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Hyperdrive is a P2P, real-time, local-first, versioned filesystem
designed for easy peer-to-peer file sharing. hyperdrive.el is an
independent project built by USHIN which provides an Emacs interface
for managing hyperdrives.
hyperdrive.el is in early development. If something breaks, please see
Troubleshooting.
This manual is for hyperdrive.el version 0.5-pre.
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Copyright © 2023, 2024 USHIN, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts being “A GNU Manual,” and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License.”
(a) The FSF’s Back-Cover Text is: “You have the freedom to copy and modify this GNU manual.”
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hyperdrive.el requires GNU Emacs version 28.1 or later.
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hyperdrive.el requires a reasonably up-to-date version of curl.
Feel free to skip this step. curl may already installed on your
machine, and hyperdrive.el will warn you otherwise.
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hyperdrive.el can be installed from NonGNU ELPA with M-x
package-refresh-contents then M-x package-install RET hyperdrive.
After installing with NonGNU ELPA, you can later upgrade to a newer
version of hyperdrive.el by running M-x package-refresh-contents then
M-x package-upgrade RET hyperdrive. On Emacs 28, If package-upgrade
is not available as a command, display the list of packages with M-x
list-packages, select hyperdrive, and click the Install button.
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hyperdrive.el relies on hyper-gateway-ushin for talking to the
hypercore network.
After installing hyperdrive.el (see Install hyperdrive.el), run M-x
hyperdrive-install to download and install the gateway.
Alternatively, follow the manual installation instructions.
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After following the installation instructions, you can add this
snippet to your ~/.emacs.d/init.el file. This code will make the
keyboard shortcut C-c h (hold the Control key and tap c, then release
both and tap h) open the hyperdrive menu command. It will also enable
the “Hyperdrive” menu bar:
(when (package-installed-p 'hyperdrive) (global-set-key (kbd "C-c h") #'hyperdrive-menu) (hyperdrive-menu-bar-mode 1))
With (use-package)use-package:
(use-package hyperdrive
:bind ("C-c h" . hyperdrive-menu)
:init (hyperdrive-menu-bar-mode 1))
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Be careful about what you share! When you upload a file, beware: You may delete your own copy, But gone it may not be. On the network it still may be there.
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Run M-x hyperdrive-install to download and install the gateway program
(see hyper-gateway-ushin):
Download and install the gateway. Prompts for confirmation before downloading.
Cancel installation in progress.
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If you enable hyperdrive-menu-bar-mode, either in your configuration
(see Example configuration) or with M-x hyperdrive-menu-bar-mode,
the “Hyperdrive” menu should appear after the “Tools” menu at the top
of the screen. If you don’t see the menu bar, please double check
that menu-bar-mode is enabled (it is enabled by default).
Enable the “Hyperdrive” menu bar.
If you have disabled menu-bar-mode, you can still use the hyperdrive
menu bar by pressing C-mouse-3 in a hyperdrive file or directory.
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To connect with peers, you’ll need to start the gateway (see
hyper-gateway-ushin). The current running status of the gateway
can be seen in hyperdrive-menu (see Hyperdrive menu command)
and in the “Hyperdrive” menu bar (see Menu bar support).
Start the gateway.
Hook run when the gateway becomes responsive after hyperdrive-start.
One of the default hooks, hyperdrive-check-gateway-version, will
warn you if you’re running an outdated version of the gateway.
Stop the gateway.
Hook run when the gateway is no longer live after hyperdrive-stop.
Restart the gateway.
Say the version of the gateway which is running.
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Function run to start the gateway. By default, hyperdrive.el will
start the gateway as an Emacs subprocess.
Function run to stop the gateway.
Function run to check that the gateway process is live.
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You can open a hyperdrive folder or file by pasting in a hyper:// URL
after M-x hyperdrive-open-url. Try loading USHIN’s hyperdrive:
hyper://aaj45d88g4eenu76rpmwzjiabsof1w8u6fufq6oogyhjk1ubygxy/
Open a hyperdrive file or directory by its hyper:// URL.
