2019-06-10 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel: HarfBuzz is now available on master (Reddit)
- Make bookmark-old-default-file variable obsolete
- Make `bookmark-file’ variable obsolete
- New functions to handle the URL variant of base-64 encoding.
- Support text shaping with HarfBuzz
- Merge remote-tracking branch ‘origin/harfbuzz’
- Add native image rotation and cropping
- Let untarring (and hence package installation) go faster (Bug#35909)
- User-friendly display of error messages at the end of minibuffer
- Appearance:
- What Emacs color scheme do you use?
- zerodark-theme: A dark, medium-contrast theme for Emacs inspired from Niflheim and One Dark (Reddit)
- I made a theme with subtle syntax highlighting for Emacs. Do you like the palette? Link in comments: (Reddit)
- Converted my Synthwave Theme to Emacs, as I convert myself to Emacs (Reddit)
- Navigation:
- Dired:
- Org Mode:
- Emacs Blogging for Fun and Profit (Reddit)
- Turning an Org Mode outline into an HTML table with a column for more notes
- William Denton: Mapping Acid Mothers Temple tours
- Adding highlight markup to org
- Correcting Org Tags
- Making a numpad-based hydra for categorizing Org list items
- Orgzly: an interview with the creator
- org-reveal: Exports Org-mode contents to Reveal.js HTML presentation.
- org-ref-glossary.el — glossary support in org-ref
- Coding:
- Mail and news:
- Other:
- Why I think Emacs is so cool (Reddit)
- Why You Should Buy Into the Emacs Platform (2018) (HN, Reddit)
- Emacs game: Key Quiz – Guess keys for Emacs commands (Reddit)
- Emacs: Insecure by default
- My GNU Hyperbole Vision Quest; or, Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite (Reddit)
- Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
- Install Emacs 26.2 & Keep Updated via Snap in Ubuntu 18.04 / Higher – Tips on Ubuntu
- meta: An “in memoriam” page?
- New packages:
- eshell-toggle: Show/hide eshell under active window.
- helm-esa: Esa with helm interface
- yasnippet-lean: Collection of snippets for the Lean prover
Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, /r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.
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