2021-10-04 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- The emacs-28 release branch has been created (Reddit, HN)
- Upcoming events:
- EmacsATX: TBD https://www.meetup.com/EmacsATX/events/281048454/ Wed Oct 6 1630 Vancouver / 1830 Chicago / 1930 Toronto / 2330 GMT – Thu Oct 7 0130 Berlin / 0500 Kolkata / 0730 Singapore
- M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Oct 15 0700 Vancouver / 0900 Chicago / 1000 Toronto / 1400 GMT / 1600 Berlin / 1930 Kolkata / 2200 Singapore
- Emacs NYC: Monthly Online Meetup - Lightning Talks Nov 1
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- hl-block-mode now supports highlighting surrounding brackets
- secret-mode.el: Display Your Text as Unicode Block Characters (Reddit)
- [ANN] idle-highlight-mode (fast symbol-at-point highlighting) updated
- yuri tricys: How Can I Configure Emacs Base16 Themes in var_year?
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Modus themes 1.6.0 for GNU Emacs
- Navigation:
- Popper - Tame the flood of buffers in Emacs (Reddit)
- Why is Paredit is so un-Emacsy? (Reddit)
- ParEvil - Another set of Evil Keybindings for the Lisp family of languages
- rigpa: Modular editing levels and towers. A metacircular modal interface framework
- Emacs TIL: Manage Web Bookmarks with Emacs + buku
- Enjoy Reading Documentation With "Info" in Emacs (08:49)
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- Org 9.5 released (r/orgmode, r/emacs)
- Org-mode needs your help
- What personal system do you have to sync/backup/secure your org/txt/code files?
- Code to Track Org Habit streaks
- Emacs TIL: Insert Templated Code Blocks with Yasnippet
- Build Your Website with Org Mode - System Crafters (Reddit)
- Convert Org Mode files to docx with CMake and Pandoc for mobile accessibility (Reddit)
- Garjola Dindi: My Zettelkustom (with Emacs, of course)
- org-roam-timestamps: keep track of creation and modification times for org-roam-nodes (r/OrgRoam, r/orgmode)
- Irreal: Spanish Punctuation in Org-mode
- Emacs Screencast #1: Mein ganzes (wissenschaftliches) Leben in Reintextform. (01:10:51)
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Mail and news:
- Community:
- Fun:
- Other:
- Emacs development:
- RFC: Emacs tree-sitter integration
- Add new command 'ensure-empty-lines'.
- Add new user option 'translate-upper-case-key-bindings'
- Remove MozRepl stuff from js.el
- Allow computing :doc-spec info-look elements at run time
- New function define-keymap and new macro defvar-keymap
- Allow obsoleting themes
- * lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el (with-memoization): New macro
- New command for unmarking all images in image-dired
- Restore the flet indentation fixes
- Add new functionality to write buffer-based tests
- Save position in mark ring before jumping to definition
- Bump Emacs version to 29.0.50
- Revert "Indent bodies of local function definitions properly in elisp-mode"
- Revert "Fix regressions in cl-flet indentation"
- * etc/NEWS: Announce Org update.
- Add new '/wii' convenience ERC command
- Restore the previous order of ERC's '/whois' arguments
- New command mpc-goto-playing-song
- Add bindings for 'undo-redo'
- Cross reference `dired-do-revert-buffer'
- Remove rcirc-omit-responses-after-join option
- New user option mpc-cover-image-re
- Switch the order of ERC's '/whois' arguments sent to the server
- Unobsolete erc-compat.el
- * etc/NEWS: Announce Eshell bookmarks.
- Add bookmark.el support to eww
- Enable show-paren-mode by default
- New packages:
- multi-mode: support for multiple major modes
- nano-theme: N Λ N O theme
- svg-lib: SVG tags, progress bars & icons
- consult-company: Consult frontend for company
- consult-yasnippet: A consulting-read interface for yasnippet
- emacsql-libsqlite3: EmacSQL back-end for SQLite using a module
- flycheck-php-noverify: Flycheck checker for PHP Noverify linter
- kubedoc: Kubernetes API Documentation
- org-auto-expand: Automatically expand certain headings
- text-categories: Assign text categories to a buffer for mass deletion
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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