The following commands let you select and visit one of the hyperdrives you’ve already created or visited:
Open a hyperdrive file or directory by choosing one of your known
hyperdrives and a path inside it. Like find-file, this command can
be used to create a new file inside your own hyperdrives.
Like hyperdrive-find-file, but open the file in (emacs)view-mode.
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hyperdrive.el offers a Dired-like (see (emacs)Dired) interface
for exploring hyperdrive directories. In the directory view, the file
size color indicates how much of a file you have already downloaded:
fully downloaded (hyperdrive-size-fully-downloaded)
partially downloaded (hyperdrive-size-partially-downloaded)
not downloaded (hyperdrive-size-not-downloaded)
Mouse over the file size to see exactly how many blocks make up the file and how many of them you have downloaded.
The following bindings are available in the directory view by default:
Move between entries.
Open the file or directory at point.
Open the file or directory at point in a new window.
Open the file or directory at point in (emacs)view-mode.
Go up to the parent directory.
Refresh the directory to display potential updates.
Sort directory contents by the current column. To sort by a
different column, click on the column header or use the universal
prefix argument (C-u s).
Download the file at point to disk.
Delete the file or directory (recursively) at point.
Delete your local copy of the file at point.
Open the version history (see View the hyperdrive version history) of file at point.
Copy the URL of the file or directory at point.
Open imenu to quickly jump to a file in the current directory.
Open hyperdrive-menu (see Hyperdrive menu command).
This command signals an error, because you cannot create empty directories (see No empty directories).
You can customize the directory view with the following options:
Display buffer action for hyperdrive directories. Passed to
display-buffer, which see.
Column by which directory entries are sorted by default.
Internally, a cons cell of (COLUMN . DIRECTION), the COLUMN being
one of the directory listing columns (name, size, or mtime) and
DIRECTION being one of :ascending or :descending.
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The following keybindings are available inside the file view by default:
Refresh the file to display potential updates. This command remaps
the global revert-buffer-quick keybinding.
Jump to the parent hyperdrive directory from a hyperdrive file or
directory buffer. This command remaps the global dired-jump keybinding.
For security reasons, hyperdrive.el does not enable major modes based
on file extension unless the hyperdrive has been marked as “safe” with
M-x hyperdrive-mark-as-safe (see Mark a hyperdrive as safe).
The following customization options affect how files are displayed:
Control how HTML hyperdrive files are displayed. By default, HTML
pages are rendered in Emacs with (eww)EWW. If nil, raw HTML will be
displayed.
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When you attempt to load a file or folder that doesn’t appear to
exist, hyperdrive.el will prompt you to take action:
h (history) to open the version history for that file.
u (up) to open the parent directory containing that file or folder
r (recurse) to go up the directory tree until a directory is found
or until you get to the root directory.
e (explain) to open this section of the hyperdrive Info manual.
q (exit) to exit,
? (help) to show a help message.
If you attempt to load the root directory (hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/) of a
hyperdrive with a valid-looking public key which you’ve never loaded
before and for which no peers are currently found, hyperdrive.el
should warn you that no peers were found for that drive. This might
mean that the drive doesn’t exist or just that you’re not connected to
anyone who knows about it.
If you attempt to load a file or directory for a hyperdrive with a
malformed public key, hyperdrive.el should ask you to double-check the
URL.
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You can have multiple hyperdrives, each one containing its own set of
files. Run M-x hyperdrive-new then type in a seed (see Seeds) to
create a new hyperdrive. That seed will be combined with your secret
master key (see Master key) to produce a public key (see Public keys) that uniquely identifies that hyperdrive.
Create a new hyperdrive from a seed string.
When you create a new drive, your chosen seed is used as its petname (see Petnames) by default.
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After modifying a file in one of your hyperdrives, save-buffer will
silently update the current hyperdrive file with the new content.
Save the current hyperdrive file buffer to its location.
Save all modified hyperdrive file buffers to their locations. This
command’s primary purpose is to save normal file buffers, and
hyperdrive.el has integrated with it.
hyperdrive.el will prompt to save modified hyperdrive files before
exiting Emacs. If you want the command save-some-buffers to always
prompt to save hyperdrive files in addition to regular files, set
save-some-buffers-default-predicate to t.
