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A bit of Magit movement

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:29:03 +0100

Thought I’d just drop a note about the work that’s been quitely happening in Magit recently. Development is still pottering along and we’ve added some cool stuff recently, so, hopefully with a release on the way, here’s a summary of what you’ll get if you download magit.el from here:

A git-svn overhaul:

Lots of bug fixes.
`magit-svn-find-rev’
Hitting ‘l’ in log-mode will append more log entries.

Log view overhaul:

Looks prettier
Labels denote whether a ref is local, remote or a tag by colour.
`magit-log-grep’

Branch view mode:

Merge, switch to and delete branches from one window.

Modularisation:

Some new minor modes: magit-commit-mode, magit-status-mode, magit-stash-mode, magit-log-mode, magit-reflog-mode, magit-diff-mode and magit-wazzup-mode.
Reasonable keybindings in each mode mean none of the alphabet is wasted on commands that don’t act upon the items in the current view.

General and the bigger of the bug fixes:

Added `magit-omit-untracked-dir-contents’ to optionally stop magit listing everything in an untracked directory.
Make async git invocation work on cygwin.
Stash fixes:
- Use sha1 to differetiate between stashes, not stash number.
- Don’t show empty “magit-stash” buffer.
- Show the right buffer when showing stash.
Show the graph in wazzup.
Add an rpm .spec file
Only start the server if it isn’t running (old rewrite code)
Tramp should work much more reliably now.
C-u will now keep the index when stashing.

And loads of small fixes on top of all of this.

A Magit clone

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:55:46 +0000

I’ve got a clone of Magit which I’ve been hacking away at. It’s mostly a bunch of git-svn fixes/features as that’s what I use for work but there’s some other stuff that might be of interest. It includes the following branches (all merged into their master at gitorious):

fancier-diffs: Some basic highlighting of the commit sha and of the diff markers (just the diff markers, not the whole line).

fancy-log-pt1: Some new faces for the log buffer: magit-log-graph, magit-log-sha1, magit-log-message, magit-log-head-label-remote, magit-log-head-label-tags and magit-log-head-label-local. They should give a clue as to what this branch is for…

git-svn-fixes-and-features: Basically makes git-svn work again.

squashable-merges: Giving a prefix arg to magit-merge will allow you to squash it (handy for git-svn if your colleagues aren’t used to seeing lots of commits in trunk).

magit-completing-read: Lets you use anything-completing-read or ido-completing-read for… completion.

svn-find-rev: Hitting N f with prompt for an SVN revision and give you the commit if it’s in the current branch. With a prefix arg you will be prompted for a branch in which to look.

Like I said, all of the above is in master so you can just download magit.el from there and you’ll get it all.

Etest updates

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:50:33 +0100

I’ve made a couple of changes to etest to try and up its presence a little.

Firstly Ive merged what was three files into one which will make etest much easier to install for the casual passer-by.

Secondly, though repo.or.cz is excellent, I’ve moved the project to the more community aware github and so now there’s an issue tracker, a wiki and the ability to watch the project.

So, new install instructions might be:

Download etest.el.
Add to load-path.
(require ’etest)

Much more simple (though the make, make install will still do what you expect). Here’s the manual. Here’s the emacswiki page entry.

Darken a page in Conkeror

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:57:50 +0000

A snippet to darken the current page you’re looking at (I ripped off a Greasemonkey script):


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  function darken_page (I) {
    var newSS, styles='* { background: black ! important; color: grey !important }'
        + ':link, :link * { color: #4986dd !important }'
        + ':visited, :visited * { color: #d75047 !important }';

    var document = I.window.buffers.current.document;

    if (document.createStyleSheet) {
        document.createStyleSheet("javascript:'" + styles + "'");
    }
    else {
        newSS=document.createElement('link');
        newSS.rel='stylesheet';
        newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles);
        document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(newSS);
    }
}

interactive("darken-page", "Darken the page in an attempt to save your eyes.",
            darken_page);
define_key(content_buffer_normal_keymap, "C-d", "darken-page");

Lessen a URL with smallurl.el

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:57:46 +0000

I’ve uploaded a simple module that allows the tinyfication of URLs.

There are two interactive functions… with which you might want to interact:

smallurl-replace-at-point: Replace the url at point with a tiny one.

smallurl: Print and put into the kill ring the tiny version of the url prompted for.

Grab it here.