1. Getting started

1.1 Installation

• Download the latest twittering-mode from http://twmode.sf.net/, and expand it.
• Copy following files and directories to the same directory, which is included in your load-path:
  • ‘twittering-mode.el’
  • (Windows users only) ‘win-curl/’
  • (Emacs21 or older users only) ‘url-emacs21/’
• If you are using GNU Emacs on Windows, you might need following libraries in order to display images(png, jpeg, gif):
  • GnuWin32 Jpeg
  • GnuWin32 LibPng
  • GnuWin32 GifLib
  • Download binaries and copy *.dll files to the directory where emacs.exe exists.

1.2 Quick start

Add following code to your ‘.emacs’:

(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/installed/dir") ;; if you need
(require 'twittering-mode)

and execute

M-x twit

Then you are prompted to enter your Twitter username and password. After that, your friends timeline will appear in *twittering* buffer.

Browsing timelines

You can see some kinds of timelines on twittering-mode.

• g: Reload current timeline
• C-c C-f: Friends timeline
• C-c C-r: Replies
• V and enter USERNAME: Show USERNAME’s tweets
• C-c C-u: Your tweets
• C-c C-g: Public timeline

Following commands help you move around a timeline.

• j: next tweet.
• k: previous tweet.
• h: move to left.
• l: move to right.
• i: on/off icon-mode
• TAB: next interesting things(usernames, links ...)
• G: go to the end of the buffer
• H: go to the beginning of the buffer

Posting your tweet

• C-c C-s: Post tweet from minibuffer.

And more settings

Some more settings will make your twittering-mode life better.

(setq twittering-username "YOURNAME")

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