Write the current buffer to a hyperdrive by choosing one of hyperdrives you have created as well as the path in that hyperdrive where you want to store the file.
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You can share a hyperdrive file with someone by copying and sending its link. Anyone who has the link to a hyperdrive file or directory can load it and view its contents.
Copy the URL of the current hyperdrive file or directory.
In the directory view, you can copy the URL of the file or directory
at point by pressing w (see Directory view).
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If the current file is an org-mode file, org-store-link will store a
link to the hyperdrive file. If point is inside a heading, a
URL-encoded search option containing its CUSTOM_ID, ID, or heading
text will be appended as the stored URL’s link fragment.
Linking by path alone to other files within the same hyperdrive is
supported; within hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/foo.org, links to bar.org,
./bar.org, and /bar.org will all point to hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/bar.org.
Links within a hyperdrive may also begin with the explicit file:
prefix. A version number can also be specified; /$/version/42/bar.org
will point to hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/$/version/42/bar.org.
Org-mode hyperdrive link completion allows you to interactively link
to a hyperdrive file/folder by running M-x org-insert-link (or C-c C-l
in org-mode), then typing hyper: and RET. To change how
org-insert-link inserts links to files within the same hyperdrive,
adjust hyperdrive-org-link-full-url and org-link-file-path-type.
This option controls whether relative links to hyperdrives are ever
inserted with org-insert-link. Set it to t if you always want to
insert full hyper:// links.
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Relative links are supported; within hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/foo.md, the
links [bar](<bar.md>), [bar](<./bar.md>), and [bar](</bar.md>) all
point to hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/bar.md.
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Please note that deleted files can be accessed by loading a prior version of the hyperdrive (see View the hyperdrive version history).
Delete the hyperdrive file in the current buffer.
This command also has a keybinding in the directory view (see Directory view).
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Please note that forgetting a file may result in data loss if it cannot be loaded from another peer on the network.
It is possible to “forget” your local copy of a hyperdrive file in order to save disk space. “Forgetting” a file does not delete the file from the hyperdrive and does not increment the hyperdrive’s version number.
Delete your local copy of the file for the current buffer.
This command also has a keybinding in the directory view (see Directory view). When you forget a file, the file size of its directory listing will turn red, indicating that you no longer have a copy of the file.
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Hyperdrives are versioned, meaning that you can explore the history of changes made to hyperdrive files (see Versioning).
Open the previous version of the current hyperdrive file or directory.
Open the next version of the current hyperdrive file or directory.
Open the current hyperdrive file or directory at a specific version number. To open the file or directory at its hyperdrive’s latest version, leave the version blank.
The following keybindings are available when visiting an old version
of a hyperdrive file (hyperdrive-blob-mode):
Traverse version history for the current file.
The history buffer displays the entire known history of a hyperdrive file. For an explanation of how it works, see Partial version data.
Like in the directory view, the file size color in the history view indicates how much of a file you have already downloaded.
Open the history buffer for the current hyperdrive file. To open
the history for a different file, use the universal prefix argument
like this: C-u M-x hyperdrive-history.
The following keybindings are available inside the history view by default:
Move between entries.
Load all drive metadata, including version metadata, then reload the history buffer.
Open the file at the start of the version range at point. When the
version range at point is unknown, run hyperdrive-history-load.
Open the file at the start of the version range at point in a new window.
Open the file at the start of the version range at point in (emacs)view-mode. When the version range at point is unknown, run
hyperdrive-history-load.
Copy the URL of the file at the start of the version range at point.
Download the file at the start of the version range at point.
Display the differences between the version at point and the prior version.
Delete your local copy of the file for the version range at point.
To act on the latest known version of the file, use these keybindings on the header line displaying the file description.
You can customize the history view:
Display buffer action for hyperdrive history buffers. Passed to
display-buffer, which see.
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To see information about a hyperdrive, such as its public key, seed,
petname, nickname, domains, writability, local disk usage, or other
metadata, run hyperdrive-describe-hyperdrive. For more on what this
information means, see Naming.
