2020-09-28 Emacs news
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- Emacs configuration:
- EmacsVanillaChocolateSwirl: Minimal config for Emacs to flatten the learning curve for transitioning users
- emacs-config-manjaro: Emacs dot files and other goodies on manjaro
- Keybindings in Emacs – YouTube (11:21)
- Tory Anderson: Rebinding Keys, or, The Horror of Alt+TAB in Emacs (Reddit)
- Emacs – How to install Packages – YouTube (4:06)
- Building reproducible Emacs – YouTube (57:27)
- Emacs development:
- Add a new grep-match-regexp variable
- Rename replace-in-string to string-replace
- Abbrev suggestions helps users remember to use defined abbrevs
- * etc/NEWS: Add new D-Bus monitor functionality. Fix typos.
- Use the char history in zap-up-to-char
- * lisp/progmodes/ruby-mode.el (ruby-use-smie): Declare obsolete
- Add a new function ‘string-search'
- Horizontal scrolling for mouse wheel with Shift modifier (bug#43568)
- Set mwheel default scroll value to 1 (bug#43380)
- Make set-process-buffer also update the process mark
- New command goto-line-relative (bug#5042, bug#9917)
- Support shellcheck in compilation-mode
- Add more isearch submatch faces
- Allow disabling the verbose eldoc truncation message
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Org Mode:
- Boost Productivity With Emacs, Org Mode and Org Agenda – YouTube
- Andrea: Org Agenda and Your Future, or how to keep score of your long term goals with Org Mode
- My Zettelkasten Setup uses Emacs, org-roam, hugo, Working Copy, and GitHub Actions
- Blogging using nikola, github, emacs, orgmode | mindtoilet
- Andrea: Composition Update: Slack links in your Org Agenda
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Org heading faces now adapt to their context (Reddit)
- Coding:
- LIVE: Emacs From Scratch #4 – Projectile and Magit (9/25, 9:15 am PDT) (Reddit)
- Marcin Borkowski: Pretty printing SQL queries
- Auto-LaTeX-Snippets: An Emacs Package
- cider-rebl: Tips for using Cognitect REBL with CIDER
- Clunky flutter? GccEmacs to the rescue!
- emacs-sourcetrail: Emacs plugin for communication with Sourcetrail
- Manuel Uberti: We can fly with what we have
- Arthur A. Gleckler: validate-html
- Developing Athens Research in Emacs
- Mail and news:
- hyperkitty.el: Emacs library for reading Hyperkitty archives. – public mailing list archives
- Spacemacs:
- Community:
- Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
- Toward a “modern” Emacs (Reddit, HN)
- James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing | Lex Fridman Podcast #126 (Reddit, HN)
- Slack invite for Org Roam
- LibrePlanet 2021 call for proposals open until Oct 28
- I am in awe of Emacs.
- As Powerful as Possible (Reddit) – early Lisp history
- larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history: Historical Emacs Software Preservation
- Other:
- dw-passphase-generator: Diceware passphrase generator for Emacs
- Using Emacs on Windows with WSL2 (Reddit)
- NEW! Continuous scroll in pdf-tools
- Emacs flashcard module for Japanese learning
- GNU Hyperbole 7.1.3, the Antiviral Release, is now available on GNU ELPA
- Fixing Emacs' unknown and untrusted authority TLS error | Vifortech Solutions – Blog
- Anyone using Remacs as their main Emacs?
- Emacs Redux: Using Emacs on Windows with WSL2
- New packages:
- ctrlxo: Switch to the most recently used window
- flymake-proselint: Flymake backend for proselint
- gsnip: A gitlab snippet client
- helm-atoms: Reverse variable lookup using Helm
- org-translate: Org-based translation environment
- ox-zenn: Zenn flavored markdown backend for org export engine
- ptemplate: Project templates
- shell-command+: An extended shell-command
- treeview: A generic tree navigation library
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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