not just for bug reporting only, but any time you want to talk with the maintainer, prefer using those contact functions. You save him from lot of asking and guessing: this is very important, because they automatically send valuable information about
Packages may have one or more reporting functions. The XXX is package id, normally a short identifier which is in package's functions. Like for C++ mode the id would be cc-mode. Use the bug function, if it exists, over the other feedback functions. If none of these functions are available, look at the package source for Maintainer: and send message there.
XXX-submit-bug-report
XXX-submit-feedback |
Before you do anything, make sure you have the latest version. Visit the download site (see source code or docs for any ULR pointer) to be sure. Next, contact maintainer of the package and describe the nature of a problem or suggestion with examples. Discuss with the maintainer first before you go and change something in the packages. If you do minor adjustments like add new hooks, add support to a new platform, then you can follow these steps.
% cp package.el package.el.orig |
% diff -ubw package.el.orig package.el > package.el.diff |
[Eric Ludlam] See http://cedet.sourceforge.net for project speedbar, EDE, quickpeek, semantic, EIEIO
$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.cedet.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cedet login
$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.cedet.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cedet co cedet |
Cross platfrom compatible (Emacs/XEmacs/NTEmacs/Win32 XEmacs) files at http://tiny-tools.sourceforge.net
[Nguyen Thien-Thi] 1998-07. This is basically my emacs (and thus Total Computing Experience) environment, including lots of funcs (autoloaded), key-bindings, etc. the key binding is selective, designed for export. (in the future, i'd like to generalize this kind of packaging so that it is easy for anyone to publish their library compatibly ... anyone want to help?) The subdir lisp/import contains work by others; see file AUTHORS for attribution. if i've made a mistake, please let me know. http://www.glug.org/people/ttn/software/ttn-pers-elisp
Gnus is a newsreader as well as mailreader, but not in traditional sense. It is a hybrid, where it stamps label Mail to anything that you point it to: mailing lists, multiple POP accounts, multiple IMAP accounts, search engines, slashdot articles, reading documents, digests, just about anything that can be read and processed. It supports MIME, PGP, and PGP/MIME, possibly S/MIME in the future.
Other popular Emacs mail user agents are VM and RMAIL. RMAIL you probably should avoid because it uses non-standard mailbox format called babyl. In case you need by accident hit rmail, then use M-x unrmail and to b2m binary to conver the $HOME/RMAIL mailbox back to unix mailbox. To move mail back to your Unix account mailbox /var/spoo/mail/$USER, use program unmovemail.
Development versions:
cvs -d :pserver:gnus@cvs.gnus.org:/usr/local/cvsroot login
password: gnus
cvs -d :pserver:gnus@cvs.gnus.org:/usr/local/cvsroot co gnus |
[Bryan Johnson] gnus-eyecandy.el allows you to gratuitously add icons to your group buffer in a manner similar to the way that you currently specify group highlighting, ie a Form/File alist rather than a Form/Face alist. Like all eyecandy, it will slow down your application, but if you don't go too crazy, it shouldn't slow things down too much.
[Brian Edmonds] Gnus functions which utilize bbdb data. Patch some gnus internals to allow BBDB information to infect the summary buffer. Also can be used in mail splitting.
Soren Dayton csdayton+usenet@cs.uchicago.edu comments:
So I wrote some stuff that is a bit more personalized to do it. It follows if anyone cares....it uses procmail's foo+bar convention for mailing lists. It is also pretty easy to add new things to (like spam filters, which might be an addition to csd-gnus-split-method-list).
=> csd-gnus-split.el - gnus functions which utilize bbdb data
[Bryan Johnson] 1999-12. gnus-filterhist.el creates a buffer with a summary of the number of messages you've received per mailbox. This summary is cleared every time you check mail. gnus-filterhist has the concepts of current split history and session split history. If you make gnus-filter-history-show-session-history non-nil it will show where mail has been split this session (a session being defined as the time since you started gnus or cleared the session history). If you make gnus-filter-history-show-current-split-history non-nil, it will show you what was split the last time you checked mail. These are independent from each other, so you can have either or both. If you have both, the session history will show up no matter what, and the current-split will display the message "- No Current Split -" if there was no new mail the last time you checked. Both the session history and the current split show up in the Filter History buffer.
[Robert Bihlmeyer] What you need to do is spot the junk mail and start gnus-junk-complain. This function will study the headers of the current message, gather a number of admin-addresses from them, and pop-up a mail-buffer with the proper "To:"- and "Subject:"-headers, and a standard text. A copy of the offending message is also appended. You can then check the constructed mail (mainly, the "To:"-line) for sanity, apply corrections, and send it.
[2000-03-15 Gnus-L Message-ID: <tn66uol6ni.fsf@bcv01xc7.vz.cit.alcatel.fr> by Julien Gilles] Some weeks ago someone mentioned the RFC 2369, about "The Use of URLs as Meta-Syntax for Core Mail List Commands and their Transport through Message Header Fields". E.g. my group parameters for nnml:ding
((to-address . "ding@gnus.org")
(to-list . "ding@gnus.org")
(total-expire . t)
(expiry-wait . 20)
(admin-address . "ding-request@gnus.org")
(list-help "<em>mailto:ding-request@gnus.org?subject=help</em>")
(list-unsubscribe "<em>mailto:ding-request@gnus.org?subject=unsubscribe</em>")
(list-subscribe "<em>mailto:ding-request@gnus.org?subject=subscribe</em>")) |
#todo: Where is this?
ftp://ls6-ftp.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/src/emacs/
[Stephen Tse] nnweb is a nice piece of work, but is well-known to be broken for Deja search. I personally do Deja search daily and thus start this random hack. I separate it from the original nnweb.el file because this file needs constant updates to catch up with changes of www.deja.com interface.
Holger Schauer
[Kai Grossjohan] This assigns a context-sensitive function to the TAB key in message mode of Gnus. When in a header line, this performs completion based on which header we're in (for example, newsgroup name completion makes sense in the Newsgroups header whereas mail alias expansion makes sense in the To and Cc headers). When in the message body, this executes a different function, by default it is indent-relative.
See also similar utility tinymail.el.
[Karl Kleinpaste] This provides a hookable mechanism by which to have Keywords headers automatically generated based on word frequency of the body. The goal is to make it possible to score on Keywords provided, of course, that Keywords gets to the overview files.
[Dave Pearson] 2000-11. ngn.el provides commands for quickly inserting a newsgroup name into a buffer.
http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html #todo: in Gnus?
http://multivac.cwru.edu/prj/nnmaildir.el
[Paul Jarc] 2000-06. Having only one group per maildir simplifies things greatly in nnmaildir; .qmail files can be used to filter messages into the appropriate places. A select method now looks like this:
'(nnmaildir "whatever"
(nnmaildir-groups (("groupname1" "/path/to/maildir1")
("groupname2" "/path/to/maildir2")))) |
If there is only one group, it doesn't need to be put in a list. The select method is destructively modified behind your back by nnmaildir-open-server - I don't think this will cause problems, will it? I think nntp.el does it too.
If you were using the old version, migration will be mildly painful. (But it shouldn't be in the future.) First, kill (not just unsubscribe) all your nnmaildir groups. Now, in the cur/ directory in each of the maildirs you're using, execute this command: bash -c 'for i in *; do mv "$i" ../new/"${i%%:*}"; done' That will make all messages appear as new again. Now set up your new select method, fire up Gnus, and re subscribe to your groups.
[Kai Großjohann] What does it do? Well, it allows you to index your mail using some search engine (freeWAIS-sf and Glimpse are currently supported), then type `G G' in the Group buffer and issue a query to the search engine. You will then get a buffer which shows all articles matching the query, sorted by Retrieval Status Value (score).
When looking at the retrieval result (in the Summary buffer) you can type `G T' (aka M-x gnus-summary-nnir-goto-thread RET) on an article. You will be teleported into the group this article came from, showing the thread this article is part of. (See below for restrictions.)
The Lisp installation is simple: just put this file on your load-path, byte-compile it, and load it from $HOME/.gnus or something. This will install a new command `G G' in your Group buffer for searching your mail.
[Nevin Kapur] This is a plugin for nnir.el to use grepmail as its search engine. To use it, put the following in your ~/.gnus:
(require 'nnir-grepmail)
(setq nnir-search-engine 'grepmail) |
If you have only one nnml and only one nnfolder backend and they are both part of your gnus-secondary-select-methods, then that should be it. Otherwise, you may need to customize the variables nnir-grepmail-nnml-backend and nnir-grepmail-nnfolder-backend. The defaults are guessed from your gnus-secondary-select-methods which may or may not be right.
[Martin Fouts] I wanted a slightly more complex set of rules for auto subscribing than I could get with the default functions, so Lars suggested that I would need to write my own gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method which I did. In the process I realized that one could generalize my approach to allow a great deal of flexibility in newsgroup subscribing rules, and so, here, after a brief test, is my trio of such methods.
[Eli Tziperman] 2000-11. For all you rmail users that always wanted to filter spam in rmail. You can define what spam is via custom (menubar -> help -> customize -> specific group -> rmail-spam-filter <enter>), where you can specify which senders, recipients, subjects and/ or contents are considered spam (example below), and you'll never see these again. The spam can either be automatically saved to a spam-rmail file and deleted from your main rmail file, or just automatically deleted. This filter works with a regular spool mail file, as well as with pop servers. You do not need to setup any external filter programs and the interface with the filter is entirely via emacs's customize utility. Tested in Gnu Emacs 20.6 and 21.0.
See Tiny Tools kit.
[Stanislav Shalunov shalunov@mccme.ru] 2000-05. Code in this file provides semi-automatic means of replying to UCE's you might get. It works currently only with Rmail and Gnus. If you would like to make it work with other mail readers, Rmail-specific section is marked below. If you want to play with code, please let me know about your changes so I can incorporate them. I'd appreciate it.
Function uce-reply-to-uce, if called when current message in RMAIL buffer is a UCE, will setup mail buffer in the following way: it scans full headers of message for 1) normal return address of sender (From, Reply-To lines); and puts these addresses into To: header, it also puts abuse@offenders.host address there 2) mailhub that first saw this message; and puts address of its postmaster into To: header 3) finally, it looks at Message-Id and adds posmaster of that host to the list of addresses. Then, we add "Errors-To: nobody@localhost" header, so that if some of these addresses are not actually correct, we will never see bounced mail. Also, mail-self-blind and mail-archive-file-name take no effect: the ideology is that we don't want to save junk or replies to junk.
[Neil Dyke] 2000-10. Given a spam email message in Emacs, spamprod.el generates a complaint email addressed to various parties who are hopefully in a position to do something about curtailing the spam. Brief backgrounder rant (can be safely ignored): Spam is typically the product of individuals who would choose to annoy one hundred thousand people if it enabled them to make US$24.95 from just one of those people. Spammers are freeloaders in the sense that they ignore the societal constraints that for most people preclude sending an email message to massive numbers of others. Spammers typically operate anonymously or with throwaway pseudonymous identities, which means they have no investment in social reputation that could be an object of direct anti-spam pressure. However, spammers are dependent on providers of Internet infrastructure, and are therefore vulnerable to anti-spam social pressure placed upon the providers. Many providers do not want to harbor or facilitate spammers, and need to be informed of spam incidents - both to try to thwart the spammer of the particular incident, and also to have a better sense of the magnitude of spam incidents and whether additional proactive anti-spam measures are called for. Venting is also good. Legislation is sometimes appropriate, but can have really nasty side-effects.
[Noah Friedman] Distributed with latest Gnus.
POP3 Post offfice protocol
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1939.html
IMAP
http://www.imap.org/
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/ See IMAP vs. POP file
If you have the option, we recommend using or installing an
IMAP4rev1 server; it has the best facilities for tracking message
seen states. It also recovers from interrupted connections more
gracefully than POP3, and enables some significant performance
optimizations. --Fetchmail FAQ.
Fetchmail (Unix only)
http://www.fetchmail.org/
esr@thyrsus.com Eric S. Raymond
MailingList: fetchmail-friends-request@thyrsus.com
Fetchmail is a one-stop solution to the remote mail retrieval problem for Unix machines, quite useful to anyone with an intermittent PPP or SLIP connection to a remote mailserver. It can collect mail using any variant of POP or IMAP and forwards via port 25 to the local SMTP listener, enabling all the normal forwarding/filtering/aliasing mechanisms that would apply to local mail or mail arriving via a full-time TCP/IP connection. --FAQ
Programs for remote mail service via POP or IMAP
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/mail/pop/!INDEX.html
For Win32 see HAMSTER small news/pop/smtp server at
http://freebee.home.pages.de/ and
http://home.t-online.de/home/juergen.haible/
http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
http://www.waider.ie/hacks/emacs/bbdb/
Maintainers: Ronan Waide and Matt Simmons
Original Author: Jamie Zawinski
MailingList: bbdb-info-request@xemacs.org
This package is part of XEmacs
Big Brother Database: store information about your email friends easily. Integrates to mail, VM, RMAIL, GNUS. Jamie wrote it and Matt maintains the package.
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.bbdb.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bbdb login
password: [hit enter]
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.bbdb.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bbdb co bbdb |
BBDB/LDAP
See developer [Oscar Figueiredo] and visit his site.
Other
[Alex Schroeder] I've collected code mffor .mailrc and pine
address book exports from BBDB on a page of mine at
http://www.geocities.com/kensanata/bbdb-funcs.html I think there is
a netscape-related lisp file distributed with BBDB (maybe as an
unsupported contribution?). There are various Palm Pilot interfaces
around. Maybe you should join the mailing list or take a look at
the archives.
bbdb-info SourceForge Info Page
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/bbdb-info
bbdb-info archive at SourceForge
http://www.mail-archive.com/bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net/
[Kevin Davidson] 1997. Use BBDB to store PGP preferences. This file has been included in latest BBDB version.
For BBDB users, this code allows you to have several mail-folder by default for a given author. Saving one mail creates automaically the entry if none, or allows you to select which among the existing one you want, or add a new one. Very useful when several people you know are involved in many different projects. After a while, a typical entry would look like this:
mail-folders: ("~/Mail/project1" "~/Mail/project2" ...) |
[nix@esperi.demon.co.uk] 2000-11. This file implements expiry of BBDB databases, to stop them getting too fantastically bloated. Only specific entries are retained across expiry. Each entry is passed through each function in the bbdb-expire-expiry-functions in turn; if any return t it is a candidate for expiry; but if any of the functions in the bbdb-expire-preservation-functions return t, it is not expired after all. (This scheme allows functions to say `I don't care' as well as `expire me now' and `do not expire me'.) One function is on bbdb-expire-expiry-functions by default; bbdb-expire-record-old-p. Two functions are on bbdb-expire-preservation-functions by default; bbdb-expire-field-permanent-p and bbdb-expire-field-notes-p. Together, these ensure that old records without a notes or a permanent field are expired; the field-checking functions are generated by a macro, bbdb-expire-field-foo-p. This will with only work with the latest version of BBDB.
[Hrvoje Niksic] Although the format of the mailrc file (that Emacs packages use to read mail aliases from) is very simple, the question "How do I add an alias to Emacs?" has popped up one time too many on comp.emacs. Blackbook package will parse the $HOME/.mailrc file, and present the aliases in a user-friendly way, using the facilities provided by the widget library written by Per Abrahamsen. In a way, this is similar to Pine's and Netscape's addressbook features, hence the name.
[Oscar Figueiredo] The Emacs Unified Directory Client (EUDC) is a common interface to various directory services such as LDAP, CCSO PH/QI and local BBDB. EUDC lets you query your corporate directory server for information such as phone numbers and office locations. It lets you also query public servers such as Four11 or BigFoot to complete email addresses directly from the server while composing email messages in VM, Gnus or Rmail.
epop3mail
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html#mail-leave-mail
[Franklin Lee] Includes a RMAIL-like interface to managing POP3 server messages AT THE SERVER! This means you can selectively delete messages on the server before (or after) fetching them via epop3mail. See epop3-manage in the package.
ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/
steve@altair.xemacs.org Steven L Baur
azure@iki.fi Hannu Koivisto 2000-02
This package is part of XEmacs
With this minor mode, you can add [1] footnotes to the Email. Package is included in XEmacs, but works fine with Emacs too. Commands: renumber-footnotes, goto-footnote, delete-footnote, cycle-style, back-to-message add-footnote. See commands under C-c ! Note: The tar package, eg. footnote-1.09-pkg.tar.gz, contains lot of files, but you can forget the others and copy footnote.el to your lisp directory and use following setup:
(autoload 'footnote-mode "footnote" "" t)
(add-hook 'mail-mode-hook 'footnote-mode)
(add-hook 'message-mode-hook 'footnote-mode) |
I [hannu] took footnote package (footnote.el being 0.19) from XEmacs 21.1 distribution, fixed few bugs, added one style¹ (and related minor features like some variables being now configurable) and rewrote some parts for clarity (and because that style needed more flexibility in some functions etc.) This combination may quite well be equally or even more buggy as the version I started to fix and extend, so before I'm going to throw my changes to xemacs-patches for inclusion to the official version I'm offering my current version for you to experiment with.
[Holger.Schauer@gmx.de Holger Schauer] 1999-03. Add a new fortune to you mail. You first generate a fortune database with unix tool strfile then do M-x fortune. After that, delve into automagically generating a new signature.
http://www.carpenter.org/ by Bill Carpenter, package is part of Emacs 20.3. A replacement for parts of GNUemacs' sendmail.el.
[Dave Pearson] 2000-10. lbdb.el is an emacs interface to the Little Brother's Database. You can find out more about LBDB at http://www.spinnaker.de/lbdb/ Two commands are provided, lbdb and lbdb-last. lbdb lets to perform an interactive query on the lbdb while lbdb-last allows you to recall and work with the results of the last query you performed.
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/ http://www.tac.nyc.ny.us/mirrors/mh-book/
[Trey Jackson] rmail-extras.el modifies the behavior of RMAIL to allow reading mail from remote inboxes (using ange-ftp) It also modifies the "time" package to enable raising flags for each individual inbox that contain mail.
[Albrecht Kadlec] Randomly choosing quotes from a file to be used in their sig
http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause/tc.html
[Lars Clausen 1998-10] ...No, I will not make it quote with name abbreviations like SuperCite does. That style is annoying and unreadable, goes against the RFC's (or rather, the sons of them:), and have generally been the most problematic thing to deal with. Trivial-cite can handle them, but is better at 'normal' citation marking.
[Tiny Tools kit] 1996-04. Display "mister.foo@bax.site.com 6" on the X window's frame immediately when mail arrives. And in non-windowed emacs you see message in echo-area. Also the pending mail count arrived so far is shown. Works currently in any Emacs and XEmacs. This is roughly same as what reportmail.el does in XEmacs distribution. Other features are:
[Gareth Owen] 1998-06. The purpose of the package is to change ones email address according to mail/newsgroup context, (similar to gnus-posting-styles in later gnusen) Check also "functions to assist in correctly setting mail addresses" by [Marty Fouts]
[Francois Ingrand] ...Automate reply and complaint message to Spam and UCE. ...will insert a X-UCE-Spam-Reported-by: header which you can then look for with procmail to discard complaints bouncing. It will also insert a nice and polite string explaining why you are fed up with all these junk mails. Last it will try to retrieve from the original mail, hostname from which the Spam/UCE mail may have been posted. From this it will build a recipients list based on the variable vm-complain-recipients.
[Ray Moody] 1996. RMIME provides MIME support for several Emacs message reading packages. RMIME has been designed with RMAIL in mind, but it has also been tested with mh-e and VM. It should work with most other major modes as well. See also mimencode source from ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/
[maintainer] Strictly speaking these are not viewers, but some additional tools that you can attach to your mime handling package. Eg. I have configured TM package so that every time I "play" MS word document it is piped through catdoc. Catdoc is word2text filter.
catdoc
http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/catdoc.html
vitus@agropc.msk.su Victor B. Wagner
Catdoc is simple, one C source file, compiles in any system (DOS; Unix). Feed MS word file to it and it gives 7bit text out of it.
word2x
ftp://ftp.dante.de:/pub/tex/tools/word2x/
Comment:
Laola
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh/
Laola(perl) does a respectable job of taking MSWord files to text ...LAOLA is giving access to the raw document streams of any program using "structured storage" technology to save its documents. ELSER is dealing especially with these streams as they are present in Word 6 and Word 7 documents.
MSWordView
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html
...MSWordView is a program that can understand the microsofts word
8 binary file format (office97), it currently converts word into
html, which can then be read with a browser.
[Kevin Burton] and [Jonathan Marten] 2001-03. The list of keywords was derived from the documentation for Apache 1.3; there may be some errors or omissions. There are currently no local keybindings defined, but the hooks are there in the event that anyone gets around to adding any.
[tma@netspace.net.au Tim Anderson] 2000-01. browse-help.el provides support for context-sensitive help within Emacs. It parses user supplied help files to build up an index of topics and their corresponding URLs. When a topic is looked up, its help is displayed to a browser via the browse-url package. It was written to simplify searching through the Java and Perl documentation, and for the most part succeeds. The parser works best on documentation that has an index (such as allclasses-frame.html in the Java distribution, or perlfunc.html in the Perl distribution)
[Lars Garshol] This is a simple Emacs mode for editing CSS style sheets. It adds font-locking and some basic auto-indentation support to Emacs. It works with Emacs 19.34, but should also work with both older and newer versions as well as XEmacs. Have a look at: http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/xmltools/
[John Wiegley] See more about wiki at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?StartingPoints Wiki is a hypertext and a content management system: Normal users are encouraged to enhance the hypertext by editing and refactoring existing pages and by adding more pages. This is made easy by requiring a certain way of writing pages. It is not as complicated as a markup language such as HTML. The general idea is to write plain ASCII. Word with mixed case such as ThisOne are WikiNames – they may be a Link or they may not. If they are, clicking them will take you to the page with that WikiName; if they are not, clicking them will create an empty page for you to fill out.
For more pointers to ASCII/other based WWW authoring tools, see /t2html.html
[Tom Breton] hbmk-add-destination-file prompts you for a filename, which then is available as a destination for clippings. hbmk-dispatch-region deletes the currently selected region and pastes it to a destination which the user selects from a list. hbmk-add-reference creates a reference at the point to a new file. You use it when editing a file that should contain a link to the new file. It expects the point to be in an <ol></ol>. NOTE: You also need package tehom-4.el.
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/editors/emacs/
ftp://ftp.tnt.uni-hannover.de/pub/editors/xemacs/contrib
[Heiko Muenkel] With this package it is very easy to write html pages for the World Wide Web (WWW). It is also possible to insert links and images by just clicking on its source and destination (drag and drop feature). This package provides also a minor mode (hm--html-minor-mode), which can be used together with another html major mode, like the psgml-html mode in the XEmacs 19.15.
https://sourceforge.net/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=100223
http://www.santafe.edu/~nelson/tools/
Nelson Minar (author), Gian Uberto Lauri (co-developer)
HTML editing major-mode, includes visual-basic-mode.el. Supports JSP, ASP, JavaScript et. al.
[Ben Tindale ben@bluesat.unsw.edu.au 2000-04] Just some quick keybindings to make writing your jsp files a little easier. These bindings tie in with Nelson Mindar's html-helper-mode, see Sourceforge link.
[Rolf Naess] This package will create a table-of-contents in a HTML-document based on <H[123]> tags. The toc will be placed between the strings defined by toc-open and toc-close. If these doesn't exist, it will be placed right after <body>. If no <body>-tag exists, it will be put right before the first header.
[Hrvoje Niksic] 1997. This package will allow you to HTML-ize your font-lock buffers. It takes into account only the colors. A lot of functionality could be added. To use, just go to a buffer, and invoke M-x htmlize-buffer and you'll be put to an HTML buffer, which you can save.
[Eric Marsden] httpd.el is an HTTP server embedded in Emacs. It can handle GET and HEAD requests; adding support for POST should not be too difficult. Since Emacs does not provide server sockets, you need to run this from a service such as inetd, using a line such as the following in /etc/inetd.conf :
8080 stream tcp nowait.10000 nobody /usr/bin/emacs emacs -batch \
-l /path/to/httpd.el -f httpd-serve |
To use tcpserver instead, invoke as
/usr/bin/tcpserver 0 8080 /usr/bin/fixcrio /usr/bin/emacs -batch \
-l /path/to/httpd.el -f httpd-serve |
or using netcat with an appropriate shell script emacs-httpd
while : ; do nc -l -p 8080 -e emacs-httpd ; done |
[Frederic Lepied] Edit SGML or HTML buffers with ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) display ...elisp code for character substitutions (like ">" => ">") appropriate to send a string as "plain-text" in an html file. The psgml package seems do not have nothing like that.
[Drew Adams] 2000-11. Extensions to htmlize.el, by Hrvoje Niksic (hniksic@iskon.hr). Hrvoje Niksic's htmlize.el creates HTML files from fontified buffers, but it does not attempt to create any HTML links. This file extends htmlize.el by trying to do that in a couple of specific cases, interpreting mouse-face'd text in Info and Dired buffers as links. Get htmlize.el from Niksic's web site Somewhat related functionality is available with info2www. This is a shell script that converts Emacs Info files on the fly to HTML. See <http://www-flash.stanford.edu/info2www/info2www.html>
See also the makeinfo utility (Note: texi2html is now obsolete, replaced by Makeinfo). Like mkhtml, makeinfo can convert entire Info files to HTML. The result of converting an Info file with makeinfo is a single HTML file. The result of converting an Info file with mkhtml-file is an HTML file for each node in the Info file. To produce a single HTML file with multiple Info nodes using mkhtml, you need to first merge the nodes with the command Info-merge-subnodes (see file info+.el). The main commands defined here are mkhtml-any-buffer, mkhtml-dired-files and mkhtml-file. These all try to analyze the context (Dired, Info, merged Info) of the buffer or file(s) to determine how to create appropriate HTML links. The most powerful of the commands here is mkhtml-any-buffer. If you know the context, you can alternatively use directly one of the individual commands mkhtml-dired, mkhtml-info-buffer, mkhtml-merged-info-buffer, or mkhtml-plain-buffer. Each of these uses the generic function mkhtml-particular-buffer. You can also use mkhtml-particular-buffer to create your own function for creating HTML links in another special context.
Have a look at XAE distribution, which contains psgml, the Saxon XSLT processor, the Docbook DTD and stylesheets, and an HTML user's guide.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/psgml/ [2000-12 Not active yet]
ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/sgml/ - included in XEmacs
http://www.lysator.liu.se/projects/about_psgml.html
Lennart Staflin, package included in XEmacs
[Lennart Staflin] PSGML is a major mode for editing SGML documents. It works with GNU Emacs 19.19 and later or with Lucid Emacs 19.9 and later. PSGML contains a simple SGML parser and can work with any DTD. Functions provided includes menus and commands for inserting tags with only the contextually valid tags, identification of structural errors, editing of attribute values in a separate window with information about types and defaults, and structure based editing.
