• Configuration:
  • Advice for .emacs.d refresh? How often do you guys rework your configs?
  • Doom: an emacs.d to espouse and surpass vim in any way possible (Reddit)
  • ohai-emacs starter config – from spacemacs jealousy Reddit thread
  • Whats the most useful plugin you couldn’t live without?
• Emacs development:
  • New emacsclient option -T/–tramp can edit remote files
  • New single line horizontal scrolling mode – from this Reddit request
  • New commands: find-library-other-window, find-library-other-frame
  • Reimplemented module functions
  • Enhanced mode-line percentage offset facility, with “%o” and “%q”
  • New variable eval-expression-print-maximum-character prevents large integers from being displayed as characters
  • smerge-refine-regions can refine regions in separate buffers
  • Emacs memory consumption
  • Status of emacs-25 branch
  • The Dude Abides – old comments
• Navigation:
  • imenu-anywhere: ido/ivy/helm imenu tag selection across buffers with the same mode/project etc
  • PSA: If you’re using window-numbering consider switching to winum
  • Fast buffer switching
• Org Mode:
  • Never used Emacs before–can I pick up Org mode quickly? Tips in comments
  • Syntax Highlighting with Pygments for Org-mode Src Blocks (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Smerge mode
  • PnP JavaScript REPL
  • Rtags is great
• Other:
  • emacswiki down since yesterday ?
  • Some emacs-devel humor
  • Emacs 25 on Windows Subsystem for Linux (Reddit)
  • The comforting Emacs environment (personal story of the day)
  • Screencast – Introducing Emacs (Reddit)
  • History of Emacs and vi keys (2010) – (Hacker News)
• New packages:
  • ceylon-mode: Major mode for editing Ceylon source code
  • flycheck-coverity: Integrate Coverity with flycheck
  • flycheck-vale: flycheck integration for vale
  • php-cs-fixer: php-cs-fixer wrapper.
  • shr-tag-pre-highlight: Syntax highlighting code block in HTML
  • slstats: Acquire and display stats about Second Life
  • vdiff-magit: magit integration for vdiff

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

Past Emacs News round-ups

• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs is easy if you read code (Reddit)
  • Debugging Elisp Part 1: Earn your independence (2014)
  • Preferred syntax for defining keys
  • Emacs init performance analysis
  • macshax – Extensible macro system similar to god-mode or evil-mode
• Emacs development:
  • Length of Emacs NEWS file by version (Reddit)
  • New behavior of mark-defun
  • New minor mode pixel-scroll-mode
  • Variable old-style-backquotes renamed and made internal
  • DNS lookup commands can now specify name server
  • New variable column-number-indicator-zero-based
• Navigation:
  • Save window layouts with ivy-view
  • Support for imenu in dired – hat-tip to Irreal for the link
  • NeoTree: Open default system application on a file under point.
  • Emacs navigate backwards and forwards?
• Coding:
  • Webpaste 1.4.0 released!
  • Can somebody share their c++ workflow.
  • Suggestions: Smartparens with AucTex ?
  • Version control:
    • Magithub is now hub-independent! Important instructions for existing users…
    • How to manage multiple git-repositories at once with magit/emacs?
  • Javascript:
    • How to find all unused functions in JS buffers
    • Setting up Emacs for JavaScript (part #2)
  • Python:
    • elpy for python data science/analysis?
    • Pseudo-custom infix operators in Python.
    • While using Python for interactive data analysis, how to send a paragraph to shell then step? – comments have more tips
• Other:
  • Emacs.el Episode 6 – Charles Lowell
  • Emacs is sexy (Hacker News)
  • Flycheck integration for vale, a natural language linter. (Reddit)
  • froscon12 lisp open emacs workshop (1:48:23)
  • ledger/ledger-mode tips and tricks?
  • How I setup emacs daemon and client to work with graphical file manager (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • all-the-icons-ivy: Shows icons while using ivy and counsel
  • editorconfig-charset-extras: Extra EditorConfig Charset Support
  • ghub+: a thick GitHub API client built on ghub
  • ob-blockdiag: org-babel functions for blockdiag evaluation

