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-* mastodon.el fork
+* mastodon.el updated
-This is a fork of of the great but seemingly dormant https://github.com/jdenen/mastodon.el.
+This is an updated version of the great but seemingly dormant mastodon client for emacs.
+
+This is now the version available via MELPA.
+
+[The original readme is below.]
It adds the following features:
@@ -13,7 +17,7 @@ It adds the following features:
| | display toots/follows/followers counts |
| | links/tags/mentions in profile bios are active links |
| | show a lock icon for locked accounts |
-| =G= | view follow suggestions |
+| =G= | view follow suggestions |
| =R=, =a=, =r= | view/accept/reject follow requests |
| =V= | view your favorited toots |
| =i= | toggle pinning of toots |
@@ -21,7 +25,7 @@ It adds the following features:
| =O= | jump to own profile |
| Notifications: | |
| | follow requests now also appear in notifications |
-| =a=, =j= | accept/reject follow request |
+| =a=, =j= | accept/reject follow request |
| | notifications for when a user posts (=mastodon-tl--enable-notify-user-posts=) |
| Timelines: | |
| =C= | copy url of toot at point |
@@ -29,7 +33,8 @@ It adds the following features:
| =D= | delete and redraft toot at point, preserving reply/CW/visibility |
| =W=, =M=, =B= | (un)follow, (un)mute, (un)block author of toot at point |
| =k=, =K= | toggle bookmark of toot at point, view bookmarked toots |
-| =I=, =c=, =d= | view, create, and delete filters |
+| =I=, =c=, =d= | view, create, and delete filters |
+| | display image captions |
| | display polls and vote on them |
| | images are links to the full image, can be zoomed/rotated/saved (see image keymap) |
| | images scale properly |
@@ -53,17 +58,13 @@ It adds the following features:
It also makes some small cosmetic changes to make timelines easier to read, and makes some functions asynchronous, based on https://github.com/ieure/mastodon.el.
-This updated version is not on MELPA, to use it you need to clone and require it as per the installation instructions below.
-
-The minimum Emacs version is now 26.1. But if you are running an older version it shouldn't be very hard to get it working.
-
-I did this for my own use and to learn more Elisp. Feel free to improve it.
+The minimum Emacs version is now 27.1. But if you are running an older version it shouldn't be very hard to get it working.
** live-updating timelines: =mastodon-async-mode=
(code taken from https://github.com/alexjgriffith/mastodon-future.el.)
-Works for federated, local, and home timelines and for notifications. It's pretty necro, sometimes it goes off the rails, so use at your own risk. Not a super high priority for me, but some people dig it.
+Works for federated, local, and home timelines and for notifications. It's a little touchy, one thing to avoid is trying to load a timeline more than once at a time. It can go off the rails a bit, but it's still pretty cool.
To enable, it, add =(require 'mastodon-async)= to your =init.el=. Then you can view a timeline with one of the commands that begin with =mastodon-async--stream-=.
@@ -84,9 +85,15 @@ You could easily modify the simple function to use your emacs translator of choi
(message "No toot to translate?"))))
#+end_src
-** NB: dependency
+** NB: dependencies
-This version depends on the library =request= (for uploading attachments). If you installed =mastodon.el= from MELPA, it should be fine, else you can install it yourself from MELPA or https://github.com/tkf/emacs-request.
+This version depends on the library =request= (for uploading attachments). You can install it from MELPA, or https://github.com/tkf/emacs-request. It also depends on =seq=.
+
+Optional dependencies:
+- =company= for autocompletion of mentions when composing a toot
+- =emojify= for inserting and viewing emojis
+- =mpv= and =mpv.el= for viewing videos and gifs
+- =lingva.el= for translating toots
** NB: bugs
@@ -96,9 +103,11 @@ This repo also incorporates fixes for two bugs that were never merged into the u
** contributing
-Contributions are welcome. Feel free to open an issue or get in touch with me on mastodon:
+Contributions are welcome.
-[[https://todon.nl/@mousebot][@mousebot@todon.nl]]
+1. Create an here on codeberg detailing the feature you'd like to add.
+2. Fork the repository and create a branch off of =develop=.
+3. Create a pull request referencing the issue created in step 1.
* Original README