ANNOUNCE: GNU Hyperbole 6.0.1 for Emacs 24.4 - 25 is released

From: Robert Weiner Subject: ANNOUNCE: GNU Hyperbole 6.0.1 for Emacs 24.4 - 25 is released Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 12:42:09 -0400

GNU Hyperbole (pronounced Ga-new Hi-per-bo-lee), or just Hyperbole, is an amazing programmable hypertextual information management system implemented as a GNU Emacs package. This is the first public release in 2016. Hyperbole has been greatly expanded and modernized for use with the latest Emacs 25 releases; it supports GNU Emacs 24.4 or above. It contains an extensive set of improvements that can greatly boost your day-to-day productivity with Emacs and your ability to manage information stored across many different machines on the internet. People who get used to Hyperbole find it helps them so much that they prefer never to use Emacs without it. Hyperbole includes easy-to-use, powerful hypertextual button types and links that can be made without the need to learn a markup language. without the need to learn a markup language. It also includes a hierarchical, record-based contact manager, a rapid window and frame control system and a powerful multi-level auto-numbered outliner. All features are aimed at making textual information management and display fast and easy. Hyperbole embeds hypertext buttons within unstructured and structured files, mail messages and news articles. It offers intuitive keyboard and mouse-based control of information display within multiple windows. It also provides point-and-click access to World-Wide Web URLs, Info manuals, ftp archives, etc. The Hyperbole wiki page, "https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Hyperbole", explains the many ways it differs from and is complementary to Org mode. Instructions follow on how to download, install and utilize GNU Hyperbole as an Emacs package. These are followed by What's New with Hyperbole in 2016. Bob Weiner designed and programmed GNU Hyperbole. He and Mats Lidell maintain it for the Free Software Foundation. It includes an interactive demo to introduce you to its features and a detailed reference manual. =========================================================================== * About =========================================================================== GNU Hyperbole consists of five parts: * Buttons and Smart Keys a set of hyperbutton types which supply core hypertext and other behaviors. Buttons may be added to documents (explicit buttons) with a simple drag between windows, no markup language needed. Implicit buttons are patterns automatically recognized within text that perform actions, e.g. bug#24568 displays the bug status information for that bug number. Buttons are accessed by clicking on them or referenced by name (global buttons), so they can be activated regardless of what is on screen. Users can make simple changes to button types. Emacs Lisp programmers can prototype and deliver new types quickly. Hyperbole includes two special `Smart Keys', the Action Key and the Assist Key, that perform an extensive array of context-sensitive operations across emacs usage, including activating and showing help for Hyperbole buttons. In many popular Emacs modes, they allow you to perform common, sometimes complex operations without having to a different key for each operation. Just press a Smart Key and the right thing happens; * Contact and Text Finder an interactive, textual information management interface, including fast, flexible file and text finding commands. A powerful, hierarchical contact manager, HyRolo, which anyone can use, is also included. It is easy to learn since it introduces only a few new mechanisms and has a menu interface, which may be operated from the keyboard or the mouse; * Screen Control the fastest, easiest-to-use window and frame control available for GNU Emacs, called HyControl. With just a few keystrokes, you can shift from increasing a window's height by 5 lines to moving a frame by 220 pixels or immediately moving it to a screen corner. Text in each window or frame may be enlarged or shrunk (zoomed) for easy viewing, plus many other features; * Hypertextual Outliner an advanced outliner, the Koutliner, with multi-level autonumbering and permanent identifiers attached to each outline node for use as hypertext link anchors, per node properties and flexible view specifications that can be embedded within links or used interactively; * Programming Library a set of programming libraries, for system developers who want to integrate Hyperbole with another user interface or as a back-end to a distinct system. (All of Hyperbole is written in Emacs Lisp for ease of modification. It has been engineered for real-world usage and is well structured). The GNU Hyperbole project home page gives a more extensive description: "https://www.gnu.org/software/hyperbole/". =========================================================================== * Package Installation =========================================================================== Once you have Emacs set up at your site, GNU Hyperbole may be installed simply by using the Emacs Package Manager. If you are not familiar with it, see the Packages section of the GNU Emacs Manual, "(emacs)Packages", or: "https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Packages.html". If you have Hyperbole 5.10 or higher already installed and simply want to upgrade it, invoke the Emacs Package Manager with {M-x list-packages RET}, then use the {U} followed by the {x} key to upgrade all out-of-date packages, Hyperbole among them. Then skip the text below and move on to the next section, Invocation. Otherwise, to download and install the Hyperbole package, add the following lines to your personal Emacs initialization file, typically "~/.emacs". (require 'package) (setq package-enable-at-startup nil) ;; Prevent double loading of libraries (package-initialize) (unless (package-installed-p 'hyperbole) (package-refresh-contents) (package-install 'hyperbole)) (require 'hyperbole) Now restart Emacs and Hyperbole will be downloaded and compiled for use with your version of Emacs. You may see a bunch of compilation warnings but these can be safely ignored. =========================================================================== * Invocation =========================================================================== Once Hyperbole has been installed for use at your site and loaded into your Emacs session, it is ready for use. You will see a Hyperbole menu on your menubar and {C-h h} will display a Hyperbole menu in the minibuffer for quick keyboard-based selection. You can invoke Hyperbole commands in one of three ways: use the Hyperbole menu on your menubar; type {C-h h} or {M-x hyperbole RET} to bring up the Hyperbole main menu in the minibuffer window, for fast keyboard or mouse-based selection; select an item from this menu by typing the item's first letter; use {q} to quit from the menu. use a specific Hyperbole command such as an Action Key click {M-RET} on a pathname to display the associated file or directory. Use {C-h h d d} for an interactive demonstration of standard Hyperbole button capabilities. {C-h h k e} offers a interactive demonstration of the Koutliner, Hyperbole's multi-level autonumbered hypertextual outliner. To try out HyControl, Hyperbole's interactive frame and window control system, use {C-h h s w} for window control or {C-h h s f} for frame control. {t} switches between window and frame control once in one of them. The above are the best interactive ways to learn about Hyperbole. The Hyperbole Manual is a reference manual, not a simple introduction. It is included in the "man/" subdirectory of the Hyperbole package directory in four forms: "man/hyperbole.info" - online Info browser version "man/hyperbole.html" - web HTML version "man/hyperbole.pdf" - printable version "man/hyperbole.texi" - source form The Hyperbole package installation places the Info version of this manual where needed and adds an entry for Hyperbole into the Info directory under the Emacs category. {C-h h d i} will let you browse the manual. For web browsing, point your browser at "${hyperb:dir}/man/hyperbole.html", wherever the Hyperbole package directory is on your system; often this is: "~/.emacs.d/elpa/hyperbole-${hyperb:version}/". =========================================================================== * User Quotes =========================================================================== *** MAN I love Hyperbole!!! Wow! *** -- Ken Olstad Cheyenne Software, Inc. ------- I *love* koutlines. -- Bob Glickstein Z-Code Software Corporation ------- For me, Emacs isn't Emacs without Hyperbole. I have depended on Hyperbole daily since 1992, when I first started using it to manage my development environment. It didn't take long before I could summon almost any information I needed directly from within my editing environment with an implicit button. Since I almost never have to slow down to look for things--one context-dependent button usually produces exactly what I need --I am able to maintain focus on the task I am working on and complete it more quickly. With its gestural interface, seamless integration with other Emacs packages and incredibly useful set of core features. I think that Hyperbole is one of the best designed and most easily extensible software products I have ever come across. It is certainly the one which has made the biggest improvement in my personal productivity. -- Chris Nuzum Co-founder, Traction Software, Inc. ------- I've found Hyperbole (in conjunction with XEmacs) to be very useful for signal processing algorithm development. For me, it has almost completely obsoleted the engineering notebook: I keep a set of files with ideas, algorithms, and results, linked together and to the implementation in C++ files. Using XEmacs' support for embedding graphics, I've written a mode that accepts image tags (formatted like HTML), and reads in GIF files to display plots. I have another program that converts the file to HTML (not perfect, but adequate), so I can put any aspect of development on our internal web for others to see. -- Farzin Guilak Protocol Systems, Inc., Engineer ------- I am blind and have been using Hyperbole since 1992. I used to use a PC as a talking terminal attached to a UNIX system, but then I developed Emacspeak which lets me use Emacs and Hyperbole from standard UNIX workstations with an attached voice synthesizer. My main uses are: 1) Global and implicit buttons for jumping to ftp sites. 2) The contact manager with Emacspeak support. 3) Explicit buttons as part of comments made about a structured document. Each button jumps to the document section referred to by the comment. This is very, very useful. 