• Emacs Lisp:
  • current-prefix-arg
  • Fancy Outline Bullets
  • Read arbitrary number of values – loop read-string until empty
  • Emacs In a Box (Reddit) – Emacs Lisp tutorial, resources
  • Managing your init file(s)
  • How can I see what keybindings a new package has potentially overlapped? – tip about minor-mode-overriding-map-alist
  • Emacs – Efficient Delete Whole Line (3:20)
  • Modules:
    • Adding numerical methods to emacs with dynamic modules (Reddit)
    • Adding a GSL integration function to Emacs with a dynamic module
  • Macros:
    • Here’s a short but sweet macro viewing function I came up with this morning (Reddit) – see: pp-macroexpand-last-sexp
    • with-markers macro
• Emacs development:
  • you should really check out the line-numbers scratch branch (Reddit, emacs-devel discussion]]
  • Need a git interface that can be included in Emacs, need improvements to copyright assignment process
  • Discussion regarding adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads
  • NEWS:
    • Support display of line numbers natively
    • Fix vertical-motion across the place where line-number width changes
    • Allow comment-indent-functions to specify exact indentation
    • Use hook instead of face list to inhibit electric quoting
    • Offer non-aligned indentation in lists in js-mode
    • Add absolute optional parameter to line-number-at-pos
• Org Mode:
  • A workflow to quickly add photos to org-mode notes
  • Here’s how to do emacsclient global org-capture with Mac OSX
  • How this blog is setup – Org Mode, Anaconda, Nikola, Github
• Coding:
  • Can Emacs compete with PHPStorm, and other jetbrains ides?
  • C++ in GNU Emacs
  • handling multiple projects with ibuffer-vc (Reddit)
  • A hydra for js2-refactor (Reddit)
  • Language Server Protocol (lsp), rust and Emacs (Reddit, Hacker News)
  • How do you handle multiple projects/workspaces simultaneously?
• Mail:
  • Using Emacs as Default Mailer on macOS
  • Which package you use to have email in emacs? What is your setup?
• Other:
  • Favorite ways to make emacs “smarter?”
  • Emacs evil mode as a way to learn Vim (Reddit)
  • What is the best way to keep personal accounting in Emacs? – ledger
  • You go back in time until 1976 and are allowed to decide which default keybindings emacs has. What do you change?
  • best reference book – physical book – for emacs?
  • author of An introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp, Robert Chassell died
• New packages:
  • face-explorer: Library and tools for faces and text properties
  • gl-conf-mode: Mode for editing gitolite config files
  • helm-directory: selecting directory before select the file
  • helm-elscreen: Elscreen with helm interface
  • helm-kythe: Google Kythe helm interface
  • julia-repl: A minor mode for a Julia REPL
  • makefile-executor: Emacs helpers to run things from makefiles
  • numbers: Display information and trivia about numbers
  • rdxmk: A small set of tools for redox developments
  • rufo: use rufo to automatically format ruby files

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:
  • Synthesising Elisp Code – input + desired output -> Emacs Lisp function suggestions
  • Getting your head around Emacs Lisp macros (Reddit)
  • Using yasnippet programmatically
  • Hierarchy.el
  • Discovering free keybindings – unbound, free-keys
  • Emulating Sparql queries in emacs-lisp with pattern matching (from April)
• Emacs development:
  • Native line numbers, final testing (Reddit)
  • Work on touch events
  • Continued discussion of format strings and internationalization
  • New functions related to shr
  • Electric quotes: Improve support for Markdown mode
  • New dired-do-shell-command substitution: ? replaced by current file name
  • describe-key-briefly now ignores mouse movement
  • Escape NUL bytes in X selections
  • Hide byte code in backtrace
• Navigation:
  • Ivy, Counsel, and Swiper (from April; thanks to Irreal for the link)
  • Looking for navigable stack of points. – back-button
• Org Mode:
  • Five Useful Org-Mode Features – thanks to Irreal for the link
  • Orgmode for GTD
  • Org2Blog v1.0.0 Released!
  • Would anyone be interested in mathematical documentation written in org?
• Coding:
  • Managing code with Outlines (Reddit)
  • Python flycheck, what are the best choices?
  • Version control:
    • Announcing commit-msg-prefix.
    • vcs-msg (Show commit message of current line, support Perforce and other alien VCS)
    • Git hub comment integration – ah-github
    • Use emacs to browse commit diffs – magit-log-buffer-file
• Other:
  • The Emacs Confessional Booth. Post your sins here, and you will be forgiven.
  • Professional programmers, did you ever need to give up your config?
  • Episode 7 – Jorgen Schäfer
  • Using Emacs 35 – Blogging
  • Recommended upgrades to Emacs’ autosave?
• New packages:
  • livereload: Livereload server
  • lockfile-mode: Major mode for .lock files
  • magit-tbdiff: Magit extension for git-tbdiff

