README

ix.el is a simple emacs client to http://ix.io cmdline pastebin.

Installation

via package.el

ix.el is available as a package via MELPA or Marmalade. If MELPA/Marmalade is already added to your package archives install the package ix.el from there. Otherwise do this in a *scratch* buffer:

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
         '("MELPA" . "https://melpa.org/packages/" )
         '("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/"))

Then run M-x package-refresh-contents to load the contents of the new repository, and M-x package-install RET ix.el RET to install ix.el.

Manual

To install, copy ix.el to somewhere your emacs can find, on your load path. Usually something like:

$ mkdir ~/.emacs.d/ix
$ cp ix.el ~/.emacs.d/ix.el

However manual installation also requires the emacs package grapnel in your load-path. Either install that from marmalade package repo or add it manually to your load path.

To the user-init-file (.emacs) add the following:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/ix")
(require 'ix)

ix also requires a curl to be in your exec-path.

Usage

The following commands are available

• ix - post region\buffer to http://ix.io
• ix-delete - (prompts for url/id) delete a user owned post
• ix-browse - (prompts for url/id) browse a paste from ix.io

At the moment executing M-x ix command on a selection sends the selection to ix.io, entire buffer is sent if selection is inactive, on success the url is notified in the minibuffer as well as saved in the kill ring.

It is recommended to set a user-name and token so that your pastes can be deleted/replaced at a later time. These can be set by

M-x customize-group RET ix

and setting the values for the variable ix-user and ix-token. If the user name didn't exist previously it is created during the first time ix is used.

To delete a post, calling ix-delete will prompt for the post identifier or the complete url (of the form http://ix.io/ID), which will delete the post. This requires that the post was posted using a username and token

ix-browse lets you browse a paste at ix.io. This prompts for url/ID similiar to ix-delete. If point is already on a url then it defaults to that.

More info

ix was built a top of the emacs package grapnel http request library.

Please report issues, improvements etc. at ix github page

Similiar Projects

emacs-ixio Another simple interface to ix, doesn't depend on curl