emacs-xkcd

Implementation of an xkcd reader for GNU Emacs.

Installation

Via package.el

emacs-xkcd is available on MELPA and Marmalade. Just add any of these to your package archives, and install the package with M-x package-install xkcd.

Via el-get

Emacs xkcd can also be installed using el-get. To do so, run M-x el-get-install xkcd

Via Git

Clone this repo to a desired location, add the directory to your load path:

(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "/path/to/emacs-xkcd"))
(require 'xkcd)

Screenshot:

Viewing comics:

• xkcd-get loads a user-specific xkcd.

Files are cached (for later offline viewing) by default to ~/.emacs.d/xkcd/. This can be changed by changing xkcd-cache-dir in emacs-xkcd’s customize menu. (customize-group xkcd)

• xkcd loads the latest xkcd.

Customization

emacs-xkcd can be customized with M-x customize-group xkcd.

Option	Use	Default value
xkcd-cache-dir	Directory where images and json files are cached	~/.emacs.d/xkcd/
xkcd-cache-latest	File where the latest cached xkcd’s number is stored	~/.emacs.d/xkcd/latest

Keybindings:

Keybinding	Use	Function
r	Load a random xkcd	(xkcd-rand)
t	Show alt-text in the minibuffer	(xkcd-alt-text)
<right>	Load next xkcd	(xkcd-next)
<left>	Loads previous xkcd	(xkcd-prev)

Stuff yet to be added:

View title in user-defined faces.

Handle links to xkcd in Emacs with xkcd-get.