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• signal-msg

Send [[https://signal.org/][Signal]] messages from GNU Emacs using [[https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli][signal-cli]].

This is not a chat program. You can only send individual messages. No receiving is possible.

** Installation

• Make sure that you have [[https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli][signal-cli]] program installed and configured.

  • Official [[https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Quickstart][documentation]] of signal-cli explains how to configure it. E.g., the command below works for me for linking, YMMV.

    #+begin_src sh signal-cli link --name silver | head -1 | qrencode --type=UTF8 #+end_src

• Clone the repository:

#+BEGIN_SRC sh git clone https://github.com/mrkrd/signal-msg.git #+END_SRC

• Update the load-path:

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/path/to/signal-msg")) #+END_SRC

• Load signal-msg:

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp (require 'signal-msg) #+END_SRC

• Configure your phone number:

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp (setq signal-msg-username "+14155550132") #+END_SRC

** Usage

• Call =signal-msg-new-message=:

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE M-x signal-msg-new-message #+END_EXAMPLE

• Select contact

• Write message

• Call =signal-msg-send=

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE C-c C-c #+END_EXAMPLE

** License

The project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later (GPLv3+).