Display the description of the hyperdrive containing the current
file or directory. To describe a different hyperdrive, use the
universal prefix argument: C-u M-x hyperdrive-describe-hyperdrive.
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hyperdrive.el supports different ways to identify hyperdrives (see
Naming). The following commands can be used to name hyperdrives:
Set the petname (see Petnames) of the hyperdrive for the current
hyperdrive file or directory. You can’t use the same petname for
multiple hyperdrives. To set the petname of a different hyperdrive,
use the universal prefix argument: C-u M-x hyperdrive-set-petname.
Set the nickname (see Nicknames) of the hyperdrive for the current
hyperdrive file or directory. You can only set the nickname for a
hyperdrive which you previously created. To set the nickname of a
different hyperdrive, use the universal prefix argument like this:
C-u M-x hyperdrive-set-nickname.
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You can use the built-in bookmark-set, bookmark-jump, and
bookmark-list functions to store and jump to a hyperdrive file or
directory.
Select a hyperdrive bookmark and jump to it.
View a list of hyperdrive bookmarks.
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When you use hyperdrive-find-file or some other command to open a
streamable audio/video file, Emacs will use an external program to
stream that video from the network. After the stream finishes, the
audio/video file is stored locally.
Command used to play streamable URLs externally. Default uses mpv. There also exists a preconfigured option for VLC media player.
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You can “download” a hyperdrive file to your local filesystem, meaning
that hyperdrive.el will (1) download the file from the network if it
hasn’t done so already and then (2) copy the file contents to a
file-path on your machine of your choosing. The following commands
may be run while offline.
Download a hyperdrive file by selecting a hyperdrive and a path.
Download a hyperdrive file by pasting in a hyper:// URL.
Location where hyperdrive-download-url will download files. Defaults
to eww-download-directory or, if not bound, the home directory.
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If you already have a file on your local filesystem that you’d like to put on a hyperdrive, you can “upload” it. Note that the following commands add files to a hyperdrive, but those files are not automatically “uploaded” to anyone else’s machine in the traditional sense. Files are only shared on the network when other peers request them from your node. The following commands may be run while offline.
Upload a single file from your filesystem. By default, the selected file will be placed in your hyperdrive’s root directory, but you can edit the filepath before uploading.
Upload multiple files from your filesystem. The selected files will be uploaded into the same target directory in your hyperdrive.
On Emacs 29+, you can upload an image which you previously copied to
your clipboard from an external program with M-x yank-media.
For uploading more than a few files, you can use hyperdrive-mirror.
Upload a directory, mirroring its subdirectory structure in your hyperdrive. This command prompts for a source directory on your local filesystem from which to upload files as well as a hyperdrive and target directory inside of it where the files will end up.
The source and target directories will be compared, and only the files which are “new locally” (they don’t already exist on the drive) or “newer locally” (they have been locally modified since a previous upload) will be uploaded. Files which are the “same” (they have the same timestamp as in the drive) or are “older locally” (they have been modified on the drive more recently than on the filesystem) will not be uploaded.
With a universal prefix argument (C-u M-x hyperdrive-mirror), it
additionally prompts for a filter argument to programmatically
determine which files will be considered for upload. With two
universal prefix arguments (C-u C-u M-x hyperdrive-mirror), matching
files will be uploaded without the confirmation step.
As a confirmation step, hyperdrive-mirror displays each file to be
uploaded alongside the URL in the hyperdrive where it will end up.
The following keybindings are available in hyperdrive-mirror-mode:
Upload all of the files in the “To Upload” section.
Fold or unfold the section at point.
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For security reasons, hyperdrive.el does not enable major modes
based on file extension unless the hyperdrive has been marked as
“safe.” When opening a file in a hyperdrive marked as “unknown” (the
default), hyperdrive.el will prompt you to mark the drive as “safe”,
“unsafe”, or “unknown”. Files in hyperdrives which are marked as
“safe” are always opened in the appropriate major mode with
set-auto-mode. Files in hyperdrives which are marked as “unsafe”
are opened in fundamental-mode (no major mode).
