From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-05-04T14:39:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby & Emacs


On May 4, 2006, at 1:20 AM, John Gabriele wrote:

> On 5/3/06, Pistos Christou <jesusrubsyou.5.pistos@geoshell.com> wrote:
>>
>> [snip] Diakonos is still young and fledgling, but it is almost
>> fully scriptable in Ruby; that is, if you can press a key to do a
>> certain function, then you can also call that function in a Ruby  
>> script.
>>
>> Pistos
>
> I just had a brief look at Diakonos. Seems nice and clean: just one
> main .rb file for the editor, and one conf file. Sadly, aside from a
> few comments here and there in the code and in the conf file, Diakonos
> looks to be entirely undocumented.
>
> There *is* a readme describing how to install (which is (happily)
> trivial), but no mention anywhere how to use the editor (though,
> passing "--help" (I guessed that one) gives 4 lines of info). I also
> guessed that Ctrl-q exits the editor, but that's it.
>
> The site implies that its first release was in June, 2004.
>

The config file is pretty easy on the eyes, you can pick up the  
keybindings from that.