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

Past Emacs News round-ups

• Emacs Lisp:
  • emacs.dz – “A list of nice emacs config files” (Reddit)
  • show-some-last-messages
  • API-Wrap.el: macros for building Elisp clients for REST APIs (Reddit)
  • How do I make a keymap with higher precedence than minor mode maps? transient maps
  • Function to get next keypress
• Emacs development:
  • RMS supports Language Server Protocol integration into Emacs core (Reddit)
  • write-region character counts now off by default
  • GCC warnings now include checking list object types
  • New function seq-set-equal-p
  • CSS colours now fontified
  • Ongoing work on address-sanitizer-enabled emacs
  • Pausing work on overlays as an AA-tree
• Appearance:
  • Less intrusive color theme (Reddit)
  • Pdf tools dark theme
• Navigation:
  • find-file-in-project v5.3.0
  • switch-window v1.5.0 is out.
  • Enhanced beginning- and end-of-buffer in special mode buffers (dired etc.) (hat-tip to Irreal for the link)
• Org Mode:
  • Exporting org-agenda to mobile
  • how to jump directly to an org-headline? (Reddit)
  • Org-mode notifications?
  • auto loading a custom el script when opening one specific org file
• Coding:
  • Get and reference an issue in a commit message: now Bitbucket support (also Gitlab and Github) (Reddit)
  • Emacs and Clojure, a Lispy Love Affair (41:16) (Reddit)
  • Using tide-mode to type-check JavaScript
  • Getting Started with CIDER (56:02, from 2016)
  • Smart indentation for SQL files (Reddit)
  • Lightning talk: Giraffe, Visualizing Data With Emacs and ClojureScript – Jack Rusher (6:27)
• Other:
  • Email With Notmuch and Astroid
  • Reliable way of setting up gpg (password input) in emacs?
  • Denver Emacs Group (Reddit)
  • Help us improve the default Emacs out-of-the-box experience (Reddit)
  • How’s Climacs going?
• New packages:
  • dakrone-light-theme: dakrone’s custom light theme
  • evil-goggles: Add a visual hint to evil operations
  • helm-xref: Helm interface for xref results
  • ini-mode: Major mode for Windows-style ini files.
  • mastodon: Client for Mastodon
  • point-pos: Save and restore point positions
  • turing-machine: Single-tape Turing machine simulator
  • hook-helpers: Anonymous, modifiable hook functions

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, Youtube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

Past Emacs News round-ups

• Emacs Lisp:
  • Resources for developing major modes
  • What is `C-u C-u C-u command` in code? universal-argument
  • Conditional Loading of configuration
  • Using custom-set-variables programmatically
  • Change the face for the echo area
  • Emacs major mode for editing knowledge graphs seeks contributors. (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Reimplemented auto-saving to visited files
  • Discussion of continuous integration and config in master
  • Continued discussion of RFC for Gnus generalized search
• Appearance:
  • Trying to create a distraction-free environment (Reddit)
  • Kaolin theme: A dark jade Emacs theme inspired by Sierra.vim (Reddit)
  • my first emacs color theme: challenger-deep (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Using Emacs – 33 – projectile, dumb-jump (Reddit)
  • What do you use for project management in emacs?
  • Discussion of remapping keys and other tips for sore left hands
  • Esc vs C-g
  • Using Emacs Chords in LibreOffice!
• Org Mode:
  • Publishing Org Documents to Google Drive (Reddit)
  • Bookmarklet to copy link to clipboard formatted as org-link!
• Coding:
  • Daily Clojure workflow
  • Switch from magit buffer, make edits, come back and refresh
• Other:
  • Emacspeak 46.0 (HelpfulDog) Unleashed
  • Using email address lists in mu4e
  • Webpaste 1.2.2 released
  • Using rcirc with ZNC playback module
  • Why Emacs (from a somewhat-new Vim user)?
  • A Better Less? Using emacs view-mode as substitute for less and much more (Reddit)
  • Spring 2017: A Very Brief Introduction to Text Editors and GNU Emacs for CIS 121 at PCC (40:57)
• New packages:
  • evil-goggles: Add a visual hint to evil operations
  • helm-xref: Helm interface for xref results
  • ini-mode: Major mode for Windows-style ini files.
  • mastodon: Client for Mastodon
  • hook-helpers: Anonymous, modifiable hook functions

