• Org Mode:
  • org-collect — Sync disparate org-files to a single directory for easy sync to phones
  • org-webpage soon will have support to a bunch of remote storage services like Google Drive and Rackspace Cloud Files!
  • Yankpad 1.3 – Keywords and function calls (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Packages for JavaScript?
  • Browser for API documentation inside emacs?
  • Experience migrating helper functions to a minor-mode (Reddit)
  • Dumb Jump now supports falling back to symbol search, shell buffers, and more languages
  • emacs mysql ER diagram, search stackoverflow (2:40)
  • Binding Emacs Lisp variables with lispy (9:18)
• Emacs development:
  • Lexical binding mega-patch
  • Calling C++ hackers. Please try out the new handling of C++11 lambda fu
  • Support $ENV in Tramp
• Other:
  • No worries when elpa is down (Reddit)
  • Use bookmarks to jump to files or directories
  • An Elfeed Database Analysis – Emacs Mondays!
  • Insert today’s date
  • GNU Hyperbole 6.0.2 for Emacs 24.4 or newer is released

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

Past Emacs News round-ups

• Org Mode:
  • OrgMode tutorial video series (thanks to Irreal for the link)
  • Insert org-mode links from clipboard
  • org-commentary: Generate and update ELisp library headers using Org mode files (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Monroe – easy to use client for Clojure – 0.3.0 released (Reddit)
  • Demonstration of Ngspice and Octave/Matlab Interaction within Emacs
  • Using Emacs – 13 – Yasnippet (Reddit)
• Other:
  • Delete multiple buffers with Helm (Reddit)
  • Moving from Emacs to Spacemacs
  • enex2org – convert Evernote exports to orgmode files
  • Run Emacs plugins in Neovim (Reddit)
  • iBuffer – the best way to manage many buffers in Emacs (Reddit)
  • An emacs extension to download stock values into a ledgerdb compatible format (Reddit)
  • Emacs Mac Port for v25 is now available. Anyone tried it yet?
  • Emacs on Windows 10 Anniversary Update
  • New functions: make-nearby-temp-file and temporary-file-directory
• New packages:
  • helm-dired-history: Show dired history with helm.el support.
  • ivy-pages: Complete current buffer’s pages with Ivy
  • jade: JavaScript Awesome Development Environment
  • org-commentary: generate or update conventional library headers using Org mode files

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

Past Emacs News round-ups

• Navigation:
  • Google search from inside emacs
  • Swipe all the files!
  • My first package: ivy-pages (Reddit)
  • Sharing my first package: mode-on-region – see also poporg, edit-indirect
  • evil-visual-replace: query-replace and replace-regexp for evil’s visual blocks (Reddit)
  • ANNOUNCE: GNU Hyperbole 6.0.1 for Emacs 24.4 (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Org-mode template for technical specification documents & HTML publishing (Reddit)
  • Shaving time on Emacs startup from org literate init (by tangling without loading org-mode) (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Use js2-mode as minor mode to process JSON
  • YASnippets for Faster Clojure Coding
  • Spacemacs – Adding Custom Snippets to Yasnippet
  • Example Driven Development
  • Jade, a new JavaScript development environment for Emacs 25 (Reddit)
  • What’s the best way to do Arduino programming with Emacs?
  • Using Emacs – 12 – Flycheck, Jedi, Python (Reddit)
  • Great course to get into Functional Programming and Emacs/Elisp
  • Skewer – Emacs browser interaction (5:31)
• Other:
  • Emacs as a music player, getting started?
  • My personal mail setup (Reddit)
  • The End of Gmane? (Reddit)
  • EmacsBoston: Embedding Webkit in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Guido says – “I don’t recommend Emacs to new developers” (Reddit)
  • Demo for Eloud, a screen reader for Emacs (5:17)
• New packages:
  • coati: Communication with Coati
  • composer: Utilities for PHP composer
  • eloud: A lightweight, interactive screen reader
  • evil-visual-replace: search/replace commands for evil visual state, inc. blocks
  • hyperbole: GNU Hyperbole: The Everyday Hypertextual Information Manager
  • ivy-pages: Complete current buffer’s pages with Ivy
  • sl: Clone of sl(1)
  • suggest: suggest elisp functions that give the output requested
  • threes: A clone of Threes (a tiny puzzle game)