4) The Hyperbole Koutliner, which I find a very useful tool. I've implemented Emacspeak extensions to support it. -- TV Raman Google Inc. ------- I've been a grateful Hyperbole user for a few years now. Hyperbole's flexibility and ease of use is a marvel. Mainly, I write easy little implicit button types (and corresponding action types) to make my life easier. For example, I have an implicit button type to bury certain buffers when I click at their bottoms, one that recognizes a bug report record in various contexts and edits it, one that links pieces of test output in a log file to the corresponding test case source code (EXTREMELY helpful in interpreting test output), others that support our homegrown test framework, one that handles tree dired mode the way I'd like, one that completely handles wico menus (I've also overloaded the wconfig actions triggered by diagonal mouse drags with wicos actions), and a couple that support interaction with BBDB. Other than that, I keep a global button file with 30 or so explicit buttons that do various little things, and I index saved mail messages by putting explicit link-to-mail buttons in an outline file. -- Ken Olstad Cheyenne Software, Inc. ------- In general, Hyperbole is an embeddable, highly extensible hypertext tool. As such, I find it very useful. As it stands now, Hyperbole is particularly helpful for organizing ill-structured or loosely coupled information, in part because there are few tools geared for this purpose. Hyperbole also possesses a lot of potential in supporting a wider spectrum of structuredness, ranging from unstructured to highly structured environments, as well as structural changes over time. Major Uses: * Menu interface to our own collaborative support environment called CoReView: This interface brings together all top-level user commands into a single partitioned screen, and allows the end user to interact with the system using simple mouse-clicking instead of the meta-x key. * Gateway to internet resources: this includes links to major Internet archive sites of various types of information. Links are made at both directory and file levels. * Alternative directory organizer: The hierarchical nature of the Unix file system sometimes makes it difficult to find things quickly and easily using directory navigational tools such as dired. Hyperbole enables me to create various "profile" views of my directory tree, with entries in these views referring to files anywhere in the hierarchy. * Organizing and viewing online documentation: using Hyperbole along with Hyper-man and Info makes it truly easy to look up online documentation. * Other desktop organization tasks: including links to various mail folders, saved newsgroup conversation threads, online note-taker, emacs-command invocations, etc. -- Dadong Wan University of Hawaii ------- Hyperbole is the first hyper-link system I've run across that is actually part of the environment I use regularly, namely Emacs. The complete flexibility of the links is both impressive and expected -- the idea of making the link itself programmable is clever, and given that one assumes the full power of Emacs. Being able to send email with buttons in it is a very powerful capability. Using ange-ftp mode, one can make file references "across the world" as easily as normal file references. -- Mark Eichin Cygnus Support ------- I just wanted to say how much I enjoy using the Hyperbole Koutliner. It is a great way to quickly construct very readable technical documents that I can pass around to others. Thanks for the great work. -- Jeff Fried Informix ------- The Hyperbole system provides a nice interface to exploring corners of Unix that I didn't know existed before. -- Craig Smith =========================================================================== * What's New in GNU Hyperbole =========================================================================== NOTE: Version 6.0.1 is the first public release by the author, Bob Weiner, since version 4.18. All version 5 releases made this year were test releases, so you should look through all of the V5 news items to understand all that is new in V6 as well. In other words, all news items listed below are new for 2016. =========================================================================== * V6.0.0 - V6.0.1 =========================================================================== HYROLO - The Hyperbole contact manager has been renamed to HyRolo and all of its identifiers now begin with hyrolo-. If you had a custom value of `rolo-file-list' in your ~/.emacs file, you should rename it to `hyrolo-file-list'. KEYS - Removed the {RET} key bindings of the Action Key in read-only modes since it was not consistent across all modes and probably was little used. It also could interfere with mode-specific usage of this key. Just use the standard Action Key bindings. MAIL - Implicit mail address buttons are recognized in many more programming modes. See the value of `mail-address-mode-list'. VARIABLES - Hyperbole is now integrated with the Emacs option customization system, allowing for interactive editing and permanent setting of many Hyperbole options. Use {M-x customize-browse RET} and find the Hyperbole group under Applications. Hyperbole's options are divided into logical subgroups such as Rolo and Koutliner. See "(emacs)Easy Customization" for details on the customization system and "(hyperbole)Configuration" for Hyperbole specifics. - Renamed any Hyperbole hook variables that had a colon in their names to use a hyphen instead. - hsite.el is now included in the Hyperbole package rather than generated. Use the Hyperbole customization variables to change anything in there rather than editing the file manually as before. WINDOW CONFIGURATIONS - Similarly, the