2021-02-15 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Upcoming events:
- EmacsFFM: Creating our own major mode (virtual) https://www.meetup.com/emacs-ffm/events/275881281/ Wed Feb 17 1100 Vancouver / 1300 Chicago / 1400 Toronto / 1900 GMT / 2000 Berlin // Thu Feb 18 0030 Kolkata / 0300 Singapore
- Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Feb 24 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1730 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2300 Kolkata // Thu Feb 25 0130 Singapore
- Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, February 27, 2021
- Beginner:
- Emacs configuration:
- Keeping Your Emacs Packages Up to Date – Emacs From Scratch #11 (Reddit)
- [ANN] package-utils functionality to recompile all byte-code!
- sublima – Sublime like scratches for emacs (Youtube, 7:39)
- setup: A macro for configuring Emacs
- Configuring the Emacs display system (Reddit)
- Configuring Emacs on Mac OS X (Reddit)
- emacs-modules: Modules I coded myself for emacs
- Emacs Lisp:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Emacs development:
- Discussion about an “M-x”-type command that filters by mode
- native-comp review stuck for 6 months?!
- * Edebug: Generalize `&lookup`, use it for `cl-macrolet` and `cl-generic`
- Also mention `M-o M-o' removal
- Allow define-minor-mode to take an :interactive keyword
- Add ‘read-extended-command-predicate'
- Add new ‘declare' forms for command completion predicates
- Extend the syntax of `interactive' to list applicable modes
- Introduce an :interactive keyword for `defined-derived-mode'
- Add a new buffer-local variable `minor-modes'
- * lisp/emacs-lisp/edebug.el (edebug-match-lambda-expr): Delete function
- * lisp/emacs-lisp/edebug.el (edebug–handle-&-spec-op <&name>): New method
- * etc/NEWS: Document new JSON behavior.
- Edebug: Overload `edebug-form-spec` even less
- * lisp/emacs-lisp/edebug.el (edebug–handle-&-spec-op) <&lookup>: New method
- * lisp/emacs-lisp/edebug.el: Misc cleanups.
- Remove Motif support
- Fix Octave double-quoted string line continuations
- Remove the ‘M-o' (‘facemap-keymap') binding experimentally
- Update NEWS entry for vc-dir faces
- New options read-char-by-name-sort and read-char-by-name-group (bug#46240)
- Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally
- Note that the `values' variable is now obsolete
- ; Finish customize-changed-options obsoletion
- Make pcomplete-ignore-case obsolete
- Enriched mode: ‘C-a' is by default no longer bound to ‘beginning-of-line-text'
- Add vc-dir faces; also apply them to vc-git
- Bind clone-buffer to C-x x n
- Appearance:
- Org Mode:
- Beginning Emacs Org-mode: Tasks, Todos and Timings
- org-mode for PhD students – matthieu.io
- Time tracking with Org Mode (Reddit)
- Irreal: Video Demonstration of Org-roam
- How I created Plain Text Bibles in Emacs (links in description) (16:18) – org, org-roam
- superstar-kit: A simple template for org-superstar like minor modes for other modes
- [ANN] org-media-note: Taking notes when watching videos or listening to audios in org-mode.
- org-treescope.el: Provides a time and priority based sparse tree interaction mode (Reddit)
- Org mode clocking in the menu bar with Hammerspoon
- Org habits iOS app (want to try it?)
- Interactive year view of an org agenda in the terminal (Reddit)
- Christian Tietze: Create Custom Org-Mode Links to Open My External Zettelkasten App
- Org export and import:
- Export Emacs Org Mode to HTML, basic to beautiful (Reddit)
- github-orgmode-tests: This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files
- orgmode-mediawiki: A mediawiki export for Emacs org-mode
- EverOrg: Evernote to Org mode migration tool
- Creating an Always On E-Ink Org Agenda (Reddit)
- Coding:
- Agile & Coding: Test Driven Development Deluxe (Irreal)
- Elescope 0.2: getting better all the time – clone Github repos
- En qué ando estos días – httpd, Rust, GDB
- Coding:
- Web:
- Mail and news:
- Community:
- Other:
- Getting Started with Emacs & Doom in 2021 · Emacs Doomcasts 27 (Reddit)
- [ANN] exwm-float.el – A minor-mode to easily place/resize floating frames in EXWM.
- Spacemacs: to nejlepší z editorů Emacs a Vim (a great and thorough new article in Czech about Spacemacs on the biggest Czech Linux website) (Reddit)
- Marcin Borkowski: Copying to clipboard with single spaces
- emacs — Homebrew Formulae
- Esperanto support in emacs
- Elpher Gopher Client (Reddit)
- New packages:
- aas: Snippet expansions mid-typing
- consult-notmuch: Notmuch search using consult
- edebug-inline-result: Show Edebug result inline
- flycheck-google-cpplint: Help to comply with the Google C++ Style Guide
- git-assembler-mode: git-assembler major mode
- helm-shell-history: Find shell history from helm
- hiccup-cli: Convert HTML to Hiccup syntax
- hiddenquote: Major mode for doing hidden quote puzzles
- inf-elixir: Run an interactive Elixir shell
- l: Compact syntax for short lambda
- mode-line-idle: Evaluate mode line content when idle
- nikki: A simple diary mode
- oauth2-request: OAuth2 request package interface
- shades-of-purple-theme: A theme with bold shades of purple
- tab-bar-echo-area: Display tab names of the tab bar in the echo area
- tab-bar-groups: Tab groups for the tab bar
- tray: Various transient menus
- ytdious: Query / Preview YouTube via Invidious
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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