2020-11-02 Emacs news
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 - Emacs configuration:
 - Emacs Lisp:
 - Emacs development:
- Fix some glitches in recent directory-files-* changes
 - Improved language transliteration in Malayalam input methods
 - Add directory-empty-p and new argument COUNT for directory-files-*
 - Transient input methods bound to ‘C-x \' (bug#44266)
 - * lisp/leim/quail/compose.el: New input method (bug#44267).
 - * etc/NEWS: Add trashing of remote files. Fix typos.
 - New variable integer-output-format to print integers as characters (bug#44155)
 - Replace irc.freenode.net with chat.freenode.net
 - * src/xdisp.c (syms_of_xdisp) <“scroll-minibuffer-conservatively”>: New var
 - Trim and explain set of safe forms for ‘unsafep' (bug#44018)
 - Add a new command to regenerate a hunk in diff-mode
 - Use nobreak-space on all non-ASCII whitespace characters
 - `format-time' can now do sub-second times
 - * lisp/bindings.el (narrow-map): Bind C-x n g to goto-line-relative (bug#9917)
 - Tweak how `C-c C-r' computes the region in python-mode
 - `g' in Help doesn't require confirmation
 
 - Appearance:
 - Navigation:
 - Org Mode:
- An Org-Mode Workflow for Task Management (Reddit)
 - Emacs, Org-mode, R and LaTeX: Power tools in the archaeological toolbox – YouTube (15:20, 2019)
 - How I use org-mode
 - Continuous Professional Development Record in Emacs
 - Anki Decks with Orgmode Rohit Goswami
 - Give org-brain some love (Reddit)
 - skx/org-worklog: A template for maintaining a work-log, via org-mode (Reddit)
 - Take Screenshot of Region on Linux for Org Mode
 - In Org mode, archive subtrees under the same hierarchy as original in the archive files
 - Creating Org Mode Structure Templates – The Chronicle
 - orgcss: Simple and clean CSS for Org-exported HTML
 - Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs: chaining org babel blocks
 - Emacs Doom 25 Org Roam Setup · zaiste.net
 - Org-transclusion (alpha v0.0.4) Demo #4 (Reddit)
 - FLOSS WEEKLY 136 Emacs Org-mode Hosted by Randal Schwartz Guests: Carsten Dominik (2010)
 
 - Completion:
 - Coding:
 - Math:
 - Spacemacs:
 - Doom Emacs:
 - Community:
 - Other:
- RTFM quest or the Info files like it was supposed to be, on Debian, Ubuntu & derivatives
 - smartish-quotes.el: Auto insert typographical quotation marks.
 - spellsuggest.el: an alternative word-by-word spellcheck interface with vertical completion
 - read-along.el: Send a stream of visible buffer text to a TTS program while highlighting the buffer text that is currently being verbalized.
 - Daily ways GNU Hyperbole helps me stay in flow and reduces cognitive load
 - Where did my Emacs color-theme go in Ubuntu 20.04.LTS?! – joho.se
 - T. V. Raman: Web: Data Tables Can Be More Than Screen-Deep
 - PSA: Don't set bidi-display-reordering nil, will crash harfbuzz Emacs
 - Emacs From Scratch #9 – Learn to Love the Terminal Modes (LIVE 10/30, 9:15 am PDT) (Reddit)
 - MacOS Contacts in Emacs
 - {pdf} The craft of text editing or A cookbook for an Emacs: Craig A Finseth (1991)
 
 - New packages:
- atl-long-lines: Turn off truncate-lines when the line is long
 - ednc: Emacs Desktop Notification Center
 - teletext: Teletext broadcast viewer
 
 
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