From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Anything setup Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:44:31 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <200902150911.n1F9BcZa022451@zogzog.maillard.mobi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234741255 10918 80.91.229.12 (15 Feb 2009 23:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:40:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 16 00:42:10 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LYqci-0000vu-BT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:42:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36328 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LYqbO-00035A-C0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:40:46 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!rileyrgdev.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 47 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX18c6sX/+QRxgBBJIKVXBe1B1AQfwo4HqV09ETTc5b0napqbs+p0tUyk3BYJZ89cgeLG2B3AJH1lnGH4cG97Uh2V0n7n1P8nJBCRQ5hQepHLALs58tlFGMFeDKhn6vbl/6LbNKkIItp2BQ== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:44:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+bhTe9YGS8keLOgfbvZQ8kS1XdQRgl7h/JOHCHqoRoew== Cancel-Lock: sha1:pSGMsdtpvhUQ4GgoWN0Rz0HTbUk= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166827 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62136 Archived-At: Thierry Volpiatto writes: > Hi Xavier! > > Xavier Maillard writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I am willing to test anything (again) but since my last try, >> things have really exploded (which is really nice). Now readding >> through EmacsWiki pages did not help, really. It is a huge mess >> and it is particulary hard to find anything usefull to get >> started. >> >> Currently I downloaded both anything.el (dunno if it is the >> latest though) and anything-config.el (ditto). > Thats a good start, then you should go to AnythingSources on emacswiki > and pick some nice sources. Try them one by one, it will be easier to > debug. > Have a look at differents anything-config files you will find on > emacswiki and set up your own anything-config with these files. > Here the extensions i use: (you can find all of them on emacswiki) > > anything-complete.el > anything-dabbrev-expand.el > anything-match-plugin.el > anything-delicious.el > anything-mercurial.el > anything-traverse.el (if you don't use traverselisp.el have a look at > anything-grep.el) > >> Is there some sort of an anything-distribution where all valid >> anything-source would have been "centralized" and tagged as >> "working" and "reliable". > No (AFAIK). Some of them could do with some descriptive text - its hard to know what some of them do. A page of FSF disclaimers but no documentation for the functions they perform. Andy Stewart has his config available too which can help get you going: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/anything-extension.el -- important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. ~Dennis Gabor, Innovations: Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970