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This package provides configurable, drop-down Emacs frames, similar to drop-down terminal windows programs, like Yakuake. Each frame can be customized to display certain buffers in a certain way, at the desired height, width, and opacity. The idea is to call the =yequake-toggle= command from outside Emacs, using =emacsclient=, by binding a shell command to a global keyboard shortcut in the desktop environment. Then, with a single keypress, the desired Emacs frame can be toggled on and off, showing the desired buffers.

There are many options to configure ~yequake-frames~, but the customization UI makes it easy. Try @@html:@@M-x customize-option RET yequake-frames RET@@html:@@

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Note that the animation of the Emacs frame in this example is provided by the window manager. Yequake simply displays the frame.

[[images/animation.gif]]

That animation was produced with this ~yequake-frames~ configuration:

+BEGIN_SRC elisp

(setq yequake-frames '(("Yequake & scratch" . ((width . 0.75) (height . 0.5) (alpha . 0.95) (buffer-fns . ("~/src/emacs/yequake/yequake.el" split-window-horizontally "scratch")) (frame-parameters . ((undecorated . t)))))))

+END_SRC

To activate it, call this command from a shell, e.g. by binding it to a global keyboard shortcut:

+BEGIN_SRC sh

emacsclient -n -e '(yequake-toggle "Yequake & scratch")'

+END_SRC

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  • [[#installation][Installation]]
  • [[#usage][Usage]]
  • [[#changelog][Changelog]]
  • [[#credits][Credits]]

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** Quelpa

[[https://framagit.org/steckerhalter/quelpa-use-package][quelpa-use-package]] makes installation easy:

+BEGIN_SRC elisp

(use-package yequake :quelpa (yequake :fetcher github :repo "alphapapa/yequake"))

+END_SRC

** MELPA

If you installed from MELPA, you're done!

** Manual

Put =yequake.el= in your =load-path=, and this in your init file:

+BEGIN_SRC elisp

(require 'yequake)

+END_SRC

• Usage :PROPERTIES: :TOC: 0 :END:

• Start an Emacs daemon (e.g. with =emacs --daemon=, or @@html:@@M-x server-start RET@@html:@@).

• Configure =yequake-frames=, e.g. with @@html:@@M-x customize-option RET yequake-frames RET@@html:@@.

• Call ~yequake-toggle~:

  • From inside Emacs, it can be called as an interactive command with @@html:@@M-x yequake-toggle RET@@html:@@, and will prompt for a Yequake frame.
  • From outside Emacs, call =emacsclient= and eval the command with the name of a Yequake frame, like:

+BEGIN_SRC sh

emacsclient -n -e '(yequake-toggle "FRAME-NAME")'

+END_SRC

    You'll probably want to bind that to a global keyboard shortcut in your desktop environment.

• Call ~yequake-toggle~ again to hide the frame.

** Tips

• You can customize settings in the =yequake= group.
• The ~yequake-retoggle~ command toggles the most recently toggled frame.

** Org Capture

The ~yequake-org-capture~ function is suitable for use in a Yequake frame used for Org Capture. It calls ~org-capture~ and sets ~org-capture-after-finalize-hook~ to close the Yequake frame after the capture is finalized or canceled. (Note that if another Yequake frame is toggled before the capture is finalized, when the capture is finalized, the wrong Yequake frame will be toggled.) For example, with this configuration:

+BEGIN_SRC elisp

(use-package yequake :quelpa (yequake :fetcher github :repo "alphapapa/yequake")

:custom
(yequake-frames
 '(("org-capture" 
    (buffer-fns . (yequake-org-capture))
    (width . 0.75)
    (height . 0.5)
    (alpha . 0.95)
    (frame-parameters . ((undecorated . t)
                         (skip-taskbar . t)
                         (sticky . t)))))))

+END_SRC

You could then run:

+BEGIN_SRC sh

emacsclient -n -e '(yequake-toggle "org-capture")'

+END_SRC

And after the capture is finalized or canceled, the frame will be closed, like this:

[[images/org-capture.gif]]

• Changelog :PROPERTIES: :TOC: 0 :END:

** 0.1

First tagged release.

• Credits

• This package was inspired by Benjamin Slade's [[https://gitlab.com/emacsomancer/equake][equake]] package, and by good ol' Yakuake.

• The animations were created with [[https://github.com/alphapapa/bashcaster][Bashcaster]] and GIMP.

• Development :PROPERTIES: :TOC: ignore :END:

Bug reports, feature requests, suggestions — /oh my/!

• License :PROPERTIES: :TOC: ignore :END:

GPLv3

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