Robert Widhopf-Fenk's: ELisp Corner

Elisp files

Filename	Id	Size	Date
ahk-mode.el	ahk-mode--main--1.0--patch-13	22k	Tue Jun 28 22:45:25 CEST 2005
bbdb-rf.el	1.26	54k	Thu Jan 18 00:19:30 CET 2007
esmtpmail.el	1.16	41k	Thu Jan 18 00:19:30 CET 2007
find-files.el	1.15	12k	Wed Aug 30 00:11:51 CEST 2006
ispell-highlight.el	1.19	35k	Fri May 21 15:46:17 CEST 2004
rf-vm.el	-	35k	Fri Oct 17 10:32:53 CEST 2003

A word on IDs. I used CVS for tracking my changes to source file. CVS offers you to replace the keyword $Id$ with an identifier of the current revision of the file. Then I used TLA, but it does not offer something like keywords, and there is a reason for this. Now I use BZR. Still users need some version info when reporting bugs/feature requests, thus I include the tree revision in distributed files! If the ID of a single file does not match the current ID of my VM patch / tarball this does not mean that the file is out dated, but that it had no changes since the listed revision!

Archives and other Gzipped ones

Filename	Id	Size	Date
bbdb-print-latex.tgz	-	16k	Thu Jan 18 00:19:31 CET 2007

Description of applications

For a good overview on non standard (X)Emacs extensions and links to them, go to Stephen Eglens ELL (Emacs Lisp List).

VM is now in my hands and has a new homepage at Savanne. The VM goodies on this page will be migrated to VMs new home.

esmtpmail.el (1.16)
esmtpmail is a replacement for smtpmail.el which adds support for multiple SMTP servers based on conditions like the senders address. Additionally it adds various authentication methods, e.g. pop before send, login, ...
../C/altmail-1.5.tgz
This is a shared library which allows one to use VM/GNUS as mailer/newsreader for Netscape. It is based on Netscapes THIRD-PARTY MAIL AND NEWS SDK.
There are some bugs in Netscape or the SDK an therefore it does not support all features. See README for details!
In recent Mozillas and Firefoxes this can be accomplished by the mozex extension, thus altmail is not needed anymore. Grab this shell-script and add it as the handler in mozex, e.g.
```
/home/yourlogin/bin/vm-mail %a %s
```
Check the script for details and modify it to your needs. It is also part of my VM patch/branch now.

The Insidious Big Brother Database (BBDB) sits in the background and ``notices'' things about messages you read within VM, Gnus, ... It is THE address book for an (X)Emacs nerd. I participated in development for quite some while.

bbdb-rf.el (1.26) With some addons of mine for BBDB which are not in its bit-directory. This might be unstable or related to specific things which I think are not useful for may others.
bbdb-print-latex.tgz for the generation of little address booklets from your BBDB records.

Links to interesting VM extensions from other people

vm-pcrisis (the last version from the original author was 0.85b)
Personality Crisis for VM by Rob Hodges (who has vanished) is a package which allows you to automatically change headers and body of a message depending on the headers of the replied/forwarded/composed message. If you are using multiple email accounts and want to change the From or other headers automatically then have a look at this package!
The author and the original site of the of the package disappeared, so I am providing a local copy of the last version I could grab. Currently I maintain vm-pcrisis.el as part of my VM branch and it has receives several bugfixes and improvements.
Noah S. Friedman has written various nice addons for VM, e.g. spookmime.el which generates "spooky" mime separators, vcard.el & vm-vcard.el displays vcards and a lot of other cool stuff for (X)Emacs.
Ulf Jasper has written the best font-lock package for VM I have seen.

Misc

find-files.el (1.15)
This adds several new functions which can be used as a replacement for the find-file-* functions. With these functions you can specify a globing pattern (e.g. *.el) or a regexp instead of a single name and all the matching files will be loaded for editing.
ispell-highlight.el (1.19)
This is a minor mode which provides spell correction similar to MS-Word or flyspell.el. I deprecate it in favor of flyspell.el.
ahk-mode.el (ahk-mode--main--1.0--patch-13)
This is a major mode for editing AutoHotKey scripts. It offer syntax highlighting, completion of commands and variables, automatic code indention and electric braces. (screen shot)

Last modified: Sat Feb 16 01:04:58 CET 2008