2019-08-05 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-newsEmacsConf 2019 (Nov 2, online): Propose a session: https://emacsconf.org/2019/cfp (before Aug 31) Share ideas: https://emacsconf.org/2019/ideas
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- What are some good packages to read the source to as someone learning elisp?
- Trying to understand emacs memory usage and gc-cons-threshold
- What you need to do when your Emacs is slow
- auth-source-xoauth2: A package that adds XOAuth2 capabilities to Emacs’ auth-source infrastructure
- Trained GPT-2 on Emacs Lisp code. It generates fake packages, fake maintainers, has decent understanding of lisp indentation, and carefully documents most functions. (Reddit)
- Emacs development:
- The guys and gals at Remacs are not doing too bad (Reddit)
- {kind of off-topic} Any C programming book for learning for a wannabe Emacs contributor?
- Improved ChangeLog generation for vc log (Bug#16301)
- Make gravatar.el more configurable
- Clean up file-size-function
- format-time-string subsumes time-zone-format
- Add new function time-zone-format
- `decoded-time-set-defaults’ refactored out from iso8601 code
- Call out the Gnus widget->button makeover in NEWS
- Extend button.el to take callback data
- * lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-macs.el (cl-defstruct): Add slot option :documentation
- Add an ISO 8601 parsing library
- Add support for dealing with decoded time structures
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Org Mode:
- Org Mode 9.2.5 Is Released
- Orgmode Gantt Chart – prototype package
- Pomodoro timer on an OLED display via org-clock (Reddit)
- vscode-org-mode: Emacs Org Mode for Visual Studio Code
- Emacs Doom E13: Org Mode, Code Snippets 101 (Reddit)
- Making Media rich Medical Presentations using Emacs, Org-mode and Reveal.js – Part 1 |Pediatric Orthopedic & Spine Surgeon | Dr. Easwar T.R |
- Export Org to S5. S5 is “A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System”.
- Emacs Doom E12: Org Mode – Linking to words & Bookmarks (Reddit)
- org-pdftools: a custom org link type for pdf-tools
- Coding:
- Spacemacs:
- Community:
- EmacsConf 2019 Call for Proposals (Reddit)
- EmacsConf 2019 – Planning
- I have been using Emacs for over 10 years and I have never meet another Emacs user. (and I work in tech)
- What do you think about the future of emacs?
- TIL Knuth is an emacs enthusiast (Reddit)
- Repo for talks held at the M-x Erlangen Emacs group.
- Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
- Emacs Hack Night! | New York Emacs Meetup. — Monday, August 5, 2019 – 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs) | Wenshan’s Blog
- Other:
- emacscalc (or ec) is a script that lets you run the Emacs built-in calculator calc-mode “stand-alone”, without needing to first open Emacs. (Reddit)
- Features from other editors one should consider using in Emacs
- Vim vs Emacs: Detailed Comparison – Linux Hint
- emdocs: A minor mode for emacs to create buffers readily editable by multiple users over the internet.
- engine-mode: Minor mode for defining and querying search engines through Emacs.
- stumpmacs: Emacs contrib module for stumpwm (ported from DSWM emacs module)
- New package to learn languages from your Emacs, memrise.el
- EMACS Bindings EVERYWHERE!
- eless is a combination of Bash script and a minimal emacs view-mode config. It is like ‘less’ but better …
- Emacs for Vimmers (Reddit)
- Awesome support for Telegram in emacs
- XKeymacs: Create Emacs-like key bindings for applications running on Microsoft Windows.
Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file and emacs-devel.
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