Emacs Muse is an authoring and publishing environment for Emacs. It simplifies the process of writing documents and publishing them to various output formats. One of the principal aims in the development of Muse is to make it very easy to produce good-looking, standards-compliant documents.

This will be my last release as maintainer of Emacs Muse, and the project will need a need maintainer effective immediately.

Release info

Tarball

http://download.gna.org/muse-el/muse-3.20.tar.gz

Zip file

http://download.gna.org/muse-el/muse-3.20.zip

Remember is an Emacs mode for quickly remembering data. It uses whatever back-end is appropriate to record and correlate the data, but its main intention is to allow you to express as little structure as possible up front.

Release info

Tarball

http://download.gna.org/remember-el/remember-2.0.tar.gz

Zip file

http://download.gna.org/remember-el/remember-2.0.zip

Commit ID

79f69e6188e4e084c9761b24ecb54b5cac9f41e3

Instructions follow for those who track the source code using git. If you wish to track the development of Remember, visit <http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MuseDevelopment> for instructions and substitute "remember" whenever you see "muse" :^) .

This release has the signed git tag "v2.0". The tag points at a commit object with the Commit ID mentioned above. To verify the tag, do:

git fetch origin
git tag -v v2.0

To check out the release, do:

git checkout v2.0

To switch back to the master branch, do:

git checkout master

News Items

Remember is now a part of Emacs 23, and will be included with that release of Emacs when it comes out.

The NEWS items for this release are available here.

Emacs Muse is an authoring and publishing environment for Emacs. It simplifies the process of writing documents and publishing them to various output formats. One of the principal aims in the development of Muse is to make it very easy to produce good-looking, standards-compliant documents.

Release info

Tarball

http://download.gna.org/muse-el/muse-3.12.tar.gz

Zip file

http://download.gna.org/muse-el/muse-3.12.zip

Commit ID

617fa8c5d1ed92e8b2eff4d6d2b53e608440db20

Instructions follow for those who track the source code using git. If you wish to track the development of Emacs Muse, visit <http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MuseDevelopment> for instructions.

This release has the signed git tag "v3.12". The tag points at a commit object with the Commit ID mentioned above. To verify the tag, do:

git fetch origin
git tag -v v3.12

To check out the release, do:

git checkout v3.12

To switch back to the master branch, do:

git checkout master

Future Plans

The following are some thoughts that I have concerning functionality that might potentially make it into a future release of Muse.

• We need to make it easier for new users to get up to speed on Muse. One means for doing this is to automatically load the file which contains a publishing style if the style is used at publish time. This way, people do not need to remember to add a `require' statement for every publishing style that they want to use.

  I would like to solve this by implementing a sort of modules system, perhaps one similar to the erc-modules interface for ERC. It would also be nice to separate the concepts of "loading" a source file from that of "instantiating" a module. Some Planner modules already do this by requiring an extra function to be run to "enable" its functionality.

  This is particularly needed in the case of the muse-wiki.el file, which depends on the now-frowned-upon eval-after-load feature. In order to provide the publishing and coloring parts of the muse-wiki module when needed, it might be necessary to create modules for muse-publish.el and muse-colors.el, so that the concept of modules does not apply only to publishing styles. The module could automatically define some hooks that should be called after it has been loaded. These hooks can either be manually added-to by modules, or the module definition could contain a list of "conditional dependencies" on other modules, with code attached. The method for defining Muse modules should take keyword arguments, in order to make these definitions easier to read and easier to hack.

  There is also the need to distinguish between several types of modules. When customizing a new option like `muse-modules', people may want to see a visual difference between, say, publishing styles (example: muse-latex.el), files which provide functionality (example: muse-publish.el), and files which supplement a publishing style in some way (example: muse-latex2png.el).

• I want to prioritize the support for muse-project.el and extend it to support calling external programs that can publish files that are in Markdown and reStructuredText form. A minor mode could be made which adds publishing functionality (namely: C-c C-v, C-c C-p, and C-c C-t) to the existing modes for displaying files in these formats.

Once these two features are implemented, I think that it might be time to start thinking about getting Muse included with Emacs.

News Items

The NEWS items for this release are available here.

ERC is a powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs.

The URLs for this release on the primary GNU FTP mirror are as follows.

Tarball

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/erc/erc-5.3.tar.gz

Zipfile

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/erc/erc-5.3.zip

Instructions follow for those who track the source code using git. If you wish to track the development of ERC, visit <http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ErcDevelopment> for instructions.

This release has the signed git tag "v5.3". The tag points at a commit object with the ID "abd8ce6237825e640bdea8d85c37dd831e1174da". To verify the tag, do a "git fetch origin", and then "git tag -v v5.3".

The NEWS items for this release are here.

Tarball

http://download.gna.org/muse-el/muse-3.11.tar.gz

Zip file

http://download.gna.org/muse-el/muse-3.11.zip

Here is the short list of changes. The more-detailed NEWS entries are available here.

• Fixed many Emacs21 and XEmacs compatibility bugs.
• Fixed bug with setting muse-file-extension to some other string than "muse". This case should now be handled perfectly, without the need to resort to setting muse-auto-mode-p to non-nil.
• Add support for Blosxom, thanks to Michael Welle.
• Include the hard-to-find metadate plugin for PyBlosxom.
• Fix font-locking bug involving emphasized lines that changed when moving around in the buffer.

Tarball

http://download.gna.org/muse-el/muse-3.10.tar.gz

Zip file

http://download.gna.org/muse-el/muse-3.10.zip

Here is the short list of changes. The more-detailed NEWS entries are available here.

• Switched to git for version control, after evaluating all the major version control systems. See http://repo.or.cz/w/muse-el.git for a spiffy web interface to the Muse source code repository. If you are a contributor to Muse who has assigned changes to the FSF, or are tracking Muse development, please consult <http://emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MuseDevelopment>.
• Introduced muse-list-edit-minor-mode, which is a handy way of editing and filling lists in other major modes.
• Introduced support for the <cite> tag, thanks to Markus Hoenicka.
• Introduced support for the ConTeXt publishing format, thanks to Jean Magnan de Bornier.
• Fixed a slew of bugs.

It implements practically perfect support for editing and filling lists. It can even handle nested lists. In addition to Muse-specific list items ("-", numbers, definition lists, footnotes), I made it also handle items that begin with "*" or "+". Filling should Just Work, regardless of whether you are using filladapt, which is the primary reason to use this tool. It also adds several keybindings.

• M-RET: Insert a new list item at point, using the indentation level of the current list item.
• C-<: Decrease indentation of the current list item.
• C->: Increase indentation of the current list item.

To use it, get the latest development version of Muse and add the function turn-on-muse-list-edit-minor-mode to your mode hooks of choice.

This functionality was inspired by code in Ye Wenbin's public Muse configuration that made M-RET a global keybinding. Thanks to Per B. Sederberg for implementing the existing list editing commands, which were very easy to retrofit into this new minor mode.