2000-10-27 ...The future of PSGML: It is currently not in active development. I plan to put out one or two bug fix releases and the move the sources to source forge (possibly after additions that has been send to me.) I will then invite others to take an active part in the future development of PSGML. To start this I have created two mailing lists on source forge. A psgml-user for general discussion and questions about PSGML and psgml-devel for discussion about the future development of PSGML. Visit the SourceForge: Mailing Lists for PSGML page to for subscription info. --Lennart
"tehom-psgml - Psgml extensions"
[Tom Breton] tehom-psgml-index.el Generate a table-of-contents from HTML page contents. tehom-psgml-link.el A bare-bones hyperlink system which works with psgml. tehom-psgml.el Additions to psgml, mostly made to make it easier to use in hbmk and rambledocs.
[Dave Pearson] This package provides a simple method of inserting an URL based on the text at point in the current buffer. This is part of an on-going effort to increase the information I provide people while reducing the ammount of typing I need to do. No-doubt there are undiscovered Emacs packages out there that do all of this and do it better, feel free to point me to them, in the mean time I'm having fun playing with Emacs Lisp.
[Tiny Tools kit] A general URL detector minor mode. Built on top of browse-url.el, ffap.el etc. When Emacs is idle for 2 seconds, all urls in the line are highlighted. Urls types are various: man pages, http, ftp, Lisp programming, Perl programming, Perl man pages, C-code etc.. you can select different backend combinations on the fly: Netscape, Lynx, W3...
[Eric Marsden] 2000-03. watson.el is an experimental Emacs interface to web search engines such as Altavista. Given a number of keywords to search for, it will send the query to several search engines. The results are then aggregated and displayed in a watson buffer. Currently backends exist for the search engines Altavista, Google, Yahoo!, Excite, Snap, ftpsearch, Dejanews and dmoz.org.
#todo: Is this relevant any more?
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/support/emacs-modes
Mark Motl motl@cssun.tamu.edu 1989-06
[Nguyen Thien-Thi, see kit ttn-pers-lisp] To "publish" means to move something from the source tree to the website. To "update" is to publish only "newer" files than the last time a wup command was given, and to delete files on the website that are not in the source tree. The root of the source tree must contain the elisp file .wuprc which sets some operational variables: wup-src-home-dir and wup-website-dir. These are strings that do NOT end in slash. If wup-website-dir is remote, use syntax that ange-ftp accepts: /user@host:remote/path (you will be asked for a password). If a directory contains the file .wupfence, wup does not update that directory or its children. This is useful for isolating subtrees that are under development.
[Paul Kinnucan] 2001-01 http://xae.sunsite.dk The XML Authoring Environment for Emacs is a free software package that allows you to use Emacs and your system's HTML browser to create, transform, and display XML documents. The XAE includes:
[Mike Williams] This package provides a simple indentation engine for XML. It is intended for use in situations where the full power of the popular PSGML package (DTD parsing, syntax checking) is not required. xml-indent is designed to be used in conjunction with the default GNU Emacs sgml-mode, to provide a lightweight XML-editing environment.
[Ovidiu Predescu] 2000-11. Have you ever developed XML applications using XSLT? If so you probably felt the need of viewing the result of applying the XSLT processor on the XML file using an XSLT sheet you have been working on right inside your (X)Emacs, without having to go to a terminal or to the Web browser. This minor mode allows you to do it! The XSLT-process minor mode allows you, while you're inside a buffer for which this minor mode is enabled, to enter a few keystrokes that will invoke the XSLT processor of choice on the buffer. The result is displayed in another (X)Emacs buffer, which allows you to quickly view and inspect the results. You need to put in your CLASSPATH xalan.jar, xerces.jar and maybe bsf.jar bsfengines.jar, depending on the version of Xalan you're using and whether you're using Xalan Java extensions or not. Make sure xalan1 uses a capital 'X' at the beginning, aka it should be xslt.Xalan1 not xslt.xalan1! Try doing this in jde.el bean shell http://www.beanshell.org would be:
bsh % xslt.Xalan1.invoke("/tmp/foo.xml", "/tmp/test"); |
[2001-02-01 comp.software.config-mgmt s_m_campbell@my-deja.com] Another nice tool on the market is AccuRev/CM. We have been piloting this tool as a replacement for VSS. Priced right, it offers great parallel stream/branch support, nice merging features and they also have an issue tracking software that compliments their CM tool. Plus their development team and support team are very responsive to address issues and they enjoy working with their customers to make improvements to their product.
[2001-02-02 comp.software.config-mgmt Karen Lammers klammers@grandtimber.com] It seems straight-forward, complete, and requires little admin. Just what I'm looking for for a small development team. I'm not completely sold yet. I have some other products to try out first, but I wouldn't be surprised if I end up using AccuRev. Also, in just 3 days of investigating the product, I've sent 3 emails to AccuRev with questions and all three were answered either first thing next morning (for one sent late in the day) or in the very same day. Very good start to a potential technical support relationship.
Emacs arch support can be found from Stefan Reichor's hompage at <http://xsteve.nit.at/prg/emacs>
Arch <http://www.gnuarch.org/> and <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/> is a software version control system similar to CVS and Subversion that was started by programmer Tom Lord to meet his version control needs. Arch was started in November 2001 and it uses distributed repositories. Arch uses many small specialized tools to get the job done and is written using a combination of C code, awk and shell scripts. Read more at <http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5928> and tIRC channel to visit is arch#irc.freenode.net.
See also http://wiki.gnuarch.org/moin.cgi/Arch_20Recipes
According to development team, Aaron Kushner akushner@pacbell.net:
Tools include:
http://www.rational.com/ Clearcase ia trademark of Rational/Atria and the product is a commercial version control software. <http://members.verizon.net/~vze24fr2/EmacsClearCase>
14.5.1 CVS Download
14.5.2 CVS and Emacs
See vc.el in Standard Emacs, which has some support for CVS, other packages are listed below.
14.5.3 CVS Clients
14.5.4 Cvs documents
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/
http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html
http://www.badgertronics.com/writings/cvs/
http://www.codefab.com/codefab/CVS.html ...stuff is seriously outdated
http://www.fnal.gov/docs/products/cvs/
http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html
http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/cvs/
http://www.ucolick.org/~de/CVSbeginner.html
http://www.ucolick.org/~de/CVSbeginner.html
http://www.it.uq.edu.au/~emmerik/usingcvs.html
http://www.fido.de/~kama/cvs-en.html
http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/
Very basic: http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~dbutler/tutorials/winter96/cvs/
http://controls.ae.gatech.edu/labs/gtar/notes
http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/cvs/FAQ.txt
http://www.badgertronics.com/writings/cvs/index.html
peter.cherna@scala.com Peter Cherna
[1998-09-18 gnu.emacs.help Message-Id: uiuilfnxf.fsf@WOLF.scala.com] ...I put in some basic but untested support for the Unix MKS tools, and I believe it will work but you need to change mksrcs-local-config-name and mksrcs-global-config-name. Obviously, since I never tested it under Unix, it may have some bug (hopefully minor). The problems I solved in 19.33/19.34 vc.el:
[2000-01-05 comp.software.config-mgmt Alex Povzner povzner@attcanada.net] MKS SourceIntegrity is a good, reliable and easy to use tool. However, its major weakness is that it does not support project-level branching and merging. If this is what you need most, you may consider a good solution for this problem available from SiberLogic Inc called SourceTrack (www.siberlogic.com) that makes branching and merging projects an automatic procedure both under MKS Source Integrity and under Microsoft SourceSafe.
[2000-11-11 http://www.perforce.com/ => licencing] Free Licensing for Open Source Development: Organizations developing software that is licensed or otherwise distributed exclusively under an Open Source license may be eligible to obtain Perforce servers gratis. This includes upgrades but not support. Perforce Software reserves the right to approve the Open Source license; those fitting The Open Source Definition, including the GNU and FreeBSD licenses, are good candidates. Execution of a End User License Agreement for Open Source Software Development is required. Contact us for more information.
[Rajesh Vaidheeswarran] 2000-11. The file p4.el is a minor mode for the P4 revision control system written by Perforce http://www.perforce.com/ . It is not integrated into the vc.el that exists with Emacs since I didn't know if the vc library exported any hooks that I could use here. (Also, this library is my very first in elisp land). Visit http://p4el.sourceforge.net/
(Robert Cowham) have produced an add-in for Perforce which does diffs for Word documents stored in Perforce. See web site below for more info. – rc@vaccaperna.co.uk CM Consultant and Perforce Consulting Partner http://www.vaccaperna.co.uk/
14.7.1 Comments
[2000-01-04 comp.software.config-mgmt Gabriel Grebenar Gabriel.Grebenar@ixos.de ] we had tested MKS Source Integrity extensively and it seems to be a good tool for us. In the end of our decision phase, we heard about Perforce -"a very fast, client-server SCM tool" and we decided to throw an eye on it. We downloaded Perforce and its documentation from www.perforce.com and we were surprised about the distribution policy of Perforce. It's the first "pure" internet company. You can download really everything from their homepage. Perforce doesn't distribute it's software on CD-ROM, nor the documentation printed on paper! Wow!
But this policy didn't say anything about its SCM tool. OK, lets test the SCM-tool.
We installed Perforce and we were surprised again. The Perforce server was one binary and its size was 1 MB - that's all? The windows GUI client package was a selfextracting binary containing a few files and its size was 2 MB?
Then we tested Perforce ...
The result: We bought many Perforce licenses. No doubt, this tool was the fastest we had ever seen and its functionallity was complete. Now we are running Perforce for nearly a year without any problems (>100 users, >100000 files).
Razor is affordable, an integrated, feature-rich configuration management system providing process management, issue/problem tracking, version control, and release management. Workflow, templates, rules, and controls can be customized to match your process. See <http://www.razor.visible.com/>
For Unix: ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ (For Win32, see Cygwin)
RCS is easy to use local version control system. It does not implement client/server. Warning: Native GNU RCS port uses unix incompatible CRLF format, so you should use Cygwin RCS. make Win32 generate the familiar file suffix, use
RCSINIT=-x,v |
CS-RCS, Component software's Win32 GUI for GNU RCS
http://www.componentsoftware.com/
http://www.componentsoftware.com/csrcs/addons.htm
http://www.componentsoftware.com/csdiff/
If you're looking for very good Explorer integrated and easy to use win32 Graphical user interface for for standard RCS, this is your choice. CS offers free edition of the software for personal use. Support for GNU Emacs, Borland JBuilder/2, Symantec Visual Cafe,éColdFusion, HomeSite, Visual SlickEdit and UltraEdit...
ComponentSoftware RCS (CS-RCS) manages document revisions. Use it to monitor changes made in files that are accessed by standalone or networked workstations. Based on the widely used GNU RCS, it is fully integrated with Windows 95 and Windows NT. CS-RCS supports multi-platform workgroups, making it the ideal solution for sites that share common files on UNIX and Windows platforms. CS-RCS handles all types of documents including program files, HTML documents, MS-Word documents, pictures and drawings. CS-RCS can use any file server or local drive to store the archive files. Network connection to the archive repository can be LAN, corporate wide-area network, dial-up connection and the Internet.
http://sourceforge.net/search/?group_id=3612
http://www.cmtoday.com/ (see yellow pages link)
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/legacy/scm/papers/CM_Plans/CMPlans.MasterToC.html
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/managing/managing.html
"Configuration Management: The Changing Image" http://www.pcbooks.co.uk/
[Christopher Kline] 2001-05. This file implements many of the features of VC for use with StarTeam (www.starbase.com), a source control program.
Also take a look at Change Commander. It is an inexpensive web based issue management/tracking system that I think fits your needs. It provides a rich set of functions and is very easy to set up and use. You can try it for free at (See link at <http://www.geocities.com/xtbob/qatweb1.html>)
[2001-01-30 comp.software.config-mgmt Santiago Glikberg santiago@netvision.net.il] I was well acquainted with StarTeam about a year ago, and I do not remember that you coud branch tasks (only files and change requests got branched). Also, the CR workflow was stiff and awfull. Not mentioning the customization capabilities (compare those to DevTrack's). I also recall that the web interface had a very annoying bug: if you login through the web, then you copy any page address and close your browser, you can paste this address on a new browser and get straight to rou files and other info, without having to log in again! A breach in security. And of course, there was no utility to check and correct for database integrity, which made some potential users very nervous. But yes, the GUI is VERY good.
[Stefan Reichor] has written psvn.el <http://www.xsteve.at/prg/emacs/index.html>. In short, subversions <http://subversion.tigris.org> is replacement for CVS with many more features. An interface to <http://subversion.tigris.org> version control software was posted to gnus.emacs.sources in 2002-08-20 by Stefan Reichor and in 2003-07-21 the file was renamed to psvn.el and it is available at Stefan'n homepage.
There's a vc-svn.el in the Emacs distribution. See http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/lisp/vc-svn.el?rev=HEAD
There's also contrib/client-side/psvn/psvn.el, distributed with Subversion.
psvn.el XEmacs support was discussed in 2004-03-24, post by Craig Lanning at thread "Re: Subversion in XEmacs" <http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200403/threads.html>.
http://TomZilla.org/ => http://home.pacbell.net/tomjdnh/vss_to_cvs.html
Contact Stan Lanning lanning@pobox.com and Sam Falkner
Getting the regexps just right in the variable ss-project-dirs can be a real pain, due to the excessive number of backslash ("\") characters that you need. For example, if your local copy of the project $/ is in d:\VSS\, then you need to do
(setq ss-project-dirs '(("^d:\\\\VSS\\\\" . "$/"))) |
Note that you have to have the trailing directory delimiters after VSS to match the separator in $/. To get around that problem, you can use forward slashes as a delimiter in the regexp. That can simplify things a lot. If you change ss-project-dirs, make sure you clear the variable ss-project-dirs-cache. Short filenames can also cause problems. If the regexps in ss-project-dirs match the long filename but you try to get the file via the short filename, it won't work. --Stan
[2000-01-06 comp.software.config-mgmt Alex Povzner] SourceTrack allows you to keep different development streams in different SourceSafe databases, branching makes the central database neither bigger nor slower. In fact, it makes it smaller and faster since file revisions (changes) are distributed among different stream databases.
SourceSafe is known for lack of reliability: the bigger is the database and the more people are working on it at the same time, the greater is the chance it will crash. As a result, the company's whole development will be suspended until the database is recovered. Not in case when you have separate databases for different project branches: not only it lowers the very probability of a crash, it also makes it local - developers on other streams would not be affected. Normally, the only user of the most critical branch, the 'trunk', would be the release manager (integrator, whatever his/her position is called). The chance that this most critical branch crashes would be next to zero.
Branching should not be done 'at a whim'. That's why I suggest that it should be done only when a really new development stream emerges, which usually happens when a pilot project is launched on top of an existing one or when a new release is delivered to customers. How often do these things happen? Once every two weeks at most. Remember, with SourceTrack a significant time is required only at the moment of the initial braniching of one stream from another. Well, branching 2500 files may take about an hour. Any later interactions (synchronizations back and forth) between the main stream and the newly created one will only take minutes.
<http://slashdot.org/books/00/06/10/0049251.shtml> VSS is great evaluation-ware (better than demo-ware). After using it for half an hour, you'll be convinced that it does everything you need. After you've made the commitment, you'll discover otherwise.
VSS uses an extremely chatty protocol (good old DCOM), so I find VSS unusable offsite. Latency is terrible. Over ISDN, it takes five minutes to navigate to the proper subfolder, check out a file, and check back in a modified version. Many at my office buy the third-party Source Offsite: their proxy translates into a more sensible protocol for their own client. You'll also need a third-party client if you want to build your code on anything but Windows(TM). We must build on NT, Linux, and Solaris, so all our Unix synchronization was scripted by hand, to selectively update from Samba mounted drives. In effect, we've build our own source-control system alongside VSS.
We've found that the only safe way to synchronize a working copy of a VSS directory is to delete the entire branch of the tree and get a fresh copy. Otherwise, you'll never notice what files others have deleted or what new files you've forgotten to add to the tree. We've had the build break five days in a row for this very reason. When I check out files, I make a mirror copy of the directory under RCS, then use scripts to update VSS. My VSS tree is constantly deleted and refreshed to ensure real synchronization with the rest of the team.
The problem would be alleviated by changing "working folders" except that working folders do not work in any rational way. You'd like to switch between your polluted copy of a tree and a clean copy to check that your changes are compatible with others' more recent changes. You find that when you switch the working folder at the root of a tree, some sub-folders (sub-directories) remain with the old tree if files are checked out. You then discover that, by default, the same file will check out into one working folder and check in from another working folder. Yet time stamps and diffs make you think you checked in from the folder you put the file into and modified. Only when you delete and get a fresh copy of the tree, do you discover that you checked in the wrong version. To undo the damage, you must visit and reset every directory in the tree. You'll never try to change working folders again. (Everyone on the team tried it once and regretted it.)
As soon as we reach our next major milestone in August, we plan to switch to CVS. I used Clearcase for years and would also prefer it to VSS. --bharlan at http://billharlan.com/
My group also used VSS in the past, and we also had some major issues with the VSS database corrupting on us. One of the major advantages of CVS is the simple file format it uses. I've moved our repository three times already and I've never had much of a problem doing so. Moving to CVS also allowed us to use any OS we wanted to for development (in Java), which was also a big plus. --selectap at slashdot We chose CVS over VSS for stability and speed. Was on a project that used VSS for 9 months and lost the repository 4 times. Never heard the specific cause (could have been human error), but don't want to risk it. On speed, VSS takes roughly twice as long as CVS. Upside of VSS is NT integration (if you like that sort of thing) and nicer GUI, but source safety is paramount in my mind, with minimizing developer wait-states a close second. -bob9113 at slashdot
Check "librarian" at http://www.winlib.com/
[http://slashdot.org/books/00/06/10/0049251.shtml b asciitxt] I'll chime in here and share my experience. I use both CVS (on Linux and NT, 2 users) and SourceSafe (on NT, 40 users) constantly. I've also used ClearCase (on Solaris and NT, 20 users) for two years.
I also maintain and administer CVS (for a project a buddy and me are working on).
ClearCase is extremely powerful, but is has its own filesystem and is so complex, my group had many problems with it. I also found the performance, even over a high-speed LAN, crummy. I know there are snapshot views, but we found them problematic. ClearCase is probably well-suited to huge legacy systems supporting multiple concurrent releases, but it's expensive (I hear > 100,000 per year for my company) and very difficult to administer (probably need a person who does nothing else). Distributed development over many cities seems unlikely.
SourceSafe is easy to use and better than most Microsoft products (of course, they bought it rather than develop it in-house), and even supports distributed development through an add-on called Source OffSite. But it's not cross platform, can't be administered remotely and is primarily GUI-driven (although I hear some things can be done from the command line). The biggest complaints, which I haven't seen myself yet, are that it doesn't scale well, nor does it properly support multiple branches well - which ClearCase does.
CVS has been an absolute pleasure, and I administer it myself from 600 miles away where it is hosted on an old Pentium 200 running Linux. The online chapters of the CVS book have been extremely helpful. Even a newcomer like myself has been able to set it up. Plus, with the wonderful web front-end, CVSweb, as well as TkCVS, it's as easy to use on the client side as SourceSafe. I can't speak to the scalability or branching management personally (although large projects that use CVS do), I find it offers the best of both worlds - configurability and ease-of-use.
Comparision of version control sotfware
1995-03-29 Gnus-L by Per Abrahamsen amanda@iesd.Auc.dk
CVS is a free low-tech version control system build upon RCS and GNU diff. ClearCase is a expensive hightech version control system. Both systems are pretty good at getting out of the developers way, the most important single trait of a version control system.
The main technical difference is that ClearCase will minimize disk usage by providing a central server for the repository and have each developer mount directly on server via a special purpose file system. That way unnecessary replication of data is avoided. CVS will simply give each developer a complete copy of the configuration he is working on. The CVS approach has advantages as well. It allows development to continue when the server is down, or programmers can work at home with no or poor network connections, and they can work at different sites. The CPU and network power of the central server tend to become the bottleneck with ClearCase for larger projects.
I believe the CVS approach is best. Disks are cheap. Sun apparently agree, they have replaces their old version control system (NSE) which were similar to ClearCase with a new system (TeamWare) more close in spirit to CVS. Being low-tech also have advantages. CVS stores its version information with RCS and some extra flat-text files, so in the worst case the data is easier to recover. Other differences are the common differences between free and commercial software:
My recommendations
I'd recommend CVS if the people on the project are smart and understand free software, or work is distributed. I'd recommend ClearCase if they are dull or have problems with free software in general.
[thread 1999-12-08 ajs@ajs.com CVS-L]
In favor of Clearcase
NOTE: The stuff about dynamic filesystem is an OPTION not a requirement, with ClearCase 3.1+ on NT and 4.x+ on Unix you can operate in a snapshot/sandbox fashion just like you do with CVS.
...CVS branching is NOT cheap. Any method that must add metadata to every file when the vast majority of that data is unused and unneeded is not cheap. We have 10,000 elements under source control and adding even one line to every single ,v file just because I need to modify 3 files is obviously not cheap. In ClearCase, you don't have to touch a single element to create a branch type. And when you actually branch a file that branch exists in only that element, no other element is touched. This is actually really useful in many ways: for example, it's a very quick and simple method to discover what files you changed: just look for the files that have an instance of that branch.
The idea of branching only those files you need was advanced as a solution to the problem that creating a branch in CVS requires every single ,v file to be modified, and so is not a cheap operation. The idea is to allow "lazy branching" where you say "any file I modify I want on branch XYZ", but no actual branches are created on any files until they're modified. This is what ClearCase does and as a result, branching is a very normal, everyday occurrence.
ClearCase comes with a wealth of features but you need to decide which ones are useful to you and mold it into a process. There are so many possibilities with ClearCase that it's often money well-spent to hire someone at $65 (or more) an hour for a while at the beginning to set things up for you. You're really paying someone to formalize and codify an entire development paradigm (ooh) so that your organization runs smoothly. In other words, instead of changing the way you work to fit the SCM tool, you structure the SCM tool to fit the way you work. That's worth $$, IMO.ClearCase 4.0 introduces a default development process model which might cut into the profits of some of those ClearCase contractors, though.
Problems waiting with CVS:
Some of this stuff had to do with training the engineers to stay out of the repository, but vigilence was still required. Some of these involved long debugging sessions to make repairs. Adding features was sometimes complex or difficult and usually time-consuming. (These features required changing the tool, not using the *info hooks, which are broken when applying them to very large numbers of files.) Some are avoidable by using certain new modes of operation that weren't available back then. The rest were niggling little annoyances that required frequent attention to the tune of several hours per week.
[Paul Smith psmith@baynetworks.com] Obviously these decisions have to be made on a case-by-case basis. I've said before, and I'll repeat, I think comparisons between CVS and ClearCase are really useful only insofar as they point directions in which they might improve. I really believe they target completely different markets. I'd not recommend ClearCase for a smaller development project, even though I consider myself quite ClearCase proficient and I could certainly manage it with relatively little overhead. Likewise, I'd not recommend CVS for a development organization like the one where I work. CVS is simply not powerful enough.
Anyone trying to train all their engineers in all this stuff is just asking for trouble. You're thinking about it the wrong way. ClearCase doesn't provide all this power and these advanced features to confuse the everyday developer. They're there so that the SCM admin folks can design and implement a complete system that does what they want, how they want it done. Once that happens, you train the developer's on the process you've designed. They don't care about stuff in the Admin course, and most likely they don't care much about most of the metadata. And the interesting parts of the Fundamentals course can be condensed into a short intro plus some Q&A on a web site or something. As I said, we give an hour or so of training and a web site, and that's it. Obviously some people "get it" better than others, but that's true of a week-long course, too.
A good process should be a natural extension of the general work flow of the development organization, so it shouldn't be hard to understand or confusing. And the goal behind the advanced features of ClearCase is to facilitate that so developers don't need to know the gory details.
In favor of CVS
...I've found Clearcase to be very difficult to manage, and CVS trivial. The trade-off is certainly in the branching structure. Branching in CVS works, but it's not as graceful as in Clearcase. Clearcase also has some nice features like their "find" command, which can perform a UNIX-find-like operation on a revision history tree. Very sweet. I find several things about Clearcase to be annoying however:
[Jan Stubbs jstubbs@microcadam.com] I have used CVS and Clearcase at 2 different companies. At the larger company (my former employer) we had 600 Clearcase licenses ($3000 a pop, you do the math) and major hardware and support commitments (a manager with a 10 engineers, lots of big SPARC servers) to support it. This compared to one server and NO support at all before we converted from CVS. Yes, Clearcase has lots of functionality over CVS (one not mentioned so far is the well integrated MS Visual Studio support). But in the real world, most developers will not take the time to figure out how to do the fancy stuff. And even the simple stuff is VERY support intensive. Rational usually responds to a simple problem in a couple days. You might have everyone in your company unable to do a checkin for that long before you get an answer. We did.
I remember a really "special" problem where the Rational GUI checkin hourglass (some really cute spinning balls) caused all new Dell PCs to freeze, requiring power cycling the PC. No other application caused this problem, and we are a graphics company. Rational was no help. A new graphics driver was the answer. Contrast that to the open-source world where you can get an answer for a problem in minutes through this group. And in my experience, CVS problems are trivial compared to the CC problems we had.
Yes the CC triggers are very versatile. But my former emplorer tied up one programmer for a year trying to implement a checkin trigger to validate a problem database number in the checkin comment. 3 different platforms and 3 different version of PERL made it too difficult. This could have been done with 10 lines of sh code in the CVS commitinfo script. My former employer liked the parallel Clearmake, it cut build time drastically. But they had to rewite all the make files from scratch to make it work. Got a network NFS server like Auspex or Network Appliance? Rational doesn't support them. CVS - no problem. Performance? CVS wins again in most cases.
These factors partially explain why at this company we are converting from CC to CVS. We especially like the speed with which we can access our repository in Japan, compared to the complexity and expense of CC Multisite, which costs $1500/seat and is (along with the CC license ) 25% more in Japan.
