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author | Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> | 2020-12-16 12:01:12 -0500 |
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committer | Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> | 2020-12-16 12:01:12 -0500 |
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diff --git a/doc/rt-liber.texinfo b/doc/rt-liber.texinfo index b8cb1f5..bc2a095 100644 --- a/doc/rt-liber.texinfo +++ b/doc/rt-liber.texinfo @@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ This is the Manual for the rt-liberation system @menu * Introduction:: Introduction to rt-liberation. -* Installation:: Setup rt-liberation to work on the system. +* Installation:: Install rt-liberation on the system. +* Configuration:: Setup rt-liberation to work on the system. Using rt-liberation * Queries:: Retrieve particular tickets from the server. @@ -117,10 +118,12 @@ operations on the tickets. @chapter Installation @cindex installation -rt-liberation is available via GNU ELPA. +rt-liberation is available via GNU ELPA. Invoke @kbd{M-x +list-packages} and choose to install the rt-liberation package. -If you install rt-liberation manually instead you'll need to tell -Emacs where to find it, and tell Emacs to load the package: +If you install rt-liberation manually, by copying the code to your +machine, instead you'll need to tell Emacs where to find it, and then +tell Emacs to load the package: @lisp (add-to-list 'load-path "/PATH/TO/rt-liberation/") @@ -131,6 +134,11 @@ Emacs where to find it, and tell Emacs to load the package: @end lisp +@c -------------------------------------------------- +@node Configuration +@chapter Configuration +@cindex configuration + rt-liberation needs to be configured in your ~/.emacs, an ~/.rt-liber file, or similar. @@ -140,6 +148,25 @@ Tell rt-liberation where to find the RT server's REST interface: (setq rt-liber-rest-url "rt.example.org") @end lisp +In order to authenticate with the RT server instance you need to +provide credentials. rt-liberation looks for these in the variables +@var{rt-liber-rest-username} and @var{rt-liber-rest-password}. You can +set these directly: + +@lisp +(setq rt-liber-rest-username "someuser" + rt-liber-rest-password "somepassword") +@end lisp + +You can also leave these values unset (@code{nil}), in which case +rt-liberation will look for the credentials in a Netrc file via the +auth-source library (see: @xref{Top,,, auth, Emacs auth-source}), +under the machine name "rt-liberation": + +@example +machine rt-liberation login someuser password somepassword +@end example + rt-liberation can issue a command to ``take'' a ticket (that is, assign it to yourself). For this the variable @var{rt-liber-username} must be set: @@ -148,9 +175,9 @@ must be set: (setq rt-liber-username "someuser") @end lisp -rt-liberation can also launch a Web browser to visit a ticket. For -that to work the base URL needs to be set in -@var{rt-liber-base-url}. For example: +rt-liberation can launch a Web browser to visit a ticket. For that to +work the base URL needs to be set in @var{rt-liber-base-url}. For +example: (setq rt-liber-base-url "https://rt.foo.org/") @@ -603,10 +630,8 @@ buffers will be created displaying the query results and named @chapter Ticket Viewer @cindex ticket viewer -The ticket viewer is an interface for viewing the contents of a -ticket. It provides font-locking to make reading the contents easier -via @var{rt-liber-viewer-font-lock-keywords} and a number of -key-bindings. +The ticket viewer is an interface for viewing the contents of a ticket +and for sending answers. The ticket viewer provides key-bindings to help compose emails to send to the RT email interface. The key-bindings for composing email @@ -615,34 +640,26 @@ them depends on the email-backend system you have installed into rt-liberation. @file{rt-liberation-gnus.el} provides integration with Gnus, @xref{Gnus Integration}. -Setting @var{rt-liber-jump-to-latest} to `t' will cause the viewer to -automatically scroll to the latest comment in a ticket when that -ticket is visited. By default @var{rt-liber-jump-to-latest} is set to -`nil'. - -When in the ticket viewer buffer, invoking -@dfn{rt-liber-viewer-take-ticket} will ``take'' the ticket. - @table @kbd @item q @kindex q (ticket viewer) -@findex rt-liber-viewer-mode-quit +@findex rt-liber-viewer2-mode-quit Bury the ticket viewer buffer. @item n @kindex n (ticket viewer) -@findex rt-liber-next-section-in-viewer -Move point to the next section in ticket. +@findex rt-liber-viewer2-next-section-in +Move to the next section in ticket. @item N @kindex N (ticket viewer) -@findex rt-liber-jump-to-latest-correspondence -Move point to the newest correspondence section, if any. +@findex rt-liber-viewer2-last-section-in +Move to the last section. @item p @kindex p (ticket viewer) -@findex rt-liber-previous-section-in-viewer +@findex rt-liber-viewer2-previous-section-in Move point to the previous section in ticket. @item V @@ -650,43 +667,15 @@ Move point to the previous section in ticket. @findex rt-liber-viewer-visit-in-browser Visit the current ticket in a Web browser. -@item m -@kindex m (ticket viewer) -@findex rt-liber-viewer-answer -Compose an answer to the current ticket. - @item M @kindex M (ticket viewer) -@findex rt-liber-viewer-answer-this +@findex rt-liber-viewer2-answer Compose an answer to the current ticket. The content section around point will be inserted into the email body and commented out. -@item t -@kindex t (ticket viewer) -@findex rt-liber-viewer-answer-provisionally -Compose a provisional answer to the current ticket. - -@item T -@kindex t (ticket viewer) -@findex rt-liber-viewer-answer-provisionally-this -Compose a provisional answer to the current ticket. The content -section around point will be inserted into the email body and -commented out. - -@item F -@kindex F (ticket viewer) -@findex rt-liber-viewer-answer-verbatim-this -Compose an answer to the current ticket. The content section around -point will be inserted into the email body verbatim. - -@item c -@kindex c (ticket viewer) -@findex rt-liber-viewer-comment -Compose a comment for the current ticket. - @item C @kindex C (ticket viewer) -@findex rt-liber-viewer-comment-this +@findex rt-liber-viewer2-comment Comment on the ticket using the current context @item g |