magic-buffer

An executable cookbook, on how to (ab)use emacse's display engine. Feel free to add sections, or suggest improvements.

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You can add the following snippet to your .emacs. It will download and install the latest version of magic-buffer on its firsts run.

(defun magic-buffer ()
  (interactive)
  (let (( file-name
          (concat temporary-file-directory
                  "magic-buffer.el"))
        ( try-downloading
          (lambda ()
            (url-copy-file
             "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sabof/magic-buffer/master/magic-buffer.el"
             file-name t)
            (require 'magic-buffer file-name))))
    (condition-case nil
        (funcall try-downloading)
      (error (funcall try-downloading))))
  (magic-buffer))

then

M-x magic-buffer