[Vinicius Latorre] 1999-12. This package provides a way to display ASCII code on a window, that is, display in another window an ASCII table highlighting the current character code.
http://www.xref-tech.com/speller/index.html
Marian Vittek vittek@guma.ii.fmph.uniba.sk
Xref-Speller is a tool extending Emacs and XEmacs (and partially Kawa) environements by a number of source browsing and code refactoring functions. Xref-Speller is based on full parsing and understanding of source code while keeping good reaction time thanks to incremental parsers. Xref-Speller's source browsing permits you to move to a symbol definition, inspect all symbol usages, examine only top-level or l-value usages. Powered by automatic symbol resolution (+ overloading and virtual calls), you just need to put the cursor on a symbol and push 'goto definition' hot-key (See C screen shots, Java screen shots at the homepage).
[Tijs Bakel] 2000-04. These are some simple addons we wrote for c-mode. the original plan was to polish these routines and then finally release them. because it was taking too much time, i thought i'd better release them in this form. documentation is not available. Visit #emacs at the openprojects irc network for help. This adds two hopefully useful, commands to cc-mode, namely c-synopsis and c-eval-enum. c-synopsis shows you the synopsis for a given C command in the minibuffer c-eval-enum shows you the number associated with the current enum entry.
[John Wiegley] 1999-03. This simple function prints out in a buffer all of the files included by a C/C++ file. It's helpful sometimes when debugging in deeply nested inclusion scenarios. Just setup c-includes-path, and you're ready to run "M-x c-includes". With a prefix argument, this command will ask you for a regexp, and will print out all of the lines that match that regexp along the inclusion path. You can then type C-c C-c in the Includes buffer to go to that location. Finally, if the second argument to c-includes is t, all it will do is return a list of the include files to the caller. No messages, no buffer creation. This could be used for deriving header dependencies, like what cc -M does.
http://cc-mode.sourceforge.net/>
MailingList: http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/cc-mode-announce
Maintainer: cc-mode@stjernholm.org <ms012@stjernholm.org> Martin Stjernholm
and Barry A. Warsaw (1999-12 no longer maintainer)
Send bugs to bug-cc-mode@gnu.org
CC Mode, a GNU Emacs mode for editing C (ANSI and K&R), C++, Objective-C, Java, CORBA's IDL, and Pike code.
% cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.cc-mode.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cc-mode login [ENTER]
% cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.cc-mode.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cc-mode co cc-mode |
[Timothy Schaeffer] I have been able, through deliberation and trial and error, been able to find a way to indent C and C++ code in such a way that the overall layout of the code is not affected by the tab size. I used to do this manually in vi, but read about CC-Mode in emacs, including its vaunted flexibility. I immediately thought that there would be a way to configure CC-Mode to indent the way I wanted it to. But, alas, CC-Mode uses emacs indent-to to indent the code, based only upon a character count of how much indentation is needed, and this either
fills it with tabs, according to the current tab-width, until it cannot insert any more and fills the remainder with spaces, or it just fills it with spaces. depending on whether indent-tabs-mode is nil. The former will misalign code if tab-width is changed, and the latter doesn't allow one to change the indentation size. In the ideal, one should be able to change the amount of (visual) space by which the code in a block, say, is indented, and one should be able to align code that should begin at the same column in a way that is not affected by tab-width. Changing the indentation (visual) space without misaligning code can be done without modifying the file if the tabs and spaces are inserted meticulously.
Unfortunately, CC-Mode cannot be configured to do this automaticcaly, but this takes care of it.
[Phillip Lord] and [Klaus Berndl] (Author) 2000-02. This package provides support for insertion of electric characters with the tempo package into cc-mode buffers. The current problem with tempo is that it requires hard coding in the templates where braces, and such forth should go, whilst cc-mode is perfectly capable of making these decisions automatically. This package allows tempo to insert these characters and have cc-mode behave appropriately. In practice what this means is that instead of putting "{" into your tempo template, you put (i ?{) (this should NOT be quoted, as tempo needs to evaluate it!). If you have switched on the auto electric mode within cc-mode it will now newline and reindent this "{" depending on your indentation settings.
[Ilya Zakharevich] Major mode for editing perl files. Forget the default perl-mode that comes with Emacs, this is much better. Comes starndard in newest Emacs. (Ilya is one of one of the most respected Perl core designers)
[Ray Blaak] 1999-03. Major mode for editing Delphi source (Object Pascal) in Emacs. It is minimalist in that it is only concerned with things that I actually find useful in a language mode: indentation and coloring of keywords, comments, and string literals. Delphi.el has been written from scratch, and is not based on the Emacs' Pascal mode in any way. A lot of effort has been put into getting the indentation right for Delphi constructs. It is also fairly tolerant of syntax errors, relying as much as possible on the indentation of the previous statement. This also makes it faster and simpler, since there is less searching for properly constructed beginnings.
[Jesper Nordenberg] and [Klaus Berndl] 2001-03.ECB, Emacs Code ECB is a source code browser that displays directories, files and methods that can be navigated using the mouse. It is completely written in Emacs Lisp and uses semantic to parse source files. Currently supported languages include Java, C and Emacs Lisp <http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecb>.
[Eric Ludlam] 1999-02. EDE (Emacs development environment) is an Emacs lisp program which implements an environment similar to those found in IDEs (Integrated Development Environment). While Emacs is the premier development environment, and has lots of support for this activity, EDE brings many divergent commands used for debugging, and compiling and sticks them into a simple menu next to commands used for maintaining a project file.
[2000-05-10 Paul Kinnucan paulk@mathworks.com Emacs JDE mailing list] "Could EDE be used with JDE?" - My concern is that it is C and makefile oriented and not easily adaptable to the Java development model. I want something that is as easy and intuitive to use as Visual C++'s project management system, not something that requires you to handcraft make files. My view is that it's okay for a development system to use makefiles internally (as Visual C++ does) but the development system should generate the makefiles automatically, not require the user to do so. The development system should be able to use makefiles created by users but it should not require users to create makefiles. My problem with EDE at the moment is that it does not abstract far enough away from the traditional Unix, makefile-based development model. Essentially EDE is a thin lisp wrapper around a makefile. You can't really create a project without a fairly good knowledge of makefiles and makefile terminology.
Eric Ludlam, EDE's author, is well aware of my concerns. We work for the same company in the same building and have had many discussions about the EDE. We have agreed to work together to try to develop a Java project management system based on EDE. My role would be to develop a prototype to see what, if any, additional generic features EDE needs to accommodate Java. Eric would then implement the additional core EDE features while I would implement the Java specific extensions.
The ultimate goal would be to turn EDE into a true multilanguage project management system that would allow you to create a project with, say, a C component, a Java component, and even an Emacs Lisp component, and then build the whole thing with a single command. --Paul
[Martin Schwenke] This is a major mode for editing and compiling programs written in the objected-oriented language Eiffel. It has been derived from eiffel4.el from Tower Technology Corporation
http://www.zipworld.com.au/~peterm/ Author is [Peter Milliken 2000-05]
pdm@freesoft.cz Milan Zamazal 1999-11
This file defines the glasses-mode minor mode, which displays underscores between all the pairs of lower and upper English letters. This only displays underscores, the text is not changed actually.
http://idlwave.org/
Included in Emacs 21.1
IDLWAVE is an add-on mode for GNU Emacs (and XEmacs) which enables feature-rich development and interaction with IDL®, the Interactive Data Language, produced by Research Systems, Inc. It provides an alternative to the IDLDE development environment bundled with IDL.
IDL stands for the Interactive Data Language. So these modes are totally unrelated to the CORBA Interface Definition Language.
[Raphael Pierquin] buffi allows you to easily work on multiple projects with different buildfiles at the same time. (Note : I call a 'buildfile' any file that drive a compilation sequence, such as Makefiles, or ant's build.xml files) It's especially useful for Java projects where you're usually working with source code in subdirectories with the buildfiles somewhere up the directory tree. The idea is that you may have a dozen source files (including buildfiles) open from different projects at the same time. If I'm editing a file from Project A and execute 'buffi-build' (bound to C-c c) then I probably want the buildfile from that project to be executed. The buildfile is most likely either in the current directory or one of its parents, and the code below will perform that search and execute the "make" (or "ant") command in the appropriate directory. The other case is when you execute 'buffi-build' and are NOT on a regular source file (maybe you're in some random documentation buffer or something). In this case it will do the best it can and execute the make on the first buildfile buffer it can find.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jess-mode/
Jess-mode is a collection of Emacs Lisp files designed to facilitate the development of Java Expert System Shell (JESS) applications. Currently, the package consists of a major mode for editing source and an inferior mode used to run the Jess interpreter
cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.jess-mode.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/jess-mode login
cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.jess-mode.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/jess-mode co jess-mode |
C++: Check http://www.joelinoff.com/ccdoc/ and cxref at http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/ or http://www.rsdi.com/doc++/ or or http://www.stratasys.com/software/cocoon/ or C/C++ Programmer's Tools and Their Producers http://www.emsps.com/lists/cutilp.htm An extract of the C/C++ Programmer's Directory produced by EMS Professional Shareware. The C/C++ Users Journal is at http://www.cuj.com/
http://www.dponce.com/
david.ponce@wanadoo.fr david_ponce@mail.schneider.fr 1998-10
M-x jdok-generate-javadoc-template or C-cj Inserts a javadoc template above the method signature at point. before executing the command, the point must be located at the first line of the method declaration. if not result is uncertain.
In the following example, point is located at the beginning of the line, before the word public (but it could be anywhere on this line):
-|- public
void myMethod( int x, int y )
throws Exception
{
... |
M-x jdok-generate-javadoc-template will produce the following:
/**
* Describe 'myMethod' method here.
*
* @param x a value of type 'int'
* @param y a value of type 'int'
* @exception Exception if an error occurs
*/
public
void myMethod( int x, int y )
throws Exception |
[Joseph Casadonte] Emacs package that provides a way to find and visit Java source files (indicated by a classname or filename under point) located somewhere in the user's SOURCEPATH. There are other packages out there that do similar things, including some things in JDE, but I like this one. It works regardless of your mode, and without tags. The only thing you need is a valid $SOURCEPATH.
[Carl Manning] 1999-03 Java Syntax coloring for Gnu Emacs 20 based on font lock. Improves robustness and correctness over the Java font locking that comes with Emacs 20, and extends coloring for Java1.2 features; see file for details. Includes non-garish color schemes for both black on white and white on black, plus more basic schemes for 16 color LCDs. Compatible with Emacs JDE.
reyes@altern.org rodrigo@talana.linguist.jussieu.fr Rodrigo Reyes
[1998-06-06 gnu.emacs.sources m2iumf4ho4.fsf@epinards.altern.org] This is a package that adds a contextual help for the Java API methods and classes (you know, the F1-key on most windows IDE, you put the cursor on a method or classname, press the help key, and the help appears for that particular keyword).
The first file is lexdfa.el, and is used to store a dictionary as a deterministic finite-state automaton. The second is the javahelp package itself (which relies on lexdfa for storing the information). Because of the structure of the lexicon (stored as an automata), the limits of structures depth need to be augmented. Sorry for the inconvenience, I really didn't think about it when developping the automaton (in fact it is my very first e-lisp program). Maybe another method for storing the data would be better?
There is a newly created mailing list to make improvements to the p4.el by having a dedicated mailing list. If you are interested in joining that, please send body "subscribe"to emacs-lisp-discuss-request@eng.fore.com --Rodrigo
[Helmut Eller] 2001-07. You need Java and Kawa Scheme http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/ this package allows you to call Kawa (i.e. Java) from Emacs Lisp and vice versa. Emacs Lisp objects can be passed to Java code and Java objects can be passed to Emacs Lisp. There are two files jcall.el and jserv.scm. Emacs Lisp objects can be passed to Java code and Java objects can be passed to Emacs Lisp. The macros eval-in-kawa and eval-in-emacs form the user interface:
(eval-in-kawa <form>...) sends <form>s to the kawa interpreter,
evaluates them, and returns a reference to a Java object.
(eval-in-emacs <form>...) is a kawa macro and is analog to
`eval-in-kawa'. |
http://jdee.sunsite.dk/ [Paul Kinnucan]
MailingList: jde-subscribe@sunsite.auc.dk or send mail
jde-subscribe-foo=site.com@sunsite.auc.dk
HyperArchive: http://www.eGroups.com/list/jde--sunsite.auc.dk/
HyperArchive: http://www.mail-archive.com/
cvs -d :pserver:cvs@sunsite.auc.dk:/pack/anoncvs login
[password] cvs
cvs -d :pserver:cvs@sunsite.auc.dk:/pack/anoncvs co jde |
jde-cflow.el, abbrev mode control - disabled in comments
[Philip Lord] This package automatically expands various
abbrevations into templates for the various control statements
within java. It uses tempo templates for this purpose, and is fully
customisable so that you can change the templates as you wish. or
the abbreviations if you want. The command M-x jde-cflow-customize
enters this mode.
JDOK
[David Ponce 1998-10] This library helps to document Java classes
and methods. The command jdok-generate-javadoc-template
automatically inserts a javadoc block comment template above the
method, class or interface declaration at point (it assumes that
the declaration syntax is valid). The command jdok-customize (or
customize-group jdok) allows you to customize each category of
javadoc comment line (description, @version, @return, ...).
jde-hotspot.el
[Philip Lord] Provides support for all of the hotspot options on
the command line. Because hotspot requires the "-classic" tag first
if it is going to be used I have to hack around with the core JDE
functions, which this file over-writes. I wrote a package
"jde-hotspot.el" a while back which hacked (and it is a hack!) JDE
to provide support for the -classic specification, and also for
turning on and off all of the various hotspot options. I'm on linux
now, and am hotspot-less so I can't guarantee that it still works.
jde-stack.el
[Kevin Burton] This package provides the ability to jump
from stack traces to the relevant part of the java source. There is
one main entry point which is a mouse-1 click on the stack trace,
which will jump to the source suggested at this point. This should
also work in other buffers (for instance log files), by calling
directly the function jde-stack-show-at-point. Following this
entry point two functions jde-stack-show-next and
jde-stack-show-prev allow cycling backwards and forwards through
the stack trace. Error messages are given when the end of the stack
is reached.
See also
http://theoretica.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE/~jawa/
[Rajeev Karunakaran] 2000-07-30. Java is different from other languages in that something like ETAGS is really not necessary to figure out locations of files. This is because Java restricts you to one public class per source file, and the name of the file must be the same as the class. When this class is used in other files, an import declaration is used. The import declaration specifies the location of the class. All Emacs needs to do to open the Java source file corresponding to the class name under point is to look for the import declaration, and figure out the filename and relative path from this declaration. Then CLASSPATH variable is used to determine the absolute path. Java-open adds the ability to open the source file corresponding to a Java class by placing the cursor on the class name and pressing a key. No TAGS file or other form of preprocessing is needed. Example of lines to be added to your .emacs:
(require 'java-open)
; java-open-source-path is similar in function to CLASSPATH
(setq java-open-source-path '("L:/myprog/source" "M:/jdk1.3/src"))
; keyboard shortcuts
(global-set-key [f10] 'java-open-class-at-point)
(global-set-key [f11] 'java-open-base-class-source) |
[Brillant Alexandre] jtemplate is a package for emacs for initializing easily class or interface. jtemplate uses XML model for defining a basic structure with XML Tags.
[Eric Ludlam] 1999-02. Lazy look is a program which will bring up a frame, and attempt to display context information. It is language independent, and so far only supports emacs lisp (with the help of eldoc) and c. For example, if the cursor is in a C buffer on a variable name, lazy look will display the current function you are in, the type of the variable, and any possible completions that are available.
Note: See also tinytag.el for similar language help.
acldoc.el
An emacs interface the the Franz Allegro Common Lisp documentation tree by Larry Hunter hunter@nlm.nih.gov 1998-10
ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/emacs/emacs-20.2/lisp/progmodes/
ftp://ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/beta/xemacs-20.5/m4-mode.el
Comes with Emacs 20.1, Included in XEmacs 19.15.
[Roland Winkler] and [Joe Riel] maplev.el provides an environment for the development of Maple code. maplev.el defines five major modes:
maplev-mode: for editing Maple code
maplev-cmaple-mode: for running Maple
maplev-mint-mode: for displaying the output of mint
maplev-help-mode: for displaying Maple help pages
maplev-proc-mode: for displaying Maple procedures |
The features in maplev.el include:
font-lock (highlighting) of Maple keywords
automatic indentation
syntax checking (via Mint)
online Maple help
online display of Maple procedures
imenu support
auto-fill support |
ftp://ftp.mathworks.com/pub/contrib/emacs_add_ons/
Richard Y. Kim ryk@coho.net 2000-05
15.32.1 mml.el
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mmm-mode/
http://mmm-mode.sourceforge.net/
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.mmm-mode.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/mmm-mode login
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.mmm-mode.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/mmm-mode co mmm-mode |
[Michael Shulman] 1999-10. Someone had mentioned mmm.el by Gongquan Chen, an XEmacs extension allowing Multiple Major Modes in one buffer. I looked into it, but found that it only worked for XEmacs. "Oh, that's no problem," I thought. "I'll just change a few things here and there and it'll work for Emacs." Well, you know how it goes, and pretty soon I was rewriting the whole thing from scratch, and adding new features as I went along. And now I'm about finished. It's not a Mason mode, but rather something more general. I've been using it with Mason as I developed it, and found it to be very convenient: MMM Mode is a minor mode that allows multiple major modes to coexist in a single buffer. See the documentation of the function mmm-mode for detailed information on how to use MMM Mode.
15.32.2 mml.el
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mmm-mode/
2000-03-08 Mmm-mode.el seems not to work with xemacs-20.3.
[Gongquan Chen 1998-12] Lisp extension that allows multiple major modes to co-exist in a single buffer. It's a workable, yet imperfect, solution that basically supports key bindings and font-lock in those regions with a seconda major mode. To activate one secondary major mode, simply add a hook to the primary major mode's hook. For details, see defun mmm-activator.
15.32.3 multi-mode.el
erd@intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
or gerd@imn.th-leipzig.de
[Gerd Neugebauer] 1994-11. Allow you to mix (for instance) html code and c code in the same file. When entering the html areas of the buffer you would be in html mode and when in the c areas, you would be in c mode. Check archives for this old emacs code.
15.32.4 two-mode.el
See http://sourceforge.net/projects/oo-browser and http://sourceforge.net/projects/hyperbole and http://sourceforge.net/projects/infodock
2001-05-23 There is no active CVS tree to download, only tgz kit. This project is no longer active.
15.34.1 Ascii-display.el
[Colin Walters] 2000-05. Have you ever wanted to see what ASCII special characters are in the buffer? This might help. Currently it only displays newlines and tabs. If I can figure out how to consistently display returns (ASCII code 0x0D), that will be in a future version.
15.34.2 Tab-display.el
[Kevin Burton] 2000-12. This is an attempt to handle tab display in a way that makes things obvious when working with buffers. I personally don't like using hard \t chars in my source files because of width differences. You should turn font-lock-mode on globally in order to see your tabs in color.
http://www.dina.dk/~abraham/religion/crossemacs.html
[2000-07-20 XEmacs-L Matt Curtin cmcurtin@interhack.net] http://www.interhack.net/pubs/applying-reusable-to-env/ describes a case where I threw out the old stuff and completely replaced it with the new. It was a win all the way around in that case.
[2000-07-20 XEmacs-L Martin Buchholz martin@xemacs.org] The byte-compiler knows a lot about what's good and bad in XEmadc-land. So byte-compile the file using Emacs Lisp->Byte Compile This File and the warnings can be very useful.
[Reini Urban] This mode will be enabled to use a patched ntemacs, written by Steve Kemp skx@tardis.ed.ac.uk, resp. the w32ole emodule written by myself, to be able to connect via OLE to a running Visual Lisp for AutoCAD 2000 session.
[Yuji Minejima] 2000-03. FSF Emacs users can see the descriptions by entering ? key. XEmacs users can see the descriptions by entering any completion keys. Typical scenario #1 You hear that apropos-XXX commands are very useful. So you enter `M-x aprop<TAB>'. Emacs completes it to "apropos". you enter <TAB>. Emacs says "Complete, but not unique". you enter ? and something like the following displayed in a help window.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
apropos Show all bound symbols whose names match REGEX$
apropos-command Show commands (interactively callable function$
apropos-documentation
Show symbols whose documentation contain match$
apropos-follow
apropos-mode Major mode for following hyperlinks in output $
apropos-mouse-follow
apropos-value Show all symbols whose value's printed image $
apropos-variable Show user variables that match REGEXP.
apropos-zippy Return a list of all Zippy quotes matching $ |
You can click an item (the middle button of your mouse), you can go into the help window (M-v) then selete an item (RET), or you can continue to enter in the minibuffer. See "(emacs)Completion" for other key bindings.
[Eric Ludlam] The emacs lisp manual has a nice chapter on how to write documentation strings. Many stylistic suggestions are fairly deterministic and easy to check for programatically, but also easy to forget. The main checkdoc engine will perform the stylistic checks needed to make sure these styles are remembered.
[comment] If you're doing any lisp packages, this is a must have. Together with lisp-mnt.el you can check you package layout for variaous kinds of errors. Recommended, must be in every package maker's toolbox.
[David Bakhash] Turn elisp almost completely into CL, at least with respect to array manipulation. Some little issues. Since elisp and CL will conflict on some function names, I've stuck with the cl.el convention and defined the following: aref* length* vector* vectorp* arrayp*
setq my-matrix (make-array '(2 3)
:initial-contents '((1 2 3)
(4 5 5))))
==> [cl-array (2 3) [1 2 3 4 5 5]]
(setf (aref* my-matrix 1 2) 0)
==> 0
my-matrix
==> [cl-array (2 3) [1 2 3 4 5 0]] |
[Peter Liljenberg] 1997-03. cl package provides closures with the lexical-let form. I don't know what happened with closure.el (it was renamed) with respect to FSF Emacs, but I doubt that XEmacs needs closure.el. I'll put a newer version of closure.el at the URL indicated above.
This code defines a function, completing-read-multiple, which provides the ability to complete to multiple results in the minibuffer. Each of the completed results is separated by a common separator which the caller of the function may specify.
[Eric Ludlam] EIEIO implements a subset of CLOS (Common Lisp Object System) which enables you to create objects, w/ singular inheritance, and write methods. I was especially careful to try and create an implementation that was very fast at runtime. EIEIO does not support all of CLOS. Please check the texinfo manual for details.
EIEIO has specialized byte compiler support, plus object browsing functions. Because of the nature of byte compiling, EIEIO is picky about the version of emacs you are running. It supports Emacs 19.2x+, emacs 20.x, and XEmacs 19.1x. I do not know if it works in XEmacs 20.x as I have not tested that platform yet. Byte compiling EIEIO is VERY IMPORTANT if performance is important. EIEIO supports documentation generation. If you write an OO API to something, the eieio-doc functions will write your texinfo manual for you. (Just make sure you use the documentation features of class slots while authoring your software.) EIEIO comes with several examples, including a tree drawing program (which includes an emacs function call tree browser) a bar chart program, and a generic database access layer (which only has a PostgreSQL backend at the moment)
[Deepak Goel 2000-11] ELDER (Emacs-Lisp-Document-writER) allows you to unite lisp with other languages. For instance, if you are producing a MATLAB/latex document, but are frustrated with the lack of ability of MATLAB/latex to do something, you can define a lisp-region within your file, write your lisp-commands in there and have fun! ELDER is particularly useful when producing latex-documents. You may get so used to using elder that you may group the most common functions you have defined into "elder-style" files. The beauty of elder is that any file is a already valid elder-file (since it likely does not contain any elder-demarcated-lisp-regions yet) and so learning is easy. You simply achieve more by defining elder-regions (mean: lisp-regions) in the file. Basically, ELDER does a very simple job. It allows you to introduce elder-regions within your document, and the text within that region is processed as lisp commands. (Elder actually does a lot more, but later..). ELDER thus removes all lisp-expressions from the file and then the file is ready to be processed by whatever the other language (MATLAB/latex/whatever) you want to use. Elder-regions are regions demarcated by some keywords:
Don't know too much lisp/elder? ELDER generates helpful error-messages for any erorrs you make. Style-files are a list of useful targeted elder-functions. For latex, there are 2 style-files..: article.est (lots of nifty little things) and fundametal.est (barebones). Imagine writing your latex file as an article, and with one switch, generating slides out of it. Or removing/adding self-notes in a latex-document depending on whether the document is a final draft or not.. Or printing out not just equation-numbers, but also equation-labels along with equations during your edit-phase, which makes "referencing" that equation 1.2 so much easier in your conclusions section---earlier you had to go back and seasrch for that equation, and then look for the label you defined for it.. Or auto-coloring math-environments in blue, footnotemarks in red etc. etc.
[Noah Friedman] This program was inspired by the behavior of the "mouse documentation window" on many Lisp Machine systems; as you type a function's symbol name as part of a sexp, it will print the argument list for that function. Behavior is not identical; for example, you need not actually type the function name, you need only move point around in a sexp that calls it. Also, if point is over a documented variable, it will print the one-line documentation for that variable instead, to remind you of that variable's meaning.
[Peter Liljenberg] Now I've finished a new version of elint, an Elisp linter. The most important improvement is that it now knows about standard variables, and it should work not only with 19.34, but also at least with 19.28
http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/~stephen/emacs/ell.html
[Jean-Philippe Theberge] 2000-05. Emasc Lisp Lisp is available atIf Shephen change the layout of his web page, this package may stop to work. You may then need to upgrade this package.
[Barry Warsaw]. This module makes it easy to profile your lisp functions. For easy interface to elp, see tinylisp.el in [Tiny Tools]
[Noah Friedman] 1998-07.
[Lars Ingebrigtsen] "extended regular expression syntax support". I've now extended the regexp extender to understand most Perl regexp elements. I've also switched from that horrible "#" escape character to the more sensible "\" escape character. Here are some example transformations:
(extended-regexp "(one|two){1,2}")
=> "\\(\\(one\\|two\\)\\|\\(one\\|two\\)\\(one\\|two\\)\\)"
(extended-regexp "\d")
=> ""
(extended-regexp "\\d")
=> "[0-9]"
(extended-regexp "[a-z\\d]")
=> "[a-z0-9]"
(extended-regexp "\n\t\a")
(extended-regexp "(one|two)")
=> "\\(one\\|two\\)" |
[Jens Petersen] Put cursor near the lisp function and call M-x find-function. Very handy if you browse source code. Package tinylisp.el in [Tiny Tools] kit supports Find-func.el
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?ANU3075989&fmt=raw
[Thien-Thi Nguyen] GNU Evaluators' duties include filling out a template to record their evaluations. But to fill out the template, there are certain tasks that need to be done perhaps concurrently, such as looking at source code and running the program. gnueval.el provides two simple commands to make notes and to assemble the final evaluation form suitable for mailing: gnueval-note and gnueval-assemble, respectively. Additionally, current notes can be cleared with gnueval-reset. During reset, if a gnueval-note occurred more recently than a gnueval-assemble, you are asked whether or not you want to continue. Lastly, this file provides gnueval-submit, which does a gnueval-assemble, mails the resulting buffer to the gnueval mailing list, and then (optionally) clears the current package. There is no support for evaluating multiple packages concurrently (and probably never will be). Even more lastly, the command gnueval runs gnueval-note on all the fields - this is useful for a first-pass evaluation. For gnueval-note, you are presented with two buffers, one for prompting text, and the other for input. When you are finished entering input, type `C-c C-c' to finish.
