2 <title>howm: note-taking tool on Emacs</title>
7 <a href="index-j.html">Japanese</a>
10 <h1><a href="https://howm.osdn.jp/">howm: Write fragmentarily and read collectively.</a></h1>
14 <a href="https://howm.osdn.jp/a/howm-1.5.0.tar.gz">howm-1.5.0.tar.gz</a>
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18 <a href="https://osdn.net/projects/howm/scm/git/howm/">git</a>
20 <li> <a href="https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2022/03/note-taking-in-emacs-with-howm.html">Introduction by Leah Neukirchen</a> (thx!)
21 <li> <a href="README.html">Tutorial</a>
22 <li> <a href="https://howm.osdn.jp/cgi-bin/hiki/hiki.cgi?e.FrontPage">Wiki, BBS, mailing list</a>
27 Howm is a note-taking tool on Emacs.
28 It is similar to emacs-wiki.el;
29 you can enjoy hyperlinks and full-text search easily.
30 It is not similar to emacs-wiki.el;
31 it can be combined with any format.
34 <a href="screen-shot.png"><img alt="screen shot" src="s-screen-shot.png"></a>
35 <a href="search.png"><img alt="screen shot" src="s-search.png"></a>
36 <a href="cat.png"><img alt="screen shot" src="s-cat.png"></a>
37 <a href="menu.png"><img alt="screen shot" src="s-menu.png"></a>
39 (<a href="https://howm.osdn.jp/a/rich-title/">Title bar? See rich-title.</a>)
47 <li>goto link: file name or keyword
49 >>> ~/BabyloniaWave.txt
50 >>> highway planet
55 <<< crystal star cluster
58 all strings 'crystal star cluster' in other files are automatically linked to A.
60 <img src="go.png" alt="goto link">
61 <img src="come.png" alt="come-from link">
63 <h2>Full-text search</h2>
66 <li>Everything is based on full-text search (grep);
67 the above 'links' are shortcuts to grep.
68 <li>Write fragmentarily and read collectively;
69 you can concatenate all matched notes into a single buffer.
72 <h2>No conversion</h2>
73 You can keep your favorite style. :-)
75 <li>text file and free format
76 <li>implemented as a minor mode; can be combined with other modes.
79 <h2>Todo list with magic sorting</h2>
81 <li>Reminder: sinks slowly.
82 <li>Todo: floats slowly.
83 <li>Deadline: floats rapidly when the date is approaching.
91 <li> './configure', 'make', and 'make install'.
92 Files are installed to /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/howm/
93 and /usr/local/share/howm/.
94 <li> Write below in your .emacs.
98 <li> If you see 'cannot open load file' error, put this before
99 the above description.
101 (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/howm/")
104 When howm runs too slow, try
105 'M-x customize-group RET howm-efficiency RET'.
106 In particular, the below settings will be necessary for heavy users.
108 (setq howm-view-use-grep t) ;; use external grep
109 (setq howm-menu-refresh-after-save nil)
110 (setq howm-menu-expiry-hours 6) ;; cache menu N hours
111 (setq howm-menu-file "0000-00-00-000000.txt") ;; don't *search*
115 <h2>Customization</h2>
117 For customization, try 'M-x customize-group RET howm RET'.
119 <h2>Update from old version</h2>
121 <h3>1.4.8 to 1.5.0</h3>
125 <li>"u" key (uniq) in summary buffer is now togglable. You can hit "u" again to cancel "uniq".</li>
126 <li>If you are interested in the incremental search, try M-x customize-group RET howm-iigrep RET and set howm-iigrep-show-what. It will be turned on by default in the next release.</li>
130 <h3>1.4.7 to 1.4.8</h3>
136 <h3>1.4.6 to 1.4.7</h3>
139 fix a warning in byte compilation, etc. (`font-lock-fontify-buffer' is for interactive use only; use `font-lock-ensure' or `font-lock-flush' instead.)
142 <h3>1.4.5 to 1.4.6</h3>
145 fix C-c , : (howm-find-yesterday) for newer Emacs.
148 <h3>1.4.4 to 1.4.5</h3>
152 <a href="https://osdn.net/projects/howm/lists/archive/eng/2018/000136.html">thx</a>
153 <a href="https://osdn.net/projects/howm/lists/archive/eng/2018/000139.html">thx</a>
155 <li>Delete the old menu file 0000-00-00-000000.txt in your howm-directory.
156 <li>Add (setq howm-menu-lang 'fr) into your .emacs.
157 <li>Start Emacs and howm.
161 <h3>1.4.3 to 1.4.4</h3>
164 fix for warnings in byte-compilation, etc.
167 <h3>1.4.2 to 1.4.3</h3>
170 fix for emacs-25, etc.
