2021-07-26 Emacs news
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- Emacs configuration:
- Call for contributions and code reviews for modular-config.el
- Don't like Emacs's customize changing your init file? Get rid of its changes! [OC] (Reddit)
- Marcin Borkowski: Binding a command to every key bound to another command
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Miscellaneous custom Emacs commands
- emacs-smart-input-source: Less manual switch for native or OS input source (input method)
- emacs-leuven: Emacs config with pleasant defaults
- Emacs Lisp:
- Emacs development:
- Describe changes to the occur-mode implementation in NEWS
- * etc/NEWS: Fix renaming of directory-append. (file-name-concat)
- Add commands to move to next/previous column in tabulated-list-mode
- Add filter to GDB's register buffer
- Allow storing SMTP variables when queueing mail
- Add auto-mode-alist functionality to .dir-locals.el
- Make nil value of fill-column obsolete
- 'global-mode-string' elements should have a space at the end
- Make revert-buffer preserve buffer-readedness
- Bind the GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS environment variable
- Add json-available-p
- ; * etc/NEWS: Announce the change in json.c behavior on MS-Windows.
- Make `kill-all-local-variables' also remove lambda from hooks
- Quit minibuffers without aborting kmacros
- Add commands 'kill-matching-lines' and 'copy-matching-lines'
- Put command line file names and mouse dragging onto 'file-name-history'
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Dired:
- Org Mode:
- Introducing Emacs Org Mode (13:46)
- Introducción en vídeo a org-mode
- Intro to emacs editor and orgmode - in Tamil (41:27)
- tables, code blocks, the magic of org-mode | Inside Emacs #6 (part 14) (Reddit)
- "paycheck" calculation using org-lookup-first (Reddit)
- org-clock-header-line.el — Display org-mode clock in the header line
- Import, export, and integration:
- Org Roam:
- Discovering org-roam and good standards for personal wiki / digital gardens (Reddit)
- Getting Started with Org Roam - Build a Second Brain in Emacs (34:19)
- Org-roam version 2 - Should one upgrade? (Reddit)
- Org-roam v2 doesn't hurt (Reddit)
- org-roam-server replacement: org-roam-ui (Teaser) (Reddit)
- Configure org-roam v2 to update database only when idle
- A few QoL tricks I haven't seen much of on the subreddit yet - org-roam-node-find, hiding property drawers, updating link descriptions, etc.
- A revamp of my little function to navigate relationship for V2
- Org Roam and Nyxt: taking Zettelkasten notes from the web (Reddit)
- Andrea: Find Org Roam notes via their relations
- Magnus: Keeping todo items in org-roam v2
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Shell:
- Mail and news:
- Spacemacs:
- Doom Emacs:
- Calc:
- Community:
- Other:
- 10 More Helpful Emacs Tips (Reddit, Irreal)
- Emacs Macros | Save Time and Typing (10:38)
- zotxt-emacs works with zotxt to provide Emacs integration with Zotero, allowing you to manage citation keys for pandoc markdown documents as well as org mode links to items in your Zotero collection.
- View PDF in dark mode with pdf-tools
- One-handed Emacs is hard (00:15)
- New packages:
- company-emojify: Company completion for Emojify
- cursor-flash: Highlight the cursor on buffer/window-switch
- lf: A Language Features library for Emacs Lisp
- vline: show vertical line (column highlighting) mode.
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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