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ilisp [Marco Antoniotti]
[Nguyen Thien-Thi] 1999-05, see ttn-pers-elisp. Enclosed is a nice script that will generate an index of all of your lisp files, including a description of the contents. I'm note sure how general this will be - but it seems that most lisp files start with a line of the form:
;;; name -- description. |
If this is the case the description can be read, and it will be added to the index.
[Simon Marshall] Make-regexp has turned into regexp-opt which got gobbled up by Emacs, so you don't need to look anywhere anymore. To make efficient regexps from lists of strings. Originally written for font-lock, from an idea from Stig's hl319.
[Kevin Rodgers], 1997 The minibuffer-complete command, bound by default to TAB in the minibuffer completion keymaps, displays the list of possible completions when no additional characters can be completed. Subsequent invocations of this command cause the window displaying the Completions buffer to scroll, if necessary. This package advises the minibuffer-complete command so that subsequent invocations instead insert each of the possible completions in turn into the minibuffer, and highlight it in the Completions buffer. As before, the window displaying the possible completions is scrolled if necessary. This enhancement is enabled or disabled by setting or unsetting the minibuffer-complete-cycle option.
[Noah Friedman] 1998-08-18. I had cause to write some routines for manipulating obarrays in ome of my programs.
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[Wayne Mesard] 1997-02, enhancements by [Tom Breton] 1999-07. This module provides support for writing and executing regression tests for Emacs Lisp code. Nothing you couldn't do by hand. But by making it easier, the hope is more people will do it more often.
[Peter Breton] 2000-10. A library to make running external programs and writing program wrappers easier.It supports following. For any of these modes, you can decide programatically whether or not the results of the program are displayed to the user.
(require 'run-command)
(defcustom wget-program "wget"
"Utility program to retrieve Web pages"
:group 'wrappers
:type 'string)
(defun wget (url dir)
"Fetch a URL asynchronously"
(interactive
(progn
(require 'ffap)
(list
(read-from-minibuffer
"Fetch URL: "
(ffap-url-at-point))
(read-file-name "Store in Directory: ")
)))
(set-buffer (get-buffer-create "*wget*"))
(cd dir)
(run-command-asynchronously "*wget*" wget-program url)) |
This package is part of Emacs.
[Bob Glickstein] 1997. Building regular exparession is not very intuitive and when you finally get the regexp string right, it is not obvious after 2-3 months what is was supposed to do. If you use any complex regular expression in consider using this package to build them more easily.It may document your code better.
;; (regex bol
;; (opt (group "resent-"))
;; (group (or "to" "cc" "bcc"))
;; ":")
;; => "^\\(resent-\\)?\\(to\\|cc\\|bcc\\):" |
[John Wiegley] 1999-12. Emebbed Texinfo keeps the documentation closer to the code, and allows the comments to serve as both. Convert textual notations from point onward. Indent by two spaces produces an example by three spaces produces a quotation.
% emacs -l texidoc -batch -f batch-texidoc-file FILE... OUTPUT-FILE |
The conversions are:
\"foo\" -> ``foo''
`foo' -> @code{foo}
'foo' -> @samp{foo}
_foo_ -> @emph{foo}
*foo* -> @strong{foo}
<foo> -> @file{foo}
[foo] -> @xref{foo}
{foo} -> @footnote{foo}
-- -> ---
{ -> @{
} -> @}
@ -> @@ |
[Deepak Goel] Suppose you want emacs to run an action every REDOSECS for as long as emacs remains idle. Think you can do it with one call to the emacs' run-with-idle-timer? Think again.. :) That function will perform the action exactly once every time emacs goes idle. This function, tf-run-with-idle-timer will allow you to keep performing an action as long as emacs remains idle.
[Yuji Minejima] This package provides a text based interface to the menubar. In order to test this as you see this file, proceed as follows: 1: Load this package: M-x eval-buffer 2: Browse the menubar: M-x tmenu-menubar 3: You see something like the following: Click mouse-2 on a completion to select it. In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near point. Possible completions are:
b > Buffers f > Files
t > Tools e > Edit
s > Search m > Mule
E > Emacs-Lisp h > Help
-------------------------------------------------------------
4: Press the first character (e.g. b for Buffers, E for Emacs-Lisp)
to select the menu item.
Enter C-g to exit the menu without selecting any item. |
What's the differences between tmenu.el and tmm.el? I mainly wrote this package to lean the differences in the menu APIs between GNU Emacs and XEmacs, so I'm afraid there's no earth-shattering features that tmenu.el can be proud of.
tmm.el
tmenu.el
[Eric Ludlam] 1998-10. Working lets Emacs Lisp programmers easily display working messages. These messages typically come in the form of a percentile, or generic doodles if a maximum is unknown. working-status-timeout if you want activity during a read/wait loop. working-status-call-process like call-process, but uses start-process and displays fun stuff. working-wait-for-keypress and working-verify-sleep.
[Vinicius Latorre] 2001-01-22. Sometimes you need to see the internal structures to understand what is going on. This package provides a way to display internal Emacs object structures in a temporary buffer. xray was tested with GNU Emacs 20.6.1. So far, there isn't any compatibility with XEmacs.
M-x xray-symbol RET describe-function RET
M-: (xray-symbol 'describe-function) RET |
http://www.masonhq.com/ What Is Mason? Mason is a powerful Perl-based web site development and delivery engine. With Mason you can embed Perl code in your HTML and construct pages from shared, reusable components. Mason is open source. Although it can be used from CGI or even stand-alone, it is optimally designed for use with two other open source technologies: mod_perl and Apache. Mason CVS access is at
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.Mason.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/mason login |
There are various php modes out there, but the survey has shown that you might be best server by html-helperl-mode.
See also Sourceforge PHP-mode, at http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-mode/
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.php-mode.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/php-mode login
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.php-mode.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/php-mode co php-mode |
[Fred Yankowski] 1999-12. I wasn't able to find an existing PHP implementation, so I created one myself using define-derived-mode to base it on c-mode. It works well, except for some glitches handling shell-style ('#') comments. I have no particular motivation to maintain a php-mode.el, so if some other PHP-mode actually subsumes mine in functionality I might well switch over to it. On the other hand, I'm willing to add functionality to my php-mode.el if there's a call for it.
[2000-05-29 gnu.emacs.help Jaeyoun Chung jay@kldp.org] I've written some elisp for this mostly to use while editing php-mode and html-helper-mode simultaneously. You can add <?php ?> tag extension in html-helper-mode (well, an exercise to the reader:P), and then you can use this by binding something like `C-c i'.
;;; indirect-util.el - indirection utility
;;
;; Copyright (C) 2000 by Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;;
;; Author: Jaeyoun Chung <em>jay@kldp.org</em>
;; Keywords: convenience, c
;;
;;; Commentary:
;;
;; `make-indirect-buffer' wrapper
;; it's useful for the multi-mode operation
;;
;;; Code:
(defvar iu:mode-alist '(("c" . c-mode)
("c++" . c++-mode)
("java" . java-mode)
("php" . php-mode)
("html" . html-helper-mode))
"*a list of a short cut for mode")
(defvar iu:mode-guess-alist '((html-helper-mode . "php-mode")
(php-mode . "html-helper-mode"))
"*a list of mode name for indirect mode for (current-buffer)")
(defvar iu::mode-list
'("c-mode" "c++-mode" "java-mode" "c++-mode" "html-helper-mode"
"emacs-lisp-mode"))
(defun iu::guess-imode ()
(cdr (assq major-mode iu:mode-guess-alist)))
(defun make-indirect-buffer-region (beg end command)
"make indirect buffer for the given region with given function"
(interactive
(list (region-beginning) (region-end)
(let ((guess (iu::guess-imode)))
(intern (completing-read
(if guess
(format "indirect buffer with mode (default `%s'): " guess)
"indirect buffer with mode : ")
iu:mode-alist nil nil guess iu::mode-list)))))
(let ((wc (current-window-configuration)))
(pop-to-buffer
(make-indirect-buffer (current-buffer) (concat "-> ["
(symbol-name command)
"]"
(buffer-name)
"{"
(number-to-string beg)
", "
(number-to-string end)
"}")))
(narrow-to-region beg end)
(call-interactively command)
(local-set-key (kbd "C-c C-c") 'kill-and-recover-window)
(set (make-local-variable 'indirect-buffer-original-window-configuration) wc)))
(defun kill-and-recover-window ()
"as it says:P"
(interactive)
(let ((wc indirect-buffer-original-window-configuration))
(call-interactively 'kill-this-buffer)
(set-window-configuration wc)))
(provide 'indirect-util)
;;; indirect-util.el ends here |
[Eric Ludlam] 1998-10. This is to announce project-am.el, a project mode for emacs based on automake. Many IDEs developed have a concept of a "project", which is simply a file which tracks targets, compiler flags, and other things. These "projects" then form the basis of the compile,run,debug cycle.
We all know that Emacs is a better IDE than all those other silly systems, but a project mode has always been absent. It's up to the user to know how to run the compiler, and things like that.
When I first converted my GNU projects to Automake, that was when I realized that the Makefile.am is about the smallest knowledge set you could get to describe targets in a project. As such, this project mode for emacs uses the automake file format as the basis of the "ide" like environment.
This program provides a project-am-minor-mode. This is active only for files in which a Makefile.am exists. It provides a keymap, and menu bar item. From here, you can create new targets, add/remove source files from targets, compile, and debug.
project-am was written and tested in Emacs 20.2. I have not tested it on other emacses, but suspect it should work fine.
project-am requires or uses:
eieio object system
make-mode
compile
gud
speedbar |
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laroh@hotmail.com Lars-Olof 1999-03
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kleiweg@let.rug.nl Peter Kleiweg 1998-09
[Phillip Lord] 2000. This is a minor mode which does things depending on the current font-lock symbol at point. This means that you can use it to toggle for instance auto-fill-mode on when on comments and off for the rest of the time. Its based on a more generic form of jde-auto-abbrev.el, which I shall retire at some time, or change to being a wrapper around tmmofl. There are two files which are tmmofl.el which provides the core functionality, and tmmofl-x.el which customises tmmofl for different major modes. At the moment the latter is pretty small, but it may grow.
[Fraser McCrossan] 2003. A Major Mode for Emacs, to help the editing of Samba's configuration file smb.conf It doesn't do anything fancy, but it helps me, I hope it helps you. It's still a work in progress, as well as being my first non-trivial Emacs Lisp project. Comments, suggestions, and more code are welcome; email address is at the bottom of the page.
2000-03 sawmill <http://sawmill.sourceforge.net/> has been renamed sawfish. Because of this sawmill.el has been renamed sawfish.el. http://freshmeat.net/projects/sawfish.el/
[Dave Pearson] 1999-11. The Emacs mode for working with the config files of sawfish. As well as providing a programming mode (well, not so much providing as deriving) it also includes a couple of function for interacting with a running sawmill. I do have one small problem with this code and I think it might be my lack of understanding of how define-derived-mode works. The problem is that any sawmill-mode buffer doesn't receive automatic font-locking when global font locking is set (and font-lock-global-modes is set to t). Also, when font-lock is turned on by hand it doesn't do emacs-lisp "flavour" font locking despite the fact that it derives from emacs-lisp-mode.
[Stefan monnier] SML-MODE is a major Emacs mode for editing Standard ML. It provides syntax highlighting and automatic indentation and comes with sml-proc which allows interaction with an inferior SML interactive loop.
[from the page] ....Once you have completed the information the verilog emacs mode will automatically be e-mailed to you. This will also register you for automatic updates, everytime a new revision is released.
ftp://ls6-ftp.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/src/emacs/
[David Konerding] (maintainer). This package is a major mode for editing window configuration files and also defines font-lock keywords for such files. winmgr-mode mode will automatically get turned on if you visit a a file whose name looks like that of a configuration file (IE, .fvwmrc, .mwmrc, .tvtwmrc, etc)
[Theodore Jump] Select a C function in your program, click on it and a help window would open with a description of the function, its syntax, parameters passed etc.
[Alex Schroeder] 1999-11. Part of Emacs and XEmacs. This file provides a function that takes a string or a region containing Select Graphic Rendition (SGR) control sequences (formerly known as ANSI escape sequences) and tries to translate these into faces.This allows you to run ls --color=yes in shell-mode. In order to test this, proceed as follows:
Note that starting your shell from within Emacs might set the TERM environment variable. The new setting might disable the output of SGR control sequences. Using ls --color=yes forces ls to produce these.
[Yoann Padioleau] 2000-10. Try to colorize the buffers of emacs as ls --color do in a terminal so if you try C-x b TAB or C-x C-f, you will see directory in blue c source file in yellow, object file in gray, it helps a lot to find the file you want to open.
Included in Emacs 21
[John Wiegley] 1999-05. Basically, eshell is used just like shell mode. Many of the keystrokes for moving around, and accessing the history are identical. Unlike shell mode, however, eshell mode's governing process is Emacs itself. With shell mode, an inferior shell process is executed that communicates with Emacs via comint mode. But eshell mode is a true, native Emacs module. No subprocess are invoked except for those that you request in the eshell buffer.
See also [Joseph Casadonte] em-joc.el at which provides some small additional function of eshell, the full-featured shell written in elisp. Functions in clude a prompt replacement (primarily replaces value of $HOME with a "~"), a "clear" function, which clears the screen/buffer much like clear (Unix) or cls (DOS), and a remote command, which lets you send the eshell a command from some outside piece of lisp code.
[Noah Friedman] 1998-08-18 If you give M-x fshell a prefix arg after loading this, it will create a new shell buffer even if one already exists. If you give it an explicit numeric prefix arg, it will try to switch to that numbered shell buffer, or create it. The alternative is to rename the current shell buffer and invoke M-x shell, which is more keystrokes, especially if you decide to name your old shell back when you're done with the newer one. rms declined to add this functionality in emacs' shell.el, so I'm maintaining it separately.
[Heddy Boubaker] 1997. Provide mode-compile function as a replacement for the use of compile command which is very dumb for creating it's compilation command (use "make -k" by default). mode-compile is a layer above compile; Its purpose is mainly to build a smart compile-command for compile to execute it. This compile-command is built according to number of parameters below. Most of these parameters are higly customizable throught Emacs Lisp variables (to be set in your .emacs or through Customization menu). Running mode-compile after an universal-argument (C-u) allows remote compilations, user is prompted for a host name to run the compilation command on. Another function provided is mode-compile-kill which terminate a running compilation session launched by mode-compile.
[Kai Grossjohan] You can compile with Tramp using this code:
(defun tramp-compile (cmd)
"Compile on remote host."
(interactive "sCompile command: ")
(save-excursion
(pop-to-buffer (get-buffer-create "*Compilation*") t)
(erase-buffer))
(shell-command cmd (get-buffer "*Compilation*"))
(pop-to-buffer (get-buffer "*Compilation*"))
(compilation-minor-mode 1)) |
[Christoph Conrad] 1999-12-24. which.el is an interactive function which takes a program name (string) as argument and searches if it finds an executable with this name in all paths of the variable exec-path. Almost every Unix system (especially our beloved GNU/Linux) has this command 'on board', some operating systems don't have. On operating systems like Windows NT where there are several meaningful extensions (e.g. "com", "exe") which can be a suffix of an executable you can define a variable whose name is build from the concatenation of "which-system-", the variable system-type and "extensions". It is a list of extensions (strings) to append to the program name given to the function which. If the environment variable "PATHEXT" is available it is used instead! which-elisp is an interactive function which takes a file name (string) as argument and searches the files with this name and the extension ".el" in all paths of the variable load-path.
[Matt Hodges] 2000-10. I've written a small mode (analog) which allows monitoring of groups of files (or output from commands). The user just needs to specify a list of entries, so for example a minimal setup might look like: Start the mode using M-x analog RET. Pressing ? is the analog buffer will give help on key-bindings.
(setq analog-entry-list
'(
("/var/log/messages"
(group . "System")
(lines . 10)
(hide . "MARK"))
("/var/log/syslog"
(group . "System")
(lines . 10))
("df -h"
(group . "Commands")
(type . command)
(lines . all)))) |
[Benjamin Drieu] This is a small hack, which displays disk usage in the mode line, in order to prevent frustration ("No space left on device") and work loss.
[Peter Breton] 2000-03. This is a little library of functions I use to run external programs. It does a lot of the things I want to do without a lot of boilerplate. These are:
twurgler@goodyear.com Tom Wurgler and Bill Benedetto 1998-01
<URL:ttp://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=top.el&ST=PS&groups=gnu.emacs.sources>
...This code sets up a buffer to handle running the "top" program written by William LeFebvre. "top" is avaiable at ftp.groupsys.com:/pub/top When you exit "top", the sentinel kills the buffer. --Bill/Tom
[Kevin Burton] 2000-11. This is an interface for wget. Basically it allows you to pull down URLs and then view the output in a buffer. This is a too to help develop/debug web applications. [maintainer] alternatively look at Run-command.el and its wget implementation
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tnt/
http://sourceforge.net/?group_id=3855
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.tnt.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tnt login [no-pass]
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.tnt.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tnt co tnt |
TNT - Emacs client for AIM This is a robust client for the AOL Instant Messenging service using the Emacs text editor as it's UI. That's right - you can use AIM from within emacs! Check it out just for the novelty, keep it for the convenience!
[Simon Josefsson] 2000-10. This provides an interface for "dig". For interactive use, try M-x dig and type a hostname. Use q to quit dig buffer. For use in elisp programs, call dig-invoke and use dig-extract-rr to extract resource records.
[Steve Youngs] http://sourceforge.net/projects/eicq/ See also icqmail project at Sourceforge
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.eicq.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/eicq login
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.eicq.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/eicq co eicq |
[Neil van Dyke] 2000-11. junkbust.el adds some features to Emacs for configuring the Internet Junkbuster Proxy(tm), aka Junkbuster, which is a GPL'd filtering HTTP proxy from Junkbusters Corp. <http://www.junkbuster.com/ijb.html>. The two main features offered in this version of junkbust.el are:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lookup/
[Keisuke Nishida] Lookup is an integrated search interface with electronic dictionaries for the Emacs text editor. You can use various kinds of dictionaries, such as CD-ROM books and online dictionaries, in an efficient and effective manner.
cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.lookup.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lookup login
cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.lookup.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lookup co lookup |
[Rafael Sepulveda] APT is a package retrieval tool for Debian (a GNU distribution, see <http://www.debian.org>); for example you could install Emacs with following command nad APT will then retrieve the package and install it for you:
$ apt-get install emacs21 |
The /etc/apt/sources.list file tells APT where to look for packages. This mode font-locks the file and add some things including new source lines and modifying existing source lines.
[Dave Pearson] 2000-11. protocols.el provides a set of functions for accessing the protocol in /etc/protocols.
[Dave Pearson] 2000-11. services.el provides a set of functions for accessing the services details list n /etc/services.
Part of XEmacs - EFS does not work with Emacs
Andy Norman's next-generation replacement package for ange-ftp. The latest version of efs is shipped with recent copies of XEmacs.
sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) 1998-02-19 in efs mailing list:
The Dired that's part of EFS is an almost entirely different program from the Dired distributed with GNU Emacs. I can't comment on similarities or discrepancies between the two because I use neither GNU Emacs nor its Dired. I don't know if the Dired shipped with GNU Emacs works with EFS. I doubt it.
The Dired shipped with XEmacs (since XEmacs 19.15) is the EFS Dired.
See also artcle about ange-ftp and background support (Try also TinyDired if you ange-ftp to run at backround) http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/ange/archives/archives-95/ange-ftp-lovers-archive/0071.html
[Noah Friedman] 1994-03. This package provides you with a bunch of shortcuts for visiting or inserting many different kinds of files without having to know their full path name in the file sytem. For example, you can quickly locate an emacs lisp library, shell scripts in your executable path, search for TeX input files, use the locate command (part of the GNU findutils package) to find files anywhere on the system without a predetermined search path, etc. You can even visit the source code for any lisp function you've loaded from libraries or your own .emacs startup files; this package figures out where it was loaded from and just takes you there. Just like lisp machines used to do! There is a well-documented set of library routines for writing your own extensions. I've written several for scanning through system header files, locating RFC standards documents (either locally or remotely via transparent ftp), etc. If you'd like to look at any of these extensions, just send me email.
[Peter Galbraith] 1996-03 This code allows you to use C-x C-f normally most of the time, except that if the requested file doesn't exist, it is checked against a list of patterns for special paths to search for a file of the same name.
[Yuji Minejima] 2000-09. With this packege, short descriptions on completions is displayed by pressing <TAB> (XEmacs only) or ? which looks like: Click mouse-2 on a completion to select it. In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near point.
Possible completions are:
find(1) - search for files in a directory hierarchy
findaffix(1) - Interactive spelling checking
finding files: (find). Listing and operating on files that mat$
findoidjoins(1) - list joins on oids between PostgreSQL tabl$
findsuper(8) - No manpage for this program, utility or fu$ |
[Bob Glickstein] 1997. Enhances Emacs' tag-searching functions with code that helps ensure the tags files exist and are up to date. This file surrounds various tag-searching functions with code that
[Jean-Philippe Theberge] 2003-06. Package modifies dired-mode and creates two new modes: thumbs-mode and thumbs-view-image-mode. They are used for images browsing and viewing from within Emacs. Minimal Image manipulation functions are also available via external programs. The 'convert' program from ImageMagick <http://www.imagemagick.org/> is required. The Esetroot program from <http://www.eterm.org/> is optional (need by the desktop wallpaper functionality)
Project tramp is hosted at <http://savannah.gnu.org/>. Read manual at <http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/packages/html/tramp_toc.html#SEC_Contents>
[Kai Grossjohann] This package provides remote file editing, similar to ange-ftp. The difference is that ange-ftp uses FTP to transfer files between the local and the remote host, whereas tramp.el uses a combination of rsh and rcp or other work-alike programs, such as ssh/scp. For more detailed instructions, please see the info file, which is included in the file tramp.tar.gz mentioned below. See More at ftp://ftp.comlab.ox.ac.uk/tmp/Joe.Stoy/
(setenv "X" (format "/r@multi:ssh#bpringle@%s:telnet#bpringle@sysdev:/home/bpringle"
company-server))
(setq tramp-verbose 10)
(setq tramp-debug-buffer t)
;;; The two lines above are merely for debugging purposes, and are not
;;; essential.
(setq tramp-auto-save-directory "d:/temp")
(setq tramp-methods
(cons '("j"
(tramp-connection-function tramp-open-connection-rsh)
(tramp-rsh-program "ssh")
(tramp-rcp-program "scp")
(tramp-remote-sh "/bin/sh")
(tramp-rsh-args ("-e" "none" "-t"
"-v" "-i" "//d/XXXXX/ident"))
(tramp-rcp-args ("-i" "//d/XXXXX/ident"))
(tramp-rcp-keep-date-arg "-p")
(tramp-su-program nil)
(tramp-su-args nil)
(tramp-encoding-command nil)
(tramp-decoding-command nil)
(tramp-encoding-function nil)
(tramp-decoding-function nil)
(tramp-telnet-program nil))
tramp-methods))
(setq tramp-methods
(cons '("putty"
(tramp-connection-function tramp-open-connection-rsh)
(tramp-rsh-program "plink")
(tramp-rcp-program "pscp")
(tramp-remote-sh "/bin/sh")
(tramp-rsh-args ( "-ssh" "-pw" "secret"))
(tramp-rcp-args ("-pw" "secret"))
(tramp-rcp-keep-date-arg "-p")
(tramp-su-program nil)
(tramp-su-args nil)
(tramp-encoding-command nil)
(tramp-decoding-command nil)
(tramp-encoding-function nil)
(tramp-decoding-function nil)
(tramp-telnet-program nil))
tramp-methods))
(setq tramp-default-method "putty")
(setq bpringle-tramp-path "/r@putty:user@hostname")
(setenv "Y" (format "%s:/home/user/" bpringle-tramp-path)) |
[Gerrit Niestijl g.niestijl@rra.nl 2001-02-28] I am using NTEmacs with Tramp succesfully using the Cygwin version of ssh and scp. I can edit files on remote Linux servers without providing passwords using the following syntax: /r@scp:root@domino:/home/dbloader/load/sql/opname.sql I have configured emacs to use Cygwin bash as its primary shell and used ssh-keygen to generate the nessesary keys for ssh. I use cygwin version 1.1.7-1. The openssh version that is included does not work with NTEmancs/tramp. Instead I used another cygwin port: ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Mathur_Raju You have to set thing up so that you can connect to the linux machine without supplying a password. Short instructions below and the Eamcs setup.
$ ssh user@machine
(part of install instructions JDE)
;; Setup Emacs to run bash as its primary shell.
(setq shell-file-name "bash")
(setq shell-command-switch "-c")
(setq explicit-shell-file-name shell-file-name)
(setenv "SHELL" shell-file-name)
(setq explicit-sh-args '("-login" "-i"))
(if (boundp 'w32-quote-process-args)
(setq w32-quote-process-args ?\")) ;; Include only for MS Windows. "
Tramp Sh Program: [Hide] p:/cygwin/bin/bash
("scp"
(tramp-connection-function tramp-open-connection-rsh)
(tramp-rsh-program "ssh")
(tramp-rcp-program "scp")
(tramp-remote-sh "/bin/sh")
(tramp-rsh-args
("-e" "none" "-t" "-P"))
(tramp-rcp-args nil)
(tramp-rcp-keep-date-arg "-p")
(tramp-su-program nil)
(tramp-su-args nil)
(tramp-encoding-command nil)
(tramp-decoding-command nil)
(tramp-encoding-function nil)
(tramp-decoding-function nil)
(tramp-telnet-program nil)) |
[Raffael Herzog herzog@raffael.ch] 2000-03-20 gnu.emacs.help. I was trying for hours to get Tramp to work with SSH. There are basically two major problems with this:
My solution was the following one:
#!/bin/bash
exec ssh-stdin "$@" bash -i |
This will invoke the patched SSH client and force a interactive shell. I called this script ssh-tramp and put it in my PATH.
