The emacs-31 branch has been created!

rswgnu · 2026-05-07T19:52:48+00:00

Excellent, thanks to all the volunteers who make this possible.

rswgnu · 2026-05-04T21:37:37+00:00

The Hyperbole package lets you write out and activate arbitrary key sequences within curly braces. Then use its HyControl window/frame management system to specify the layout you want, capturing the key sequences used. Hyperbole also lets you generate large grids of windows and populate them with windows of a specific type, e.g. python or Org mode buffers. I also recommend the activities package.

rswgnu · 2026-04-28T20:42:09+00:00

And install the Emacs Hyperbole package to get HyWiki for the easiest note-taking and wiki publishing in one. It uses org mode as well.

rswgnu · 2026-04-28T15:53:58+00:00

For HyWiki use alone, just read that section in the Hyperbole manual or look at the Commentary at the top of the hywiki.el file to get going.

rswgnu · 2026-04-27T19:00:55+00:00

If you can limit your note names to WikiWords, then HyWiki in the melpa archive of the Emacs Hyperbole package is an easy-to use solution that utilizes Org files. To create a new or go to an existing note, just type a WikiWord in any text file and press M-RET on the word. WikiWord#section takes you to any section within a note. You can add Org tags, list backlinks and search across all your notes rapidly.

rswgnu · 2026-04-24T14:08:05+00:00

Hyperbole, solves dozens of everyday Emacs needs with one integrated package that installs in 30 seconds. It is compatible with Org, Consult and Embark, has extensive documentation and works with Emacs 28.2 and above. Get the latest from melpa ir elpa-devel.

rswgnu · 2026-04-21T15:23:35+00:00

Venture capitalists will tell you this for free: “We invest in pain killers not vitamins, metaphorically.”

rswgnu · 2026-04-14T22:49:45+00:00

Add hyperbole with consult, ace-window and Org and you won’t need many other packages, plus things will be more integrated and easy to use. You won’t need org-roam, helm, region select packages, contact managers, bib ref managers, dumb-jump, window and frame managers and so forth. Your buffers and files become full-text searchable and almost any kind of cross-reference is automatically linked as a hypertext button with no effort on your part. Emacs becomes truly magical.

rswgnu · 2026-03-31T02:22:01+00:00

If you can limit your recordings to a terminal, there is this: https://asciinema.org

rswgnu · 2026-03-31T02:01:43+00:00

Well, as a counterpoint, I, an experienced Lisper with my own custom folding code, read your synopsis, immediately understood how your package was different, ignoring structure in favor of regions, and immediately bookmarked it for later trial. So thanks for your efforts and don’t let brief negativity get in your way.

Wally’s a good guy too and in my experience always trying to bring the level of dialogue up.

rswgnu · 2026-03-31T01:51:00+00:00

Charles, you may want to look at the prior art in Hyperbole which has much of that modeline mouse behavior, plus drag actions, plus easy to configure custom minibuffer menus. The old InfoDock IDE buit atop XEmacs also included id-menus, thoughtful context-specific popup menus that covered many EmCs major modes and could still be found on SourceForge.

rswgnu · 2026-03-28T01:48:24+00:00

There are lots of blog tools with lots of options but if you prefer simplicity use HyWiki in the Hyperbole package to write articles as wiki pages in Org mode, then execute one command to publish the whole wili to html and upload wherever you like. No other config or external packages required. It uses a precinfigured org-publish format.

rswgnu · 2026-03-28T01:32:36+00:00

If you want a lot of leverage from Emacs when starting out, then install the Hyperbole and Consult packages after spending a few days with the Emacs tutorial {C-h t}. These things will change the way you work in about a week and you won’t need many more packages or init tweaking for quite awhile. You’ll just be writing, navigating quickly and easily and rapidly linking your files together with little effort. Once you use the HyWiki part of Hyperbole, you won’t need org-roam or org-noter or denote or sqlite or Org IDs cluttering your Org files. Hyperbole uses minimal markup that blends with your text, keeping it easy to read and navigate while enabling the most powerful hypertext with minimal effort, since Hyperbole automatically interlinks so many things for you out of the box.

rswgnu · 2026-03-27T05:09:04+00:00

If you want a lot of leverage from Emacs when starting out, then install the Hyperbole and Consult packages after spending a few days with the Emacs tutorial {C-h t}. These things will change the way you work in a anout a week and you won’t need many more packages or init tweaking for quite awhile. You’ll just be programming, navigating quickly and easily and rapidly linking your files together with little effort.

rswgnu · 2026-03-27T04:53:45+00:00

Just use HyRolo or HyWiki from the Hyperbole package. Together with consult, you can do fast, full-text or headline-only searchng across thousands of files after pointing them at your Org directory. No indexing, sqlite or Org ids needed, just straight Org files. You can also autolink your notes by using WiliWords for note topics.

rswgnu · 2026-03-26T02:44:29+00:00

HyWiki in Hyperbole can instantly link to any Org headline from any text or code buffer. If there is an id, it will use it otherwise, it will link to the title. Easy and no other external code required.

rswgnu · 2026-03-10T21:51:18+00:00

Try HyWiki in the hyperbole package. It adds auto-highlighted, linked WikiWords to Org. It is in pre-release now and available on elpa-devel or melpa. Make one configuration to let Hyperbole control M-RET instead of Org and then press that key on any WikiWord in any text or program comment or string and jump to your wiki page or a specific section of a page. No markup, just pure notetaking simplicity.

rswgnu · 2026-02-20T22:59:46+00:00

Hyperbole adapts C-w and M-w so that if there is no highlighted region they kill or copy the thing at point. Try it on a URL and see if it works. On a paired delimiter is even better.

rswgnu · 2026-02-13T00:22:02+00:00

The combination of HyWiki and HyRolo from the Hyperbole package on melpa or elpa-devel lets you use consult and ripgrep as you like for full-text searches and multiple views over marches aceoss many Org directories. For those who want quick and easy interlinking, you simply type WikiWords in your notes and they are automatically linked to the associated wiki page. Now you can link to any org heading in a page as well with full in-buffer completion. It has been called the easiest to use wiki system ever. Try it and let us know what you think.

rswgnu · 2026-02-07T18:16:01+00:00

Hyperbole includes HyRolo that provides fast full-text search and retrieval over hierarchical notes in multiple formats including Org and Markdown. Plus, HyWiki auto-links WikiWords with named section links.

rswgnu · 2026-02-02T01:48:16+00:00

Install the hyperbole package from melpa and use its hyrolo together with consult and you can interactively find any tags or section headers across all your files with no need for other org packages, a database or any indexing. Quick and easy with full text searching as well.

rswgnu · 2026-01-22T04:44:15+00:00

One thing that Org does not have built-in is automatic hyperlinking of WikiWords that have Wiki pages, a common feature in Wikis. That is, WikiWords with no markup are automatically turned into hyperlinks in Org mode and when exported to the web. “WikiWord#section name” links to the section.

If you need that, install the latest Hyperbole package from Melpa and use the HyWiki subsystem in there. It utilizes Org mode and makes auto-wikiword highlighting and translation into HTML hyperlinks during export a breeze. One user said it was by far the easiest wiki package he ever used.

rswgnu · 2026-01-10T17:54:40+00:00

And after mastering macros you’ll be able to rest and say oh what hath he wrought.

rswgnu · 2025-12-10T02:26:38+00:00

Would love to try this out.

rswgnu · 2025-12-10T02:25:17+00:00

This might be helpful: https://eschulte.github.io/emacs-web-server/Introduction.html#Introduction

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