Mark a hyperdrive as “safe”, “unsafe”, or “unknown”. This command
can also be invoked from hyperdrive-menu-hyperdrive and the menu bar.
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Data which has been purged from your local machine may still be available on the network.
Data which has been purged from your local machine may not be recoverable.
Remove all data related to a hyperdrive. This command will prompt
for confirmation before deleting anything. In addition to the
hyperdrive’s file content and metadata, hyperdrive-purge also
deletes relevant metadata persisted in the hyperdrive-hyperdrives
variable.
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In writing your own functions to extend hyperdrive.el, you can use
hyperdrive-by-slot to access a hyperdrive by its metadata:
This function accepts a hyperdrive seed, petname, or public key, and
returns the hyperdrive struct.
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hyperdrive-mirrorYou can use the following snippet to recursively upload all of the
files from your local filesystem’s ~/blog/ directory into the /blog/
directory of a hyperdrive you previously created with petname "foo":
(hyperdrive-mirror "~/blog/" (hyperdrive-by-slot 'petname "foo") "/blog/")
To upload the same files without confirmation, add :no-confirm t.
Now let’s say that you want to upload only those files tagged as
“public” using Protesilaos Stavrou’s Denote file-naming scheme. The
following snippet includes a FILTER key whose value is a regular
expression against which every expanded filename will be tested.
(hyperdrive-mirror "~/blog/" (hyperdrive-by-slot 'petname "foo") "/blog/" :filter "_public")
Alternatively, you could select files by tag with Karl Voit’s filetags. Either way allows for a “non-splitting” approach where public and private files exist in the same directory.
FILTER may also be a function, which receives the expanded filename
as its only argument. For example, the following snippet will mirror
only those files in ~/blog/ which are smaller than 5MB:
(hyperdrive-mirror
"~/blog/"
(hyperdrive-by-slot 'petname "foo")
"/blog/"
:filter (lambda (file) (> (* 5 1024 1024)
(file-attribute-size
(file-attributes file)))))
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The hyperdrive-org-transclusion package adds support for transcluding hyperdrive files and parts of hyperdrive files with org-transclusion.
To use this feature, please install hyperdrive-org-transclusion with
M-x package-install RET hyperdrive-org-transclusion and then add the
following snippet to your configuration:
(with-eval-after-load 'org-transclusion (hyperdrive-org-transclusion-mode +1))
You can then run M-x org-transclusion-add on the following link to
transclude the Org heading with the property CUSTOM_ID: emacs inside
the /software.org file inside the USHIN hyperdrive:
#+transclude: [[hyper://aaj45d88g4eenu76rpmwzjiabsof1w8u6fufq6oogyhjk1ubygxy/software.org#%3A%3A%23emacs]]
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If you have enabled find-file-at-point (ffap) bindings with M-x
ffap-bindings, you can open a hyperdrive link by putting the point on
it and pressing C-x C-f.
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Embark users can run embark-act in the completing-read interface
for selecting a hyperdrive in order to select an alternative action
for the selected hyperdrive.
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You can jump to a hyper:// link with M-x webjump after adding it to
webjump-sites:
(add-to-list
'webjump-sites
'("USHIN Hyperdrive" . "hyper://aaj45d88g4eenu76rpmwzjiabsof1w8u6fufq6oogyhjk1ubygxy/"))
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Hyperdrive is a virtual filesystem which you can use to share files on
the peer-to-peer (P2P) hyper network. It’s a folder with a globally
unique link starting with hyper:// that you can put files into and
other peers can pull files out of (if they have the link).
Anyone with the link to your hyperdrive can download its contents
directly from your computer. There’s no need to make an account or
rely on a third party to pass the data along. Anyone who has a copy
of the content in your hyperdrive can serve it to others. This means
that your hyperdrive can circulate on the hyper network even when
you’re offline.
Hyperdrive is single-writer, meaning that you are the only one who change a hyperdrive that you’ve created. Files in a hyperdrive are cryptographically signed to ensure that the files you share aren’t tampered with.
You can make as many hyperdrives as you like; the only limitation is your own disk space.