commands from the Win/ menu from Wconfig have been renamed to begin with hywconfig- and the library is now called hywconfig.el. =========================================================================== * V5.15 =========================================================================== BUTTONS - New Implicit Button Type, debbugs-gnu-mode: When on a GNU Debbugs listing entry in debbugs-gnu-mode, an Action Key press displays the discussion of the selected issue; an Assist Key press pretty prints the status of the issue to a window below the listing window. This augments the debbugs-gnu-query implicit button type from V5.14 which recognizes bug/issue ids and queries in any buffer. - Initial Org Mode Support: The new implicit button type, org-mode, follows Org mode hyperlinks and cycles display views of Org mode outline headings. When on a heading, the Action Key cycles the view of the subtree at point and the Assist Key cycles the view of all headings in the buffer. Suggest other good ideas for Smart Key actions on Org entities and we'll likely implement them. - Links to Info Manual Index Items: You can now drag between windows with the Action Mouse Key depressed to an Info Manual index menu entry to create an explicit button link to it (or use {C-h h e c} with an action type of link-to-Info-index-item). Then the button will always take you to the line in the manual referenced by that index item. This also works with other Info menu items and cross-references. Implicit buttons that reference index items work too, like "(hyperbole)C-c C-m"! And when you are creating the link, full completion of the file name (within parentheses) and the index item name is provided; just type ? to list completions after typing a few characters. Since Emacs and most GNU programs include Info manuals, you now ​have ​a simple way to link to and ​ ​jump​ ​to any marked item within any manual. Previously, when creating a link to an Info manual node, Hyperbole would ignore cross-references and menu items and just link directly to the node rather than anything it referenced. To get that behavior now, simply link to a place in the node that does not reference another place. - Link Button Creation: Hyperbole now shows you what you linked to at global or explicit link button creation time. Previously, it showed you only the type of the link. So if you drag across windows from a button label to an Info index item now, you will know that the link goes to the index item entry and not to the index node containing the item reference. - New Implicit Button Type, pathname-line-and-column: A whitespace or quote delimited existing pathname followed by a :line-num and an optional :column-num displays the path at line-num and column-num. So "~/.emacs:10:40" shows your Emacs initialization file at line 10 and column 40. The column number is optional.​ - GNU Info Manual Key Sequences: Previously, Hyperbole recognized​ ​key sequences delimited by curly braces only, {}. Now it recognizes​ the​ ​quotation ​marks used in GNU Info manuals as well and can execute them with an Action Key press within Info buffers. - Imenu Item Recognition: When the Emacs imenu library is in use and an identifier menu has been generated for the current buffer, an Action Key press on an identifier at point jumps to the identifier definition within the current buffer; an Assist Key press prompts with completion for an identifier defined within the buffer and then jumps to its definition. DOCUMENTATION - Smart Key Debugging: Added a section, "(hyperbole)Smart Key Debugging", to the Hyperbole Manual, documenting the usage of the Customize Menu option, Toggle-Smart-Key-Debug (minibuffer menu Cust/Debug-Toggle, {C-h h c d}). KEYS - Toggle Hyperbole Keys: The new command, {M-x hyperbole-toggle-bindings RET}, toggles Hyperbole mouse and keyboard keys off and on. This is not bound to a key because it will make Hyperbole unusable until the keys are re-established with another toggle. This forces you to know what you are doing before you utilize this feature. MENUS - Minibuffer Keyboard Direct Selection: You have always been able to click with your mouse on a minibuffer menu item to directly select it. Now Hyperbole has the keys {TAB} or {M-f} to move to the next menu item and {Shift-TAB}, {M-TAB} or {M-b} to move to the previous item, with each cycling back when it reaches the end or beginning of the menu. The fastest way to select minibuffer menu items from the keyboard remains typing the first letter (case-insensitive) of the menu item. - Minibuffer Menu Navigation Changes: A press of {RET} with point at the end of a menu, quits from the menu. {RET} with point in a menu prefix (before the '>' character), returns to the top-level Hyperbole menu. Clicks of the Action Mouse Key do the same thing, so now you can navigate and quit from menus with just the Action Mouse Key. =========================================================================== * V5.13 and V5.14 =========================================================================== BUTTONS - Instant Bug Lookups and Queries: New Gnu Debbugs bug/issue tracking implicit button type, debbugs-gnu-query, that jumps to the description and discussion of issues by issue number and displays an issue's status. This works for the GNU Hyperbole issue tracker as well as many other GNU projects. All of these button formats may be embedded within any text: #id-number bug#id-number, bug# id-number, bug #id-number or bug id-number bug?attr1=val1&attr2=val2&attr3=val3 