2021-03-15 Emacs news
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- Beginner:
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Emacs development:
- Discussion of M-o keybinding removal experiment
- * lisp/tab-bar.el: Tab groups can be displayed with tab-bar-format-tabs-groups
- Add a new `image-transform-smoothing' user option
- Enable selectable image smoothing (bug#38394)
- * lisp/tab-bar.el (tab-bar-close-group-tabs): New command.
- * lisp/tab-bar.el: ‘C-x t G' (tab-group) assigns a group name to the tab.
- Add Tramp sshfs method
- Delete two more items obsoleted in Emacs 23.1
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Org Mode:
- Reproducible Research and Software Development Methods for Management tasks using Emacs Orgmode
- Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook (2017) (HN, 70+ comments)
- Export:
- Org Roam:
- Keeping todo items in org-roam
- Emacs café: Introducing nroam (Reddit) – replaces backlink side buffer with end-of-buffer list
- Find Org Roam notes via their relations (Reddit)
- Other:
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Mail and news:
- Community:
- Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
- From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015) (HN – 170+ comments)
- Other:
- New packages:
- cascading-dir-locals: Apply all (!) .dir-locals.el from root to current directory
- cfn-mode: AWS cloudformation mode
- company-ipa: IPA backend for company
- current-word-highlight: Highlight the current word minor mode
- desktop-mail-user-agent: Call OS default mail program to compose mail
- diffpdf: Transient diffpdf
- flycheck-cfn: Flycheck backend for AWS cloudformation
- 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
- lsp-grammarly: LSP Clients for Grammarly
- numpydoc: NumPy style docstring insertion
- ob-haxe: org-babel functions for haxe evaluation
- org-appear: Auto-toggle Org elements
- popper: Summon and dismiss buffers as popups
- 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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