Emacs Tiny Tools Project |
There hasn't been official releases for a long time, and the use of CVS is highly encouraged due to numerous changes. When the new installation method is ready, a new release will be published.
Are these tools hard to install or use? The project may seem huge and difficult to install for those who do not have much previous experience on Emacs configuration and package installation. That's only surface and the impression that you may get from the size of the project. Things are much easier than you expect: even a novice Emacs user should be able to install the tools. At minimum you can install the project within 5-10 minutes with the help of the install document above.
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White paper management package, tinytf.el, in action (photo from Windows native Emacs 21.2). Many pages in this site have been created with it. |
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Above; File monitoring package, tinypath.el, in action (photo from Windows native Emacs 21.2). You can divide lisp package files to separate directories and there is no need to manually update variables load-path and Info-default-directory-list. Install new packages and run M-x tinypath-cache-regenerate and your Emacs is up to date. The cache also speeds up loading packages with require, load, load-library, load-file. Refer to above link install for more information. |
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Pastebot server interface in action from package tinyirc.el (photo from Windows native Emacs 21.2). PasteBot servers can be used as semi-pemanent stores for code examples, showing system error messages or sharing configuration tips. The PasteBot servers are handy in IRC channels where bigger texts (over 10 line) can be sent for review. Supports numbering lines in the messages for more detailled inspection of the problem: "Hey, look at line 19". Note: PasteBot servers are independent from IRC servers and can be used for any textual information exchange. |
Future: Major changes in the installation and overall package structure is being planned. Installation and package activation will become more modular and easier to use. Utilities can be activated one by one basis. Monolithic tiny-setup.el will be phased out and split into separate files.
2003-05: Library cleanup continues. More functions have been checked and converted to prpoper prefixed to avoid possible clashes in Emacs (hasn't happened for many years though). Extensive speedup improvements to tinypath.el's load time.
2002-09: Emacs 21.x compatibility issues are under work. library cleanup is in progress. XEmacs compatibility is under testing.
2001-12: The CVS structure and package's directory structure has been redesigned. The HTML documentation is now bundled as well as the plain/text source. The namespace cleanup work has been finished and kit should now be free of any possible clashing functions. The setup center tiny-setup.el has been made better and more automatic. More features are now enabled. There are no known Emacs 21.1 compatibility problems.
2001-07: a "namespace-cleanup" work was started to ensure that all custom functions contain a proper library prefix. This cleanup work is necessary to isolate the tools from other, possibly conflicting, namespaces. It has no user visible chnages, but due to massive work that it needs, expect to see weird bugs in snapshots stamped after this date. Work is in progress to polish package build and release methods so that everything would be automatic. Latest releases of the code can be found only from CVS.
Next goal: Make all package to comply XEmacs packaging system. If you know XEmacs packaging system, please contact the author to get the work packaged properly.
Debian support: Debian (.deb) packages are currently provided as "beta" quality. The packaging method currently does not sophisticatedly activate features under Debian. The Debian packaging is maintained by Vincent Beffara <vbeffara AT free fr>. Add following to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://vbeffara.free.fr/debian/ ./
Unix/Linux: Emacs and XEmacs Win32: Windows Native environment (NT Emacs and NT XEmacs) Win32: Windows Cygwin environment (Cygwin Emacs and Cygwin XEmacs)The old releases supported Emacs versions way back to 19.27 and XEmacs 19.14, but such a long release backing is no longer possible. The minimum criterias for support are:
Emacs 20.1+ ( 21.2+ preferred ) XEmacs: 20.4+ ( 21.4+ preferred )The release MAY WORK FINE in older Emacs releases and if you submit bug report, support for older versions can be considered unless there is too much work. The current development is done and tested using these versions of Win32 Emacs:
Emacs 21.3 XEmacs 21.4
There no mailing list for the project. Please send mail to the maintainer as needed. Include project's name in the subject or message may be classified as spam and discarded.
$ cd $HOME/elisp/sourceforge $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tiny-tools login password: <pres RETURN key> $ cvs -z6 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tiny-tools co tiny-toolsAfter the above initial checkout procedure, all you have to do is to issue update command from time to time to read the updates:
$ cd $HOME/elisp/sourceforge/tiny-tools $ cvs update
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