2021-12-06 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Emacs pretest 28.0.90 is out (Reddit)
- Help wanted:
- Upcoming events:
- EmacsNYC: Discussion: Is VSCode Better? https://www.meetup.com/New-York-Emacs-Meetup/events/281810145/ Mon Dec 6 1600 Vancouver / 1800 Chicago / 1900 Toronto – Tue Dec 7 0000 GMT / 0100 Berlin / 0530 Kolkata / 0800 Singapore
- Emacs Paris (virtual, in French) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Tue Dec 7 0830 Vancouver / 1030 Chicago / 1130 Toronto / 1630 GMT / 1730 Berlin / 2200 Kolkata – Wed Dec 8 0030 Singapore
- M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Dec 17 0700 Vancouver / 0900 Chicago / 1000 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1600 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- Meow - Yet another modal editing for Emacs - beacon state introduction (03:55)
- Drop shadowed text (using SVG) (Reddit)
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Note for modus-themes users on Emacs 29
- emacs-faff-theme: A light theme based on the Emacs default, extensively tweaked
- kaolin-inspired: Kaolin theme inspired by beautiful Kaolin themes made for Emacs
- Navigation:
- Emacs: Discovering project.el (17:40)
- Avy can do anything / you’re using Avy wrong. (extra tips in comments, Irreal)
- Dired:
- Org Mode:
- Completion:
- Coding:
- LisTeX: yet another s-expression to latex converter
- Emacs TIL: Run a selection / region of Ruby code
- [ANN] doc-show-inline: in-line doc-string display for C/C++ now on melpa
- [v0.0.3] Code Review package
- Manuel Uberti: Rebasing with VC
- Reproducible Dev Environment for Clojure with Guix and Emacs
- Emacs client for Advent of Code private leaderboard
- Doom Emacs:
- Community:
- Other:
- Tory Anderson: macro power: removing weekends from repeating event
- Sacha Chua: EmacsConf backstage: picking timestamps from a waveform
- Keep track of your expenses
- Bozhidar Batsov: Emacs is not a Proper GTK Application
- Emacs Abbreviation Creation 2021_11_30_06:43:29
- yuri tricys: Emacs Conference Comments 2021 (discusses EmacsConf videos starting at about 9:18)
- Shell script to build emacs on macos (works well with M1 mac on Monterey)
- Emacs 28.0.90 pretest build for macOS with native compilation, in a fully self-contained Emacs.app bundle
- portableEmacs: Containing useful scripts and resources for making emacs portable (Reddit)
- Emacs development:
- Use gnus-error to report mail-source failures
- eieio-core.el: Allow assignment to cl-structs through `slot-value`
- Fix (date-to-time "2021-12-04")
- Move 'C-x 8 .' to 'C-x 8 . .'
- Fix typo in NEWS about 'write-file'
- image-mode: Advertize viewing as text less eagerly
- * etc/NEWS: Mention change in `insert-directory' derivates. Fix typos.
- Make `C-c C-w' copy the executable bits to the new file
- Add a new variable 'process-error-pause-time'
- Add `touch-end' event type
- Change how Dired displays available space
- Add new face `variable-pitch-text'
- Add a new minor mode `glyphless-display-mode'
- Enable gnus-treat-fold-headers by default
- Use proportional fonts in the Gnus headers by default
- Document pixel-fill-region
- Allow storing buffer names in registers
- Add new package pixel-fill.el
- New packages:
- doc-show-inline: Show doc-strings found in external files
- flymake-yamllint: YAML linter with yamllint
- gmsh-mode: Highlight GMSH mesh generator script syntax
- parser-generator: Parser Generator library
- ruled-switch-buffer: Rule based buffer switching
- subed: A major mode for editing subtitles
- tok-theme: My theme
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