bug#id-number?attr1=val1&attr2=val2&attr3=val3 Note that `issue' or `debbugs' may be used in place of `bug'. See the documentation at the start of "hib-debbugs.el" for more information. - During the creation of link-to-Info-node explicit buttons with an argument of the type (filename)nodename, full completion is offered for both the filename and the node name; just type ? to list completions after typing a few characters. You now can drop the .info suffix from filenames as well, so "(hyperbole)Smart Keys" works fine as a node reference. - Implicit links from the output of the UNIX apropos command now work properly in Emacs 25. - Implicit pathname matches now handle compressed Emacs Lisp files found anywhere within the directories of `load-path' and do not try to expand paths that begin with a ~. - New variable, `hpath:info-suffix', is a regular expression of Info filename suffixes which may be ommitted when using parenthesized Info filenames in links; this allows for compressed Info file matches and Info pathnames of the form "(Hyperbole)" to work. That displays the top node of the Hyperbole Manual in the Info browser. - Pathnames ending in .mp3, .wav or .ogg are played as music files rather than displayed if your Emacs has support for this. Modify the value of the variable, `hpath:internal-display-alist' to add more formats. - New per-window system association list variables determine what if any file types within Hyperbole hyperlinks are displayed by external programs outside of Emacs. See the values of and documentation for: `hpath:external-display-alist-macos', `hpath:external-display-alist-mswindows', and `hpath:external-display-alist-x'. - Added support for &, ~, and ^ as identifier characters in Lisp tags and removed #. DOCUMENTATION - DEMO File: Major updates to reflect the latest Hyperbole features. Added sections on HyControl, Creating and Modifying Explicit Buttons and Path Suffixes and Variables. Try it out with {C-h h d d}. - Hyperbole Manual - Updated all screenshots in the manual; thanks to Mats L. - In the "(hyperbole)Internal Viewers" section, added a description of the file formats supported by the default setting of the `hpath:internal-display-alist' variable. - Added sections "(hyperbole)Smart Key Modifiers" and "(hyperbole)Smart Key Modeline". - Added a "(hyperbole)Glossary" entry for Chord Keyboard. - In "(hyperbole)Smart Key Thing Selection", added documentation of the {C-c RET} key for syntactical region marking and the {C-c .} key for delimited thing jumping between start and end. - In the Cust/ menu section of "(hyperbole)Menus" which lists all Hyperbole key bindings, indicated which keys are bound only if not bound prior to loading Hyperbole. HYCONTROL - Frame placement calculations now account for window system decorations around frame, leading to improved placement offsets around screen edges. See the documentation for `hycontrol-set-screen-offsets'. MENUS - On the Hyperbole menubar menu, the Types submenu which shows documentation for Hyperbole types has been moved below the Documentation menu to match the Hyperbole minibuffer menu location. Also added a Types menu item under the Explicit-Button menu to match the one under the Implicit-Button menu. - On the Hyperbole Customize/Change-Key-Bindings menubar menu, renamed these entries and added Mark-Think-Key. Similar updates done to the minibuffer menu. MOUSE AND SMART KEY SUPPORT - An Action Key press on a Hyperbole minibuffer menu key sequence now invokes the associated menu action. Try it with {C-h h d g} to see the Hyperbole glossary. An Assist Key press shows help for the menu item. - Changed the `assist-key-default-function' which applies in an unrecognized context to trigger an error by default to match the behavior of the Action Key. Its prior value, toggle display of or hide the Smart Key summary, is performed by an Assist Key click in the right of a modeline or via minibuffer menu with {C-h h d s}. - Point is now left within the Smart Key summary by default and it is in help mode so you can page through it with SPC and DEL keys and then quit from it with {q}. - A click of the Action Mouse Key within an inactive minibuffer menu displays the Hyperbole minibuffer menu, allowing you to invoke menu entries with the mouse. A click of the Assist Key in the same place displays the buffer, window and frame jump menu just as does a click within the middle of a modeline since it is easy to miss by a little and click on one or the other. These behaviors are controlled by the new variables, `action-key-minibuffer-function' and `assist-key-minibuffer-function'. - Distributed Window System Support: Previously, Hyperbole supported mouse control only on the screen on which it was launched. If you used emacsclient or other means to create a frame on another screen or outside of a terminal, that frame would not have Hyperbole mouse support even though it was under a window system. Now each frame receives mouse support whenever its window system has mouse support. - Improved support for using the Action and Assist Mouse Keys as Control- and Meta- modifier keys, mainly for use with a chord keyboard or to balance hand use to reduce carpal tunnel stress. Made `hmouse-mod-mode' a regular minor mode. See "(hyperbole)Smart Key Modifiers" for more details. ROLO - Fixed entry sorting to work with Emacs 25. =========================================================================== * V5.12 =========================================================================== BUTTONS - Prevented