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  "textContent": "`ffs` provides a minor mode for simple plain text presentations in Emacs, where the slides are separated using the `page-delimiter`, by default the form feed character (`^L`).\n\nI wrote `ffs` in early 2022 for my LibrePlanet 2022 presentation the Net beyond the Web, and earlier this year decided to polish it towards being a proper package and submit it to GNU ELPA. The manual still needs some more work, but the overall package is in pretty good shape so I submitted for inclusion in GNU ELPA.\n\n  * Package name (GNU ELPA): ffs\n  * Official manual: https://kelar.org/~bandali/gnu/emacs/ffs.html\n  * Change log: https://kelar.org/~bandali/gnu/emacs/ffs-changelog.html\n  * Git repository: https://git.kelar.org/~bandali/ffs\n  * Backronyms: fabulous foolproof slides - for freedom's sake - ffs flips slides\n\n\n\n`ffs` and I owe a debt of gratitude to Protesilaos for rounds of code review and feedback for improving and polishing the package in preparation for submission to GNU ELPA. You can watch videos of these sessions posted earlier on my website:\n\n  * FFS code review with Protesilaos\n  * FFS code review and Emacs extensibility with Protesilaos\n\n\n\nFurther, inspiration for parts of `ffs`'s implementation was gratefully drawn from Protesilaos's Logos package for Emacs.\n\nDedicated to the loving memory of Farangis Yousefinia.\n\nBelow are the release notes.\n\n* * *\n\n## Version 0.2.2 on 2026-05-21\n\nFirst release of `ffs` on GNU ELPA.\n\nThe attempted build of ffs 0.2.1 within GNU ELPA build sandbox failed with an `Error: void-function (org-texinfo-kbd-macro)` due to use of `#+macro: kbd (eval (org-texinfo-kbd-macro $1))` in ffs.org for better formatting of key sequences in the exported Texinfo copy. This seems to have happened for the specific case of generating a plain text README using `ox-ascii` where ELPA didn't load `ox-texinfo`. To try and mitigate this, a `README.md` has been added for use as the package README instead of ffs.org. If not sufficient, a Texinfo copy of the ffs manual will be shipped instead of the Org one in the next release.\n\nffs 0.2.2 also includes small fixes and improvements throughout `ffs.el` from Stefan Monnier, and additional feedback to be addressed in future releases.\n\n## Version 0.2.1 on 2026-05-20\n\nThe attempted build of ffs 0.2.0 within GNU ELPA build sandbox failed with a \"Cannot include file\" error on the \"#+include: fdl.org\" in the manual. So, as a workaround, we switch to using the official Texinfo copy of the GNU FDL license rather than an Org copy.\n\n## Version 0.2.0 on 2026-05-19\n\nFirst release of `ffs` intended for GNU ELPA.\n\nAfter a few years of inactivity, in early 2026 I decided to dust off `ffs.el`, polish and document it, and offer for inclusion in GNU ELPA as a proper package.\n\n### Default value of `ffs-default-face-height` changed to nil\n\nTo minimize unexpected and/or unnecessary changes out-of-the-box, the default value of `ffs-default-face-height` has been changed to nil.\n\n### `ffs-edit-buffer-name` demoted from user option to variable\n\nThis is not an important user-facing setting, so to help avoid overwhelming users with many options, this has been demoted from a user option to a variable.\n\n### Several new user options for customizing `ffs`'s behaviour\n\nAs part of the effort to bring `ffs` more in line with the conventions of other existing Emacs packages, the mechanisms for toggling various parts of Emacs's interface to minimize visual clutter were changed from being minor modes to being customizable user options. These are the replacement new user options, with a default value of nil:\n\n  * `ffs-hide-cursor`\n  * `ffs-hide-mode-line`\n  * `ffs-hide-header-line`\n\n\n\nTheir value is buffer-local, and may be set globally using `setq-default`. See the sample configuration in the manual for an example of how to customize them.\n\nThe new `ffs-page-delimiter` user option defines the page delimiter inserted by `ffs-edit-done` when inserting a new slide. Emacs's `page-delimiter` regexp should be able to match `ffs-page-delimiter`'s value, so if you use a custom `page-delimiter` be sure to customize `ffs-page-delimiter` accordingly.\n\nThe new `ffs-echo-progress` user option controls whether to display in echo area the progress through the slides. When non-nil, changing slides will also display the progress through the slides in the echo area. The format of the displayed progress can be customized using the new `ffs-echo-progress-format` user option.\n\nThe new `ffs-edit-display-buffer-alist` user option may be used to control the Window configuration for the `ffs-edit` buffer. By default, it will display the `ffs-edit` buffer in the same window.\n\nThe new `ffs-edit-done-hook` user option may be used to define hooks to be run at the end of `ffs-edit-done` after returning to the main `ffs` presentation buffer.\n\nLastly, a new `ffs-find-speaker-notes-function` variable was added to allow customizing the find function used for opening the speaker's notes file, defaulting to `find-file-other-frame`.\n\n## Version 0.1.0 on 2022-05-19\n\nInitial publication of `ffs.el` as part of my personal configurations for GNU Emacs.\n\nMy first attempt at this concept was a now-archived ffsanim.el, a major mode implementation that used Emacs's `animate` library to animate slide texts onto the screen. Shortly after realizing the shortcomings of that approach, I abandoned it in favour a minor mode implementation and published version `0.1.0` of what is now `ffs` in my personal configs repository.\n\nI used this implementation for presenting my LibrePlanet 2022 talk, The Net beyond the Web.\n\nI picked \"ffs\" as the package name, the acronym for form feed slides.",
  "title": "ffs 0.2.2 released",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-21T21:33:33.000Z"
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