2 <title>howm: note-taking tool on Emacs</title>
7 <a href="index-j.html">Japanese</a>
10 <h1><a href="http://howm.sourceforge.jp/">howm: Write fragmentarily and read collectively.</a></h1>
14 <a href="http://howm.sourceforge.jp/a/howm-1.4.3.tar.gz">howm-1.4.3.tar.gz</a>
15 <li> <a href="README.html">Tutorial</a>
16 <li> <a href="http://howm.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/hiki/hiki.cgi?e.FrontPage">Wiki, BBS, mailing list</a>
21 Howm is a note-taking tool on Emacs.
22 It is similar to emacs-wiki.el;
23 you can enjoy hyperlinks and full-text search easily.
24 It is not similar to emacs-wiki.el;
25 it can be combined with any format.
28 <a href="screen-shot.png"><img alt="screen shot" src="s-screen-shot.png"></a>
29 <a href="search.png"><img alt="screen shot" src="s-search.png"></a>
30 <a href="cat.png"><img alt="screen shot" src="s-cat.png"></a>
31 <a href="menu.png"><img alt="screen shot" src="s-menu.png"></a>
33 (<a href="http://howm.sourceforge.jp/a/rich-title/">Title bar? See rich-title.</a>)
41 <li>goto link: file name or keyword
43 >>> ~/BabyloniaWave.txt
44 >>> highway planet
49 <<< crystal star cluster
52 all strings 'crystal star cluster' in other files are automatically linked to A.
54 <img src="go.png" alt="goto link">
55 <img src="come.png" alt="come-from link">
57 <h2>Full-text search</h2>
60 <li>Everything is based on full-text search (grep);
61 the above 'links' are shortcuts to grep.
62 <li>Write fragmentarily and read collectively;
63 you can concatenate all matched notes into a single buffer.
66 <h2>No conversion</h2>
67 You can keep your favorite style. :-)
69 <li>text file and free format
70 <li>implemented as a minor mode; can be combined with other modes.
73 <h2>Todo list with magic sorting</h2>
75 <li>Reminder: sinks slowly.
76 <li>Todo: floats slowly.
77 <li>Deadline: floats rapidly when the date is approaching.
85 <li> './configure', 'make', and 'make install'.
86 Files are installed to /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/howm/
87 and /usr/local/share/howm/.
88 <li> Write below in your .emacs.
92 <li> If you see 'cannot open load file' error, put this before
93 the above description.
95 (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/howm/")
98 When howm runs too slow, try
99 'M-x customize-group RET howm-efficiency RET'.
100 In particular, the below settings will be necessary for heavy users.
102 (setq howm-view-use-grep t) ;; use external grep
103 (setq howm-menu-refresh-after-save nil)
104 (setq howm-menu-expiry-hours 6) ;; cache menu N hours
105 (setq howm-menu-file "0000-00-00-000000.txt") ;; don't *search*
109 <h2>Update from old version</h2>
111 <h3>1.4.2 to 1.4.3</h3>
114 fix for emacs-25, etc.
117 <h3>1.4.1 to 1.4.2</h3>
120 fix for emacs-24.3, etc.
123 <h3>1.4.0 to 1.4.1</h3>
129 <h3>1.3.9.2 to 1.4.0</h3>
133 If you need compatibility with 1.3.*,
134 put (setq howm-compatible-to-ver1dot3 t) before (require 'howm) in your .emacs.
135 See M-x customize-group RET howm-compatibility RET for details.
139 Though howm-1.4.0 has a new menu file,
140 your old menu file is not updated automatically.
141 Copy en/0000-00-00-000000.txt into howm/ directory if you like.
142 Alternatively, you can cut and paste some parts of it to your
143 howm/0000-00-00-000000.txt by hand.
146 <h3>1.3.9.1 to 1.3.9.2</h3>
152 <h3>1.3.9 to 1.3.9.1</h3>
155 bug fix for emacs-24.0.50.
