2020-10-26 Emacs news
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- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Emacs development:
- Make vc-responsible-backend choose the most specific backend
- Tweak where global-display-fill-column-indicator-modes is on
- Implement a :predicate parameter for globalized minor modes
- Rename ElDoc user option controlling display of truncation notice
- Introduce eldoc-display-functions
- Enable TTY menus with xterm-mouse-mode
- Make TTY menus work with xterm-mouse-mode
- Add support for squashfs files in archive mode
- Allow moving members of editable-list widget, via delete+insert
- unload-feature: Handle local hooks (bug#5293)
- byte-compile-file: Make optional LOAD argument obsolete
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Using Emacs 76 Bookmarks and Burly (Reddit)
- {WIP} Burly.el: Save and restore buffers and window configurations with URLs, including buffer positions and window layouts (a kind of “workspace” support) (Reddit)
- Marcin Borkowski: Scrolling all windows simultaneously
- Alex Schroeder: The finger memory of incremental search, or switching to swiper
- Dired:
- Org Mode:
- Upcoming changes for Org-mode
- The Org website has been revamped!
- Emacs Tips – How to Show Reminders for Org Mode Tasks – YouTube (48:30)
- Two interviews with Rainer König – how he got started with Org Mode, and his Org Mode workflow
- org block company complete and edit
- ob-pikchr: org babel for pikchr
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Org’s export dispatcher has a new face for its keys
- Org-transclusion (alpha v0.0.3) Demo #3 – YouTube
- Coding:
- Doom Emacs:
- Community:
- Other:
- New packages:
- julia-vterm: A mode for Julia REPL using vterm
- tree-sitter: Incremental parsing system
- tree-sitter-langs: Grammar bundle for tree-sitter
- tsc: Core Tree-sitter APIs
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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