2018-03-12 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Emacs development:
- RMS on which improvements to Emacs would be “truly useful” (Reddit)
- Long discussion on variable-width font indentation
- Allow toggling Grep command abbreviation, and rename related symbols
- Improve support for desktop restoration in daemon mode
- Avoid losing info when formatting integers
- uniqify -> uniquify
- Spelling fixes in gnus, htmlfontify
- Beginner:
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Org Mode:
- Use org-radiobutton to select an option from a list
- org-brain: Concept mapping in Emacs – Introduction (Reddit)
- Field Formatters in Org table
- sachachua: Using Org Mode, LaTeX, Beamer, and Medibang Paint to make a children's book
- Building an Org mode-compatible web app with human-friendly UI. Would you share your input? (Reddit)
- Literate Devops with org-mode (2014) (Reddit, long HN discussion)
- My Emacs Config (another literate config)
- Yasnippet:
- Coding:
- Other:
- Reading, managing, annotating, and highlighting articles inside Emacs, while manually importing them (not RSS)? (Reddit)
- MPDel – Emacs client for Music Player Daemon (MPD) (Reddit)
- Get wiser with each Emacs startup (Reddit)
- What emacs has to offer over over vim, besides evil and elisp (Reddit)
- Ask HN: I Need Your Help in the Vi vs. Emacs vs. Others Dataset
- If you ever considered making a donation for emacs orgmode but didn't take the time, now is your chance (Reddit)
- Support your favorite editor and packages (Reddit)
- Emacs Anywhere (almost): added support for Linux (Reddit)
- New packages:
- backup-each-save: backup each savepoint of a file
- gitlab-ci-mode-flycheck: Flycheck support for gitlab-ci-mode
- org-kanban: kanban dynamic block for org-mode.
- wolfram-mode: Mathematica editing and inferior mode.
- EXWM:
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.
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