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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