2021-05-31 Emacs news
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- Upcoming events:
- Emacs Paris (virtual) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Tue Jun 1 0830 Vancouver / 1030 Chicago / 1130 Toronto / 1530 GMT / 1730 Berlin / 2100 Kolkata / 2330 Singapore
- EmacsATX: TBD https://www.meetup.com/EmacsATX/events/278009190/ Wed Jun 2 1630 Vancouver / 1830 Chicago / 1930 Toronto / 2330 GMT – Thu Jun 3 0130 Berlin / 0500 Kolkata / 0730 Singapore
- M-x Research (virtual, contact them for passcode) https://m-x-research.github.io/ Thu Jun 3 0700 Vancouver / 0900 Chicago / 1000 Toronto / 1400 GMT / 1600 Berlin / 1930 Kolkata / 2200 Singapore
- Beginner:
- The Invisible Man in Emacs – The Mark (16:39, Irreal)
- Customization in Emacs (16:01)
- Frames, Windows e Buffers in Emacs (39:09, Italian)
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Emacs development:
- * lisp/electric.el: Do auto-indent inside strings and comments by default
- Mention the recent floating point reader changes in NEWS
- * lisp/progmodes/sql.el: Turn `sql-*-statement-starters' to defvars.
- Try to not prioritise reading from lower file descriptors
- Further improvements to completion-list-mode-map
- Improve completion-list-mode-map
- Appearance:
- SVG library for the creation of tags, progress bars and icons (Reddit)
- MLScroll: a lightweight mode line scroll bar
- William Denton: Pretty symbols in Ruby in Emacs
- An Improved Emacs Frame Title Format (Reddit)
- Exploring Emacs: What's new in emacs 27? Built in tab bar mode (06:00)
- Introducing spaceship-mode and tabble-mode, two tools for making text/code alignment work with variable-width fonts
- Benjamin Slade: Dynamically set pdf-tools annotation colours
- nano-theme.el , I split this from nano-emacs.
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Modus themes 1.4.0 for GNU Emacs
- Navigation:
- Org Mode:
- This Month in Org: April 2021
- Org ELPA will be shutting down and Org contrib will be moving to NonGNU ELPA (Reddit)
- Org Mode Time and Task Tools – Straightforward Emacs (11:31, Reddit)
- Taking org-roam everywhere with logseq (Reddit)
- Hey Org-Mode Users, show us your org capture templates
- My org mode setup
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Clojure Emacs: Basic Comprehensive Clojure testing setup on a project 2021.004.29 (58:25)
- My first package: devdocs-browser: browse API docs inside emacs
- Cargo mode for Emacs (Reddit)
- Dockerised language servers for Emacs (and other editors)
- Andrea: Moldable Emacs: make everything moldable through Lisp! - tree-sitter duplicates to Org todo (Reddit)
- Version control:
- Mail and news:
- Writing:
- Weekly Tips and Tricks
- Emacs for a writer looking to quit LibreOffice Writer?
- What can Emacs give me in 2021? A response to the Mother of All Emacs Papers (Reddit)
- Emacs APAC: Notes from Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, April 2021
- Emacs APAC: Notes from Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, May 2021
- Lars Ingebrigtsen: 8x10%
- masscollabs: Hello world!
- Other:
- This is what happens when you get a smart induction hob
- New M-y behaviour in emacs 28
- Hindi transliteration with auto-suggest in Emacs
- Thomas Fitzsimmons: Excorporate 1.0.0
- Marcin Borkowski: Extending subed-mode
- Introducing the Emacs Scratchpad, a smart way to integrate Emacs in every text interface you find.
- Emacs-native-comp is now working on M1/Apple Silicon
- Phil Newton: MicroEMACS for the Atari ST
- New packages:
- alectryon: Toggle between Coq and reStructuredText
- buffer-ring: Rings and tori for buffer navigation
- create-link: Smart format link generator
- langtool-ignore-fonts: Force langtool to ignore certain fonts
- lsp-ltex: LSP Clients for LTEX
- sculpture-themes: Themes with vivid colors
Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar and emacs-devel.
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