GNU Hyperbole - News
GNU Hyperbole 7.0.3 is the latest release
Item posted by Robert Weiner <rsw> on Mon 22 Jul 2019 04:16:06 AM UTC.
Hyperbole is an amazing hypertextual information management system
that installs quickly and easily as an Emacs package. It is part of
GNU Elpa, the Emacs Lisp Package Archive.
Hyperbole interlinks all your working information within Emacs for
fast access and editing, not just within special modes. An hour
invested exploring Hyperbole's built-in interactive DEMO file will
save you hundreds of hours in your future work.
7.0.3 is a significant release with a number of interesting
improvements. What's new in this release is described here:
www.gnu.org/s/hyperbole/HY-NEWS.html
Hyperbole is described here:
www.gnu.org/s/hyperbole
For use cases, see:
www.gnu.org/s/hyperbole/HY-WHY.html
For what users think about Hyperbole, see:
https://www.gnu.org/s/hyperbole/hyperbole.html#user-quotes
Hyperbole can supplement and extend Org-mode's capabilities. It adds
many features not found elsewhere in Emacs, including Org mode, see:
www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Hyperbole
Hyperbole includes its own easy-to-use hypertextual buttons and links
that can be created without the need for any markup language.
Hyperbole has an interactive demo to introduce you to its features as
well as a detailed reference manual, as explained here:
https://www.gnu.org/s/hyperbole/hyperbole.html#invocation-and-doc
========================================================================
- Quick Reasons to Try Hyperbole
========================================================================
It contains:
- the most flexible and easy-to-use hyperbuttons available, including
implicit buttons automatically recognized by context, e.g. stack
trace source line references.
- the only Emacs outliner with full legal item numbering,
e.g. 1.4.2.6, and automatic permanent hyperlink anchors for every
item
- the only free-form contact manager with full-text search for Emacs
- rapid and precise window, frame and buffer placement on screen
- an extensive menu of typed web searches, e.g. dictionary, wikipedia
and stackoverflow, plus convenient, fast file and line finding
functions
- immediate execution of a series of key presses just by typing them
out. For example, a M-RETURN press on: {C-x C-b C-s scratch RET
C-a} will find the first buffer menu item that contains 'scratch';
then leave point at the beginning of its line. Build interactive
tutorials with this.
========================================================================
- The Magic of Implicit Buttons and the Action Key
========================================================================
For near instant gratification, try Hyperbole's 'implicit button'
capabilities (hyper-buttons that Hyperbole gives you for free by
recognizing all types of references embedded within text such as
pathnames or error message lines). Below are more complex examples to
show the power; simpler ones can be found within the Hyperbole DEMO
file.
Implicit buttons are activated by pressing the Action Key, M-RETURN.
Once Hyperbole is loaded in your Emacs, pressing M-RETURN on any of
these examples in virtually any buffer will display the associated
referent in a chosen window or frame, handling all variable
substitution and full path resolution:
"find-func.el" Find this file whether gzipped or not
in the Emacs Lisp load-path
"${hyperb:dir}/HY-NEWS" Resolve variable, show Hyperbole news
"${PATH}/umask" Display a script somewhere in multi-dir PATH
"${hyperb:dir}/DEMO#Hyperbole Menus" Org mode outline, Markdown, and HTML # refs
"(hyperbole)Menus" Texinfo and Info node links
"c:/Users", "c:\Users", "/C/Users", "/c/Users", and "/mnt/c/Users"
On Windows and Windows Subsystem for Linux,
Hyperbole recognizes all of these as the
same path and can translate between Windows
and POSIX path formats in both directions
Git Links:
git#branches List branches in current repo/project
git#commits List and browse commits for current project
git#tags List tags in current project
git#/hyperbole From any buffer, dired on the top
directory of the local hyperbole
project
git#/hyperbole/55a1f0 or From any buffer, display hyperbole
git#hyperbole/55a1f0 local git commit diff
Github Links:
gh@rswgnu Display user's home page & projects
github#rswgnu/hyperbole Display user's project
gh#rswgnu/helm/global_mouse Display user project's branch
gh#rswgnu/hyperbole/55a1f0 Display user project's commit diff
Gitlab Links:
gitlab@seriyalexandrov Display user's home page
gl#gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/activity Summarize user's project activity
gl#gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/analytics Display user project's cycle_analytics
gl#gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/boards Display user project's kanban-type issue boards
Once you set the default user and project variables, you can leave them off any reference links:
(setq hibtypes-gitlab-default-user "gitlab-org")
(setq hibtypes-gitlab-default-project "gitlab-ce")
gl#issues or gl#list Display default project's issue list
gl#labels Display default project's issue categories
gl#members Display default project's staff list
gl#contributors Show contributor push frequency charts
gl#merge_requests or gl#pulls Display default project's pull requests
gl#milestones Display default project's milestones status
gl#pages Display default project's web pages
gl#snippets Project snippets, diffs and text with discussion
gl#groups List all available groups of projects
gl#projects List all available projects
gl#milestone=38 Show a specific project milestone
gl#snippet/1689487 Show a specific project snippet
Even useful social media links:
tw#travel or twitter#travel Display twitter hashtag matches
fb#technology Display facebook hashtag matches
Hyperbole uses simple prefix characters with paths to make them executable:
"!/bin/date" Execute as a non-windowed program within a shell
"&/opt/X11/bin/xeyes" Execute as a windowed program;
"-find-func.el" Load/execute this Emacs Lisp library
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/ast.py", line 37, in parse
Jump to error/stack trace source
"/ftp:anonymous@ftp.gnu.org:" Tramp remote paths
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