2020-09-21 Emacs news
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- LibrePlanet 2021 call for proposals open until Oct 28
- Beginners:
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs From Scratch #1 – Getting Started with a Basic Usable Configuration – YouTube (58:29)
- Emacs From Scratch #2 – Adding Helpful UI Improvements – YouTube (54:41) (Reddit)
- Emacs From Scratch #3 – Key Bindings and Evil – YouTube (59:26) (Reddit)
- Emacs – How to install Packages – YouTube
- My quarantine yak-shave project: ported my config to literate Org-mode and published it as a blog post. (Reddit)
- Emacs Redux: Emacs Prelude 1.0 (Reddit, HN)
- emacs-playground: Manage sandboxes for alternative Emacs configurations
- Tory Anderson: Fix invalid submodule error when using straight.el
- define-key helper (Reddit)
- T. V. Raman: Emacs: Paired Commands — Efficient Keyboard Interaction Using Hydra
- Emacs development:
- gccemacs with pure gtk is a game changer
- Discovering Memory Leaks With Emacs – Hardlimit
- Make D-Bus properties type safe
- Improve documentation of a recently-added feature
- Highlight regexp sub-expressions
- Add new tab command `C-x t C-r'
- New command: revert-buffer-with-fine-grain
- Extend process-lines to allow exit status handling
- Add a new variable ‘gnus-global-groups'
- Honor make-pointer-invisible on macOS
- Allow reveal mode to not automatically re-hide revealed text
- Display the language in the Flyspell mode line
- TTY Support for ECMA-48 strike-through graphic rendition
- cperl-mode: Add new value “PBP” for ‘cperl-set-style'
- Allow user-defined scoring in Gnus
- Give Lisp control on the lossage size
- D-Bus: keep type information in D-Bus events
- Allow controlling the look of the line/column indicators
- Add new, simple `replace-in-string' function
- Document use of uniquify-buffer-name-style as a function.
- Allow preserving (some) text properties from completion tables
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Org Mode:
- Org 9.4 released (Reddit)
- Get Things Done with Emacs (Reddit)
- Emacs Org-Mode Folding – Cloud Nine Vlogs, Yuri Tricys – YouTube
- Emacs – Using tags in Org Mode – YouTube
- I was inspired to make my agenda more elegant (Reddit)
- Using Emacs – Episode 50 – presentations – YouTube
- {org} support rich insert of code from other buffers (org-rich-yank)
- Pablo Stafforini on his forecasting system using Emacs
- organice (Org mode for mobile devices and browser) renders clickable links automatically (Reddit)
- orgmode-parse: A collection of Attoparsec combinators for parsing org-mode flavored documents.
- gk-roam:
- Coding:
- Doom Emacs:
- Spacemacs:
- Community:
- Other:
- Emacs 27.1 available in kelleyk/emacs PPA
- James Cash: Getting Evil with Emacs
- Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs: search/play Music (macOS)
- anki.el 0.2.0 Released
- Binder now available on MELPA/Stable
- Andrea: Emacs Slack and My Peaceful Modeline
- Easy mode for tetris.el
- Marcin Borkowski: A simple trick with Textern and require-final-newline
- EmacsWindowManager: Due to popular demand I'm uploading the Emacs Windows Manager procedure
- A complete configuration for the emacs EXWM X11 window manager
- New packages:
- 2bit: Library for reading data from 2bit files
- binder: Global minor mode to facilitate multi-file writing projects
- dw: Diceware passphrase generation commands
- elmpd: A tight, ergonomic, async client library for mpd
- ess-r-insert-obj: Insert objects in ESS-R
- git-grep: Search tools using git grep
- gkroam: A lightweight org-mode roam replica
- hyperkitty: Emacs interface for Hyperkitty archives
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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