2020-08-10 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Emacs configuration:
 - 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.
  
2 comments
andysylvester
2020-08-11T17:42:44ZSacha, thanks for compiling these Emacs news reports! I want to let you know about a site I have created (http://orgmodeforbeginners..... This is a site with videos to help beginning Org Mode users. If you could include it in your next news update, I would appreciate it.
sachac
2020-08-18T11:25:47ZIncluded. Thanks so much for sharing! :)