Hyperdrive is offline-first since you can view files which were previously downloaded even when your machine is disconnected from the rest of the network. It’s also local-first, since you can connect with peers on a local network even without an internet connection.
Unlike BitTorrent, another P2P protocol for sharing files, hyperdrives are mutable. If you share a link to your hyperdrive and then later add, update, or delete files inside it, peers will be able to access your latest changes at the same link. When you make revisions to a hyperdrive, the old versions of your files can still be accessed by peers on the network. See Versioning for more information.
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Hyperdrives are sparsely replicated, meaning that peers can download particular files from a hyperdrive without having to download the whole drive. This reduces both load times and disk usage.
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Hyperdrives are versioned, meaning that it is possible to explore a
hyperdrive as it was in the past. Version numbers indicate the
hyperdrive’s version. For example, hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/$/version/50/
refers to the fiftieth version of the hyperdrive identified by
PUBLIC-KEY. If you want to load the latest version, leave out the
/$/version/N part. For example, if you run…
M-x hyperdrive-open-url RET hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/foo.org RET
…then hyperdrive.el will attempt to find /foo.org inside the latest
version of that hyperdrive.
Whenever you add a file, remove a file, or change a file, the
hyperdrive’s version number gets incremented by 1. The version number
tells you how many times the hyperdrive has been modified, not how
many times a particular file has been modified. For example, let’s say
that the current version of your hyperdrive at hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/
is 50. If you add a new file at hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/bar.org, the latest
version of your hyperdrive will become 51.
Since /bar.org did not exist before version 51, if you attempt to load
hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/$/version/50/bar.org, hyperdrive.el should warn you
that nothing exists at that URL. If you add another file at
hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/quux.org, your hyperdrive’s latest version will
become 52. For the moment, hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/bar.org,
hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/$/version/51/bar.org, and
hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/$/version/52/bar.org, all point to the same version
of /bar.org. If you then make a change to /bar.org, your hyperdrive’s
latest version will become 53. Now hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/bar.org and
hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/$/version/53/bar.org will point to the latest
version of /bar.org, while the original version will be available at
version 51 or 52.
Here’s the mockup of the history view for /bar.org so far, the
hyperdrive’s latest version being 53:
| Version range | exists |
|---|---|
| 53 | yes |
| 51-52 | yes |
| 1-50 | no |
The table shows that /bar.org was created at version 51 and modified
at version 53. The final version range number in the table is 53,
indicating that the hyperdrive’s latest version is 53.
If you delete /bar.org then try to load hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/bar.org,
hyperdrive.el will open an empty buffer for you to author a new file.
If another peer attempts to load that URL, hyperdrive.el will warn
"URL not found", since you are the only one who can modify your drive.
All peers can view the old file contents at the versioned URLs.
Since only the current version of a hyperdrive file can be updated,
hyperdrive.el sets the buffer to read-only whenever a version number
is specified in a hyper URL.
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Because hyperdrives are sparsely replicated (see Sparse replication),
hyperdrive.el might not know the full version history of a file.
In the history view (see History buffer), ranges of the history which
have not yet been downloaded from the network are displayed as
“unknown”. You can run the hyperdrive-history-load command to
download the full history and reload the history buffer.
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The secret master key is combined with a seed (see Seeds) to generate
a new public key for a hyperdrive when you run hyperdrive-new. Your
master key is generated automatically by the gateway.
Next: Naming, Previous: Hyperdrive, Up: Concepts [Contents][Index]
Hyper-gateway-ushin handles interactions with hyperdrive under the hood, and
it runs a local HTTP server which offers a Fetch API to access the
Hyperdrive network. In hyperdrive.el, P2P interactions consist
mostly of, e.g., GET requests to download files and PUT requests
to write files to a hyperdrive.
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Inspired by Marc Stiegler’s An Introduction to Petname Systems,
hyperdrive.el names drives in a three different ways:
public, globally unique, not human-memorable
public, not necessarily unique, human-memorable
private, locally unique, human-memorable
If hyperdrive.el is like a phonebook, then public keys are phone
numbers, nicknames are how your contacts introduce themselves, and
petnames are the names you actually write down.
