2021-03-08 Emacs news
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- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Emacs development:
- Add Tramp sshfs method
- Delete two more items obsoleted in Emacs 23.1
- Add new face ‘help-key-binding' for keybindings in help
- Remove outline-cycle-minor-mode and outline-cycle-highlight-minor-mode
- Remove additional items obsolete since Emacs 22/23
- Remove some items obsolete since Emacs 22/23 from Gnus
- Remove the –without-makeinfo configure option (bug#46837)
- Speed up json.el encoding
- Various map.el improvements
- Improve documentation of Bindat
- Bindat: new macro-expansion based data layout language
- Add a command in package mode for opening home pages directly
- Decouple require-theme from load-theme
- New mode outline-cycle-minor-mode with Orgmode-like TAB cycling on headings
- Make inversion.el obsolete (Bug#46841)
- * lisp/emacs-lisp/pcase.el: Bind all the vars in `or` patterns
- Add ‘require-theme' function
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- Workflow:
- UOMF: My Current Life-Cycle of an Org Mode Task (Reddit)
- Cyberthal: Textmind case study | fixing a technical problem that has exploding dependencies | ‘3dashboard heading stack
- [ANN] Helpers for navigation, agenda, repeated tasks, file attachments and appearance – org-clone-property, org-ql-planning, org-evil-navigation, org-clock-helpers, org-attach-file-capture, org-margin-bullet
- Export:
- [emacs-devel] Dendron supports Org markup
- org-gamedb – A game API client to work with org-mode (1:04, Reddit)
- ob-servant: Code for interacting with longrunning processes from inside Org Mode (Reddit)
- Anki deck for org-agenda key bindings
- Workflow:
- Coding:
- Andrea: Emacs as your code-compass: what files do I need to change next?
- Emacs IDE – Python Development Configuration (Reddit)
- LSP Python (pyright) config in emacs from scratch
- Chen Bin (redguardtoo): Use Magit to commit efficiently and correctly
- vc-got: Emacs VC backend for ‘Game of Tree' version control system
- Mail and news:
- Community:
- Fun:
- Other:
- Christian Tietze: Change Case of Word at Point in Emacs, But for Real This Time (Reddit)
- System Crafters Live! – Should you do everything in Emacs? • Becoming a Lisp Ninja • Q&A (2:01:52)
- System Crafters Live! – Emacs Native Comp will change everything • Trying out Eglot • Q&A – Invidious
- [ANN] run-stuff package, now with customizable handlers
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Use ‘M-x query-replace-regexp’ to downcase matches (Reddit)
- Outline of how to compile emacs28 with native-comp under msys2
- New packages:
- ob-haxe: org-babel functions for haxe evaluation
- current-word-highlight: Highlight the current word minor mode
- diffpdf: Transient diffpdf
- just-mode: Justfile editing mode
- laas: A bundle of as-you-type LaTeX snippets
- leaf-defaults: Awesome leaf config collections
- ligo-mode: A major mode for editing LIGO source code
- seen-mode: A syntax highlighting package for text/kepago
- sequed: Major mode for FASTA format DNA alignments
- vulpea: A collection of org-roam note-taking functions
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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