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# Questions and answers to help you fly with Hyperbole
Bob Weiner - Pronunciation: Wine-er, <https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/hyperbole/> , <https://rswgnu.github.io/hyperbole/man/hyperbole.html> , <mailto:rsw@gnu.org>
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RSW, the autthor of Hyperbole, will answer your questions on Hyperbole
live and demonstrate how it can make you more productive.
Hyperbole is an extensive, easy-to-use package that brings
hypertextual information management across all of Emacs to files with
minimal or no markup, including source code files. It works with all
modern versions of Emacs and does not require the use of any
third-party packages or compiled modules. Its keyboard-driven
minibuffer menus let you learn the key bindings for one set of
features at a time. Its global minor mode lets you turn on and off
its features with a single command.
Many people express interest in Hyperbole but find its breadth makes
it difficult for them to get started with it. Or they struggle to
find specific workflows because of its infinite flexibility. This Q
and A session is intended to help people over this initial hump by
covering introductory topics such as the Action Key and how Implicit
Buttons in your existing documents act as hyperlinks automatically.
If more advanced topics are of interest, we could even answer
questions such as:
- How can I quickly turn my Lisp expressions into hypertext buttons?
- Can I point Hyperbole at thousands of Org files and have it quickly
jump to arbitrary sections in the files without any prior indexing
or need for a database system?
- Can Hyperbole build a wiki with Org files, automatically
highlighting WikiWord references with no special markup and then
publish it to the web?
- When programming, can Hyperbole help me rapidly select, move and
display programmatic information?
- What if I need an entire outline with builtin hyperlink anchors
and automatic paragraph numbering?
- So Hyperbole just augments everything I do in Org mode already?
The session will be driven by the topics that participants want to
know about, so come with your questions and lets dive in together to
see whether its all just Hyperbole.
About the speaker:
Bob Weiner (rsw) has been developing hypertextual systems since the
dawn of the web in 1991 and using Emacs since 1982, though the other
day someone said I look 28-years-old, so neither I nor Hyperbole feel
that old. We have gained some perspective through the years, so maybe
I can help you learn something new or see something in a new way.
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