2020-08-24 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-newsEmacsConf 2020 Call for Proposals – until Sept 30, 2020
- For beginners:
- Emacs configuration:
- Mousemacs – a mouse driven emacs (HN)
- An Emacs Configuration Overview – James Cash, emacs.d
- leaf-convert.el: Convert Elisp config sexp to leaf form (Reddit)
- tycho garen: Tycho Emacs Config Kit – including multiple daemons (Reddit)
- Emacs Lisp:
- Emacs development:
- What's New in Emacs 27.1? (Reddit)
- Linux Plumbers Conference 2020 (24-28 August 2020): Kludging The editor with The compiler: A talk on libgccjit based Elisp compiler for Emacs
- gccemacs on linux first impressions and short build instructions
- gccemacs update 11 – enables deferred compilation, reorganises eln storage dirs (Reddit)
- Document file-backup-file-names
- Extend the default value in dired-diff to all the backup files
- Add a new function ‘file-backup-file-names'
- Remove many items obsolete since Emacs 23.2 and 23.3
- Set basic SVG attributes (bug#40845)
- Minor fixes for last change
- Improve word wrapping for CJK characters
- Fix documentation of a recent change in Dired
- Handle globstar in dired
- Restrict the range of image formats to be converted
- Bind mwheel-scroll on more parts of frame's display
- Highlight error messages from diff in diff-mode
- Make hs-special-modes-alist also work for modes derived from those modes
- Add global-goto-address-mode
- Allow searching interactively over completions in `M-x'
- Add a variable to control VC completion over branch names
- Rename ‘display-time-world' to ‘world-clock' (Bug#40863)
- Remove the “Recent message” section from the bug reports
- Add NEWS entry for the count-lines change
- Rename new option to flyspell-use-mouse-3-for-menu
- Org Mode:
- Weekly /r/Orgmode Open Discussion – August 21, 2020
- WYSIWYGified Org Mode (Reddit)
- org-protocol-github-lines: Add links in github code views that open files in the given line.
- Adding todos with SMS – Kevin Cunningham. Doing and Learning.
- Tory Anderson: Orgmode System Notifications with Dunst
- Gantt from org-mode tree – org-gantt
- snootclub: How we use org publish
- First release of org-webring. Details in the description! (Reddit)
- Completion:
- Inside Emacs #4 (part 1) ♦ Company-mode ♦♦♦ showcase ✔ source code ✔ faces (Reddit)
- Tory Anderson: Helm Duplicates history – how to fix it in Emacs 27
- Coding:
- Conda, Jupyter and Emacs: My Setup (Reddit)
- Emacs mode that setup local Go playground for code snippets like play.golang.org or even better :)
- RON Mode Syntax highlighting for Rusty Object Notation (RON)
- Git in Spacemacs/Emacs with Magit
- package discovery: git-link
- github-review demo video
- Live coding the ESP32 with ClojureScript in Emacs (11:51)
- Community:
- Other:
- Emacs 27 can take SVG screenshots of itself! (Reddit)
- The minimum you need to know to get started using Yasnippets (Reddit)
- GNU Emacs automation demo (auto-typing with skeletons) (24:49)
- evil-iedit-state: Slick Evil states for iedit.
- Setting up spell checking with multiple dictionaries (Reddit)
- typo-suggest – Word suggestions with helm or company
- Tory Anderson: Mysteriously growing into Emacs 27.1 – upgrade experience
- eos.org, Rsync.el, cannon.el and other packages
- Towards a serious modern browser in Emacs! (HN)
- Emacs X Window Manager On Raspberry Pi – Paul Brown
- New packages:
- baff: Create a byte array from a file
- erc-matterircd: Integrate matterircd with ERC
- flatbuffers-mode: Major mode for editing flatbuffers
- lakota-input: Input modes for Lakota language orthographies
- magrant: Transient Interface to Vagrant
- modular-config: Organize your config into small and loadable modules
- org-link-beautify: Beautify Org Links
- ron-mode: Rusty Object Notation mode
- su: Automatically read and write files as users
- toc-mode: Manage outlines of pdf and djvu document
- use-proxy: Enable/Disable proxies respecting your HTTP/HTTPS env
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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