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An Emacs major-mode for chess PGN files, powered by Python.
- Quickstart
- pygn-mode
- Interactive Commands
- Minor Mode
- Prior Art
- License
- Compatibility and Requirements
;; maybe
;; (eval-after-load "pygn-mode"
;; (define-key pygn-mode-map (kbd "C-c C-n") 'pygn-mode-next-game)
;; (define-key pygn-mode-map (kbd "C-c C-p") 'pygn-mode-previous-game)
;; (define-key pygn-mode-map (kbd "M-f") 'pygn-mode-next-move)
;; (define-key pygn-mode-map (kbd "M-b") 'pygn-mode-previous-move)
;; (define-key pygn-mode-map (kbd "C-c SPC") 'pygn-mode-display-gui-board-at-pos)
;; (define-key pygn-mode-map (kbd "C-h $") 'pygn-mode-describe-annotation-at-pos))
;; or maybe
;; (eval-after-load "pygn-mode"
;; (define-key pygn-mode-map (kbd "C-c C-n") 'pygn-mode-next-game)
;; (define-key pygn-mode-map (kbd "C-c C-p") 'pygn-mode-previous-game)
;; (define-key pygn-mode-map (kbd "M-f") 'pygn-mode-next-move-follow-board)
;; (define-key pygn-mode-map (kbd "M-b") 'pygn-mode-previous-move-follow-board)
;; (define-key pygn-mode-map (kbd "C-c SPC") 'pygn-mode-display-gui-board-at-pos)
;; (define-key pygn-mode-map (kbd "C-h $") 'pygn-mode-describe-annotation-at-pos))
(require 'pygn-mode)
M-x pygn-mode-run-diagnostic
Provides
- syntax highlighting via tree-sitter, including highlighting of bracketed
{comments}
and parenthesized(variations)
. - customizable faces
- navigation and selection commands
- computation of FEN at point (using the chess library)
- computation and display of board at point (using chess)
- evaluation of board at point (requires uci-mode)
No keys are bound by default. Consider binding keys in an eval-after-load
form.
Default mouse bindings are provided:
- mouse-2 —
pygn-mode-mouse-display-variation-board
In English, clicking the middle mouse button on a move in Emacs displays a board image computed after that move was made.
In addition, the mouse wheel (buttons 4/5) is bound to pygn-mode-next-move
and pygn-mode-previous-move
when hovering over the PyGN
lighter in the
modeline.
A PGN file may contain multiple concatenated games. Navigation commands
depend on the convention of each game starting with an [Event "?"]
tagpair.
(The value is ignored).
Next-game and previous-game commands accept a positive numeric prefix argument.
pygn-mode-next-game
pygn-mode-previous-game
pygn-mode-ivy-jump-to-game-by-any-header
pygn-mode-ivy-jump-to-game-by-fen
Move navigation commands navigate only among the actual played moves of the chess game. If the point is within a bracketed comment or a parenthesized variation, the point will leave the comment or variation in search of a player move. This will happen even if the point is looking at a notional move within the comment or variation. Similarly, the point will advance over intervening comments and variations when advancing moves.
Move navigation commands treat move numbers as whitespace. If the point is on the move number for a move, it is considered to be on that move. Move numbers will be skipped over whenever possible by move navigation.
pygn-mode-next-move
— suggested binding M-fpygn-mode-previous-move
— suggested binding M-b
Like game navigation commands, game selection commands depend on the convention
of each game starting with an [Event "?"]
tagpair.
pygn-mode-select-game
pygn-mode-echo-fen-at-pos
— echo FEN, optionally copying to clipboardpygn-mode-display-fen-at-pos
— display FEN in another bufferpygn-mode-display-variation-fen-at-pos
— display FEN, respecting variations
pygn-mode-describe-annotation-at-pos
— echo description of annotation symbol, optionally copying to clipboardpygn-mode-ivy-insert-annotation
— insert an annotation interactively
pygn-mode-insert-game
— insert a new, empty game
pygn-mode-display-board-at-pos
— display board image in another buffer (format automatic)pygn-mode-display-gui-board-at-pos
— display graphical board image in another bufferpygn-mode-display-text-board-at-pos
— display text board image in another bufferpygn-mode-display-variation-board-at-pos
— display board image, respecting variationspygn-mode-previous-move-follow-board
— advance to next move and display board imagepygn-mode-next-move-follow-board
— move point to previous move and display board image
pygn-mode-display-line-at-pos
— display SAN line in another bufferpygn-mode-display-variation-line-at-pos
— display SAN line, respecting variations
pygn-mode-engine-go-depth
— display depth-limited engine evaluation in another bufferpygn-mode-engine-go-time
— display time-limited engine evaluation in another bufferpygn-mode-engine-go-searchmoves
— display engine evaluation on the current move in another buffer
pygn-mode-triple-window-layout-bottom
— arrange windows for engine evaluationpygn-mode-triple-window-layout-right
— arrange windows for engine evaluation
Enabling pygn-mode-follow-minor-mode
causes a board rendering to be displayed
and updated after any changes to the cursor position.
emacs-chess
https://github.com/jwiegley/emacs-chess
Comparison to emacs-chess
- pygn-mode: BSD 2-Clause
- bundled chess library: GPL-3
GNU Emacs 26.1 , compiled with dynamic module support
tree-sitter.el and tree-sitter-langs.el
Python 3.7
Needed for board images and FENs: chess (bundled version 1.9.4)
Needed for engine evaluations: uci-mode
Needed for jump commands: ivy-mode.el
Uses if present: nav-flash.el
The diagnostic command will check dependencies: Python, chess
library,
and optional Emacs libraries.
Interactively: M-x pygn-mode-run-diagnostic
Programmatically:
(pygn-mode-run-diagnostic) ; truthy iff diagnostic completed successfully.
Upgrading the chess library
To use a non-bundled version of the Python chess library:
$ pip install chess
;; can also use customize
;; can also use set a system path
(setq pygn-mode-pythonpath nil)