2020-08-10 Emacs news
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- Emacs Lisp:
- Modal Editing in Emacs (2018, Irreal) – creating a custom editing minor mode
- Emacs-Lisp Basics | Syntax, Variables, Functions and Lists | Switching to Emacs #6.1 – YouTube (17:00)
- Emacs development:
- Emacs 27.1 released (Reddit, HN)
- Plans for NonGNU ELPA (Reddit)
- Add new command apropos-function (Bug#41021)
- Emacs now supports 256 color display on the ‘st' terminal emulator
- Change ‘M-:' to not error out on incomplete expressions
- Add the new library hierarchy.el
- vc-hg: use ‘hg summary' to populate vc-dir headers
- vc-hg-create-tag: Possibility to create a branch
- Add constants for shell command output buffer names
- Add a command line (and MIME handler) function to start eww
- Add a variable to allow displaying numeric time zones
- Document the OpenPGP header
- Add support for the OpenPGP header to Emacs
- The recentf files are no longer backed up.
- lisp/bookmark.el: Customize choice to show bookmark list in a new tab
- Add new utility function custom-add-choice
- Make the name column in ‘list-buffers' have a dynamic width
- Remove support for Mosaic from browse-url
- Add some documentation for widget-describe and button-describe
- Add new commands to describe buttons and widgets
- Fix documentation of ‘missing-newline-at-eof'
- Add a new command to copy a file from zip files
- Add missing “this is documented” marker to previous checkin
- Make whitespace-mode highlight missing newlines at the end of buffers
- Fix the mailto: examples in the manual and in NEWS
- Change how Mail-Copies-To: never is handled in Message
- Add a new HTML skeleton for relative (file) URLs
- Make it possible to use Message as a mailto: desktop handler
- Make ‘n'/'p' in image mode buffers respect dired sorting
- Implement a screenshot command for Message mode
- Make the erc /ignore command prompt for a timeout
- Add new function decoded-time-period
- Drop support for -fcheck-pointer-bounds
- * etc/NEWS: Add Tramp support of direct asynchronous process invocation.
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Org Mode:
- Forming and maintaining habits using Orgmode. // voices in my head (2019)
- Emacs drag-drop pdfs, paste html, custom templates
- org-yt: Youtube links in org-mode,
- Some Org Mode Customizations | Org-Bullets and Evil-Org | Switching to Emacs #5.2 – YouTube (11:20)
- Emacs: mixed fonts for Org mode – YouTube
- Goodbye Markdown! | Org-Mode Tutorial | Switching to Emacs #5.1 – YouTube (14:09)
- Diego Zamboni: New book: Publishing with Emacs, Org-mode and Leanpub
- Org-Roam installation on Linux – guide – Taniya Singh (Reddit)
- Automating and testing dotfiles with Ansible, org-mode and Github's CI (Reddit)
- Org Babel Clojure
- Diego Zamboni: How to insert screenshots in Org documents on macOS
- orgajs: parse org-mode content into AST
- Coding:
- Mail and news:
- Community:
- Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
- EmacsNYC – Looking Beyond New York, Please Join Us (Reddit)
- Do you use Emacs for word processing and other non-coding applications?
- What package can't you live without?
- Which are your favorite hot keys (key-strokes) in Emacs?
- When to NOT use Emacs? Share your rule/strategy.
- Emacs live coding (elisp)
- Other:
- Inside Emacs #2 ♦ winner-undo ✔ transpose-frame ✔ dired ✔ kmacro ✔ universal-argument (Reddit)
- Palimpsest: Palimpsest, an Emacs minor mode providing various strategies when deleting text
- dvorak-layouts.el: Input methods for the dvorak system layout
- Las conchas de tu madre – Notxor tiene un blog – shells
- tycho garen: Running Emacs – multiple daemons
- Irreal: The Frame Patch – yequake and macOS
- mediawiki-el: Emacs interface to edit any mediawiki site
- EAF Browser now supports Caret Browsing – select text on a webpage without leaving your keyboard! (Reddit)
- New packages:
- cpio-mode: Handle cpio archives in the style of dired.
- rt-liberation: Emacs interface to RT
- doxy-graph-mode: Links source code editing with doxygen call graphs
- dynamic-graphs: Manipulation with graphviz graphs
- helm-selector: Helm buffer selector
- insert-esv: Insert ESV Bible passages
- lsp-pyright: Python LSP client using Pyright
- org-gtd: An implementation of GTD
- poke-mode: Minor mode to show position in a buffer using a Pokemon
- templatel: Templating language;
- zetz-mode: A major mode for the ZetZ programming language
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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