To: hyperbole-users@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, emacs-tangents@gnu.org
ANNOUNCE: GNU Hyperbole 7, a.k.a the Git Ready for Action Release

This is the main public release of GNU Hyperbole for 2017.  It offers many
new productivity-enhancing features including Git and Github object links
as summarized here:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hyperbole.git/plain/HY-NEWS

A short explanation of Hyperbole is included below.  For more detail
or how to obtain and install it, see:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/hyperbole

For a list of use cases, see:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/hyperbole/HY-WHY.html

For what users think about Hyperbole, see:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/hyperbole/hyperbole.html#user-quotes

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GNU Hyperbole (pronounced Ga-new Hi-per-bo-lee), or just Hyperbole, is an
amazing, programmable hypertextual information management system
implemented as a GNU Emacs package and extensively documented.  Hyperbole
has been greatly expanded and updated for use with the latest Emacs 26
releases; it supports GNU Emacs 24.4 or above.

Hyperbole can boost your day-to-day productivity with Emacs and your
ability to manage information stored across many different machines on the
internet.  People who get used to Hyperbole often find they prefer never to
use Emacs without it.

Hyperbole includes its own easy-to-use hypertextual buttons and links that
can be created without the need for any markup language.

It also comes out-of-the-box with:

  - a hierarchical, record-based contact manager

  - a rapid window and frame control system

  - a powerful multi-level auto-numbered outliner

  - and two very smart context-dependent mouse and keyboard keys that
    simplify operations in many editing and browsing modes.  All features
    are aimed at making textual information management and display fast and
    easy.

Bob Weiner designed and programmed GNU Hyperbole.  He and Mats Lidell
maintain it with the Free Software Foundation.  It includes an interactive
demo to introduce you to its features as well as a detailed reference manual,
as explained here:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/hyperbole/hyperbole.html#invocation-and-doc

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Please give Hyperbole a try.  It's free, man.  It adapts to your needs.
It connects everything.  It rewires your brain.  It speeds your web
searches for `carpal tunnel syndrome'.  It makes you feel like the
sun is out on a gray winter day :-)

But wait, there's more and this part is serious.  For a limited time,
to encourage use and feedback, the first 30 people who try out the
Hyperbole DEMO or read the Hyperbole Manual and send a few thoughtful
sentences to <rsw at gnu dot org> will receive either of their choice of
the following as yet unpublished single file Emacs Lisp libraries:

;;  rsw-linecol.el: User-editable mode-line column and line number display formats
;;
;;  GNU Emacs buries the formatting of mode-line line and column
;;  numbers in a way that makes it virtually impossible for a user
;;  to change this formatting.  This library fixes that with a new
;;  variable which may be modified to instantly alter the mode-line
;;  column and line number display.

or

;;  rsw-chrome-macos.el: Open a URL or file in Google Chrome and reuse an existing
;;    tab/window if already displayed.
;;
;;  This library resolves the many problems of sending URLs to Google Chrome
;;  on MacOS.  It properly sends # hash in-file links (these are
;;  typically stripped when Chrome is called as a MacOS application).
;;  It reuses any tab already displaying any matching URL that is sent
;;  and it does this even if the ultimately displayed URL goes through
;;  several redirects before display.

Enjoy,

Bob and Mats