173 <h3>1.4.1 to 1.4.2</h3>
176 fix for emacs-24.3, etc.
179 <h3>1.4.0 to 1.4.1</h3>
185 <h3>1.3.9.2 to 1.4.0</h3>
189 If you need compatibility with 1.3.*,
190 put (setq howm-compatible-to-ver1dot3 t) before (require 'howm) in your .emacs.
191 See M-x customize-group RET howm-compatibility RET for details.
195 Though howm-1.4.0 has a new menu file,
196 your old menu file is not updated automatically.
197 Copy en/0000-00-00-000000.txt into howm/ directory if you like.
198 Alternatively, you can cut and paste some parts of it to your
199 howm/0000-00-00-000000.txt by hand.
202 <h3>1.3.9.1 to 1.3.9.2</h3>
208 <h3>1.3.9 to 1.3.9.1</h3>
211 bug fix for emacs-24.0.50.
214 <h3>1.3.8 to 1.3.9</h3>
220 <h3>1.3.7 to 1.3.8</h3>
223 highlight late deadlines.
227 <h3>1.3.6 to 1.3.7</h3>
230 Maintenance release (internal cleaning).
231 The variable howm-list-normalizer is obsolete now.
232 Use howm-normalizer instead:
234 <li>(Case 0) What is howm-list-normalizer? I don't know it at all.
235 --- You need to do nothing. :-)
236 <li>(Case 1) I've set it in M-x customize-variable.
237 --- M-x customize-variable howm-list-normalizer RET and select Off.
238 Then M-x customize-variable howm-normalizer RET and select
239 the corresponding item again.
240 <li>(Case 2) I've written (setq howm-list-normalizer 'howm-view-sort-by-XXX)
243 (setq howm-normalizer 'howm-sort-items-by-XXX).
244 <li>(Case 3) I've written (setq howm-list-normalizer ...my_original_elisp...).
245 --- Modify it correspondingly with the below change.
247 <li>Old (howm-list-normalizer):
248 Specify a function that sorts and REDISPLAYS CURRENT items.
249 <li>New (howm-normalizer):
250 Specify a function that RETURNS the sorted list of items
254 <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.jp/mailman/archives/howm-eng/">
259 <h3>1.3.5 to 1.3.6</h3>
263 Font-lock problem was fixed for CVS-head emacs.
266 <h3>1.3.4 to 1.3.5</h3>
270 Today's schedule didn't appear on menu on the last day of DST.
271 (cf. <a href="https://howm.osdn.jp/a/howm-1.3.4_DST.patch">patch for 1.3.4</a>)
274 <h3>1.3.3 to 1.3.4</h3>
277 Maintenance release (security fix).
278 All symbols are marked as risky-local-variable.
281 <h3>1.3.2 to 1.3.3</h3>
285 Several bugs are fixed (for CVS-head emacs, etc).
286 From this version, sleeping reminders can appear in todo list
288 If you don't like this behavior, please try
289 M-x customize-variable howm-menu-todo-priority.
292 <h3>1.3.1 to 1.3.2</h3>
296 A few bugs are fixed (mainly for xemacs).
297 Default value of an option is changed so that
298 [Today] function will show titles instead of matched lines themselves.
299 If you don't like this change, try below steps.
301 <li> M-x customize-variable RET howm-list-title RET
302 <li> Remove check mark on howm-action-lock-date-search.
303 <li> [Save for Future Sessions]
307 <h3>1.3.0 to 1.3.1</h3>
311 A few bugs (locale, xemacs) are fixed.
314 <h3>1.2.* to 1.3.0</h3>
317 If you have already used howm-1.2.*, you may want to add these codes
318 into .emacs for backward compatibility.
320 ;; no title in summary buffer
321 (setq howm-list-title nil)
323 (setq howm-history-limit 0)
324 (setq howm-history-unique nil)
325 ;; not 'grep -E/-F' but 'egrep/fgrep'
326 (setq howm-view-grep-command "egrep")
327 (setq howm-view-fgrep-command "fgrep")
328 (setq howm-view-grep-extended-option nil)
329 (setq howm-view-grep-fixed-option nil)
330 (setq howm-view-grep-file-stdin-option nil)
332 (setq howm-template-receive-buffer nil)
333 (setq howm-view-summary-keep-cursor nil)
338 Though howm-1.3.0 has a new menu file,
339 your old menu file is not updated automatically.
340 Copy en/0000-00-00-000000.txt into howm/ directory if you like.
341 Alternatively, you can cut and paste some parts of it to your
342 howm/0000-00-00-000000.txt by hand.
346 Among several new features in howm-1.3.0,
347 the most useful one will be 'aliases'.
348 See <a href="README.rd">README</a> for details.
355 My email address is written at the beginning of source files.
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