2018-12-10 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Emacs Lisp:
- Share Links To Emacs Initialization Files With Minimal Effort!
- general.el – a convenient, unified interface for key definitions (for both evil and non-evil users) (Reddit)
- BBDB on EIEIO: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Emacs Lisp
- RFC: ts.el – Emacs date-time library (Reddit)
- Potentially breaking changes in emacs-request
- A newb's first attempt at an init.el file
- Marcin Borkowski: looking-back-p
- blog – I love Luke Smith – emacs elisp windows buffers (5:00)
- Emacs development:
- * lisp/vc/vc.el (vc-root-version-diff): New command (bug#33650).
- New buffer display action alist entry ‘window-min-height'
- Document that Eshell follows symlinks in history file names
- New buffer display action alist entry ‘window-min-height' (Bug#32825)
- Mention EMACS_SOCKET_NAME, not XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
- Mention unsetting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR in doc.
- Support IBM038 (a.k.a. “EBCDIC-INT”) encoding
- * lisp/isearch.el (isearch-yank-on-move): New defcustom
- * lisp/isearch.el (isearch-allow-scroll): New option `unlimited'.
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Org Mode:
- Org-mode, literate programming and Emacs (Irreal)
- Agenda previews (Reddit)
- fitness.org: An Emacs food/weight/workout tracker, self-contained in a single Org file
- Emacs Is Cool EP 0 – init.el from org mode (11:28)
- Vasaant Krishnan – Org-mode and other useful things in Emacs – SARAO Tech Tuesdays 11/2018 (35:48)
- Coding:
- Other:
- 3 Emacs modes for taking notes
- Multics Emacs History/Design/Implementation
- Next, the infinitely configurable browser release 1.1.0
- Looking for Emacs maintainers view of the Remacs (emacs port to Rust)
- Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012, Reddit, HN)
- An Introduction to the EMACS Editor (1978, HN)
- Marcin Borkowski: Lesser known Dired stuff
- Irreal: Experts Use Emacs and Vim (also on Reddit)
- Emacs on Microsoft Windows
- Live test: Emacs Coffee Maker Control (6:01)
- Emacs Rocks (HN)
- New packages:
- buttercup-junit: JUnit reporting for Buttercup
- buttons: Define and visualize hierarchies of keymaps
- dtk: access SWORD content via diatheke
- emidje: Test runner and report viewer for Midje
- git-time-metric: Provide function to record time with gtm ( git time metric )
- ox-mdx-deck: org-mode to mdx-deck exporter
- poly-ansible: Polymode for Ansible: Jinja2 in YAML
- rust-auto-use: Utility to automatically insert Rust use statements
- flymake: A universal on-the-fly syntax checker
Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, /r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.
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