2016-02-08 Emacs News
| emacs, emacs-news- Beginners:
- Get Emacs – http://emacs.link/ – Aaron Schumacher's cross-platform, how-to-get-emacs website (Reddit)
- Tips for a beginner moving away from GUI IDEs?
- Emacs Installation 0 (2:53) – Mac OS X
- Configuration:
- What's some small thing in your dotemacs that you couldn't live without?
- How to make emacs stop split-screen when M-x shell'ing? – display-buffer-alist
- Managing Spacemacs settings in git?
- Emacs pinky….
- Changing basic key-binds in Evil? – evil-normal-state-map
- Changing behaviour on select current line function
- Is there a way to change the init.el location on startup?
- How to keep region marked after copying?
- Org Mode:
- How to use org-mode with evernote as storage? – Syncthing, Dropbox, Git, Google Drive, etc.
- Is there any way to integrate Evernote into my Emacs GTD workflow? – emacs-geeknote
- Enable wordwrap in org-mode?
- Blogging using org-mode (and nothing else)
- Email:
- Email attachment reminders in mu4e
- An attachment reminder in mu4e – should also work for Gnus; more interactive
- Ma Gnus v0.16 is released
- Publishing Emacs News as plain text, HTML, and attached Org file
- Grab email address in Gnus
- Coding:
- Auto-indent your code with aggressive-indent-mode
- A Magit Tip – ! to run git commands
- gruvbox dark ported to GNU Emacs with better support for various modes (Reddit)
- Solve practice problems in elisp (among others) (Reddit)
- Better compile buffer? – auto-close, multi-compile, dedicated window
- How to normalize indentation for different projects?
- Today's xkcd reminds me of Emacs Lisp regexes (Reddit) – see Reddit thread for regexp tips
- Emacs development:
- Other:
- Ogbe on Why He Uses Emacs – TRAMP, dired, Org Mode, mu4e, MATLAB
- New `helm-describe-modes` package
- Just had a “wow, Emacs is smart” moment – kill-compilation
- Switching from Emacs to Vim (actually Spacemacs)
- Vim to Emacs+Evil Users, thoughts on Neovim?
- Emacs.el Episode 4 Interview with John W. is out! also, Youtube – 35:30
- Role-playing with Emacs – Episode 02 (11:14) – more of a presentation
- The Touch of Emacs (2:41) – an Emacs jukebox on a touch screen
- emacs-friends: an emacs package to open the current file with other applications (5:33)
- New packages:
- blog-admin: Blog admin for emacs with hexo/org-page supported
- cabledolphin: capture Emacs network traffic
- dired-atool: Pack/unpack files with atool on dired.
- dumb-jump: Dumb jumping to variable and function definitions
- evalator-clojure: Clojure evaluation context for evalator via CIDER.
- latex-unicode-math-mode: Input method for Unicode math symbols
- mu-cite: A library to provide MIME features.
- omtose-phellack-theme: A dark, soothing theme with a cold bluish touch.
- org-dp: Declarative Local Programming with Org Elements
- org-random-todo: notify of random TODO's
- replace-pairs: Query-replace pairs of things
- xml+: Utilities for xml and html trees
Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, Youtube, EmacsWiki:RecentChanges, the Emacs commit log, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.
5 comments
Stoph Long
2016-02-08T21:06:09ZSacha, I just found another way to synchronize org-mode and ios. For my uses, it's a lot better than mobileorg. I thought you and/or your readers might be interested. It requires dropbox, but then one uses the Editorial app to work with the original file. I wrote some org related functions (folding, priority setting, status setting, sorting by status and priority) as a proof of concept. You can check out my screencast of it for more info (https://youtu.be/JclQcwc2iJs). The scripts work well for my needs. Still, please back up your work before using as I make no guarantees. Perhaps they'll work for you or get the ball rolling. Editorial is extensible in python as well as a visual workflow language. I'm sure there are better programmers out there who can bring this to the next level. The functions to date are listed at https://forum.omz-software....
Thanks,
Stoph
sachac
2016-02-10T18:21:12ZNeat! I don't have an iOS device, but I'm sure lots of other people would be interested. Would you mind including the Emacs keyword in your Youtube video title or description, or posting your notes/link to http://reddit.com/r/emacs ? That'll help me make sure I pick it up in the next Emacs News. =)
Stoph Long
2016-02-11T06:39:31ZI've now posted on reddit and put Emacs in the title of the video.Thanks Sacha!
Helpful Elf
2016-02-10T22:58:03ZHow about some 'easy fixes' in future emacs news? Something like this:
(cl-loop for (pkg desc) in package-archive-contents
do (when (string-equal (package-desc-summary desc)
package--default-summary)
(message "%-10s %-25s %s"
(package-desc-archive desc)
pkg
(package-desc-summary desc))))
Produces this on *Messages*
melpa cn-outline No description available.
melpa helm-words No description available.
melpa litecoin-ticker No description available.
melpa matlab-mode No description available.
melpa perl-completion No description available.
melpa railgun No description available.
melpa rbt No description available.
melpa redshank No description available.
melpa seoul256-theme No description available.
melpa yandex-weather No description available.
melpa zonokai-theme No description available.
melpa crux No description available.
melpa notmuch No description available.
melpa voca-builder No description available.
melpa cmake-mode No description available.
melpa color-theme-buffer-local No description available.
melpa quack No description available.
melpa zeitgeist No description available.
Maybe people will feed a positive sense of forward progress if in a couple of weeks you can report all packages now have descriptions.
Similarly:
- packages with too short descriptions
- packages with no or wrong keywords
sachac
2016-02-15T21:51:44ZThat's a nifty idea, and probably worth suggesting to the MELPA maintainers so that they can make that kind of a report part of the regular MELPA website (along with tips on how to contribute). Would you like to suggest it to them? =)