Lentic is a package which implements lenticular text — two Emacs buffers that contain the same content, but are otherwise independent. Unlike indirect-buffers, which must contain absolutely identical strings, lentic buffers can contain different text, with a transformation between the two.

m-buffer is a package which provides a high-level convienience API for interacting, searching and changing the contents of an Emacs buffer. It abstracts away from Emacs’ use of global state, and provides list-orientated operations removing the need for explicit looping.

Emacs, of course, has always described itself as self-documenting because it has an integrated documentation system. With my new creation, lenticular text, (n.d.a) though the world changes slightly. I can now write rich documentation embedded into the code base of my package, and can do this without comprimising either the documentation or coding environment.

I have just released m-buffer version 0.10. A pretty minor point release, but I thought I would post about it, as I have not done so far.

Lentic is an Emacs mode which supports multiple views over the same text. This can be used for a form of literate programming. It has specific support for Clojure which it can combine with either LaTeX, Asciidoc or Org-Mode.