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, Youtube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

Past Emacs News round-ups

• Emacs development:
  • Emacs 25.2 released (Reddit, HN, HN also)
  • Continued work on libnettle/libhogweed WIP
• Emacs Lisp:
  • .emacs bankruptcy and structure
  • elisp for scripting
• Org Mode:
  • helm-org-rifle 1.4.0 released
  • org-sticky-header: Show off-screen Org heading in header line
  • org board
  • Monospace font for Calendar in org-mode, proportional font in main buffer
  • Agenda view with random sorting of the entries
  • Some questions about a songwriting workflow in emacs.
  • Converting org-journal entry to org-page post
• Coding:
  • Patch Emacs to speedup Magit on macOS (Reddit)
  • Inserting shebangs in files
  • Can I have line numbers only show up in the active (focused) window?
  • Productive Emacs: Paredit (19:03, from 2016) – hat-tip to Irreal for the link
• Other:
  • Try Spacemacs directly in the browser! (Reddit)
  • Mail On The emacspeak Audio Desktop
  • How to rebind the meta key for emacs only?
  • tmux-like behavior in Emacs
  • Copying large files in dired
  • State of spell checking in emacs for non English writers
  • Foot pedal recommendations
• New packages:
  • binclock: Display the current time using a binary clock.
  • exsqlaim-mode: Use variables inside sql queries
  • flatui-dark-theme: Dark color theme with colors from https://flatuicolors.com/
  • flow-minor-mode: Flow type mode based on web-mode.
  • frame-mode: Use frames instead of windows
  • lsp-go: Go support for lsp-mode
  • lsp-haskell: Haskell support for lsp-mode
  • lsp-java: Java support for lsp-mode
  • lsp-python: Python support for lsp-mode
  • lsp-rust: Rust support for lsp-mode”

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, Youtube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

Past Emacs News round-ups

• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs symbolism
  • Move The Buffer Contents And Cursor Up Or Down By One Line (0:32)
  • Execute macro as and EmacsScript Help – see comments for tips on scripting
  • Idea: a standard set of async hooks for keyboard macros – work around it with executing-kbd-macro
  • How to ignore whitespace-only kill-ring entries? – filter-buffer-substring-function
  • Running elisp commands in vim buffers?
• Emacs development:
  • Lots of frame and window changes
  • Scroll right and left with the mouse wheel, touchpad, or tracker
  • New variable package-gnupghome-dir
• Org Mode:
  • Changing the date roll-over time for org-mode – org-extend-today-until
  • Emacs Org-Babel MySQL no longer working – note about incompatible change (org-babel-get-header)
• Coding:
  • Indium – JavaScript REPL w/Object Inspection, stepping debugger ++ (Reddit) – formerly known as jade
  • Announcing terminal-here: Cross-platform package to open an external terminal in the directory of the current buffer (Reddit)
  • Interact with an Oracle DB from elisp
• Other:
  • Sticking with emacs as a newbie: Ideas/suggestions?
  • Impressive emacs plugins
  • Show manpages always in the same window – major-mode-dedication
  • Emacs.el Episode 7 – collecting questions for Charles Lowell, frontside.io
  • A short rant on other applications
  • I Stand Corrected… – enjoying mu4e
  • Anki Deck to learn Spacemacs Bindings
• New packages:
  • add-hooks: Functions for setting multiple hooks
  • arch-packer: Arch Linux package management frontend
  • bitbucket: Bitbucket API wrapper
  • flycheck-joker: Add Clojure syntax checker (via Joker) to flycheck
  • hierarchy: Library to create and display hierarchy structures
  • html2org: Convert html to org format text
  • indium: JavaScript Awesome Development Environment
  • password-mode: Hide password text using overlays
  • playerctl: Control your music player (e.g. Spotify) with playerctl
  • smart-hungry-delete: smart hungry deletion of whitespace
  • sourcetrail: Communication with Sourcetrail
  • spaceline-all-the-icons: A Spaceline theme using All The Icons
  • web-narrow-mode: quick narrow code block in web-mode
  • zig-mode: A major mode for the Zig programming language

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, Youtube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

Past Emacs News round-ups