Identi.ca mode for Emacs
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 5 Comments
Identi.ca is a free software microblogging service, similar to Twitter, based on the Laconi.ca code base. I recently needed to update my status from Emacs, since its faster for me and easier. I’ve been using an an Emacs mode to update my Twitter account, but there was nothing to use for my Identi.ca account. And seeing there’s a Vim plugin, I thought someone, like me, needed an Emacs mode too.
So I forked the original twittering-mode to use it with the Identi.ca platform, using its Twitter compatible api.
System Requirements
- GNU Emacs 22
- Linux, Mac OS X, BSD or any Unix based OS (requires curl and wget)
Download
Installation
Put it in your Emacs elisp files directory (.emacs.d/ in Ubuntu)
Then add the following to your .emacs (or your preferred customizations file)
;;; Identi.ca mode
(require 'identica-mode)
(setq identica-username "yourusername")
(setq identica-password "yourpassword")
Use
To start identica mode type:
M-x twittering-mode
the buffer ‘*identica*’ will appear and you can see your friends timeline.
To refresh friends timeline
C-c C-f
To post an update of your status
C-c C-s
type your message in the minibuffer, and hit Enter. You will see ‘Success: Post’ in minibuffer.
Hope it can be of use for anyone using Emacs for almost everything, like I try to do, and would like to hear some feedback.
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