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

Past Emacs News round-ups

• Learning:
  • Learning as Much Emacs as I Can in a Weekend
  • Why I persisted to learn Emacs (Reddit)
  • Emacs Course Material (WIP) (Reddit)
  • Emacs Bullet Points
  • emacs_gifs on twitter – prompted by vimgifs (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • org-minimal-html-theme (Reddit)
  • Latest using emacs post – org-mode and reveal.js (Reddit)
  • Emacs for note-taking / outlining, quick demo (13:34)
• Coding:
  • React Codebase Navigation
  • Setting up Emacs for Clojure (Reddit)
  • Attempt at literate programming with org-mode and Rust (Reddit)
  • Variable inspection for R/Python
• Emacs development:
  • Emacs 25.1 RC1 now available (Reddit, Hacker News)
  • Open Letter to the Emacs Maintainers (Hacker News, emacs-devel)
  • Discussion about managing environments
  • Discussion about debbugs tracker
• Other:
  • Making directories on the fly
  • slack -> jabber -> irc -> erc
  • Use visible bookmarks to quickly jump around a file (Reddit)
  • TIL there’s a thriving Emacs community in China. (Reddit)
  • m-buffer.el: get a list of strings matching a regexp in a given buffer (very easily) (Reddit)
  • Discussion of Emacs documentation on Stack Overflow
  • “Emacs in space, but with a sci-fi novella in it” (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • evil-mc-extras: Extra functionality for evil-mc
  • delight: A dimmer switch for your lighter text.
  • ivy-purpose: Ivy Interface for Purpose
  • keyswap: swap bindings between key pairs
  • kiwix: Kiwix interface and support.
  • lyrics: Show lyrics
  • php-scratch: A scratch buffer to interactively evaluate php code
  • system-packages: functions to manage system packages
  • widgetjs: Widgetjs mode
  • xwidgete: enhances usability of current xwidget browser

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

Past Emacs News round-ups

• Org Mode:
  • Intelligent Note Taking
  • Org-Mode and Writing Papers: Some Tips (2014, hat-tip to Irreal for the link)
  • Emacs note-taking / outlining demo, a practical approach without going into keyboard-shortcuts or configs (Reddit)
  • What doesn’t org-mode do well?
• Coding:
  • Enhance emacs-git-gutter with ivy-mode
  • Turn off linum-mode when file is too big
  • Debugging GNU Emacs memory leaks (Reddit)
  • parsec.el: Parser Combinator Library for Emacs Lisp, Similar to Haskell’s Parsec (Reddit)
  • Elpy: run the unit test I’m in and stop at my ipdb breakpoint
  • find-file-in-project v5.2.0
• Other:
  • Move to the beginning of a line the smart way
  • Xwidgete, a package to enhance usability of current Xwidget browser
  • Draw IBM/DOS style boxes in Emacs (uses hydra) (Reddit)
  • I got tired of remembering package manager commands so I made an emacs package…
  • refine – interactive list editing (Reddit)
  • Watching youtube inside Emacs 25!
  • pdf-tools on Windows!
  • Reading RSS inside emacs on multiple computers?
  • Edit Google Docs in Emacs — 2016 Edition
• New packages:
  • emoji-recall: How many emoji can you recall from memory?
  • helm-hunks: A helm interface for git hunks
  • ob-smiles: Org-mode Babel support for SMILES.
  • refine: interactive value editing
  • smiles-mode: Major mode for SMILES.
  • ssh-deploy: Deployment via SSH, global or per directory.
  • xah-css-mode: Major mode for editing CSS code.

• Coding:
  • Another approach to diffs in Emacs
  • cmake-ide V0.5 released: Now with less cmake! (Reddit)
  • Combining company-irony-c-headers and company-c-headers
  • Running Mocha tests from within Emacs
• Other:
  • Temporarily Changing the Dired Listing
  • View man pages in emacs with woman
  • A quick guide to directory-local (or project-specific) variables
  • Keeping Secrets in Emacs with GnuPG and Auth Sources (Reddit)
  • Looking for package that makes the mouse powerful in Emacs.
  • Is there an Android terminal/putty app so good it can flawlessly run emacs in a linux term?
  • Email in emacs, I want to, but wow, it’s overwhelming
  • font-man-mode, a minor global mode that will scale the font of all your visible buffers temporally
  • Is it possible to active which-key only for some prefix keys not for all prefix keys
• Emacs devel:
  • New option dired-always-read-filesystem
  • Efficient built-in mapcan
  • New option mouse-select-region-move-to-beginning
  • New commands ibuffer-copy-buffername-as-kill, ibuffer-change-marks, ibuffer-mark-by-locked
  • Discussion about changelogs
  • Eli Zaretskii is now the co-maintainer of Emacs
• New packages:
  • buffer-sets: Sets of Buffers for Buffer Management
  • contrast-color: Pick best contrast color for you
  • editorconfig-domain-specific: Apply brace style and other “domain-specific” EditorConfig properties
  • hal-mode: Major mode for editing HAL files
  • kodi-remote: functions to remote control a kodi instance
  • metalheart-theme: Low-contrast theme with a dark blue-green background.
  • nash-mode: Nash major mode
  • org2elcomment: Convert Org file to Elisp comments
  • parsec: Parser combinator library
  • pushover: Pushover API Access
  • strace-mode: strace output syntax highlighting
  • tern-context-coloring: Use Tern for context coloring
  • vdiff: A diff tool similar to vimdiff

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

Past Emacs News round-ups