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Remove the top intro paragraph and the Emacs version note from the
README, and update the efinger-accounts examples to the two accounts
actually used, labelling the personal one "Andros".
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A client for the [Finger protocol](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1288.html) (RFC 1288) with an [Elfeed](https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed)-inspired reader for Emacs.
Requires Emacs 28.1 or later.
Finger, born at Stanford in 1971, is arguably the first social network: your whole profile lives in a plain-text `.plan` file that anyone can read with `finger you@your-host`. John Carmack famously kept his DOOM/Quake development diary this way. Efinger lets you keep a list of accounts and browse their `.plan` files from a two-pane interface, the same way you follow feeds in Elfeed. For the story behind the protocol, see [Finger: la red social de 1971](https://andros.dev/blog/79c99190/finger-la-red-social-de-1971-que-nunca-llego-a-morir/).
## How it works
```
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:rev :newest)
:config
(setq efinger-accounts
'("random@happynetbox.com"
("Backup Box ring" "ring@thebackupbox.net"))))
'(("random" "random@happynetbox.com")
("Andros" "me@andros.dev"))))
```
### use-package with :load-path
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:load-path "/path/to/efinger.el"
:config
(setq efinger-accounts
'("random@happynetbox.com"
("Backup Box ring" "ring@thebackupbox.net"))))
'(("random" "random@happynetbox.com")
("Andros" "me@andros.dev"))))
```
### Manual
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(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/efinger.el")
(require 'efinger)
(setq efinger-accounts
'("random@happynetbox.com"
("Backup Box ring" "ring@thebackupbox.net")))
'(("random" "random@happynetbox.com")
("Andros" "me@andros.dev")))
```
## Usage

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;; Usage:
;;
;; (setq efinger-accounts
;; '("random@happynetbox.com"
;; ("Backup Box ring" "ring@thebackupbox.net")))
;; '(("random" "random@happynetbox.com")
;; ("Andros" "me@andros.dev")))
;;
;; M-x efinger - open the two-pane reader
;; M-x efinger-finger - finger a single account