#!/bin/bash
exec bash -i "$@" |
I called it /bin/bash-interactive.
After this, tramp will work with OpenSSH. I'll send feature requests to the responsible people. The basic idea to fix this without patching and scripting is the following:
<URL:http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=auto-save.el&ST=PS&groups=gnu.emacs.sources&format=threaded>
sk@thp.uni-koeln.de
[Part of XEmcs] [Sebastian Kremer] 1992. Combines autosaving for ange-ftp (to a local or remote directory) with the ability to do autosaves to a fixed directory on a local disk, in case NFS is slow. The auto-save file used for /usr/foo/bar/baz.txt will be AUTOSAVE/#\!usr\!foo\!bar\!baz.txt# assuming AUTOSAVE is the non-nil value of the variable auto-save-directory. Takes care that autosave files for non-file-buffers (e.g. mail) from two simultaneous Emacses don't collide. Autosaves even if the current directory is not writable. Can limit autosave names to 14 characters using a hash function, see auto-save-hash-p. See auto-save-directory and make-auto-save-file-name and references therein for complete documentation. M-x recover-all-files will effectively do recover-file on all files whose autosave file is newer (one of the benefits of having all autosave files in the same place).
<http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=backup-dir.el&ST=PS&groups=gnu.emacs.sources&format=threaded>
http://www.northbound-train.com/emacs-hosted/
greg.klanderman@alum.mit.edu Greg Klanderman 1998-10
peter.moller@exceed.se Peter Moller 2001-01
[Part of Emacs and XEmacs] It allows version stamping and retains the absolute path information of the file (so that like-named files ala Makefile don't blow each other away). Apparently it's going to be the standard implementation of this functionality in subsequent releases of XEmacs.
<URL:http://search.dejanews.com/msgid.xp?MID=%3CGK.95Oct25090105@everest.tasc.com%3E>
greg.klanderman@alum.mit.edu Greg Klanderman 1995-10
Backup-dir.el above may be more latest.
[Greg Klanderman] 1995-10. Allows backup files to be optionally stored in some sub-directories, based on the value of the alist, bkup-backup-subdirectory-info. This variable is an alist of (FILE-REGEXP . (BACKUP-DIR OK-CREATE USE-FULL-PATH)) If the filename to be backed up matches FILE-REGEXP, or FILE-REGEXP is t, then BACKUP-DIR (which should end in "/") is used as the path for its backups. Directories may begin with "/" to specify an absolute pathname. If BACKUP-DIR does not exist and OK-CREATE is non-nil, then it is created if possible. Otherwise the usual behavior (backup in the same directory as the file) results. If USE-FULL-PATH is non-nil, then the full path of the file being backed up is prepended to the backup file name, with each "/" replaced by a "!". This works well for absolute backup paths. If no FILE-REGEXP matches the file name being backed up, then the usual behavior results. The package also allows version-control to have the value 'preserve-prefer-numbered. With this value, new files and files which already have numeric backups get numeric backups, but if there is a non- numeric backup already, it is preserved.
[Kevin Burton] 2000-10. Basically mirrors the filesystem that I am editing and copies all new backups into backup directory that you specify. Default is ~/.backups Should work out of the box. All you really need to do is add this to your lisp load path and do a (require 'ebackup). You should also read the backups section of the GNU Emacs manual to determine how to turn this on.
[Gareth Owen] 1999-02. Browse files in a tarball memory-efficiently. This uses tar (z)tvf to browse a gzipped tar file without opening the whole thing, in a dired-stylee. Knocked together in a fit of pique after trying to read the xemacs source tarball in xemacs chewed through all my swapspace one afternoon, and as an exercise in thesis avoidance. The trade off is memory usage vs. speed. This is very slow on large, compressed tarballs, and each operation is slow individually, but relatively low memory machines (like old 486s running one of the i386 unices) don't handle these well with jka-compress and tar-mode either. XEmacs-20.4 was a 13MB gzipped tarball and the similarly packaged linux kernel 2.0.36 was 7MB, so the memory savings can be pretty high too. On small files the saving/price is pretty low, and tar-mode/jka-compress have approximately 10^13 more features, so I'd advise you to go that way.
ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/misc/crypt++.el
[Karl Berry] Why use this instead of jka-compr? It uses magic numbers instead of filenames to determine the (de)compression needed; It automatically decodes DOS and Mac text buffers, and does the right thing when writing changed buffers (namely asks the user); It does encryption (not that I personally have made much use of it).
[1997-08 gnu.emacs.help] ...I would like to be able to invoke emacs on a file of an arbitrary extension (.pgp, .asc) and have Emacs enter a special 'mode' and try to decrypt the file using standard PGP calls, and then at the end of the edit session, re-encrypt the plaintext (preferably only in the buffer) and save it back as the original .pgp/.asc format.
[John Heidemann] The crypt++.el that I had, supported only symmetric-key encryption with pgp (pgp -c). I have modified it to add public-key support (not as trivial [or clean] as another entry in crypt-build-encryption-alist because public-key encryption is a slightly different beast). See the URL.
crypt++ version 1.11 1998-03 is very limited, because it hooks itself into find/-write-file-hooks. This means that the lowlevel commands like write-region, load load-file load-library which don't run those hooks, can't decompress files.
Jka-compr.el handles everything like clockwork and you can forget that you use compression; the only indication you need is the suitable extension for filenames, like ".gz" when reading or writing to. The only bug in jka-compr is that it blindly looks the file extension and not the magic bytes like crypt++. This is a problem sometimes, e.g. when trying to save base64 opened gzip file. (you can't save as ".gz" because jka-compr would gzip it second time)
Mailcrypt <http://www.sf.net/projects/mailcrypt> is an Emacs Lisp package which provides a simple interface to public key cryptography with PGP. Mailcrypt makes strong cryptography a fully integrated part of your normal mail and news handling environment. See also Gnu GPG at <http://www.gnupg.org/> and <http://www.dewinter.com/gnupg_howto/english/>.
[Kevin Burton] 2000-11. I became tired of mc-sign signing mails that I had already encrypted. This is just some lisp magic to only sign if I haven't encrypted. This also caused some problems with mailers that required passphrases to be entered twice, once on verifying the signature and again when decrypting.
[avid Rush] ssl-hacks.el has a very simple interface:
(defun ssl-find-file (file) (interactive) ...)
(defun ssl-write-file (file) (interactive) ...) |
ssl-find-file prompts for the file name and passphrase and decrypts the file using ssl-program directly into the buffer. It then installs a write-file-hook to call ssl-write-file. ssl-write-file prompts for a passphrase and encrypts the file using ssl-program by piping the buffer (via call-process-region) to openSSL so that your text never gets stored in the clear on disk. It also installs a write-file hook to itself. Passphrases are cached associated with each buffer, and are given as the default passphrase on subsequent writes. The only clear exposure for passwords is the fact that I pass them on the command line to ssl-program (they can be seen, albeit very ephemerally, by ps on some systems), and that they may get written out to the swapfile. If those exposures are too dangerous for your data, you probably don't want an emacs hack; you should use the openSSL program directly.
#URL-HOME/emacs-tinypgp.html
NOTE: Discontinued for the time being, no future plans ahead.
TinyPgp is intended to be a 2nd generation Emacs PGP interface and it supports all major pgp commands as a minor mode that can be turnd on in any buffer. In adidtion to PGP 2.6.x and 5.x, TinyPgp offers easy Remailing and anonymous account handling commands to different servers. Interfaces directly supported are VM, RMAil, Gnus, TM, SEMI BBDB. Platforms supportd are Unix Emacs/Unix XEmacs/NT Emacs and NT XEmacs.
[Inge Frick]1996-08.
[Joseph Casadonte] This package provides a way to reuse the current dired buffer to visit another directory (rather than creating a new buffer for the new directory). Optionally, it allows the user to specify a name that all such buffers will have, regardless of the directory they point to.
This feature is also built in file tinydired.el included in Tiny Tools Kit.
[Jonas Steverud] 1998-09. The directory is represented internally as a list of alists. Doens't rely on external programs.
See dired-virtual-mode in standard Emacs dired-x.el. This is useful if you want to peruse and move around in an ls -lR output file, for example one you got from an ftp server. With ange-ftp, you can even dired a directory containing an ls-lR file, visit that file and turn on virtual dired mode. But don't try to save this file, as dired-virtual indents the listing and thus changes the buffer.
[Kevin Burton] 2000-01. This package provides Midnight Commander style emulation for Emacs. Midnight Commander is a UNIX application with a User Interface similar to the old DOS program named Norton Commander. Basically this provides the user with a quick, two pane interface to their file system. I wanted to model it after Midnight Commander because it is Free Software (Norton Commander is not) and recent UNIX/Linux users will generally be more familiar with Midnight Commander. Users of dired will be familiar with mc because dired features are still present. All directories are at the top of the dired buffer and are bold. Symbolic links which are also directories are bold and italic. Regular symbolic links are just italic. Files have no attributes. There is another package which does not use dired. It is named nc.el by [Ilya Zakharevich] and is It generally tries to target the DOS equivalent Norton Commander.
[John Wiegley] 1999-04. This mode extends dired to be sensitive to changes within files. When you're in a directory and you want to know when a file changes, type @u in the dired buffer. If you visit that directory again (or revert it), and the file has changed, its date/time string will be bolded. Use @u to update the checksum.
[Joseph Casadonte] 2001-02. Emacs package that provides a way to reuse the current dired buffer to visit another directory (rather than creating a new buffer for the new directory). Optionally, it allows the user to specify a name that all such buffers will have, regardless of the directory they point to.
Dired-sort.el date-parse.el included in [Tiny Tools]. [maintainer] Author unknown, RCS was signed by "fad." No LCD entry in the file mentioned. This package requires date-parse.el package too. Sort commands available:
dired-sort-by-size
dired-sort-by-date
dired-sort-by-field
dired-sort-by-name
dired-sort-by-type |
[Francis Wright] Adds a sort sub-menu to the dired-mode Immediate menu that supports the relevant GNU ls sort options, namely name, time modified, size, extension, unsorted, time created/changed, time accessed (not under Windows), reverse and recursive. It is also available as a pop-up menu on shift-mouse-2 and a static dialogue window or frame bound to C-d, which is useful for changing several dired sort options at once. Adds key bindings to toggle some options, and alternative functionality to mouse-2 on meta-mouse-2 / control-shift-mouse-2. Provides a sub-menu to save and restore dired sort configurations. Attempts to disable menu/dialogue options that are invalid for the ls program or ftp server being used to generate the dired buffer. The dialogue does not require a GUI (whereas the menus do).
Jim Blandy jimb@cyclic.com Creating and tarring files in dired couldn't be easier than this. T on a tar file unpacks the tar file, uncompressing it if necessary. T on a directory packs up that directory into a gzipped tar file.
[Juan Garcia] wdired.el is a package that allows you to rename files by editing directly an "dired-alike" buffer. So, you can use C-x r t (string-rectangle), M-% (query-replace), M-c (capitalize-word), etc to change the name of the files in a dired buffer. All the power of emacs commands are avaiable to renaming files! This package provides a function that creates a buffer identical to a dired buffer, but editable (and commands of dired mode don't work in this buffer). Here you can edit the names of one or more files and directories, and when you press C-c C-c, the renaming takes effect. If you change something out of the names, or add or remove lines, umpredictable renamings would be done. You are warned, and remember that this software comes without any warranty :). Help is very welcomed to do something that avoid users shooting at therir foot, but without losing "freedom" at editing the file names.
Included in Emacs 21.1
[Tomas Abrahamsson] Artist is an Emacs lisp package that allows you to draw lines, rectangles and ellipses by using your mouse and/or keyboard. The shapes are made up with the ascii characters |, -, / and \.
--+-- X
| / \ |
lines, straight-lines, rectangles, squares,
poly-lines, straight poly-lines, ellipses, circles |
[Dave Pearson] boxquote provides a set of functions for using a text quoting style that partially boxes in the left hand side of an area of text, such a marking style might be used to show externally included text or example code.
----
| The default style looks like this.
`---- |
A number of functions are provided for quoting a region, a buffer, a paragraph and a defun. There are also functions for quoting text while pulling it in, either by inserting the contents of another file or by yanking text into the current buffer.
[Bruce Ravel] 1998-09. Gnuplot is my utility of choice for quick 'n' dirty plotting chores. I don't love Gnuplot's command line interface but I find mouse-driven, GUI oriented plotting tools to be slow and unwieldy to use. My solution is to run Gnuplot from within Emacs or XEmacs where I can edit entire scripts then send the script to a Gnuplot process. Because it is Emacs, I have access to a large number of useful tools to help create good scripts. Our Gnuplot mode has the following features:
[Francoise Pinard] 2001-08. For comments held within boxes, it is painful to fill paragraphs, while stretching or shrinking the surrounding box "by hand", as needed. This piece of GNU Emacs LISP code eases my life on this. I find only fair, while giving all sources for a package using such boxed comments, to also give the means I use for nicely modifying comments.
ftp://ftp.inria.fr/gnu/emacs-lisp/ rect-mark-1.4.el.gz
jrs@world.std.com Rick Sladkey
Deleting/manipulating/moving rectangle areas.
http://table.sourceforge.net/
Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com 2000-10
This is a package that provides Emacs a table creation/editing feature. It has some known issues in operation under XEmacs. It also has problem in use with flyspell package. However, I believe many will find it invaluable feature in ordinary documentation work. Any suggestion/criticism for improvement is welcome. It has been tested under Emacs 20.7.1, Emacs 21.0.90.1 and XEmacs 21.1.9. M-x insert-table inserts a table at the current point location. Suppose we have the following situation where -!- indicates the location of point. Executing the command M-x insert-table with 3 columns, 1 row, cell width 5 and cell height 1 produces
+-----+-----+-----+
|-!- | | |
+-----+-----+-----+ |
M-9 M-x widen-table-cell(C->) widens the first cell which results as
+--------------+-----+-----+
|-!- | | |
+--------------+-----+-----+ |
Doing M-x widen-table-cell(C->) to middle cell and M-27 M-x widen-table-cell(C->) to the right cell creates the next result.
+--------------+------+--------------------------------+
|-!- | | |
+--------------+------+--------------------------------+ |
M-x heighten-table-cell(C-}) in above context changes the table to
+--------------+------+--------------------------------+
|-!- | | |
| | | |
+--------------+------+--------------------------------+ |
Executing insert-table-row produces
+--------------+------+--------------------------------+
|-!- | | |
| | | |
+--------------+------+--------------------------------+
| | | |
| | | |
+--------------+------+--------------------------------+ |
Moving the point under the table as shown below
+--------------+------+--------------------------------+
| | | |
| | | |
+--------------+------+--------------------------------+
| | | |
| | | |
+--------------+------+--------------------------------+
-!- |
and issuing insert-table-row again produces
+--------------+------+--------------------------------+
| | | |
| | | |
+--------------+------+--------------------------------+
| | | |
| | | |
+--------------+------+--------------------------------+
|-!- | | |
| | | |
+--------------+------+--------------------------------+ |
Text editing inside the table cell produces reasonably expected results.
+--------------+------+--------------------------------+
| | | |
| | | |
+--------------+------+--------------------------------+
| | |Text editing inside the table |
| | |cell produces reasonably |
| | |expected results.-!- |
+--------------+------+--------------------------------+
| | | |
| | | |
+--------------+------+--------------------------------+ |
http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex
CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/auctex co auctex |
[David Kastrup] AUCTeX is probably the most sophisticated document creation environment available for writing and creating TeX-based documents. It's probably nicest under the upcoming Emacs 22 series, but works on Emacs 21 and XEmacs as well. While the focus is on LaTeX, the LaTeX project's docTeX style, Texinfo, ConTeXt, plain TeX and AMSTeX are also supported. Versions later than 11.80 include preview-latex <http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/preview-latex> functionality that allows for WYSIWYG previews of LaTeX's math mode and other customizable fragments right in the Emacs source buffer. AUCTeX parses source files to offer context sensitive macro completion, language shorthands, highlighting and other input aids, and has TeX shell functionality for interacting with a variety of TeX engines (including Omega and PDFTeX), previewers (using forward and reverse search where available) and other utilities and stepping through compilation errors easily.
A number of mailing lists and Gmane news mirrors are listed at <http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/mailing-lists.html>.
[Kevin Rodgers] 1998-05. In auto-capitalize minor mode, the first word at the beginning of a sentence or a paragraph (i.e. after sentence-end, or after paragraph-start at left-margin) is automatically capitalized as soon as it is inserted.
[John Wiegley] The code automatically corrects single-character transpositions in textual input. I wrote it because character transpositions (like "hwat" for "what") constitute 95% of my typos. The idea is very simple. The function runs whenever an abbrev expansion would run. If the word doesn't exist in the dictionary, it will start transposing characters from the beginning to the end, until it hits a valid word. If it can't find a valid word, it leaves it alone.
[Kevin Burton] 2000-12. Clipper is a way to handle 'clips' of text with some persistance via handles. A good example is something like the GNU Public License. If you do a lot of Free Software work and need to have a copy of the GPL for insertion in your source files, you can save this text as a 'GPL' clip. When you call clipper-insert you will be prompted for a name and when you enter GPL this will be inserted.
27.6.1 General deleting utilities
Greedy Delete
[Barry Warsaw] 1997-02. A mode for more hungrily deleting
whitespace. Useful in major-modes, and patterned after cc-mode's
hungry-delete minor mode. The variable gd-how-much controls how
much preceding whitespace is consumed when the delete key is hit.
For non-greedy deletion the gd-delete-function variable is
consulted.
TinyEat
Included in [Tiny Tools] kit.
27.6.2 Deleting whitespace
TinyMy
See [Tiny Tools] kit. Among other features that are packed to this
module it has some buffer utilities.
whitespace.el
[Noah Friedman] Nukes trailing whitespace from the ends of lines,
and deletes excess newlines from the ends of buffers, every time
you save. It's mode-sensitive, so for some modes it will ask you
before doing anything; in some cases it will clean up whitespace
unconditionally; and in other cases it will never do so.
[maintainer] There seems to be another whitespace.el by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran rv@dsmit.com at http://www.dsmit.com/lisp/ (Part of the Emacs now)
Dejanews
There are many small solutions posted in the past years.
You can find them from http://www.dejanews.com/ with Power search.
See results around 1995 and hit the "View thread" to see all
answers. Search: how to remove trailing blanks, Groups:
gnu.emacs.help <URL:http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=how+to+remove+trailing&ST=PS&groups=gnu.emacs.help&format=threaded>
Alexander Vorobiev 1998-10, no email known
This is a frontend for 'dict' program which is a free client for retrieving definitions of words using DICT protocol. Look at http://www.dict.org/ for more details.
[Zhu Shenghuo] 1998-10 has written another dict.el.
http://www.nwalsh.com/emacs/docbookide/index.html
ndw@nwalsh.com Norman Walsh 2000
[Brent Burton] FAQ-mode makes reading FAQs easier by creating a special read- only buffer that intelligently navigates the FAQ. It's a bit like hypertext, and a bit like Emacs' View mode. Whatever it may be like, faq-mode makes reading a FAQ's index and locating the answer among possibly thousands of lines of text much easier.
[maintainer]: If you're planning to write new faq or convert existing faq, have a look at tinytf.el in [Tiny Tools] kit.
Flyspell provided on the fly spell checking, just like in Microsoft Word. General ispell page is at <http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/fmg-members/geoff/ispell.html> Ispell dictionaries are needed for specific languages; for Finnish visit <http://ispell-fi.sourceforge.net>.
[Samuel Padgett] 2001-03. This packages highlights various special characters with faces. The intent is to make it easy to distinguish between ordinary characters in a buffer and the glyphs Emacs uses when displaying control characters and octal codes and the like.
[Dinesh Dutt] 2000-05. Based on a posting to this newsgroup on doing RFC retrieval, I have put together a package to retrieve more than just RFCs. It can retrieve Internet Drafts, BCPs and FYIs. I do not have the original posting of the RFC code and so do not have the original poster's name whose code I have used as the heart of this package. If you can please contact me, I'd like to add your name to the author list.
[Kai Grossjohann] 2000-03. Editors save text files with long lines, and they automatically break these lines at whitespace, without actually inserting any newline characters. When doing M-q in Emacs, you are inserting newline characters. This file provides a file format which automatically fills the long lines when reading a file and unfills the lines when saving the file. There is also a mode function, so you can do stuff like the following:
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.ll\\'" . longlines-mode)) |
This means that all .ll files are assumed to have long lines which will be decoded on reading an encoded on writing.
[Per Abrahamsen] and [Hrvoje Niksic] (Maintainer)
[Ilya Zakharevich] This package uses a variable mult-press-cutoff-time that shows how many microseconds should separate two keypressed before they are not considered a part of a multipress. Set to 1 secs in sake of systems where microseconds are not available. The only function is mult-press, that returns repeat count of this keypress as a part of multipress. Possible usage: for defining bindings that behave differently on the first keypress and on the second one and others, like.
[Kai Grossjohann] 1998-12. Some useful bindings for Home and End keys: Hit the key once to go to the beginning/end of a line, hit it twice in a row to go to the beginning/end of the window, three times in a row goes to the beiginning/end of the buffer. NB that there is no timeout involved.
komuro@cs.Stanford.EDU Mutsumi Komuro 2000-04
kazu@is.aist-nara.ac.jp Kazuhiko Yamamoto 1995-10
sivakuma@cis.udel.edu Kaarthik Sivakumar 2000-11
[Kaarthik Sivakumar] RFC mode is very usefull mode to write RFC and Internet-Draft on Emacs. You can fill, indent, or itemize paragraph as you like. You are also able to put words to the left, center, and right or to split to the both ends of the line. Formatting mechanism is really cool and method to draw a protocol header frame is neat.
sivakuma@cis.udel.edu Kaarthik Sivakumar 2000-09
[Kaarthik Sivakumar] I wrote a set of functions that can help in viewing rfc's narrowed to pages. Also provides a function to jump to pages directly. This uses a particular format in RFCs, namely the page separator (^L) and the footer. The header is not used in this case, but each page should be separated by a ^L in the rfc text. The footer is used to jump to pages, since footers are usually of the form:
Moy Standards Track [Page 243] |
[Kevin Burton] 2000-10. An interface to rfc-util to download RFC's and view them. Keeps RFCs on disk so that you can view them in the future. You will need to install rfc-util in order to use this.
[Neil Dyke] For historical reasons, IETF Internet RFCs are required to be in a plain ASCII text format that's best-suited for sending directly to a 6-lpi US-letter-size printer. This makes them suboptimal for viewing on-screen, as you will be doing for countless hours if you're ever doing network programming to one of them. Fortunately, the ASCII format is usually close to what you, the Emacs zealot, truly want – which is a format suited to more pleasurably viewing the RFC in Emacs. The rfcview package uses Emacs overlays to add some fontification and hide the page headers and footers (which it replaces with one-line page number references that look like "(p.1)", right-justified). The file is never modified, and you can see the raw ASCII text by pressing t.
[Christophe Deleuze] 2000-02. This is a minor mode I developped primarily because I maintain a few french translations of Linux HOWTOs. It allows concurrent displaying of two versions (in different languages) of the same structured document. You can easily manage to display what the paragraph/section/etc you're currently editing looks like in the other language.
[Thien-Thi Nguyen] Do you do QA? (why not?!) do you use emacs? (that's better.) do you wish for an emacs environment for managing spec, test case database, test runs and html reports? (ok, no need to answer...) QA uses EDB, the Emacs Database for the test case database and test run file. pointers to EDB in the site above.
In [Tiny Tools] kit. 1995-02 A universal "white paper" minor mode for writing yexy with layout called TF (technical format). It can be used to write memos, papers, big documents (Megs), faqs or anything that is represented in text.
ELSE - Emacs Language Sensitive Editor
[Peter Milliken] 2000-02. Create templates for your own
use/language. The template concepts centers around an ASCII text
file which is easy to use and edit i.e. the definition of the if
statement in C is:
DELETE TOKEN IF -
/LANGUAGE="C" -
DEFINE TOKEN IF -
/LANGUAGE="C" -
/DESCRIPTION="tests an expression and establishes actions"
"if ({expression})"
"{"
" {statement}..."
"}"
"[else statement]"
END DEFINE |
The above definition is for a "token", as defined in ELSE (see - easy to read and modify - no esoteric knowledge of elisp required. This means that if you wish for an if statement then just type in 'if' and then perform an 'else-expand-placeholder and you will get the above construct. Placeholders surrounded by {}'s are mandatory entry, those surrounded by []'s are optional. Just position into the placeholder (using else-next/previous-placeholder) and start typing, the "placeholder" text is auto-deleteted.
The underlying concept behind ELSE is that programming is similar to forms entry i.e. the programming constructs are the "forms" and the variable names etc are the data fields. A typical template file for a language pretty much follows the EBNF for the language and thus should offer the entire language syntax and therefore follow the language syntax tree ie ELSE offers menu selections when "expanding" placeholders that contain optional branches in the language syntax (see "statement" above).
I am in the process of changing jobs at the moment, so anyone wishing to contact me after tomorrow should try me on peterm@zipworld.com.au
Tempo and Skeleton
[1999-02-25 David Kågeda davidk@lysator.liu.se gnu.emacs.help]
<URL:http://search.dejanews.com/msgid.xp?MID=%3Cjpogmi8avu.fsf@sanna.lysator.liu.se%3E>
Is anyone interested in step in as a maintainer for tempo.el?
It's not much work, the thing is sort of finished, but it needs
someone that answers bugreports and makes release (not least to
update the Emacs distribution).
Expand.el - easy templates, coding help
http://www.teaser.fr/~flepied/ - Included in latest Emacs
Frederic.Lepied@sugix.frmug.org
[maintainer] A nice package for easy abbrev feature handling. Eg, when you write chars "if" + press space, it will expand the abbrev into full C/C++ if template. I do all my lisp with this, when I say "defu" it creates full lisp function template instantly. Saves typing time enermously. There is also tempo.el, but there it is not possible to define the abbrev word that expands the template: you have to type foreach to get template for perl, but with expand you can define shorter aliases like fe to expand to fereach loop.
Lisp-skels.el - Skeletons for lisp coding
[Tom Breton] 1999-01 This module is pretty simple: It's a bunch of
skeletons as per skeleton.el, and 1 keymap.
