2018-08-20 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Emacs development:
- An Emacs Lisp JIT Compiler: “In some simple benchmarks, it is about 3x faster than the bytecode interpreter.” (Reddit, HN)
- Improve documentation of bignums
- EUDC: Remove XEmacs support
- Interactive Highlighting: prefix argument to select subexp
- Rename –without-mini-gmp to –with-libgmp
- Remove more traces of misc (Bug#32405)
- Merge from origin/emacs-26
- Add uuid as allowed thingatpt symbol (Bug#32372)
- Ibuffer: Add toggle ibuffer-do-toggle-lock
- Org Mode:
- Coding:
- Other:
- I don't think I'll ever learn the keybindings
- Setting up a second keyboard for more shortcuts in Emacs (HN)
- Do you use Emacs for everything?
- Introducing`XWidget Webkit`: A state-of-the-art browser for your modern Emacs (Reddit)
- Emacs “Auto-Fill Mode” Mug (Reddit)
- Why Emacs is a great text editor (Irreal)
- Emacs for the Data Scientist part 1 (23:46)
- New packages:
- keypress-multi-event: Perform different actions for the same keypress.
- brief: Brief Editor Emulator
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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