2021-09-13 Emacs news
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- Beginner:
- Emacs - Beginners Guide (09:52)
- Emacs configuration:
- New package: ironkey - Protect your keybindings (Reddit)
- New package: define-repeat-map – easily define repeat-maps for Emacs (Reddit)
- Using transients as custom menus
- Timo Geusch: Automatically enabling multiple Emacs minor modes via a major mode hook (Irreal)
- Announcing PEL, an Emacs library/configuration with fast startup: https://github.com/pierre-rouleau/pel#readme
- Create Minimal Emacs Environments with a Shell Script
- Emacs Package Management Setup Ido Mode(auto suggestion) Which-key(keybinding suggestions) (14:20)
- yuri tricys: Emacs Stripes, Visual Fill, Column Word Wrap
- Have been using emacs for some time now, here I have tried to list down the configurations I am using (Reddit)
- System Crafters Live! - Emacs Package Potluck: The Sequel (02:00:56)
- Emacs Lisp:
- Emacs development:
- Correct nroff-mode NEWS entry after `M-o' changes
- Mention `benchmark-call' in the manual
- Document named-let and update some NEWS tags
- * lisp/thingatpt.el (thing-at-mouse): New function (bug#50256).
- Improve documentation of some tab-bar features
- ERC: Track: Rewrite 'erc-track-find-face' as 'erc-track-select-mode-line-face'
- New minor mode 'show-paren-local-mode'
- Tramp: honor default file modes in make-directory
- Document 'tags-apropos-additional-actions' with Xref
- New user options to move between isearch matches
- Change the default value of search-whitespace-regexp
- Support tags-apropos-additional-actions in etags Xref backend
- Change ruby-align-chained-calls indendation
- ; Add NEWS about tab bar mouse commands
- * etc/NEWS: macOS alternative context menu mouse binding.
- Move the indented Help block to after the doc string
- Improve documentation of new Xref options
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Dired:
- Org Mode:
- This Month in Org: August 2021
- org-mode-incremental-reading: SuperMemo inspired incremental reading for org-mode and Anki (Reddit)
- o-deflink - A mechanism for defining Org-links
- A smarter "dwim" 'org-insert-link'
- Emacs Hypernotes (09:21)
- I'm releasing the alpha version of org-real today (Reddit, HN)
- acdw-org.el: This file is for the weird little `org-mode' functions that just take up space in my main init file
- Import, export, and integration:
- Coding:
- Quickly Annotate Your Machine Learning Dataset with One Weird Trick (It's Lisp)
- difftastic: a syntax-aware diff
- GNU Emacs as a lightweight PHP IDE
- justl.el: Major mode for driving just files.
- Clean Your Commits Like a Git Rebase Expert with Magit (Reddit)
- Phil Jackson: Delta for Git & Magit (Reddit)
- vc-got - Game of Trees backend for Emacs' VC
- Shells:
- EXWM:
- Improving EXWM #2 // Hack Sessions (02:01:07)
- Community:
- Other:
- Emacs is More Than a Text Editor… (03:22)
- Draw and scribble in GNU Emacs (Reddit)
- Turbo log and quicktype. Several packages i wrote while learning elisp.
- My EMMS and elfeed setup (Reddit)
- Emacs NYC: November 2020 Lightning Talks
- Bring a Web Browser, Python, Javascript and more to EMACS - Emacs Application Framework (21:00)
- Benchmarking Optimization Levels for Emacs and Native Compiler
- SystemE – A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp (HN)
- Getting GUI Emacs working with Ubuntu Linux Subsystem on Windows 10 (07:35)
- Jean-Christophe Helary: Building "vanilla" emacs on macOS, with brew, and more…
- New packages:
- audacious: Emacs interface to control audacious
- declutter: Read html content and (some) paywall sites without clutter
- hass: Interact with Home Assistant
- org-ref-prettify: Prettify org-ref citation links
- rsync-mode: Rsync projects to remote machines
- vc-got: VC backend for Game of Trees VCS
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