Dmacro.el - Dynamic Macros
[Wayne Mesard] 1991-12. Dynamic Macro is a program for inserting
structured text in Emacs. In addition to straight textual
substitution (already available through Emacs' Abbrev mode) Dmacro
will insert time- and date-stamps, your name and user-id, the
current file name, a file's contents, the results of a shell
command and anything else you can think of. It can prompt the user
for strings. It can also position the cursor within the expanded
text, and indent the expansion in whatever way is appropriate to
the current major mode. Dmacro will also allow you to bind macros
to keys and automatically insert macros in new files. A development
team can use a common macro table with standardized comment block
and code macros as a way of enforcing a coding standard.
File-templates.el
Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com This package provides the template file
insertion facilities. It can be configured to make template
insertion to take place automatically whenever Emacs opens a new
file. It also provides manual insertion as well.
/*****************************************************************
Copyright (C) \$year\$ \$organization\$
Filename : \$file\$
Version : \$version\$
Created : \$date\$
Author : \$author\$ (\$email\$)
Purpose :
******************************************************************/
\$entry\$ |
Template.el - commenting, file headers, templates
http://emacs-template.sourceforge.net/
[Christoph Wedler] Supports writing standardized comments, updating file names in headers, and using templates when creating a new file. A template is a file with normal text, pre-defined "expansion forms" like inserting (parts of) the file name, date, user name etc (see below for more), setting point and register positions, and "expansion forms" which are defined by elisp sexps at the end of the template. Some examples and default templates are distributed with this package.
Another template generator
[Peter Milliken]
defaultcontent.el
#todo: URL missing
Auto-insert-tkld.el - automatic insertion of text into new files
[Kevin Davidson] 1998-12. Note: This package seems to have been derived from standard Emacs package autoinsert.el. Comment in the file refer to it. The auto-insert-alist consists of dotted pairs of ( REGEXP . TYPE ) where REGEXP is a regular expression, and TYPE is the type of file which is to be inserted into all new files matching the regular expression with which it is paired.
Texi2html
http://texinfo.org/texi2html/
t2html - Perl technical format (TF) to HTML converter
#URL-HOME/t2html.html
LaTeX project
http://www.latex-project.org/
ImageMagick <http://www.imagemagick.org/> runs on NT and converts tons of formats to and from each other, including postscript. ImageMagick is available for free, may be used to support both open and proprietary applications, and may be redistributed without fee.
Bc-mode.el
[Steve Burgett] Bc-mode provides commands that format right-margin block-style comments in source code. These are comments that appear to the right of the code, and often span several consecutive lines. On each line, the comment is delimited by start and end delimiters, and these are lined up with the delimiters on adjacent lines to form a rectangular block. For example, in C:
/* If the leading char of the */
if((String[0] != '0') || /* string is '0', then the */
(tolower(String[1]) != 'x' && /* number is probably in hex */
!isdigit(String[1]))){ /* or octal; that is, unless */
iRes = sscanf(String, "%ld", &Temp); /* the number is just zero. */ |
This package supports any language that has a conventional comment syntax, such as C/C++, Lisp, Shell, etc. It presently knows 22 languages and new ones are easily added.
[Max Anderson] 2001-07. This package maintains a menu of bookmarks directly in the menu bar. I was getting tired of having to enter the Search/Bookmarks menu and then choose a bookmark from a popup-menu. I found it peculiar that I could not find anything like this for Emacs and its bookmarks/registers, so I created this. The code is highly inspired by recentf.el for the management of the menu.
[Martin Schwenke] 2000-05. Desire is a versatile configuration package for Emacs. It is meant for users whose Emacs configuration has become so complex that it appears to be unmanageable. It enables you to write and load the configuration for individual Emacs package in pieces. You can use it to setup some autoloads for a package when you start Emacs and then do extra configuration after the package has loaded. This speeds up your Emacs startup without compromising your ability to do complicated things. The extra pieces of configuration are all done conditionally, depending on what other packages (or fake packages) you have configured. Weighing in at only 245 lines, it is quite small. It is based on eval-after-load. It is almost the opposite of the Emacs customization stuff: no user friendly interface, just power.
[Juri Linkov] Ee is the categorizing information manager for Emacs. It works by collecting information from different sources and converting information to a relational or associative database. It uses the fields of database table records to build the category trees, which are displayed in the Emacs view buffer. The rules for creating the views are also specified by similar data structures and include the rules for building category paths, sorting records and categories, calculating the totals of category fields, filtering records, and printing category tree and record lines.
http://esheet.tripod.com/index.html Esheet is a spreadsheet module for Xemacs. It allows you to perform standard spreadsheet functions, such as statistics functions, large-scale data management, etc. and also more powerful formula-based functions. Specifically, a formula may be an ELISP program of arbitrary complexity or a formula of more ordinary syntax.
[Yann Dirson] 2000-05. hier-imenu.el (formerly ydi-imenu.el), aka "Hierarchical index menu for emacs" is usable again. It fully supports XEmacs 21, and partly supports Emacs 20.
ftp://ftp.csd.uu.se/pub/users/andersl/emacs
Author: Jamie Lokier
Maintainers: Jari Aalto, Anders Linggren
Keeps your code organized, uses {{{ }}} marks to keep buffer text in "folds". Here is Ander's intro from folding about outline and folding:
In conclusion, Outline mode is useful when the document being edited contains natural markers, like LaTeX. When writing code natural markers are hard to find, except if you're happy with one function per fold (I'm not).
There is outline-mode, outline-minor-mode in standard Emacs and kotl-mode. [Vladimir Alexiev] has written a refcard to sum up the used keys.
[Kevin Broadey] Create an imenu from outline headings. https://www.idrive.com/kbroadey/files/Shared/imenu-outline/
[Jonathan Yavner] Yes, Gnumeric is better than SES, but you can Create and edit simple spreadsheets with a minimum of fuss. Includes full undo/redo/autosave and Cell formulas are straight Emacs Lisp; cell values are local variables in the spreadsheet's file buffer. To sum the first three cells in column B, say (+ B1 B2 B3). Intuitive keystroke commands: C-o = insert row, M-o = insert column, etc. Other features:
[Anders Lindgren] 1997-12. Auto-revert mode automagically reverts buffers whenever the file on disk change. It is designed only to operate when Emacs is idle, hopefully you will not notice that it is running (except for the fact that your buffers are reverted).
Makes your corsor blink instead of beeing solid block. See also jiggle.el by [Will Mengarini] which is is an Emacs minor mode that jiggles the cursor in situations where it can be hard to find. Implementing this required implementing a buffer-switch-hook; no such hook is built in to GNU Emacs 19.34, so just having the hook might be a sufficient reason to load the package, even if you don't need cursor jiggling.
[Part of Eamcs] [Richard Sharman] 1998-02. Here's a revised version of change-mode. This is a minor mode in which changes made get highlighted in a different face, so you can see what you've changed.
[David Ponce] and refer to http://www.componentsoftware.com/csdiff
[Kevin Burton] 2001-07. The etail packages allows you to watch certain log files for new output. Internally it uses 'tail --follow' which uses the select(2) system call to pay attention to when a file has been modified. This means that Emacs doesn't have to do any polling to see when the file has been changed.
There are other packages that allow you to watch logfiles (analog.el and tail.el) but they have certain disadvantages. Analog.el puts all its output into one buffer and doesn't automatically refresh itself (it can use an interval if you want). Tail.el pops up a window while you are editing and can get in the way. There are also some significant bugs which I belive will never be fixed due to timing issues (I tried to fix them and new ones would continually pop up due to the way Emacs is setup).
The etail package tries to solve all these problems by using the native 'tail' command to watch for new output as soon as it arives. It also provides a GUI display of all the tail buffers in one central location so that you can view all your log activity in one place.
In order to avoid taking up a lot memory over time, a timer is run in the background to trim the head of each buffer so that only etail-max-length is displayed. This has the advantage that if a process generates a lot of output you can still view it.
Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de Roland Winkler 2000-01
[See LCD archive] himark.el provides marking of text in a buffer by highlighting. Unlike transient-mark-mode the marking is permanent and can be accumulated. One can mark the region, the occurances of a regexp or a rectangle. The markings in a buffer can be removed with himark-unset.
koppel@ee.lsu.edu David Koppelman
[David Koppelman] 2000-08-03. With the p-whim-lock commands text matching interactively entered regexp's can be highlighted. For example, `M-x highlight-regexp RET clearly RET RET' will highlight all occurrences of clearly using a yellow background face. New occurrences of clearly will be highlighted as they are typed. M-x unhighlight-regexp RET' will remove the highlighting. Any existing face can be used for highlighting and a set of appropriate faces is provided. The regexps can be written into the current buffer in a form that will be recognized the next time the corresponding file is read.
[Christoph Conrad] Highlights the line the cursor is in. You can change colors of foreground (text) and background. Highlighting is switched on in ALL buffers including minibuffers. Default behaviour is to set only background color, so that font-lock fontification colors remain visible.
Provides a global minor mode (toggled by M-x hl-line-mode) to highlight, in a windowing system, the line on which point is (except in a minibuffer window) to satisfy a request for a feature of Lesser Editors.
2000-02: problem with this package is that it is global. It would be better to have minor mode.
[Vinicius Latorre] 2000-02. Highline was inspired on: linemenu.el [Bill Brodie], hl-line.el [Dave Love], highlight-current-line.el [Christoph Conrad].
Note: Emacs 20.x includes autorevert.el.
Note: See tail.el and etail.el
Note: The live-find-file, from LCD launches separate "tail -f" processes for each file, so the live-mode is much more CPU friendly, because it only uses Emacs timers.
[Bob Glickstein] 1997. live-mode is a minor mode that works like the "tail -f" Unix command. If the file grows (or changes in any other way) on the disk, then the buffer copy is periodically updated to show the new file contents. This makes live-mode ideal for viewing such things as log files. The buffer is only updated if there are no unsaved changes. Updating is done every live-interval seconds using revert-buffer. This code was inspired by live-find-file (available in the Emacs Lisp archive), whose implementation is now obsolete.
http://www.docs.uu.se/~mic/emacs.html
[Mikael Sjodin] 1997-02 (author) [Klaus Berndl] (maintainer, see LCD). mic-paren.el is an extension to the packages paren.el and stig-paren.el for Emacs. When mic-paren is active (it is activated when loaded) Emacs normal parenthesis matching is deactivated. Instead parenthesis matching will be performed as soon as the cursor is positioned at a parenthesis. The matching parenthesis (or the entire expression between the parenthesises) is highlighted until the cursor is moved away from the parenthesis.
[John Heidemann] Notes-mode is an indexing system for on-line note-taking. Notes-mode is composed of two parts, the visible part, a major-mode for emacs to aid note-taking; and the invisible part, scripts which periodically index your notes for you. Note that notes-mode provides tools to index your notes, not to search them. (Other existing tools such as grep, agrep, and glimpse already allow file search.) A digression about indexing vs. searching: Indexing in this sense means organize them according to categories you give, while searching looks through all text for arbitrary strings. Drawing on the World Wide Web for examples, Yahoo is an index. In (potentially) more familiar terms, the yellow pages (1) are an index, while directory information (411 in the USA) is sort of a search-engine.
Two mailing lists for notes-mode have been created: notes-mode-announce@heidemann.la.ca.us and notes-mode-talk@heidemann.la.ca.us. Send the line ``subscribe notes-mode-announce'' (or ``subscribe notes-mode-talk'') to majordomo@heidemann.la.ca.us to join them.
Note: A See newer version called records-mode.el exists.
[Ashvin Goel] 2000-01. Records mode is an online journal or diary software for emacs.Records mode is an online journal or diary software for emacs. Records allows you to keep an index to your personal journal. It indexes your personal journal (or diary) by subject and date, and understands web compatible links to a variety of other documents. Records keeps track of TODO lists, allows combining records on a subject over time, and even provides encryption (if you really care). This journal has infact become my major desktop tool (instead of netscape). I write most of my documents, small and large, as records distributed over different days and Records does the tracking for me. If you have noticed, Records provides an editor and a browser all in one. You can browse your records with automatically generated Records links, and you can also edit the contents of your records.
This software was originally inspired by John Heidemann's notes-mode. This version enhances the original notes system by adding several features that John hasn't had time to add. The main addition is that indexing is done on the fly so that indexes are current as you add or delete new records. John's notes mode updates indexes in the background (say, daily) and I found that inconvenient. Please send me mail if you find this software useful.
[John Wiegley] 1999-04 Todo lists, schedules, phone databases... everything we use databases for is really just a way to extend the power of our memory. To be able to remember what our conscious mind may not currently have access to. There are many different databases out there - and good ones - which this mode is not trying to replace. Rather, it's how that data gets there that's the question. Most of the time, we just want to say "Remember so-and-so's phone number, or that I have to buy dinner for the cats tonight." That's the FACT. How it's stored is really the computer's problem. But at this point in time, it's most definitely also the user's problem, and sometimes so laboriously so that people just let data slip, rather than expend the effort to record it. "Remember" is a mode for remembering data. It uses whatever back-end is appropriate to record and correlate the data, but it's main intention is to allow you to express as little structure as possible up front. If you later want to express more powerful relationships between your data, or state assumptions that were at first too implicit to be recognized, you can "study" the data later and rearrange it. But the initial "just remember this" impulse should be as close to simply throwing the data at Emacs as possible.
A tip from Pankaj Pant pant@ee.gatech.edu 1999-12-10 gnu.emacs.gnus
[Peter Österlund] Included in Emacs 21 under name smerge-mode.
[Benjamin Drieu] 2001-07. This program displays `tailed' contents of files inside transients windows of Emacs. It is primarily meant to keep an eye on logs within Emacs instead of using additional terminals.
In [Tiny Tools] kit. "tinymy" is a grabbag of utilities and when you load it, one of the things it installs is a timer process that asks y-or-n-p question for files that have changed on disk. This package co-operates with autorevert.el, by turning itself off if autorevert feature already exists in Emacs.
#todo: is this obsolete?
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/LCD/cover.html?timecard-mode
Included in Emacs.
[John Wiegley] 1999-03 Like schedule.el by me also, this simple module only intends to be better than nothing. See the Commentary section for usage information. This mode is for keeping track of time intervals. You can use it for whatever purpose you like, but the typical scenario is to keep track of how much time you spend working on certain projects. Use timeclock-in when you start on a project, and timeclock-out when you're done. Once you've collected some data, you can use timeclock-workday-remaining to see how much time is left to be worked today (assuming a typical average of 8 hours a day), and timeclock-when-to-leave which will calculate when you're free.
[Thomas Gehrlein] 2001-02. This file helps you to keep track of what you do. It writes information into a file. Each line in this file consists of a code letter (i or o - "i" means "in", i.e. starting an activity, "o" means "out", i.e. finishing an activity), a date and time stamp, and information supplied by the user.
i 2001/02/21 11:07 timelog
o 2001/02/21 11:53 code writing
i 2001/02/21 13:46 timelog
o 2001/02/21 14:12 debugging
i 2001/02/21 14:24 timelog
o 2001/02/21 14:33 debugging |
Differences between timeclock.el and timelog.el: You don't give a reason for logging out. Instead you specify what you've done since you logged in. (Reason is, I want to record what I did, not why I stopped doing it.) timelog.el doesn't keep track of how much time there is left to work for today (or tomorrow, or the day after). timeclock.el uses more code letters, timelog.el uses only i and o. timeclock.el uses hh:mm:ss, timelog.el uses hh:mm
[Daniel Lundin] 2001-03. todoo.el is a mode for editing TODO files in an outline-mode fashion. It has similarities to Oliver Seidel's todo-mode.el , but todoo.el has been significantly simplified to better adhere to mine and other users' needs at the time.
* Project 1
Some explanatory text
* A sub project
Blah
* A sub-sub project
Blah de blah
* Another sub project
* Another project |
Oliver.Seidel@cl.cam.ac.uk Oliver Seidel #todo: in emacs?
You have things to do in you home, office, private life, manage them with this nice major mode.
[Kai Grossjohann] 1998-10. This code lets you keep track of stuff you do. It writes time-stamps and some data into a file, formatted for easy parsing. The format of the file is as follows: Each entry starts in the beginning of a line with a date and time of the format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM (24 h clock). Then comes whitespace and the entry itself. The entry may be continued on the next line, continuation lines begin with whitespace.
http://x-symbol.sourceforge.net/
[Christoph Wedler] The main purpose of package x-symbol is to provide some WYSIWYGness in an area where it greatly enhance the readability of your LaTeX or HTML source: using "real" characters for "tokens" like \oplus or ™. It also provides input methods for these characters, both for the beginner and the expert (some users regard this as the main reason to use package x-symbol). WYSIWYG super- and subscripts and images/figures are also supported
Emacs users have always been interested in the most econimic and the easiest way of managing their increasing count of buffers. You start Emacs with the default scratch buffer, and start your daily routines: feeding Emacs buffer after another, change X resource files, sysadm files, user profiles, C++/Java/Perl project files, compose mail, read news, telnet to several sites, run external commands in Emacs windows (top, traceroute, nslookup, ping). Whups, the favorite buffer is now buried on top of pile of other "maybe not that significasnt buffers at the moment".
You could try killing unwanted buffers from M-x list-buffers but they keep coming back like boomerang: "that itsy bitsy Completion buffer is back again", "I just killed lot om tmp-xxx buffers and now they are back again...".
Word of advice: while the extra buffers may bother you at start, like a stain in your white suit, you don't notice it soon if you change your suit to blue. So, stop worrying about how many buffers are there and seek utilities that let you navigate among those buffer: to select right buffer for vieving, or listing all your C++ files. Btw, Emacs performs better if you don't constantly kill temporary buffers. If some package creates a temporary buffer, leave it there, because the application usually creates it again if it doesn't exist. This creation of new buffers burns time a bit.
In the past many people have written various buffer swithing utilities; pick ones that serves you best. My personal recommendations are:
To switch to next window (uncluding frames), use this code instead of the default C-x o binding. The definteractive is defined in Tiny Tools Kit file tinylibm.el
(global-set-key "\C-o" (definteractive
(other-window 1 t)
(raise-frame (window-frame
(get-buffer-window
(current-buffer)))))) |
recent-files.el
[Jorgen Nickelsen] and frederic.mienville@aigf.sncf.fr> Frederic
Mienville. See your XEmacs installation, doesn't work for Emacs. In
Emacs 21, there is package recentf.el by [David ponce].
(require 'recent-files)
(setq recent-files-non-permanent-submenu nil)
(setq recent-files-commands-submenu t)
(recent-files-initialize) |
filemenu.el
[Will Mengarini] 1997-07. This package lets you set up one or more
menus of names of files you visit frequently, so you can select
from that menu. A mouse is supported but not required. The menus
are stored in text files; they can have several columns of file
names, & can apply different default directories to different
groups of lines in the same file. File names that contain spaces,
such as occur on Macs & on Windows {95,NT}, are supported.
tinyhotlist.el
In [Tiny Tools] kit since 1995-03.
Ido
[Kim Storm] 2000-04. Since I discovered Stephen Eglen's excellent
iswitchb package, I just couldn't live without it, but once being
addicted to switching buffers with a minimum of keystrokes, I soon
found that opening files in the old-fashioned way was just too slow
- so I decided to write a package which could open files with the
same speed and ease as iswitchb could switch buffers. ido.el is my
"interactively do" package which provides replacements for the
switch-to-buffer and find-file functions (and the various versions
of these functions) for switching between buffers and opening files
with an absolute minimum of keystrokes. The ido.el package borrows
heavily from Stephen Eglen's iswitchb.el package (both in concepts
and code), and provides the same functionality for switching
buffers while expanding the functionality to cover opening files as
well.
As you type in a substring, the list of buffers or files currently matching the substring are displayed as you type. The list is ordered so that the most recent buffers or files visited come at the start of the list. The buffer or file at the start of the list will be the one visited when you press return. By typing more of the substring, the list is narrowed down so that gradually the buffer or file you want will be at the top of the list. Alternatively, you can use the right and left arrow keys (or C-s and C-r) to rotate buffer or file names in the list until the one you want is at the top of the list. Completion is also available so that you can see what is common to all of the matching buffers or files as you type.
Iswitch
[Stephen Eglen] As you type in a substring, the list of buffers
currently matching the substring are displayed as you type. The
list is ordered so that the most recent buffers visited come at the
start of the list. The buffer at the start of the list will be the
one visited when you press return. By typing more of the substring,
the list is narrowed down so that gradually the buffer you want
will be at the top of the list. Alternatively, you can use C-s an
C-r to rotate buffer names in the list until the one you want is at
the top of the list. Completion is also available so that you can
see what is common to all of the matching buffers as you type.
[maintainer] 'Switch between buffers using substrings', that says almost all. you just hit "RM" or just "R" in C-x b to switch to RMAIL buffer. Lot of options, like toggling case sentitivity when you search for buffer name. There is also older version, iswitch-buffer.el which is faster, but the interface is somewhat non-intuitive, because you're not actually in minibuffer (Be prepared to press C-g multiple times)
mcomplete.el
minibuffer completion with prefix and substring matching
http://homepage1.nifty.com/bmonkey/emacs/elisp/mcomplete.el
;; Yuji Minejima <ggb01164@nifty.ne.jp>
;; This is how you customize mcomplete.el for a command.
;; Unfortunately it doesn't work for imenu.el.
;; (put 'imenu
;; 'mcomplete-mode
;; '(:method-set (mcomplete-substr-method
;; mcomplete-prefix-method)
;; :exhibit-start-chars 0
;; :ignore-case on))
;; And this is merely a stopgap hack, cursorily checked with
;; Emacs 20.7.2 and XEmacs 21.1.12. I think I'll add
;; appropriate support for imenu to mcomplete.el in the future
;; version.
(defadvice imenu--completion-buffer
(around mcomplete activate preactivate)
"Support for mcomplete-mode."
(require 'mcomplete)
(let ((imenu-always-use-completion-buffer-p 'never)
(mode mcomplete-mode)
;; the order of completion methods
(mcomplete-default-method-set '(mcomplete-substr-method
mcomplete-prefix-method))
;; when to display completion candidates in the minibuffer
(mcomplete-default-exhibit-start-chars 0)
(completion-ignore-case t))
;; display *Completions* buffer on entering the minibuffer
(setq unread-command-events
(cons (funcall (if (fboundp 'character-to-event)
'character-to-event
'identity)
?\?)
unread-command-events))
(turn-on-mcomplete-mode)
(unwind-protect
ad-do-it
(unless mode
(turn-off-mcomplete-mode))))) |
swbuff.el
[Joseph Casadonte] swbuff-advice.el Emacs package that provides
advice for several swbuff functions to allow the use of more
than one set of regexp filters. Also now includes the ability
to specify inclusive filters, in addition to the normal
exclusionary ones.
yasb.el, Yet Another Switch-to-Buffer
<URL:http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=yasb.el&ST=PS&groups=gnu.emacs.sources&format=threaded>
wmesard@sgi.com Wayne Mesard 1997-01
...I'm a long-time fan of iswitch and its successor iswitchb (by Stephen Eglen stephene@cogs.susx.ac.uk). I hate having to type the whole buffer name, or the beginning of the buffer name. I hate having to press the shift key when selecting a buffer (e.g., in order to type the "*" in "*scratch*"). But the existing packages have never done exactly what I want.
bs.el, menu for selecting and displaying buffers
[Olaf Sylvester] The package bs will union the advantages of EMACS
function list-buffers and electric-buffer-list.
Dedicated.el - minor mode for dedicated buffers
#todo
eric@atdesk.com
[Eric Crampton] 2000-04. This minor mode allows you to toggle a window's "dedicated" flag. When a window is "dedicated", Emacs will not select files into that window. This can be quite handy since many commands will use another window to show results (e.g., compilation mode, starting info, etc.) A dedicated window won't be used for such a purpose. Dedicated buffers will have "D" shown in the mode line.
keep-buffers.el - Attempt to prevent named buffers from deletion.
[Steve Kemp] 2000-01. This package allows you to protect buffers,
based upon their names, from deletion.
(keep-buffers-protect-buffer "*scratch*") |
ibs.el
[Olaf Sylvester] 2000-12. This Emacs package provides a minor mode
for buffer cycling; more exact: key C-TAB switches between Emacs
buffers like MS-Windows IDEs between frames. C-TAB starts buffer
cycling. Every other key terminates cycling and sets the current
buffer at the top of Emacs buffer list. The buffer we started
buffer cycling won't be buried !!! You can configure the keys for
cycling. Therefore set global ibs-cycling-key before loading
ibs.el. You can define which buffers will be used for buffer
cycling. Set global ibs-cycle-buffer-function to a function which
returns a buffer list. The default is buffer-list, which returns
all buffers in recently order. If package bs is loaded the cycling
list of this package will be used.
ibuffer.el
[Colin Walters] 2000-06. Biggest improvement is the addition of the
concept of "limiting". Suppose you're working on a big project, and
you only want to see emacs-lisp-mode buffers. You can use '# m
emacs-lisp-mode RET' to do this. Limits can even be combined; if
you want to see only buffers whole filename contains "gnus", of
size > 2000 characters, then '# f gnus RET # > 2000 RET' should do
the trick. A bit more documentation about this is available by
typing 'h' in an Ibuffer.
Listed in the order of creation; when wheel was invented and then rolled over hill of years....
yic-buffer.el
Young-il Choo choo@cs.yale.edu 1990-08 This is very simple
module, couple of keystroke definitions and 20 lines of lisp. No
special features.
tinybuffer.el
See [Tiny Tools] kit. Got this idea after seeing
yic-buffer.el. See also ticb-:ignore-regexp which defines Buffers
to ignore when changing to another
C-, previous buffer (Think this as < back) C-. Next buffer (Think this as > fwd) A-. sort order on/off (Think this as > sorted)
C-< iswitch mode, select buffer with RET, move with <,> and <.> This mode is special, it shows the buffer name in echo area while you go backward and forward.
This is useful if you have many buffers and just want to skip 2-5 buffers fast. Eg. if the buffers are font-lock conrolled, swithing to them with the C-, and C-, keys would be slow due to fontification which happens every time you ,switch over a buffer. The command prompt looks like following. The mode name is shown only if buffer has no associated file name [mode name has been left out so that full path fits there]
"Iswitch buffer: my-lisp.el ~/elisp/my-lisp.el"
"Iswitch buffer: test <dired> ~/tmp/test"
"Iswitch buffer: *Messages* <fundamental-mode>" |
cycle-buffer.el
[Vladimir Alexiev] 1996-06. Cycle-buffer is yet another way of
selecting buffers. Instead of prompting you for a buffer name,
cycle-buffer switches to the most recently used buffer, and
repeated invocations of cycle-buffer-forward switch to less
recently visited buffers. If you accidentally overshoot, calling
cycle-buffer-backward goes back. You should issue consecutive cycle
command pretty quickly: if there is some intervening command
between two cycling commands, or if a settable timeout expires, the
cycling is reset and the next cycle-buffer will get you to the last
buffer.
