2021-02-08 Emacs news
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- EmacsSF: Discussion of emacs in general and completion frameworks in particular https://www.meetup.com/Emacs-SF/events/276234974/ Fri Feb 12 1000 Vancouver / 1200 Chicago / 1300 Toronto / 1800 GMT / 1900 Berlin / 2330 Kolkata // Sat Feb 13 0200 Singapore
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- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Emacs development:
- Long discussion about default key bindings
- Add command to recenter errors from Occur/Grep buffers
- Move line-number-at-pos to C
- Add a new function ‘line-number-at-position'
- Add more commands to the new `C-x x' keymap
- Move ‘revert-buffer' global binding to ‘C-x g g'
- Add command ‘dbus-monitor'
- Don't hard-code ignored functions in `indent-according-to-mode'
- Allow eshell to have an “erasedups”-like history
- Make backslash characters no longer escape in `f90-mode'
- Bind ‘revert-buffer' to ‘C-x g' globally
- Remove another variable obsolete since Emacs 23.2
- Appearance:
- [RFC] Mode Line Idle (simple delayed evaluation for the mode-line) (Reddit)
- jbeans-emacs: Jellybeans.vim based theme for emacs (Reddit)
- tao-theme-emacs: tao-theme – two uncoloured color themes for EMACS
- New doom themes: homage-white and homage-black (Reddit)
- Just in case y'all were looking for some new wallpapers!
- Navigation:
- tab-bar-echo-area: Display tab names of the tab bar in the echo area.
- But She's a Girl: Using the tab-bar in Emacs
- ace-jump-zap: Emacs character zapping, ace-jump-mode style
- ace-isearch: A seamless bridge between isearch, ace-jump-mode, avy, and helm-swoop
- Persistent project switching with project.el (Reddit)
- emacs-find-file-rg: Find file in current project using rg –files command
- ivy-ghq: Navigate to ghq managed git repos quickly using ivy Emacs package
- Sacha Chua: Guest post: Bookmarking PDFs in Emacs with pdf-tools and registers
- Marcin Borkowski: Copying symlink targets in Dired
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- Emacs Org Mode Demo 2021 (Reddit)
- My Grading Workflow
- Two Ways To Capture Links Into Org Files (Reddit)
- “HTML Tooltips ≈ LaTeX Marginal Notes” (•̀ᴗ•́)و (Reddit)
- FOSDEM 2021 – Emacs and org-mode for reproducible research
- Emacs org roam basics (14:17)
- Writing the Emacs configuration script in org-mode: a simple example of literate programming (Irreal)
- Tip: Org babel sudo command (:dir)
- The best syntax highlighting in a PDF you'll see; a new backend for Org latex exports. (Reddit)
- Un workflow con Emacs, realizzare contenuti web attraverso la sintassi org-mode – Exporting with Hugo
- orgextended: Sublime Text OrgMode Extension (Reddit)
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Math:
- Mail and news:
- Shell:
- Doom Emacs:
- Community:
- Other:
- Best features for text-editing in emacs
- TIL: M-x delimit-columns-rectangle
- Glamorous Toolkit — a Smalltalk take on some ideas behind Emacs (Reddit)
- Sacha Chua: Controlling my stream audio from Emacs: background music, typing sounds, and push to talk
- AUR (en) – emacs-gcc-wayland-devel-bin
- Building the Development Version of Emacs on Macos (Macports Edition)
- New packages:
- ado-mode: Major mode for editing Stata-related files
- ca65-mode: Major mode for ca65 assembly files
- company-wordfreq: Company backend for human language texts
- doom-modeline-now-playing: Segment for Doom Modeline to show playerctl information
- elescope: Seach and clone projects from the minibuffer
- exwm-float: Convenient modes and bindings for floating EXWM frames
- frontside-javascript: JS development that just work™️
- iscroll: Smooth scrolling over images
- lexic: A major mode to find out more about words
- org-auto-tangle: Automatically and Asynchronously tangles org files on save
- org-elp: Preview latex equations in org mode while editing
- snitch: An Emacs firewall
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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