Each drive may also have one or both of the following attributes:
string used to generate public key
public, globally unique, human-memorable
Public keys are globally unique identifiers for hyperdrives. They
make up the first part of a hyper:// URL. Public keys are
52-character-long z-base-32 encoded keys generated from your master
key (see Master key) and a seed string. When you run hyperdrive-new
and type a new seed, the gateway automatically generates a new public
key.
Next: Petnames, Previous: Public keys, Up: Naming [Contents][Index]
Nicknames are public, memorable names which you can give to your own hyperdrives to make them easier for others to recognize. Other users can see your nicknames but cannot change them.
Nicknames are stored in each hyperdrive inside
/.well-known/host-meta.json under the name key, as specified in
RFC6415.
Petnames are locally unique hyperdrive identifiers. You can give a petname to any hyperdrive you load, whether you created it or not.
Next: DNS domains, Previous: Petnames, Up: Naming [Contents][Index]
Seeds are used in tandem with your secret master key (see Master key) to generate public keys (see Public keys). The same seed and master key will always produce the same public key, so a hyperdrive’s seed cannot be changed. Seeds are local but not secret. To share a drive, you must use a public key or DNS domain (see DNS domains).
It is possible to use DNSLink to link to a hyperdrive with a domain
name instead of a public key (see Public keys), like
hyper://example.org/path/to/file. Create a TXT record at
_dnslink.example.org with the contents /hyper/PUBLIC-KEY (no trailing
slash). Note: relying on DNS adds another point of centralization,
reducing the durability of your link. hyperdrive.el somewhat mitigates
this issue by remembering which public key the DNS record resolved to,
so that peers can use the stored public key itself for subsequent
connections.
DNS domains are checked for suspicious characters (see (elisp)Suspicious Text).
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You can adjust the following options in the customization interface by
running M-x customize-group RET hyperdrive RET:
Name of executable to run when starting the gateway with
hyperdrive-gateway-start-function. hyperdrive-install will install
the gateway to this file in hyperdrive-gateway-directory.
Filesystem directory in which the gateway is expected to be found.
hyperdrive-install will install the gateway to this location. When
starting the gateway, if hyperdrive-gateway-program is not found in
this directory, Emacs searches PATH for hyperdrive-gateway-program.
Command line arguments passed to the gateway when starting the
gateway with the default hyperdrive-gateway-start-function.
hyperdrive.el will send HTTP requests to the gateway on this port.
Defaults to 4973. The default hyperdrive-gateway-start-function
will start the gateway on this port.
Location where persist will store hyperdrive-hyperdrives. By
default, uses the default persist location.
Format string used for timestamps. Passed to format-time-string,
which see.
Default number of request sent to the gateway at a time in a queue.
Defaults to 20.
List of metadata types used to display hyperdrives. Hyperdrives are displayed using the first available metadata type. See Naming section for what this means.
Format string for displaying hyperdrive entries (files/directories).
By default, entries are displayed with the preferred hyperdrive
format in brackets (see hyperdrive-preferred-formats), followed by
the full entry path, followed by “version: ” and version in
parentheses.
Format string for buffer names of buffers visiting hyperdrive
files/directories. By default, this format is like
hyperdrive-default-entry-format with the entry name sans directory
instead of the full path.
Alist mapping hyperdrive and hyperdrive entry metadata to a format
string, used in hyperdrive-default-entry-format and
hyperdrive-buffer-name-format as well as other places hyperdrives or
entries are displayed. By default, each metadatum is prefixed by
its type, e.g., the petname foo is displayed by default as
petname:foo.
Feel free to adjust the following example configuration for abbreviated labels:
(setq hyperdrive-formats
'((name . "%s")
(version . " (%s)")
(path . "%s")
(petname . "p:%s")
(nickname . "n:%s")
(public-key . "k:%s")
(short-key . "k:%.8s…")
(seed . "s:%s")
(domains . "d:%s")))
With this snippet, the petname foo now displays as p:foo. For further
customization, run M-x customize-group RET hyperdrive-entry-format.