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

• Beginner:
  • Emacs Tutorial Series => the learning path I wanted to read while I was getting started (Reddit) – from March 2017
  • The Complete Emacs Course – Udemy
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Making eshell your own (Reddit)
  • “Isolated” and “reproducible” Emacs environment for emacs –script?
  • Anonymous function macro in elisp (Reddit)
  • Unsecured remote code evaluation. Fun but dangerous!
  • Elisp – How long have you maintained a package? – a few tips in the comments
  • How do leader keys, hydra, and general.el differ? Use cases?
• Emacs development:
  • A proof concept of built-in multiple fake cursors. (Reddit)
  • “a small patch that adds some touch event handling to Emacs. Currently it only works on macOS” (Reddit)
  • Provide additional support for child frames
  • html2text now marked obsolete
  • Don’t put deleted packages in the trash
  • Native display of line numbers, improved
• Org Mode:
  • Literate programming:
    • Using org-mode to write about computer programming (Reddit)
    • Maybe The Four Most Important Key-Bindings For High-Speed Org-Mode Literate Programming
  • LaTeX:
    • Preview LaTeX Fragments in Org Src Buffer with org-edit-latex (Reddit)
    • Using org-modes tables inside of LaTeX (Reddit)
  • Blogging:
    • Auto-Loading Org2Blog Mode
    • An Emacs Blogging Workflow (Reddit) – Hugo tools
  • Links:
    • Article – How to add extra attributes to link in Org-mode?
    • Insert internal org-mode links the ivy way
    • org-brain v. 0.4: Major changes to concept map package (Reddit)
  • Protecting Line Breaks from Fill
  • Make M-RET better in Org Mode
  • If you use orgzly, how do you sync your Emacs org mode with it?
• Coding:
  • Multiple choices in yasnippets
  • Best way to read JavaScript documentation (e.g., MDN) within Emacs?
  • Pretty Magit – Integrating commit leaders (Reddit)
  • My epiphany this morning: Save your current working directory to a file (Reddit)
  • company-rofi – using rofi as a frontend for company-mode completion
  • Smarter clang-format In Emacs
• Other:
  • OSX – If you’re not already using the railwaycat port of emacs, you should go ahead and make that happen
  • TIL: evil-buffer-regexps
  • Just happy that I can use Emacs at work now
  • Does anyone following the Emacs updates which Sacha is doing for years? (Reddit) – aww, shucks =)
  • The Lisp machine and GNU – LibrePlanet 2017 (Reddit) – see comments for link to Org file
  • ELPA packages included in the new release of Debian (Reddit)
  • Recorded a video about how I configure my Emacs (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • bifocal: Split-screen scrolling for comint-mode buffers
  • dad-joke: Get/display dad jokes
  • flycheck-clang-analyzer: Integrate Clang Analyzer with flycheck
  • flycheck-julia: Julia support for Flycheck
  • github-modern-theme: The GitHub color theme for Emacs.
  • hugsql-ghosts: Display ghostly hugsql defqueries inline
  • ob-fsharp: Org-Babel F#
  • ob-rust: org-babel functions for rust evaluation
  • org-link-minor-mode: Enable org-mode links in non-org modes
  • org-static-blog: a simple org-mode based static blog generator
  • pasp-mode: – A major mode for editing Answer Set Programs.

