The last news I wrote about the Ebuild mode for both GNU Emacs and XEmacs is some days old and covered version 1.10. Meanwhile we added some functionality that will greatly improve your user experience. All detailed changes are to be found in the shipped ChangeLog file, but I want to give a rough overview about the most important features and the main contributor.
- faster and more elegant code (ulm)
- a manual in Info format (fauli), see C-h i under section Gentoo or Emacs, needs fine-tuning, patches welcome
- support for GLEP 42 news items (ulm)
- add skeleton support for ebuilds/news items from scratch (ulm)
- keep eselect mode in sync with eselect features (ulm)
- keep keywords in sync with eclasses and adding new ones, like mono and kde4 (fauli)
- reinstate compatability with GNU Emacs 21 (ulm)
- support for eblit files (ulm)
Now I want to move the spotlight onto the skeleton modes: Pressing C-c C-n in an empty file with ebuild extension, or whose file name matches the GLEP 42 requirements for a news file, will guide you through the creation of a new ebuild. You are asked for the needed items and with the tab key you can often choose from a list with sane entries. Especially news item creation gets easier as this is a seldom task for developers and thus error-prone while being a good measure to communicate important changes to users.
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