keyword matches as identifiers in Java, C++, C, Objective-C and Python. - Prevented @ annotation matches when matching to Java identifiers/tags. - In Info documentation browsing mode, added support for index nodes and for fixed header line and text-property-based breadcrumb header lines now used in Emacs, so the Action Key can now follow links associated with all of these entities. - In compilation buffers, e.g. {M-x make RET}, if an error line has a relative pathname which Hyperbole cannot resolve, it will prompt for the directory in which to resolve the path. DOCUMENTATION - Added printable hyperbole.pdf version of the Hyperbole Manual. - DEMO file: Updated horizontal and vertical drag exercises to correspond to current Hyperbole behavior. - Added chapter on HyControl, window, frame and buffer control. - In the Hyperbole Manual Glossary, added Buffer, Frame, HyControl and Window definitions. - Added additional Q&A in an appendix. - Clarified and fixed Smart Key modeline behavior documentation. - Made example text larger for easier reading. - Added Screen definition to the Glossary. EMACS SUPPORT - Hyperbole now includes the fastest, easiest-to-use Emacs window and frame management system available; we call it HyControl. If you use a lot of Emacs windows or frames (typically, window system windows), this is for you. HyControl lets you interactively adjust the current layout of your windows and frames down to the pixel-level if desired. You keep adjusting the location, size and display elements of your windows and frames until they look as you like and then you simply quit HyControl and go back to work. - Expanded Hyperbole menu of buffers by major mode to allow for `hui-menu-max-list-length' number of buffers, by default, 24. - Made a right to left horizontal drag from near a right-side window divider properly shrink the window width under Emacs 25. KEYS - The Hyperbole Screen submenu provides access to HyControl as well as the key binding {C-c \}. - Removed {C-c C-t} hmouse-toggle-bindings key binding. This should be used rarely, so force use of {M-x hmouse-toggle-bindings RET). - Updated "hmouse-mod.el" library for Emacs 25; it allows using the Smart Mouse Keys as Control and Meta modifiers when desired. KOUTLINER - Improved recognition of Klinks, preventing false matches. - Added missing {C-c C-i}/{C-c TAB} binding mentioned in the EXAMPLE.kotl file; sets cell attributes. - {C=t} Transpose characters - Added error checks at the beginning of cells and end of lines for times when there are not 2 chars to transpose. ROLO - Improved {M-s} interactive string searching for rolo match buffer strings. Made {C-u M-s} to a regexp search for rolo match buffer strings. - Documented the {l} hyrolo-locate command in the Hyperbole manual. - The format of the rolo entry date added to new entries is now configurable via the variable, `hyrolo-date-format'. It uses the formatting strings listed in the documentation of the function `format-time-string'. - All rolo find and search commands are now case-insensitive. - Using a numeric prefix argument with rolo find commands now properly limits the number of matches to a maximum of that number. - If the Big Brother Database (BBDB) is loaded before the rolo, its `bbdb-file' is added to the list of files searched by the rolo. You can manually added this file to `hyrolo-file-list' as well and its format will automatically be handled by the rolo. =========================================================================== * V5.11 =========================================================================== BUTTONS - Improved support for remote pathname access (outside local filesystems). EMACS SUPPORT - Much faster and better lookup of active Emacs Lisp identifiers when the Action Key is pressed over one. Face definitions are also found now. TAGS files are used only if the identifier has not been loaded within the current Emacs session. KOUTLINER - Proper support for isearch temporary display of invisible text when it contains a search match. {C-s}, interactive search, expands and contracts text dynamically to show any search results, just as it does in the regular Emacs outline mode. You can toggle whether such searches include invisible/hidden text (the default) or not. Use the Customize/Toggle-Isearch-Invisible-Text menubar item or the Cust/Isearch-Invisible minibuffer menu item to toggle this setting. MAIL AND NEWS READERS - New variable, `inhibit-hyperbole-messaging' with default value of t inhibits Hyperbole's support for explicit buttons within mail and news buffers. When t, Hyperbole will not alter messaging mode hooks nor overload functions from these packages, preventing potential incompatibilities. If you want to use Hyperbole buttons in mail and news buffers, use the new Customize/Toggle-Messaging-Explicit-Buttons menubar item or the minibuffer menu Cust/Msg-Toggle-Ebuts item. These not only change the variable value but also add or remove the setup hooks as necessary. ROLO - New {o} key binding for an overview of all Rolo matches at all levels, one line per entry. - {t} top-level cells command works in all cases now. - {Shift-TAB} added as an additional key to move backwards one Rolo match. - Improved operation of {l} and {M-s C-s} commands that search for occurrences of match strings and allow extending the search term. - Support for looking up contacts in the Big Brother Database (BBDB) file of email addresses, when that package is used. The functions, hyrolo-grep-bbdb finds regular expression matches