I find this to be the fastest buffer-switching mechanism; it's like C-x b <return> w/out the return, but it's not limited to the most recently accessed buffer. Plus you never have to remember buffer names; you just keep cycling until you recognize the buffer you're searching for. The buffer ring is shown in the echo area centered around the current buffer; if you see the name of the buffer you are looking for a few positions away from the center, you can give an argument to cycle-buffer to get directly to it. Positive arguments move to the right, negative arguments to the left. In addition to cycling forward and backward, there are two versions of the command provided: normal and "permissive". The permissive version allows (as per factory settings) buffers of the form bufname, while the normal version does not.
See cycle-buffer-filter = A list of forms that determine if a buffer is considered for switching to. All forms should return non-nil for a buffer to be eligible. The forms are evaluated in the buffer in question, so they can check its buffer-local variables (eg major-mode)
See cycle-buffer-filter-extra = List of forms that are evaluated in addition to cycle-buffer-filter for the non-permissive versions of the cycle-buffer commands.
pc-bufsw.el
[Igor Boukanov] 1998-03. This is an implementation of quick switch
for Emacs buffer that is similar to one that is widely used on PC.
The main idea here is that a user chooses two keys (most often
C-tab and S-C-tab) that switch between buffers according to most or
least recently order. After the final choice is made the last
selected buffer becomes most recently used one.
pc-bufsw::quite-time = automaticaly terminate buffer switch mode.
If there is no input during quite-time seconds
change-windows-intuitively.el
proff@iq.org (See dejanews)
[Julian Assange] 1998-10. Move around (x)emacs windows intuitively
e.g take me to the window to the immediate left/right/top/bottem of
the current one.
[Anders Lindgren] 1999-04. Normally, when I work, I switch between full screen Emacs (displaying two side-by-side windows) and a small frame by using the plain maximize and de-maximize window manager feature. Each time I did this I had to rearrange the windows since two windows in a small frame will make them too narrow... So, eventually, I grew tired of this and wrote this package to make Emacs handle this for me. It is implemented as a global minor mode and can be configuratable using Customize.
[Exerpted from session.el by Christoph Wedler] Packages which maintain an alist (FILENAME . PLACES), set by kill-buffer, used by find-file [method which is used by this package]:
Packages which load all files on startup which have been visited when ending the last emacs session [too slow for me]:
Packages which deal with window configuration:
Desktop.el is a standard Emacs and XEmacs package.
desk-aux.el
[Bill Brodie] 1995-04. This file contains enhancement code for the
Emacs desktop facility (desktop.el) which permits you to:
desktop-kde-recent.el
[Michel Schinz] 2001-03. Each time the desktop is saved (usually
when you exit Emacs), an entry for the desktop is added to KDE's
Recent Document menu. Notice that you can also create a directory
to store only Emacs desktop entries, reference it in
desktop-kde-recent-dir and have a Quick Browser in your KDE panel
showing the contents of that directory. That way you have a nice
menu to start Emacs on your various projects.
desk-phase.el
[Juergen Erhard] 1997-02. This is a little extension for desktop.el
(included in the Emacs distribution since... way back when). If
installed, it automatically 'phases out' buffers that are left
untouched for specified period of time... which, at this time, is
just a certain number of sessions. It's not really that great...
but I didn't find anything of this kind in the LCD, and I use it
constantly (which isn't to say much, because you install it and
then forget about it). Works with GNU Emacs 20.
One important note: This is only tested on Emacs 19.28+ (I think). It certainly works on 19.34 (which I am using at this time). It is NOT guaranteed to work on any other than GNU Emacs... so, no XEmacs (though I don't know any reason it shouldn't work there... uses no esoterics...)
Keep a bookmark file for often used files and text snippets The bookmark file is divided into sections. The section name is put in square brackets (e.g. [Emacs stuff]) The command grabbox-section-menu enables you to navigate through the sections via completion An entry in the grabbox-file can have one of the following formats
F <name> file-path
T <name> file-name-of-ede-project-file
P <name> file-path
;Example .grabbox file
[Emacs Lisp]
F <.emacs> ~/.emacs
F <Grabbox> c:/emacs-20.7/site-lisp/grabbox.el
[Text snippets]
T <reichoer> reichoer@web.de
;An EDE project
P <LEWIS> e:/projects/LewisProgrammer/Project.ede |
Note: Emacs has underdocumented file emacs-lock.el, which you can use to protect buffers from being killed. Function toggle-emacs-lock will lock/unlock current buffer against killing.
[Noah Friedman] The commands defined in this package allow you to create buffers which cannot be killed accidentally. You can mark `precious' buffers, then gleefully kill all the rest of your buffers in the buffer menu. There are two minor modes defined. The first mode protects a buffer only so long as a process is still associated with it. You can use this to keep from killing your shell buffer until you exit the shell process first. The second mode unconditionally prevents a buffer from being killed. Turning off the minor mode makes the buffer killable again.
[Christoph Wedler] If you're looking for the n-th package which saves some variables and buffer places between Emacs sessions, you'll find it after the signature on separate logical pages (there are also some comment lines about related packages). This version only works with XEmacs-19.13+. if I know how to express the following functions in Emacs (i.e. if s.o. sends the answer to me), version 1.2 of this package will also work with Emacs-19.33+.
In [Tiny Tools] Kit.
- load single file on the line
- clear face properties from buffer, so that they don't
disturb your view.
- parse files for loading.
- Show files that cannot be loaded. |
[Hirose Yuuji] This package provides the `named(numbered) frame' that can be selected directly with their name. With revive.el, all frames' displaying buffers, window configurations, specified buffer-local/global variables, and window size can be saved and restored. So you can bring your editing environments accross the time and space! It'll be much more confortable by setting up your X Window System's window manager to work fine with windows.el. See the manual section [For frame users] in the program.
[Noah Friedman]. Noah has given very little explanation about this utility in the package documentation, so unless you know what good the package can do you may miss it very easily. The "screens" mean that your window configuration is saved to screen slot X. Do you know famous SUN-OS screen(1) command that lets you run multiple sessions in one terminal window? That should ring your bell then. Advice - Get it for non-windowed emacs - it puts your emacs into "session screens" where you can alternate very easily: jump to screen 1,2,3 or go forward screens, backward screens. I also recommend that you add entry to your fdb.el so that you don't get tired of the error messages when trying to go to non-existing screen. Here is one setup to get you started, HP-UX kbd specifix bindings
;; Nope, we don't do the (require 'escreen) as Noah suggest,
;; we want to use autoload
(autoload 'escreen-menu-mode "escreen.el" nil t)
(autoload 'escreen-create-screen "escreen.el" nil t)
(autoload 'escreen-kill-screen "escreen.el" nil t)
(autoload 'escreen-goto-screen "escreen.el" nil t)
(autoload 'escreen-goto-last-screen "escreen.el" nil t)
(autoload 'escreen-goto-prev-screen "escreen.el" nil t)
(autoload 'escreen-goto-next-screen "escreen.el" nil t)
(autoload 'escreen-get-current-screen-number "escreen.el" nil t)
(autoload 'escreen-get-active-screen-numbers "escreen.el" nil t)
(autoload 'escreen-help "escreen.el" nil t)
;; C-\ is screen hot-key
(eval-after-load "escreen" '(my-escreen-init))
(defun my-escreen-init ()
(escreen-install)
(define-key escreen-map "\\" 'escreen-goto-screen)
(define-key escreen-map "/" 'escreen-create-screen)
(define-key escreen-map "\[" 'escreen-goto-previous-screen)
(define-key escreen-map "\]" 'escreen-goto-next-screen)
) |
[Kevin Rodgers] 2000-04. By default, a window within an Emacs frame must be selected by typing `C-x o' (other-window) or by clicking mouse-1 on the mode line or the buffer itself (mouse-set-point); this corresponds to a "click to type" window manager policy. follow-mouse.el implements a "focus follows mouse" window manager policy, so that a window is selected when the mouse moves over it.
Similar feature available for Emacs and XEmacs in Tiny Tools Kit tinymy.el
[Emilio lopes] 1998-09. This library provides automatic vertical resizing of windows displaying help buffers subject to a maximal user defined height. To toggle the resizing of help windows use `M-x help-window-resize-mode'.
[Yuji Minejima] This package provides "Screen Lines" minor mode. In this minor mode, the following standard commands move point in terms of screen lines, as opposed to text lines.
`beginning-of-line'
`end-of-line'
`next-line'
`previous-line' |
Screen lines are defined by the way the text appears horizontally on the screen, whereas text lines are defined in terms of newline characters as line delimiters. Screen Lines minor mode should be handy when you edit a file with long lines.
[Josh Buhl] 2000-09. This packages provides sl-screen-line-mode, a minor mode. When activated, editing is performed in terms of screen lines, i.e. independent of line-wrapping. Screen line mode is buffer local. A natural use is for editing DOS-text in which paragraphs are one single wrapped line of text, a new-line character signalling a new paragraph. Another natural use is `all the time', if, like me, you find it annoying trying to get to the middle of a long line, or disconcerting when the cursor jumps down three lines after you've only pushed the down arrow once. sl-screen-line-mode rebinds the standard keys C-n, C-p, C-a, C-e, C-k, up, and down. Functions provided are:
sl-next-screen-line
sl-previous-screen-line
sl-beginning-of-screen-line
sl-end-of-screen-line
sl-kill-screen-line |
This code (except for sl-kill-screen-line, which is still a hack) is integrated with the code for the corresponding standard functions in simple.el, so that if the sl- prefix is everywhere removed, you can use the code as a drop-in replacement for the corresponding functions in simple.el, making them screen-line-mode aware. You could then drop the minor-mode-map-alist, which rebinds the keys. This is important for compatibility (and for me, if I ever even want to hope to get it integrated into the emacs source tree.
Note: due to internal problems in the primitive function vertical-motion of Emacs 21.1 - 21.3, this package may not work correctly. The problems are expected to be fixed in upcoming Emacs versions.
[1998-03 gnu.emacs.sources Ivar Rummelhoff ivarr@ifi.uio.no] Here comes the new version of winner.el that will be distributed with Emacs20.3. It is very much improved since the last version (distributed with Emacs20.2), and now it should work with Emacs19 and XEmacs, too; provided that you are not using an obsolete version of custom. Comments are welcome! (I have removed the buffer switching function winner-switch, since any such function can now be used without disturbing winner-mode too much.)
Winner mode is a global minor mode that records the changes in the window configuration (i.e. how the frames are partitioned into windows) so that the changes can be "undone" using the command winner-undo. By default this one is bound to the key sequence ctrl-x left. If you change your mind (while undoing), you can press ctrl-x right (calling winner-redo). Even though it uses some features of Emacs20.3, winner.el should also work with Emacs19.34 and XEmacs20, provided that the installed version of custom is not obsolete.
[Barry Warsaw] This package provides lightweight support for circular rings of window configurations. A window configuration is the layout of windows and associated buffers within a frame. You can easily push a new window configuration on the ring and create a new window layout, then cycle through the layouts in either direction. You can also delete configurations from the ring (except the last one of course!). Window configurations are named, and you can jump to and delete named configurations. Display of the current window configuration name is only supported in currently unreleased beta versions of Emacs and XEmacs (see below). Window configuration rings are frame specific. That is, each frame has it's own ring which can be cycled through independently of other frames. This is the way I like it.
Offers easy selecting of text. Eg clicking on paren select whole statement...
#todo: Emacs?
[John Heidemann] Provides one-click text copy and move. Rather than the standard stroke-out-a-region (down-mouse-1, up-mouse-1) followed by a yank (down-mouse-2, up-mouse-2 or C-y), you can now stroke out a region and have it automatically pasted at the current point. You can also move text just as easily. Although the difference may not sound like much, it does make mousing text around a lot easier, IMHO.
Now that you're doing things with the mouse, doesn't that scroll bar seem far away when you want to scroll? I also overload mouse-2 to do `throw' scrolling. You click and drag. The distance you move from your original click turns into a scroll amount. The scroll amount is scaled exponentially to make both large moves and short adjustments easy. What this boils down to is that you can easily scroll around the buffer without much mouse movement. Finally, clicks which aren't drags are passed off to the old mouse-2 binding, so old mouse-2 operations (find-file in dired-mode, yanking in most other modes) still work.
Third, we provide an alternative way to scroll, `drag' scrolling. You can click on a character and then drag it around, scrolling the buffer with you. The character always stays under the mouse. Compared to throw-scrolling, this approach provides direct manipulation (nice) but requires more mouse movement (unfortunate). It is offered as an alternative for those who prefer it.
[David Bakhash] This utility which allows the user to control XEmacs by simply moving the mouse in a certain pattern which he/she trained XEmacs to understand as meaning something. For example, if you wanted to train XEmacs to scroll vertically by simply dragging the mouse vertically, then you might define a stroke which is a vertical drag from top-to-bottom to scroll-up
[Per Abrahamsen] If you telnet to remote site through Xterm and you run emacs there, then you must have this package. It allows you to use mouse, while the emacs in remote site is in non-windowed mode.
(and (not window-system)
(or (featurep 'xt-mouse)
(load "xt-mouse" 'noerr 'nomsg))
(xterm-mouse-mode 1)) |
http://cran.mit.edu/~ttn/build/adhoc/src/sja-play.el
[Jay Belanger] 2000-10. This will display (using w3-fetch) certain comic strips. Use M-x read-comic to read the most currently available strip, you will be prompted for a strip, and can (should) use tab completion. With a numeric argument n, M-x read-comic will find the comic from n days before the most current. To add more comics to the list, add an entry to comics-list, as described in the documentation string. By default, there will be a Read Comics submenu in the Tools menu, this can be turned off by setting comics-use-menu to nil.
http://members.fortunecity.com/salkosuo/elite-for-emacs
Sami Salkosuo nospam@newsranger.com
This is EMACS version of classic game Elite.
[Roberto Teixeira] 2000-11. Helps reinforce and spread faith in the ONE TRUE EDITOR. Returns a randomly chosen snippet, which helps you along your search for truth.
[Dave Pearson] 2000-03. Note that the code can handle multiple lines
. o O ( ) ( ) ( )
( ) . o O ( ) ( )
( ) ( ) . o O ( ) |
and bottom-diagonal:
( like this. )
( exceeds )
( line length )
O
o
. |
[Victor Zandy] 1998-06 This package jitters the Emacs window display after N seconds of idle time. (kinda screen saver).
Do you know that Microsift styled paperclip that hangs around your spreadheet or word processor? There was thread in comp.emacs 1998-06-22 and Steve Kemp, Steve Gonedes jgonedes@worldnet.att.net posted some lisp code snippets based on character smileys. Check dejanews with subject "Re: Talking paper clip" which MS designers call "The F(*'n clip". <URL:http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=paperclip&ST=PS &groups=comp.emacs&format=threaded> Also Matthias Warkus mawa@iname.com mawarkus@t-online.de wrote 1998-06-15 "ANNOUNCING paperclip-mode": pclip-psycho: makes the clip psychoanalyse Zippy.
<URL:http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=paperclip-mode&ST=PS&groups=gnu.emacs&format=threaded>
[William Perry] 1998-10. See also workbone, emacs interface to workbone (the audio CD player) and volume (volume control), which both work under GNU/Linux. The goal is to play audio CDs without switching to a shell buffer.
[Matt Hodges] 2000-12. Package to control command line CD players. Just run the cdi-start command, which will pop up a cdi buffer with the status of the CD (eg Playing) and track/artist information. Various functions are bound to keys in the cdi buffer, eg ">" is bound to cdi-next-track - use ? or C-h b to find all the bindings.
[Tony Sideris] 2001-01-23 This file is a frontend to various CDROM burning utilities such as cdrecord, mpg123, and mkisofs (in the future). It is basically just some extensions to dired. Currently only support for burning MP3 files to audio CDs is supported, I haven't gotten to data CD creation yet... this is mainly because data CD creation from the command- line is trivial and has always worked fine for me without a front-end, but I will probably implement it in the future for the hell of it...
[Steve Kemp] This is a small function that I've been working on for a little while now. It allows you to edit the ID3 tags inside MP3's.
[Jean-Philippe Theberge] 2000-11. Some codes and Ideas borrowed from mpg123 by HIROSE Yuuji and mp3-tools.el by Steve Kemp Many Thanks to you Yuuji and Steve.
[Benjamin Drieu] 2000-11. You need workbone to use this program. You also need the volume program to be able to change volume with keystrokes. If you have a Internet connection and cddb.pl, you will be able to have tracks titles on the mode libe (which is cool). Workbone.el is now interfaced with CDDB_get (cddb.pl program), but this program sometimes need to be modified so that it runs in non-interactive mode.
Workbone : /ftp@sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/apps/sound/cdrom/curses
Volume : /ftp@sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/apps/sound/soundcard
cddb.pl : http://armin.emx.at/cddb/ |
Usage is basically the same than the traditionnal workbone, which is driven by the numeric pad. The only difference is that all commands are prefixed by C-x w (w stands for workbone).
+----| number pad |----+
| |
| [] || => | 7 8 9
| | ^ Stop ^ Pause /Resume ^ Play
| < ^^ > | 4 5 6
| | ^ Play previous ^ Restart ^ Play next
| << .. >> | 1 2 3
| | ^ Back 15 ' ^ Eject ^ Forward 15 '
| quit ? | 0 .
| |
+----------------------+
C-x w + : Set the sound up
C-x w - : Set the sound down
C-x w p n : Play track number n |
karlheg@inetarena.com Karl M. Hegbloom 1998-08
For XEmacs only. This is good for things like running newaliases(1) on "/etc/aliases", or xrdb(1) on $HOME/.Xresources, as well as sending signals to daemons whos configuration files you've just finished editting.
[John Wiegley] 1996-04. This mode allows you to align regions in a context-sensitive fashion. The classic use is to align assignments. This file is part of Emacs 21.
a = 1;
foo = 2;
blah = 4; |
becomes
a = 1;
foo = 2;
blah = 4; |
ddutt@cisco.com Dinesh Dutt 2000-04 gnu.emacs.sources
#todo
ftp://sgigate.sgi.com:/pub/archie-aux
jackr@sgi.com Jack Repenning
It provides one command, archie, that'll prompt for something to search for. It'll connect to an archie server and then do the search itself asynchronously so as to not lock up Emacs while waiting for output from the server. When the result arrives, it'll pop up a buffer with the results. Kinda like man.
#todo: Part of Emacs?
[Dave Love] 1998-09. The bindings of DIGIT and C-DIGIT are swapped and a command bound to SPC deals with a numeric prefix arg or acts normally without such an arg. (Absent a window system, you'd probably want to swap DIGIT and M-DIGIT.) I can't exactly commend its use; I think it will break the normal use of SPC in Gnus summary buffers, at least.
[Anders Lannerback] 1998-09 This is a minor mode for people who uses numbers as prefixes more often than to insert them in text. With this minor mode entering a number is roughly equivalent to entering C-u <number>.
[Yuji Minejima] 2000-04. Call Unix manual page & GNU Info viewer with completion. The completions buffer can display possible completions with or without their short descriptions.
[Dan Steinmark] Allows key bindings to be made that are local to the current buffer only, and remain bound in that buffer through major mode changes.
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/calc/
[Eli Barzilay] 1998-11 This calculator is used in the same way as other popular calculators like xcalc or calc.exe - but using a keyboard interface. You can use numbers, binary and unary operators and parens. Here are some of the default keys
[Don Knuth] When using this mode you can colorize the current line with various colors called color-@, color-a, color-b, etc., by saying "C-c@", "C-ca", "C-cb", etc. And C-c DEL will uncolorize a colorized line.
[Alex Schroeder] 2000-02. The main function to call is color-package-select. That creates a buffer for selecting a package to preview. Once in the Color Theme Selection mode use C-h m to get more help. I (Alex Schroeder) rewrote a lot of this package. All the good ideas are Jonadab's ideas, all the bugs are mine.
(require 'color-theme)
;; set default color theme
(color-theme-blue-sea)
;; create some frames with different color themes
(let ((color-theme-is-global nil))
(select-frame (make-frame))
(color-theme-gnome2)
(select-frame (make-frame))
(color-theme-standard)) |
face-list.el mode might be very useful for people developing color-themes... After calling list-faces-display you are put in a special mode that allows you to call 'customize-face' for the face at point with a keystroke. In order to use this for color-theme.el, customize the faces you want without saving them for future sessions, and then use color-theme-print to save your settings in a color-theme (setting the stuff for future sessions would record the face definitions in your ~/.emacs file).
[Noah Friedman] The default Emacs commenting has many limitations and you're much more satisfied with Noah's package.
[Carsten Dominik] 1999-11 Recently I tried to implement M-TAB completion for a case-insensitive Programming language and ran into the following problems:
The code below is a one-function interface for completion in a buffer, Sort or a completing-read for in-buffer completion. It addresses The above issues and a few others as well. The commentary contains Drop-in replacements for AUCTeX's TeX-complete-symbol and for lisp-complete-symbol from lisp.el. You can evaluate these to try out the code.
Originally by Alon Albert alon@milcse.rtsg.mot.com now included in [Tiny Tools] kit. X only. Are you tired of getting completion in separate buffer? With this package, "?" or C-tab, displays completions in separate x-popup instead of buffer. This is for your convience only, not essential package.
[Anders Lindgren] As most Emacs users know, Emacs can fontify source code buffers using the font-lock package. Most of the time it does a really good job. Unfortunately, the syntax of one of the most widely spread languages, C, makes it difficult to fontify variable declarations. This package can search through source files hunting down typedefs. When found, font-lock is informed and your source code will be even more beautifully colored than before.
[Juanma Barranquero] 2001-03.
This package define commands dek-enable-key and dek-disable-key (and aliases enable-key and disable-key, if possible) to allow dynamically disabling and re-enabling keys without the need to search and modify the right keymap. Keys can be disabled and enabled at any time, but the disabling only takes effect when dek-mode is active. This option can be set through customize, or by using the function dek-mode with a positive argument. Setting the variable to t in .emacs before loading dekeys is also supported (though not recommended). The disabling of keys with dekeys is neither global nor local. It can be thought of as associating a disable flag with a pair (key, command). Whenever a dekeys-disabled command is invoked by the user (not from a lisp function), it checks if that key is disabled for the command. If so, the command is not executed. But the binding between a key and a command depends of course of the current keymaps. So in other words, if you disable "q" in a dired buffer, you'll disable quit-window in dired buffers and also in any other mode that has the same binding, but "q" will still be a self-inserting key in text buffers, for example, and quit-window will work if invoked from any other key.
[Will Mengarini] Minor modes each put a word on the mode line to signify that they're active. This can cause other displays, such as % of file that point is at, to run off the right side of the screen. For some minor modes, such as mouse-avoidance-mode, the display is a waste of space, since users typically set the mode in their .emacs & never change it. For other modes, such as my jiggle-mode, it's a waste because there's already a visual indication of whether the mode is in effect. A diminished mode is a minor mode that has had its mode line display diminished, usually to nothing, although diminishing to a shorter word or a single letter is also supported. This package implements diminished modes.
[Eric Ludlam] Etalk is Unix talk running in an emacs buffer.
[Frederic Lepied] These simple functions let you add log entries for files you edit as soon as you want and then insert your log entries in the comment buffer when you commit your changes via the version control tools (vc or cvs). The entries are stored in files with a .flog extension. ie. for a file called foo.bar the entries will be in foo.bar.flog. When the commit is done the corresponding files are deleted.
[Robert Kiesling] 2000-11. gdialog.el uses the standard widget.el package for easier input of simple expressions, and searches all files in the directories below the top-level search directory (the current directory) by default. It also defaults to the use of fgrep (grep -F) for faster searches. Typing "M-x gdialog" creates a window that contains text entry fields where you can enter a text search string, the name of the top-level directory, where the files in that directory and its subdirectories are searched for the search string, and a "Search!" button that will start the subprocess and send the output to an Emacs shell output window. The output window uses compile-mode, so you can use that mode's navigation features (e.g., C-x `) to navigate through the search results.
[Kevin Rodgers] The newest version can be found with Google at <http://groups.google.com/groups?group=gnu.emacs.sources>. If you ever want to grep something from bunch of directories, you can't live without this. It runs on compilation buffer, so normal M-x goto-error puts you right on the file inside emacs. Get this and forget 'grep' that is included in Emacs. See also
tinycache.el - Cache for files loaded e.g. from dired
and compile
tinyigrep.el - Umbrella interface to igrep.el, define search
databases to directories easily |
[John Wiegley] 2000-01. This file allows you to split Emacs customizations (set via M-x customize) into different files, based on the names of the variables. It uses a regexp to match against each face and variable name, and associates with a file that the variable should be stored in.
Irchat
http://people.ssh.fi/tri/irchat/
tri@iki.fi Timo J. Rinne
Included in XEmacs
This package is feature rich and included in XEmacs distribution. Recommended. Irchat 4.0 supports also MSN Messenger protocol.
Erc - Emacs IRC
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EmacsIRCClient
ERC is an IRC client for Emacs/XEmacs. It supports multiple channel presence, elaborate faces' setup, pals' list, and some other nice features. It's capabilities should be sufficient for most of IRChatters. There is ARCH mirror at <http://www.mwolson.org/cgi-bin/archzoom/archzoom.cgi/mwolson@gnu.org--2005/erc?expand>
$ tla register-archive http://www.mwolson.org/archives/2005 |
ZenIRC
http://www.zenirc.org/
#todo: emacs?
[Bob Glickstein] 1997. Ishl has been approved for inclusion in an upcoming release of Emacs, under the name isearch-lazy-highlight. Ishl stands for "incremental search highlighting." Normally, incremental search highlights the current match for the search string using the "region" face. This package uses the "secondary selection" face to highlight all the other matches, too. This makes it easier to anticipate where the cursor will land each time you press C-s or C-r to repeat a pending search forward or backward.
[Ron Isaacson] lprint is a quick and easy way to print from Emacs to the LOCAL printer. If I'm at home and I dial in by modem to my account and run Emacs, the local printer is the one sitting on my desk at home, connected to my home computer.
ftp://ftp.mathworks.com/pub/contrib/emacs_add_ons/
ftp://ftp.mathworks.com/pub/contrib/v5/tools/
[Alex Schroeder] 1999-02. master-mode is a minor mode which enables you to scroll another buffer (the slave) without leaving your current buffer (the master). It is used by sql.el, for example: The SQL buffer is the master and the SQLi buffer commands are sent to is the slave. This allows you to scroll the SQLi buffer containing the output of the commands you sent it from the SQL buffer.