158 <h3>1.3.8 to 1.3.9</h3>
164 <h3>1.3.7 to 1.3.8</h3>
167 highlight late deadlines.
171 <h3>1.3.6 to 1.3.7</h3>
174 Maintenance release (internal cleaning).
175 The variable howm-list-normalizer is obsolete now.
176 Use howm-normalizer instead:
178 <li>(Case 0) What is howm-list-normalizer? I don't know it at all.
179 --- You need to do nothing. :-)
180 <li>(Case 1) I've set it in M-x customize-variable.
181 --- M-x customize-variable howm-list-normalizer RET and select Off.
182 Then M-x customize-variable howm-normalizer RET and select
183 the corresponding item again.
184 <li>(Case 2) I've written (setq howm-list-normalizer 'howm-view-sort-by-XXX)
187 (setq howm-normalizer 'howm-sort-items-by-XXX).
188 <li>(Case 3) I've written (setq howm-list-normalizer ...my_original_elisp...).
189 --- Modify it correspondingly with the below change.
191 <li>Old (howm-list-normalizer):
192 Specify a function that sorts and REDISPLAYS CURRENT items.
193 <li>New (howm-normalizer):
194 Specify a function that RETURNS the sorted list of items
198 <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.jp/mailman/archives/howm-eng/">
203 <h3>1.3.5 to 1.3.6</h3>
207 Font-lock problem was fixed for CVS-head emacs.
210 <h3>1.3.4 to 1.3.5</h3>
214 Today's schedule didn't appear on menu on the last day of DST.
215 (cf. <a href="http://howm.sourceforge.jp/a/howm-1.3.4_DST.patch">patch for 1.3.4</a>)
218 <h3>1.3.3 to 1.3.4</h3>
221 Maintenance release (security fix).
222 All symbols are marked as risky-local-variable.
225 <h3>1.3.2 to 1.3.3</h3>
229 Several bugs are fixed (for CVS-head emacs, etc).
230 From this version, sleeping reminders can appear in todo list
232 If you don't like this behavior, please try
233 M-x customize-variable howm-menu-todo-priority.
236 <h3>1.3.1 to 1.3.2</h3>
240 A few bugs are fixed (mainly for xemacs).
241 Default value of an option is changed so that
242 [Today] function will show titles instead of matched lines themselves.
243 If you don't like this change, try below steps.
245 <li> M-x customize-variable RET howm-list-title RET
246 <li> Remove check mark on howm-action-lock-date-search.
247 <li> [Save for Future Sessions]
251 <h3>1.3.0 to 1.3.1</h3>
255 A few bugs (locale, xemacs) are fixed.
258 <h3>1.2.* to 1.3.0</h3>
261 If you have already used howm-1.2.*, you may want to add these codes
262 into .emacs for backward compatibility.
264 ;; no title in summary buffer
265 (setq howm-list-title nil)
267 (setq howm-history-limit 0)
268 (setq howm-history-unique nil)
269 ;; not 'grep -E/-F' but 'egrep/fgrep'
270 (setq howm-view-grep-command "egrep")
271 (setq howm-view-fgrep-command "fgrep")
272 (setq howm-view-grep-extended-option nil)
273 (setq howm-view-grep-fixed-option nil)
274 (setq howm-view-grep-file-stdin-option nil)
276 (setq howm-template-receive-buffer nil)
277 (setq howm-view-summary-keep-cursor nil)
282 Though howm-1.3.0 has a new menu file,
283 your old menu file is not updated automatically.
284 Copy en/0000-00-00-000000.txt into howm/ directory if you like.
285 Alternatively, you can cut and paste some parts of it to your
286 howm/0000-00-00-000000.txt by hand.
290 Among several new features in howm-1.3.0,
291 the most useful one will be 'aliases'.
292 See <a href="README.rd">README</a> for details.
295 <h2>Customization</h2>
297 For customization, try 'M-x customize-group RET howm RET'.
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