Up: Customization [Contents][Index]
This section mentions ways to change the behavior of hyperdrive.el
besides its own customization options.
hyperdrive.el offers a completing-read interface for selecting a
hyperdrive from a list of known hyperdrive. You can customize the
completion styles and cycling behavior by customizing the hyperdrive
category in completion-category-overrides.
Next: Tips, Previous: Customization, Up: Hyperdrive.el User Manual [Contents][Index]
Instead of files and folders, Hyperdrive technically has entries and entry prefixes. In other words, folders don’t exist unless they contain files. This results in potentially unexpected behavior:
When a hyperdrive file or folder is not found, hyperdrive.el prompts
you for an action (see Unknown paths).
Next: Non-UTF-8 encoded text, Previous: No empty directories, Up: Known limitations [Contents][Index]
In the current implementation of Hyperdrive, it’s possible for an
entry (folder) and an entry prefix (folder) to have the same name,
e.g., hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/foo/bar/ and hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/foo/bar. In
this case, the folder listing for hyper://PUBLIC-KEY/foo/ would
display the bar entry but not the bar/ entry prefix.
Previous: Files and folders can have the same name, Up: Known limitations [Contents][Index]
We have primarily tested reading and writing files which are UTF-8 encoded. If you use other encodings and you notice issues, please let us know (see Contributing/Getting help).
Next: Troubleshooting, Previous: Known limitations, Up: Hyperdrive.el User Manual [Contents][Index]
There are many ways to read this info manual within Emacs:
Open the hyperdrive.el info manual.
You can also open the hyperdrive.el info manual from hyperdrive-menu
by pressing ? twice.
To view documentation for particular hyperdrive.el commands,
functions, and variables, press C-h o (describe-symbol). Inside the
*Help* buffer that pops open, you can press i (help-goto-info) to jump
to the relevant section in the hyperdrive.el manual.
Next: Contributing/Getting help, Previous: Tips, Up: Hyperdrive.el User Manual [Contents][Index]
Up: Troubleshooting [Contents][Index]
Please ensure that you have the expected version of the gateway by
running M-x hyperdrive-install.
Next: Uninstallation, Previous: Troubleshooting, Up: Hyperdrive.el User Manual [Contents][Index]
You’re welcome to join our public XMPP chat room!
xmpp:discuss@conference.ushin.org (Join anonymously from your browser)
#_bifrost_discuss_conference.ushin.org:aria-net.org (Matrix bridge)
Bugs can be submitted to the ushin issue tracker. Patches, comments or questions can be submitted to the ushin public inbox.
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If you have installed the gateway with hyperdrive-install, you can
delete the gateway which Emacs downloaded according to the values of
hyperdrive-gateway-directory and hyperdrive-gateway-program, which is
~/.local/lib/hyperdrive.el/hyper-gateway-ushin by default.
You can delete the user data which hyper-gateway-ushin stores by
default in ~/.local/share/hyper-gateway-nodejs.
You can remove hyperdrive.el with M-x package-delete hyperdrive.
Next: Indices, Previous: Uninstallation, Up: Hyperdrive.el User Manual [Contents][Index]
Paula Maas and Martin Turner for inspiration, feedback and undying support.
Adam Porter for rewriting hyperdrive.el and for his work on plz.el.
Mauve Signweaver for their guidance into the
world of p2p as well as the development of hyper-gateway.
Jonas Bernoulli for improving hyperdrive-mirror and for his work on
transient.el.
Protesilaos Stavrou for design input and user-testing hyperdrive.el.
Eli Zaretskii for guidance about text encoding systems.
Ihor Radchenko for guidance about security and Org mode integration.
Karl Voit for his feedback which inspired the design of hyperdrive-mirror.
Steve Purcell and Akira Komamura for suggestions to improve our CI build manifests.
Eshel Yaron for the suggestion to add hyperdrive-menu-bar-mode.
Chris Rayner for the suggestion to add hyperdrive-org-transclusion-mode.
Next: GNU Free Documentation License, Previous: Acknowledgments, Up: Hyperdrive.el User Manual [Contents][Index]
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