#todo
xmda@hotmail.com Mathias 2000-04
http://mathias.dahl.net/pgm/emacs/elisp/mss.el
#todo: obsolete?
http://www.cs.indiana.edu:800/LCD/
happy@negia.net Mark Plaksin
Manage multiple term buffers with ease. Multi-term associates a string with each term. This string is used to decide which term to create or switch to when multi-term is called.
For example `(multi-term ?c)' will do the following:
So, use `(multi-term ?c)' to create or switch to a term, and give it a prefix arg. if you want to force it to create a new term.
#todo
http://www.cs.indiana.edu:800/LCD/cover.html?next-screen-line
kamat@ece.UC.EDU Govind N. Kamat 1992
Often having to edit files with more than 80 columns, I prefer that next-line and previous-line not jump over wrapped continuation lines. Here is a drop-in replacement for next-line-internal that moves the cursor by screen lines rather than newline-separated lines. This is especially handy while editing binary files. The functions beginning-of-line and end-of-line, bound to C-a and C-e respectively, are also redefined to behave similarly. Nothing is different when these functions are called non-interactively, so other packages should not be affected. During interactive use, the old behavior can be had by setting the variable next-line-move-newlines to true.
[Mikael Sjodin] Pager provides new scroll-commands. Emacs builtins (scroll-down and scroll-up) sucks!! With my commands a page-up followed by a page-down command will return the point to same place where it was before the page-up command.
[John Wiegley] 1999-08. This module provides a programmable completion facility using "completion functions". Each completion function is responsible for producing a list of possible completions relevant to the current argument position.
[Jesper Pedersen] When you have loaded this packages Emacs will, upon comletion of macro definition, ask you which key you want to assign this macro to and ask for a description of the macro. If something is already bound to this key, Emacs will ask you whether you want to override this binding. Furthermore, this package also takes care of saving the macro to your .emacs file for later Emacs sessions. The most notable difference to tinymacro.el is the macro manage buffer. Which lets you move macros to other keys, move a macro from being defined for one major-mode to another, and so on.
[Vinicius Latorre] 2000-04. This package provides some printing utilities that includes previewing/printing a PostScript file, printing a text file and previewing/printing some major modes (like mh-folder-mode, rmail-summary-mode, gnus-summary-mode, etc). Printing.el was inspired on:
printing.el is prepared to run on Unix and NT systems. On Unix system, printing depends on gs and gv utilities. On NT system, printing.el depends on gstools (gswin32.exe and gsview32.exe). To obtain ghostscript, ghostview and GSview see the URL http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/.
[Kyle Jones] Emacs' normal undo system allows you to undo an arbitrary number of buffer changes. These undos are recorded as ordinary buffer changes themselves. So when you break the chain of undos by issuing some other command, you can then undo all the undos. The chain of recorded buffer modifications therefore grows without bound, truncated only at garbage collection time.The redo/undo system is different in two ways:
[Detlev Zundel] 1998-09. This mode provides sort of a dired buffer to interact with the rpm utility used on some Linux systems to manage software packages. The mode starts up by displaying all installed packages. You can then get detailed informations on a specific package, verify, install/uninstall a package or check/list dependencies. In the detailed information buffer you can easily visit listed files e.g. to check readme's or other documentation stuff. rpm-mode also hooks into dired mode, so you can easily install a file (or tagged files) from a dired buffer.It's generally a nice way to browse through the packages without having to remember the syntax of rpm.
My primary intention was NOT to read .rpm files and view/edit parts of it but to construct a front-end for rpm for GNU Emacs. It is very useful if you want to browse the installed packages, perform operations on them, etc. So the mode does not read raw .rpm files but rather uses "rpm" to do all the processing. But it would of course be nice to preview .rpm-files before the installation and indeed Bart Schaefer has mailed an extension to arc-mode.el to me that implements exactly that functionality. I think that arc-mode is the natural place for an rpm-mode as an rpm-file is rather an archive than a compressed file and Bart wrote the code already so why not use it.
#todo
ftp://mandrakesoft.com/pub/chmou/rpm-spec-mode-mdk.el
[Stig Bjorlykke] A major mode (rpm-spec-mode) for XEmacs for editing spec files used for building RPM packages. Also sh-script.el contains code that groks RPM files.
[Kyle Jones] The vi's nu command emulator that put's the line numbers as glyphs in the buffer.
Sql mode
sql.el is part of current versions of Emacs and XEmacs
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/6120/emacs.html
a.schroeder@bsiag.ch Alex Schroeder 1998-09
sql.el@gnu.org
MailingList sql.el-request@gnu.org with subscribe sql.el FIRSTNAME LASTNAME in the message body.
...I wrote a SQL mode for Emacs 20.3 based on comint-mode. I use it a lot whenever I need a decent interface for Oracle's SQL*Plus. sql-interactive-mode is used to interact with a SQL interpreter process in the SQL buffer. The SQL buffer is created by calling a SQL interpreter-specific entry function. Do not call sql-mode by itself - some variables must be set by the entry function. This sql-mode doesn't try to do what many other sql-modes can do much better, such as Peter D. Pezaris' sql-mode or any of the many other SQL modes available. It's only goal is to be small and simple and to provide syntax hilighting. The following interpreters are supported:
SQL mode for MySql suport
Look at one sql mode by [Espen Wiborg].
PostgreSQL pg.el
[Eric Marsden] 1999-03. pg.el provides a socket-level interface to
the PostgreSQL object-relational database system. It is capable of
automatic type coercions from a range of SQL types to the
equivalent Emacs Lisp type.
[Hrvoje Niksic] This package might be useful to people who use Oracle's SQL*Plus in a shell buffer. It massages the output of SQL*Plus to format it into nice-looking tables a la mysql's command line client. This is feasible thanks to the fact that SQL*Plus has an option to produce HTML output, and that links and w3 handle HTML tables nicely. For the mode to work, you will need a working w3 package or the links external browser (lynx won't do because it doesn't handle tables.) Start the sqlplus client in a comint (i.e. shell) buffer. Then execute `M-x sqlplus-html-setup', and you should be all set
Mark Rubin 1993-09 no email known
See if LCD has this, dejanews don't
Playing guitar? Want to write tab for others? This is handy tool for it.
Note: Emacs 20.3 introduced key binding C-x z (repeat) which repeats the previous command.
[Will Mengarini] This package defines a command that repeats the preceding command, whatever that was. The command is called vi-dot because the vi editor, Emacs's arch-rival among the Great Unwashed, does that when "." is pressed in its command mode. If the preceding command had a prefix argument, that argument is applied to the vi-dot command, unless the vi-dot command is given a new prefix argument, in which case it applies that new prefix argument to the preceding command. This means a key sequence like C-u - C-x C-t can be repeated. (It shoves the preceding line upward in the buffer.).
Currently available for Emacs 20.2+ [Url location unknown]
[Michael Staats] 1997-08-28 comp.emacs pc-select.el, which is a part of the standard distribution of GNU emacs, now also works with XEmacs (following a suggestion from Don Mahurin dmahurin@dmapub.dma.org). At least as far as I tested it up to now.
[Vinicius Latorre] 2000-12. This package provides some printing utilities that includes previewing/printing a PostScript file, printing a text file and previewing/printing some major modes (like mh-folder-mode, rmail-summary-mode, gnus-summary-mode, etc). Printing.el is prepared to run on Unix and NT systems. On Unix system, Printing.el depends on gs and gv utilities. On NT system,Printing.el depends on gstools (gswin32.exe and gsview32.exe). To obtain ghostscript, ghostview and GSview see the URL <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/>. Printing.el also depends on ps-print and lpr GNU Emacs packages. Printing.el was inspired on:
[Bruce Ingalls] ftp://ftp.cppsig.org/pub/tools/emacs/
[Vinicius Latorre] Print font lock color buffers. Comees with Emacs 19.34+
[Volker Franz] ps-print-interface.el is a graphical front end for ps-print. If you want to print a buffer, it gives you an interface with buttons and menus which looks roughly like below. Currently, ps-print-interface.el is still mainly for XEmacs. However, I hope soon to be able to include some suggestions Vinicius (the author of printing.el) made for GNU emacs. All the options can be set or selected easily.
| Buffer to print : *scratch*
|
| General settings: * Region only
| - orientation : portrait * Faces
| - columns : 1 * Line numbers
| - font size : 8.5 * Zebra stripes
|
| Margins:
| - left : 2.0 cm
| - inter column : 2.0 cm
| - right : 2.0 cm
| - top : 1.5 cm
| - bottom : 1.5 cm
|
| * Header with * frame:
| - offset : 1.0 cm
| - title font size: 14
| - text font size : 12
|
| Printer:
| - paper type : a4 * Duplex printer
| - pages per sheet: 1
| - lpr-command : lpr
| - lpr-switches : [INS]
|
| Customize; after customize do: [update form].
|
| Preview PrintToPrinter ResetToSavedOrStandardValues Cancel Help |
[Dave Pearson] 1999-05. uptimes provides a simple system for tracking and displaying the uptimes of your emacs sessions. Simply loading uptimes.el from your ~/.emacs file will start the tracking of any session.
[Kim Storm] CUA mode provides a complete emulatation of the standard CUA key bindings (Motif/Windows/Mac GUI) for selecting and manipulating the region where S-<movement> is used to highlight & extend the region and (almost) transparently allows you to use the C-z, C-x, C-c, and C-v keys as you are accustomed to on systems like Windows. In addition to the basic functionality, CUA-mode has integrated rectangle and <register support, as well as a global mark feature - all using C-x, C-c and C-v rather than the normal plethora of obscure key sequences!
The following CUA keys ARE rebound:
C-z -> undo
C-v -> paste |
and now for the added bonus: When the region is currently active (and highlighted since transient-mark-mode is used), the C-x and C-c keys will work as CUA keys. When the region is not active, C-x and C-c works as prefix keys!
C-x -> cut
C-c -> copy |
This has a few drawbacks (such as not being able to copy the region into a register using C-x r x), but it is not too serious since there are other ways to do most things (e.g. I use C-u C-x r x a C-v to copy the region to register a). And in the few cases where you make a mistake and delete the region - you just undo the mistake (with C-z).
[Jan Vroonhof] This file emulates the mouse selection behaviour of FSF Emacs, mostly based on descriptions of it on USENET. In particular
See directory fsf-compat/ in your XEmacs installation. These packages solve most of the incompatibities while porting from Emacs to XEmacs. Eg timer.el vs. itimer.el
[Part of X/Emacs] [Denis Howe] 1995-04. This package provides functions which read a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) from the minibuffer, defaulting to the URL around point, and ask a World-Wide Web browser to load it. It can also load the URL associated with the current buffer. Different browsers use different methods of remote control so there is one function for each supported browser. If the chosen browser is not running, it is started. Currently there is support for: netscape , mosaic, cci, w3, w3-gnudoit, iximosaic, lynx-*, grail, mmm, generic.
Check also general url browser package, tinyurl.el. It is a minor mode that you can turn on in any buffer. It's built on top of browse-url.el.
[maintainer] As a package writer, you should make it compatible with custom; so that novice emacs users can change settings of the package easily. Note that if your Emacs is not 20+ or XEmacs 20.3+, you're bets served by Noah Friedman's cust-stub.el custom emulation library by [Noah Friedman]
[Anders Lindgren] Emacs 20.3 implemented debug-ignored-errors which does the same thing as Anders's package. The same variable is available in XEmacs too.
Note: This is obsolete and old, Included in XEmacs. There also was fa-extras.el which was and add-on to filladapt.el
[Kyle Jones] These functions enhance the default behavior of Emacs' Auto Fill mode and the commands fill-paragraph, lisp-fill-paragraph and fill-region-as-paragraph. The chief improvement is that the beginning of a line to be filled is examined and, based on information gathered, an appropriate value for fill-prefix is constructed. Also the boundaries of the current paragraph are located. This occurs only if the fill prefix is not already non-nil. The net result of this is that blurbs of text that are offset from left margin by asterisks, dashes, and/or spaces, numbered examples, included text from USENET news articles, etc. are generally filled correctly with no fuss.
Mike Williams mikew@gopher.dosli.govt.nz 1993-11. Emacs 19.30 ships with view-mode converted to minor mode, If you have older Emacs, ftp this, so that you can enjoy the minor mode interface.
[Noah Friedman] 1994-03. Emacs 19.30 changed the behavior of execute-extended-command (i.e. the command which lets you run other commands by typing ``M-x foo'' so that if the variable suggest-key-bindings is set, it prints the keybinding (if any) of the command to help you learn shortcuts.
Emacs prior 19.35 show binding before the command execution, which is not good.
[Part of XEmacs 19.15 and Emacs 20.x] ...way to say RMAIL, that the outgoing Mail should be sent immediatly by the computer which is directly connected with the internet and not with the computer on which emacs is installed. Since it last about some minutes until the mail RELAY is used to sent the mail further.
(autoload 'smtpmail-send-it "smtpmail")
(setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "address.of.your.mail.gateway"
message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) |
By Barry Warsaw. [This package is part of Emacs and XEmacs] A working address is supercite-help@python.org and supercite@python.org for the mailing list. Not actively maintained, so please contact Barry if you want to take over the maintenance. See Barry's message 1999-02-12 in gnu.emacs.help. <URL:http://search.dejanews.com/msgid.xp?MID=%3C6190e4urvj.fsf@anthem.cnri.reston.va.us%3E>
;; Example how to customise.
(add-hook 'sc-load-hook 'sc-setup-filladapt)
(setq message-cite-function 'sc-cite-original)
(setq sc-citation-leader "")
(setq sc-preferred-header-style 2)
(setq sc-citation-delimiter-regexp "[>]+[ >]*")
(setq sc-auto-fill-region-p nil)
(setq sc-fixup-whitespace-p nil) |
Term.el offers nice termcap colorings in the buffer. Eg. you can run lynx, small and fast web browser, inside your emacs buffer. Here is my setup how to run Lynx in my 19.28. I use tinyurl.el to swing along the HTTP reference in mail posts
(setq browse-url-save-file t) ;; always save before showing
(setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-lynx-emacs)
(setq browse-url-lynx-emacs-choice 'term)
(add-hook 'term-mode-hook 'my-term-mode-hook)
;; This allows lynx to start.
(setq term-term-name "vt100")
(defun my-term-mode-hook ()
"term.el settings. Rememebr, the escape Char is C-c."
(setq mode-name "Eterm")
;; Make my yellow color face
(defvar my-fc-yellow
(progn
(make-face 'my-face-yellow)
(set-face-foreground 'my-face-yellow "yellow")
'my-face-yellow))
;; Lynx link color
(setq term-face-bold my-fc-yellow)
;; Lynx, the link selection (cursor up/down/move) face
(setq term-face-highlight 'highlight)) |
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/w3/
ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/emacs-w3/w3.tar.gz
wmperry@aventail.com wmperry@cs.indiana.edu William Perry
MailingList: Majordomo@majordomo.ucs.indiana.edu subscribe w3-beta
cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/w3 login
[empty string for password]
cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/w3 co w3 |
Example of mywebget.pl <http://perl-webget.sourceforge.net/> and result of running mywebget-emacs.conf to generate site-lisp/net hierarchy. The basic idea of the structure is:
ROOT ( /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ or $HOME/elisp )
common
| Files that can be used in Emacs and XEmacs,
| these files have been picked from
| gnu.emacs.sources or from mailing lists.
| Files do not have a homepage.
|
| lcd OHIO OSU Lisp code directory
| other
| programming
| win32 win32 only files
|
emacs Files that work only in EMACS
| users By person name
| packages By package name
| other Miscellaneous
|
xemacs Files that work only in XEMACS
| users By person name
| packages By package name
| other Miscellaneous
|
net Packages available from net, URL exists.
cvs-packages Packages that can be updated via CVS pserver
|
packages Packages, that consist of multiple files
|
users Individual user packages from their homepages. |
Here is the structure as reported by perl program ddir.pl Emacs ackage tinypath.el allows putting files easily under multiple directories and auto-configures Emacs as needed if you move/rename/delete directories.
+--xemacs/
+--emacs/
| +--win32/
| | +--gnuserv/
| | +--other/
| +--users/
| | +--kevinr/
| | +--alex/
| | +--johnw/
| +--tmp-new-emacs/
| +--other/
| | +--mode/
| +--mime/
| | +--apel-9.13/
| +--emacs-20.5/
| +--packages/
| | +--pcl-cvs-2.9.9/
| | +--tmp-obsolete/
+--common/
| +--media/
| +--www/
| | +--jsp/
| | +--css/
| | +--docbookide/
| | +--misc/
| | +--url/
| +--win32/
| +--users/
| | +--kevinr/
| +--programming/
| | +--sql/
| | +--perl/
| | +--java/
| | | +--util/
| | | +--jde/
| | | +--jar/
| | +--elisp/
| | | +--dev/
| | | +--user/
| | +--idl/
| | +--cc/
| | | +--cparse/
| | +--vb/
| | +--misc/
| | +--tags/
| +--other/
| | +--dired/
| | +--data/
| | +--text/
| | +--system/
| | +--packages/
| | | +--compile2/
| | | +--xref/
| | | +--footnote/
| | | +--gnuserv-2.1alpha/
| | +--mode/
| | +--misc/
| | +--log/
| | +--fun/
| | +--crypt/
| | +--buffer/
| | +--file/
| +--mime/
| | +--flim-1.12.5/
| +--mail/
| | +--bbdb/
| | +--pop/
| | +--rmail/
| | +--gnus/
| | +--spam/
| | +--misc/
| +--vc/
| | +--cvs-contrib/
| | +--clearcase/
| | +--rcs-contrib/
| | +--sourcesafe/
| +--LCD/
| +--INFO/
+--tmp/
+--net/
+--cvs-packages/
| +--gnus/
| | +--contrib/
| | +--etc/
| | | +--gnus/
| | | +--smilies/
| | +--lisp/
| | +--texi/
| | +--ps/
| +--bbdb/
| | +--bits/
| | | +--bbdb-filters/
| | | | +--doc/
| | | | | +--formatted/
| | +--html/
| | | +--images/
| | | +--patches/
| | +--lisp/
| | +--misc/
| | +--tex/
| | +--texinfo/
| | +--utils/
| +--mailcrypt/
| +--gnu/
| | +--w3/
| | | +--contrib/
| | | +--etc/
| | | | +--w3/
| | | | | +--pixmaps/
| | | +--lisp/
| | | +--tests/
| | | +--texi/
| | +--url/
| | | +--lisp/
| | | +--texi/
| +--cc-mode/
| | +--Distrib/
| | +--admin/
| | +--tests/
| +--tnt/
| +--emacro/
| | +--contrib/
| | +--doc/
| | +--i18n/
| | +--packages/
| | +--programmer/
| +--devel/
| +--jess-mode/
| | +--jess-mode/
| +--ILISP/
| | +--docs/
| | +--extra/
| | +--pictures/
| +--lookup/
| | +--lisp/
| | +--texi/
| | +--web/
| | +--images/
| | +--info/
| | +--ja/
| | +--eblook/
| | +--guide/
| | +--howto/
| | +--images/
| | +--info/
| | +--lists/
| | +--manual/
| +--liece/
| +--contrib/
| +--dcc/
| +--doc/
| +--etc/
| | +--icons/
| | +--po/
| | +--styles/
| +--lisp/
+--packages/
| +--template/
| | +--templates/
| | +--lisp/
| | +--examples/
| +--psgml-1.2.1/
| +--eieio-0.15/
| +--X/
| +--semantic-1.3.2/
| +--artist-1.2.3/
| +--dcsh-mode-1.2/
| +--tramp/
| | +--lisp/
| | +--texi/
| +--eshell/
| | +--eshell-2.4.1/
| | +--pcomplete-1.1.6/
| +--records-1.4.8/
| +--notes-mode-1.16/
| | +--HTML/
| +--irchat-20001203/
| +--jde-2.2.6beta7/
| | +--lisp/
| | +--doc/
| | | +--ug/
| | | | +--images/
| | | +--src/
| | | | +--ug/
| | | | +--images/
| | | +--jdebug/
| | | | +--ug/
| | | | +--images/
| | | +--tli_rbl/
| | | +--au/
| | | +--img/
| | | +--txt/
| | +--java/
| | +--classes/
| | | +--jde/
| | | +--wizards/
| | | +--parser/
| | | +--util/
| | +--lib/
| | +--doc/
| | | +--jde/
| | | | +--debugger/
| | | | +--command/
| | | | +--expr/
| | | | +--spec/
| | +--src/
| | | +--jde/
| | | +--wizards/
| | | +--debugger/
| | | | +--expr/
| | | | +--spec/
| | | | +--interpret/
| | | | | +--syntaxtree/
| | | | | +--visitor/
| | | | +--command/
| | | +--parser/
| | | | +--syntaxtree/
| | | | +--visitor/
| | | +--util/
| | +--bsh-commands/
| | +--bsh/
| | +--commands/
| +--elib-1.0/
| +--vera-mode-2.6/
| +--EDE-0.6/
| +--index-2000.1218/
| +--mirror.tar.gz-2001.0104/
| +--lout-mode/
| +--speedbar-0.11.1/
| +--xslt-process-1.0/
| | +--java/
| | | +--xslt/
| | +--lisp/
| | +--doc/
| +--html-helper-mode-2000.1225/
| +--sml-mode-3.9.5/
| +--eicq-0.2.5/
| | +--etc/
| +--x-symbol-beta/
| | +--etc/
| | +--fonts/
| | +--man/
| | +--www/
| | +--info/
| | +--staging/
| | +--lisp/
| | +--origfonts/
| +--ep-2.0/
| +--basic4e/
| | +--readmes/
| +--dired-dd-0.9.1.18/
| | +--spinout/
| | +--contrib/
| | +--non-dired-drop/
| +--marche-1.12/
| +--gnuplot-mode/
| | +--Win9x/
| +--hm--html-menus/
| | +--doc/
| +--view-process-mode/
| +--vm-folder/
| +--auto-insert-tkld-1.23/
| | +--insert/
| +--mkhtml-1.1/
| +--mmm-mode-0.4.6/
| +--tmp-ttn-pers-elisp-1.36/
| +--info/
| +--lisp/
| | +--bofh/
| | +--import/
| | +--low-stress/
| | +--editing/
| | +--core/
| | +--term/
| | +--prog-env/
| | +--mail-n-news/
| | +--diversions/
| +--doc/
+--users/
+--riebel-rob/
+--sjodin-mikael/
+--owen-gareth/
+--heideman-john/
+--howe-dennis/
+--ludlam-eric/
+--walters-colin/
+--fouts-martin/
+--theberge-jean/
+--lauri-gian/
+--niksic-hrvoje/
+--warsaw-barry/
+--blaak-ray/
+--000-misc/
+--johnson-bryan/
+--hirose-yuuji/
+--moshin-ahmed/
+--zundel-detlev/
+--marsden-eric/
+--bakhash-david/
+--jones-kyle/
+--dirson-yann/
+--schwenke-martin/
| +--desire/
| | +--appt/
| | +--bbdb/
| | +--browse-url/
| | +--calendar/
| | +--diary/
| | +--gnus/
| | +--gnuserv/
| | +--html-helper-mode/
| | +--hugs-mode/
| | +--latex/
| | +--lispdir/
| | +--message/
| | +--sendmail/
| | +--shell/
| | +--sqlplus-mode/
| | +--supercite/
| | +--tex/
| | +--todo-mode/
| | +--vm/
| | +--w3/
| | +--mailcrypt/
| +--mms/
+--serrano-manuel/
+--jump-theodore/
| +--bin/
| +--VisEmacs-2.1.1/
| | +--Debug/
| | +--Release/
| | +--res/
| +--regsetup.zip-2000.1225/
| +--w32-dev-env-0.zip/
| | +--w32hhelp/
| | +--samples/
| +--w32-print-1-13-4/
| | +--bin/
| | +--samples/
| +--w32-winmsg-1-6-3.zip/
| | +--mingw32/
| | +--nmake/
+--wiegley-john/
+--burton-brent/
+--barzilay-eli/
+--friedman-noah/
+--ravel-bruce/
+--lord-philip/
+--muenkel-heiko/
+--lopez-emilio/
+--casadonte-joe/
+--pearson-dave/
+--clausen-lars/
+--grossjohan-kai/
+--bihlmeyer-robert/
+--tziperman-eli/
+--dyke-neil/
+--jackson-trey/
+--moody-ray/
+--garshol-lars/
+--breton-tom/
+--lepied-frederick/
+--knuth-don/
+--predescu-ovidiu/
+--zakharevich-ilya/
+--latorre-vinicius/
+--englen-stephen/
+--wright-francis/
+--milliken-peter/
+--dominik-carsten/
+--ponce-david/
+--manning-carl/
+--dickow-ulrik/
+--minar-nelson/
+--monnier-stefan/
+--karunakaran-rajeev/
+--chen-gongquan/
+--burton-kevin/
+--shulman-michael/
+--yankowski-fred/
+--konerding-david/
+--goel-deepak/
| +--2.7.1release/
| | +--help/
| | | +--ex_article/
| | | +--usrguide/
+--minejima-yuji/
+--sebold-charles/
+--kemp-steve/
+--glickstein-bob/
+--hodges-matt/
+--zhu-shenghuo/
+--youngs-steve/
+--galbraith-peter/
+--osterlund-peter/
+--wedler-cristoph/
+--mengarini-will/
+--davidson-kevin/
+--lindgren-anders/
+--sharman-richard/
+--teixeira-roberto/
+--storm-kim/
+--pedersen-jesper/
+--grigni-michelangelo/
+--staats-michael/
+--broubaker-heddy/
+--berry-karl/
+--kleinpaste-karl/
+--carpenter-bill/
+--conrad-christoph/
+--edmonds-brian/
+--sylvester-olaf/
+--vaidheeswarran-rajesh/
+--perry-william/
+--kadlec-albrecht/
+--lannerback-anders/
+--liljenberg-peter/
+--boukanov-igor/
+--burgett-steve/
+--steverud-jonas/
+--gorrell-harley/
+--seiichi-namba/
+--nickelsen-jorgen/
+--sasser-dewey/
+--schroeder-alex/
+--breton-peter/
+--deleuze-christophe/
+--bjorlykke-stig/
+--wiborg-espen/
+--sprenger-karel/
+--padioleau-yoann/
+--brodie-bill/
+--drieu-benjamin/
+--belanger-jay/
+--ingrand-francois/
+--josefsson-simon/
+--rush-david/ |
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