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:
  • Ways in which Emacs selects the major mode
  • Keeping your .emacs.d clean
  • Misc functions – save macro, delete span, rename file/buffer, etc. (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Native display of line numbers (Reddit)
  • New command replace-buffer-contents
  • New command-line option –module-assertions
  • Proposed patch: New commands for bulk tracing of elisp functions, including `trace-package` and `trace-regexp`
• Navigation:
  • smart-next-window-or-buffer
  • Some interesting hydras (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Adding keymaps to src blocks via org-font-lock-hook – hat-tip to Irreal for the link
  • Nuage: a web app to edit your org files (Reddit)
  • Reading for Programmers
• Coding:
  • Not a fan of Emacs Lisp? Hack Emacs in Go! (Reddit, Hacker News)
  • Yet another completion engine powered by “git grep” (Reddit)
  • json-navigator, x-path-walker, json-snatcher and all – json support in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Package/tool to mark newly written and uncommitted code
  • Using Emacs – 34 – ibuffer and emmet (Reddit)
• Other:
  • A little trick with EWW
  • Do you run emacs in daemon mode?
• New packages:
  • helm-frame: open helm buffers in a dedicated frame
  • ivy-dired-history: use ivy to open recent directories

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:
  • Helpful, an Emacs help buffer with context! (Reddit)
  • A package to show defined symbol value
• Appearance:
  • Share your mode-line customization?
• Keybinding:
  • Reverse-im — use Emacs shortcuts with non-latin system layout. (Reddit)
  • Do you follow any pattern or logic for keybinding?
  • Emacs keyboard for a samsung phone. Reprogrammed graphical symbols for one-handed operation. (Reddit, image)
• Configuration:
  • Sharing my spacemacs config.
  • My Emacs Configuration in Org-mode – hat-tip to Irreal for the link
• Other:
  • More Dired goodies
  • Handling Email with Emacs – cool snippets
  • Launch Emacs for Windows with Batch File using Emacs Configuration from Cygwin
  • To eww or not to eww
  • When did you start using emacs?
• New packages:
  • cheat-sh: Interact with cheat.sh
  • coin-ticker: Show a cryptocurrency price ticker
  • gited: Operate on Git branches like dired
  • helm-charinfo: A helm source for character information
  • helpful: a better help buffer
  • mandoku-tls: A tool to access the TLS database
  • nlinum-hl: heal nlinum line numbers
  • solaire-mode: make certain buffers grossly incandescent
  • treemacs: A tree style file explorer package
  • treemacs-evil: Evil mode integration for treemacs
  • yahtzee: The yahtzee game

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:
  • The absolute awesomeness of anchored font-lock matchers – thanks to Irreal for the link
  • My fancy eshell prompt
  • Emacs Buffers, Windows, and Frames Explained (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • You can now provide explicit field numbers in format specifiers
  • New variable display-raw-bytes-as-hex
  • Renamed –new-daemon to –fg-daemon and –old-daemon to –bg-daemon
• Navigation:
  • evil-goggles – displays a visual hint when editing with evil-mode (Reddit)
  • Introducing sidebar.el, a customizable file explorer with git integration (Reddit)
  • ELPA – dired-du-mode gives recursive directory size in dired mode (Reddit)
  • Workflow with Emacs, many buffers/windows & tiling window manager?
• Org Mode:
  • A shorter shortcut to capture todo tasks
  • Org-mode and ipython enhancements in scimax – thanks to Irreal for the link
  • Querying RESTful webservices into Emacs orgmode tables
  • Lessons learned when creating a GitHub Wiki using orgmode files (Reddit)
  • org-toggl
• Coding:
  • Emacs cafe: Indium 0.6 is out! – JavaScript development environment
  • Enhance diff-mode with Ivy
  • gited.el: : A Dired like interface for Git (Reddit)
  • YASnippet is a nice tool! You can make customizable, dynamic code snippets.
• Other:
  • Soji wrapper for Emacs – Pomodoro, note-taking, meditation, reading (Reddit) – see also bash script
  • emacs setups on windows
• New packages:
  • auto-minor-mode: Enable minor modes by file name and contents
  • dired-du: Dired with recursive directory sizes
  • gift-mode: major mode for editing GIFT format quizzes
  • jemdoc-mode: Major mode for editing jemdoc files
  • json-navigator: View and navigate JSON structures
  • kmb: Kill buffers matching a regexp w/o confirmation
  • org-edna: Extensible Dependencies ‘N’ Actions
  • orgnav: Org tree navigation using helm
  • pfuture: a simple wrapper around asynchronous processes
  • postcss-sorting: postcss-sorting interface
  • prettier-js: Minor mode to format JS code on file save
  • qt-pro-mode: Qt Pro/Pri major 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