and hyrolo-fgrep-bbdb finds string matches. All regular Rolo match buffer commands may then be applied. The {e} command for editing an entry signals an error when applied to the BBDB file, however. SMART KEYS - The Assist Key when pressed in the middle portion of a modeline now pops up a very useful menu of display-oriented commands. Jump to buffers categorized by major mode, to windows by buffer name, or to frames by name. Manage your windows and frames quickly with this menu as well. Another can't live without feature. This comes from the new file, hui-jmenu.el. - Added Python etags support for jumping to Python definitions. With the separate OO-Browser package, definition location is much better than just with etags. See "(hyperbole)Smart Key - Python Source Code" for help. - The Hyperbole Manual Smart Key Reference appendix now has a subsection for each context, allowing quick reference of a particular Smart Key context. Also, added documentation for delimited thing selection, copying and moving. - New function, hyperbole-popup-menu, to display the Hyperbole menubar menu at the mouse point (or the left of the menubar when running on a dumb terminal). This is useful as a setting of `action-key-default-function' if you want some undefined Action Key context to popup this menu in order to use Hyperbole commands. =========================================================================== * V5.10 =========================================================================== EMACS SUPPORT - Hyperbole now downloads, builds and installs as a regular Emacs package (but from a special archive location while pre-testing). - Automatic time-zone handling under MS Windows (already existed for UNIX-like operating systems). Plus support for 3 mouse buttons under Windows. IMPLICIT BUTTON TYPES - Updated the extended find-file commands which handle http (www) and ftp URLs to support the Tramp library included with newer versions of Emacs. Use the menu item Hyperbole/Customization/Find-File-Accepts-URLs to enable or to disable this. See "(hyperbole)Using URLs with Find-File" for details. KOUTLINER - Editing commands that normally delete/replace an active region now do this in the Koutline. If a region extends beyond one cell, an error is triggered or if `kotl-mode:shrink-region-flag' is set to t, the Koutliner automatically shrinks the region to the first cell within the region and then continues the editing operation. - Updated yanking and other editing commands for improved compatibility with Emacs 25. - Internal improvements to many tree handling, filling and view changing commands. - New Shift-TAB key binding to demote trees (shift them up a level), for compatibility with other outliners. MENUS - The new Find/Locate-Files menu item (minibuffer menu Find/LocateFiles) prompts for a pattern and displays a list of all matching pathnames found throughout the file system. On Mac OS X, this uses Spotlight (the mdfind command); on UNIX, it uses the `locate' command. Within the result *Locate* buffer, you can then use the Find/Grep-Files menu item to find matching lines within only these paths (files and directories). SMART KEYS - Action Key now ignores JavaScript keywords when searching for identifiers to match. - Commands that interactively prompt for a Koutline cell label now offer completion and require a match to a visible outline cell. This helps prevent operating on an invisible cell unintentionally. THING SELECTION - Selection of open/close matched tag pairs and jumping between them now works in web-mode, which supports multiple web languages within one file (previously only html-mode was supported). Also, can now select chained identifiers like: parent.child.subchild in html and web modes with the {C-c RETURN} thing selection key. - Can now select comments when at a comment start; try it with the Action Key. - Can now select Lisp symbols with colons in them within help buffers since they often appear there. VARIABLES - hyperb:init-hook renamed to hyperbole-init-hook, a more standard name. See the GNU Hyperbole Manual for its usage. =========================================================================== * V5.09 =========================================================================== FRAMES - The Window-Configuration menu (minibuffer Win/ menu) now stores and restores frame-specific window configurations, allowing each frame to be dedicated to different types of work or groups of buffers. INSTALLATION - Installation is greatly simplified. A single emacs initialization line of the form: (require 'hyperbole (expand-file-name "hyperbole" "<HYPERBOLE-DIR>/") loads and initializes Hyperbole. Please change your site-wide or personal initialization to this. (No more setting of hyperb:dir and load-path nor copying of hsite-ex.el to hsite.el is required; Hyperbole does this for you). KEYS - A new Customize Menu option, Toggle-Smart-Key-Debug (minibuffer menu Cust/Debug-Toggle, {C-h h c d}), displays a message in the minibuffer every time the Action Key or Assist Key is pressed, showing the context of the press and its associated action, allowing you to easily see what is happening whenever you use a Smart Key. These messages are all prefaced with "(HyDebug)" and are accumulated in the *Messages* buffer for later viewing. - Smart Keys work in any completion buffer now, e.g. the ido.el completion buffer. - Horizontal and vertical mouse drags within a single window, that do not begin on a thing delimiter, are now simpler and more consistent. An Action