2018-04-09 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Emacs Lisp:
- Emacs development:
- Emacs Bytecode Reference (Reddit)
- Discussion about reorganizing the FTP archive
- Discussion about splitting simple.el
- Handle quotation marks and apostrophes in sgml-quote
- Detect if a message can be encrypted and add an MML tag
- Output of ‘help-for-help' is searchable now
- Introduce new macro combine-change-calls
- Ignore color fonts when using Xft
- Document custom-variable-history
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Org Mode:
- Coding:
- Other:
- New packages:
- banner-comment: For producing banner comments.
- blacken: Reformat python buffers using the “black” formatter
- citeproc: A CSL 1.0.1 Citation Processor
- company-box: Company front-end with icons
- fill-function-arguments: Convert function arguments to/from single line
- flycheck-tcl: A flycheck checker for Tcl using tclchecker
- github-stars: Browse your Github Stars
- gitignore-templates: Access GitHub .gitignore templates
- horoscope: generate horoscopes.
- org-index: A personal adaptive index for org
- other-emacs-eval: Evaluate the Emacs Lisp expression in other Emacs
- taskpaper-mode: Major mode for working with TaskPaper 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.
6 comments
Guthrie Bowron
2018-04-12T01:09:03ZHi Sasha, I love your work with Emacs advocacy. But I'm having a bit of trouble: your Emacs RSS feed stopped working recently! Did you know that?
sachac
2018-04-12T08:59:05ZI did not! Thanks for letting me know. Someday I will write some code to deal with Emacs News character encoding issues once and for all. Let's see if this works now...
Guthrie Bowron
2018-04-12T14:02:00ZNope, still not working. So, by the looks of it, the ones that don't work are: 'Monthly reviews'; 'Yearly reviews'; and 'Only Emacs posts'. The rest are fine.
sachac
2018-04-13T06:02:41ZWhoops, forgot to restore my mysql database config when I reinstalled my server. Let's try it with UTF8 settings in more places... Thank you for your patience and diligence!
Guthrie Bowron
2018-04-13T11:38:03ZNot a problem! And it lo, it works again! Thanks for following up so quickly.
sachac
2018-04-14T02:05:53ZI'm pleasantly surprised by how much I can do just sshing from my phone. I was a little worried about leaving my laptop at home on this trip, but so far, so good.