Re: [emacs-humanities] Mailing list for Fountain Mode

[Paul W. Rankin]

Hello JC! Glad you get some use out of Olivetti.

Regarding Binder, thanks for checking it out and reporting your 
difficulties. It is a failure on the part of the tutorial that it 
doesn't make clear how to start a new project.

For your example of a directory of DocBook files simply toggling the 
sidebar either within the directory or a file in the top-level of that 
directory should give a y/n prompt to change the project directory to 
the current one and create a .binder.el file there. If there is no 
active project (i.e. option binder-project-directory is nil, likely your 
case) there won't be a y/n prompt and you'll just receive a message that 
a .binder.el file was created.

From the sidebar you can type <a> to add a file or <A> to add all files 
to the project (which will populate the .binder.el file). I think only 
non-hidden files are added.

You should never need to write any code or edit the .binder.el file. 
Everything should be usable without knowing Elisp.

Regarding one project at a time, I should make the wording more clear. I 
just mean there's only one project *active* at at time. This is because 
all the commands are global. If you navigate to another directory with a 
.binder.el file and call a binder command (e.g. show the sidebar, 
navigate project files, etc.) it will prompt if you want to switch to 
that project instead. You can also switch projects with <C> in the 
sidebar.

Let me know if any of that is unclear or you have any other issues. 
Binder is still a bit experimental and given Emacs already has 
project.el I should probably investigate the overlap and whether things 
can be more integrated.

On 2022-12-24 21:28, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> Paul,
>
> I just subscribed, even though I am not a script writer... :-) And I 
> took the time to check your GH repositories and found olivetti, which I 
> use all the time! Thank you!
>
> I checked Binder and tried to use it, but even after doing the tutorial 
> I'm not clear how to actually start.
>
> Do I have to create a binder.el file in the directory I want to use 
> (I'm thinking of a set of DocBook files). What is the content of that 
> file? Or it is the mode code itself?
>
> Also, you say that one can only use one project at a time, but your 
> example shows 2 directories with a binder.el in each. Does that mean 
> that Emacs automatically recognizes that we have changed of project?
>
> JC
>
> > On Dec 24, 2022, at 19:34, Paul W. Rankin via Emacs-humanities 
> > <emacs-humanities@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > Founder of the emacs-humanities@ list here. This list has survived 
> > much longer than I anticipated, by my count a bit over two years. I'm 
> > quite glad to see I underestimated the vitality of the intersection 
> > between the Arts/Humanities and Emacs users.
> >
> > With that in mind I thought it would be worthwhile if there existed a 
> > mailing list for Fountain Mode, an Emacs screenwriting package that I 
> > maintain, and that this list functioned not only as an avenue for 
> > support and bug reports, but also provided a space for discussion 
> > among the small intersection of Emacs users/screenwriters. And so:
> >
> >    https://lists.sr.ht/~pwr/fountain-mode
> >
> > Post comments, bug reports, feature requests and patches, and feel 
> > free to also discuss screenwriting on Emacs in general. This list is 
> > also where announcements will be posted.
> >
> > Thanks!