Key drag splits the window either below (horizontal drag) or side-by-side (vertical drag). An Assist Key drag deletes the window. - Hyperbole no longer uses the right mouse button, so it is free for popup menus. The Assist Mouse Key is always on the Shift-Right mouse button as well as on a C-u prefix to the Action Mouse Key. - A new setting, `hmouse-middle-flag', when set to t (true) before Hyperbole is loaded adds the middle mouse key as an Action Key. InfoDock does this by default. - ibuffer-mode, the dired-like menu listing for buffers, is now supported by the Smart Keys; it behaves similarly to that of Buffer-menu-mode. - Xref item listing mode is now supported by the Smart Keys; The Action Key displays an xref file line or just a file containing an xref. The Assist Key displays the same but leaves point in the listing buffer. Xref is a built-in Emacs package that displays definitions and cross-references of identifier strings. It is similar to etags, but more general. KOUTLINER - Now compatible with the latest version of outline.el (using invisible overlays). - All menus for the Hyperbole auto-numbered outliner, called the Koutliner, now begin with 'K'. Some used to start with 'O'. To edit the example Koutline, use {C-h h k e}. - {C-c C-a} - Show-all, expand all cells nihe current view. {C-c C-o} - Overview, show only first line of outline cells. {C-c C-t} - Top-level, hide all cells below level 1 and show only the first line of each level 1 cell. By default, these commands no longer affect the display of blank lines between cells. But if given a prefix argument, they toggle blank lines display for quick view changes. - Values of `user-mail-address' or `message-user-fqdn' are now used to set the creator and modifier names in Koutline cells. MAIL LISTS - The menu item that composes mail to the bug-hyperbole mail list now includes any (HyDebug) messages output when the Hyperbole configuration option, hkey-debug is enabled (via the Customize Menu or via {C-h h c d}). =========================================================================== * V5.08 =========================================================================== DOCUMENTATION - Added web version of the Hyperbole Manual. HYPERLINKS - Action Key presses on Texinfo menu items and @node item references now display the associated Texinfo node. @code and @var references to Emacs Lisp identifiers now show the documentation for the identifiers. As before, cross-references and file includes show the referenced items; keyboard key sequences invoke their associated bindings. - Action Key press on an Emacs push button activates the button. An Assist Key press shows help for the button. KEYS - Delimited things, including lists, comments, strings, arrays/vectors, sets, functions and markup pair tags (e.g. <div> </div>), may now be selected, copied or moved with the Action and Assist mouse and keyboard keys whenever point is on the first character of the starting or ending delimiter. For strings and comments, point must be on the first line. - New {C-c .} binding that jumps between the start and end delimiters of delimited things. Try it on matching markup tag pairs in HTML and SGML modes. If point is not immediately before or after a delimiter, this generally does nothing. - New {C-c RET} binding selects bigger and bigger syntactical units within a buffer with each successive invocation. Double clicks of the left mouse button do the same thing. Try it, you'll like it. =========================================================================== * V5.07 =========================================================================== EMACS VERSIONS - Support for the latest pre-releases of Emacs 25 and new versions of XEmacs. HYPERLINKS - URL handling updated along with customization menus to support most popular web browsers in use. - Action Key on a mailto: URI starts composing mail to that address. - When testing file formats/suffixes for an external viewer in which to display the file, as a fallback, a MIME system mailcap file is used to find additional possible viewers. See "http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Mailcap" for information on mailcap files. - Jump to JavaScript identifier definitions. - History, {C-h h h}, now restores full multi-window and multi-frame display configurations (within a single Emacs session), rather than just returning to a prior location in a buffer. - Type {q} in a Hyperbole Help buffer hide that buffer and return to your prior location. KEYS - By default, Hyperbole now removes any mode-specific, local key bindings that conflict with the global Smart Key bindings (typically {Meta-Return}). Use the Customize/Toggle-Override-Local-Keys to disable (or re-enable) this feature. KOUTLINER - When running under InfoDock, its Go and Options menus now appear within the Koutliner menu. - With a prefix argument, Koutlines are exported to HTML with soft newlines rather than hard newlines, so text will flow based on browser window size. This option will remove line-by-line formatting within a cell, however. MENUS - New Find menu which can reduce a buffer to just matching or non-matching lines, run the 'grep' or 'fgrep' utilities on a file directory tree, or list matching lines in the current buffer or across all buffers with attached files. - Renamed Customization menu to Customize. - New Customize/Change-Key-Bindings menu lets you rebind any Hyperbole keys for your current emacs session. -- The End --

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