2022-01-03 Emacs news
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- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs, its dependencies, and dotfile integration with Nix
- First thing you configured when started using Emacs
- Emacs for You - A 72 line ~/.emacs to quickly set up vanilla Emacs for general purpose editing and programming (Reddit, HN)
- Good overview of various Emacs config settings, worthy to steal (Reddit)
- EditorConfig y Emacs
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- TRAMP:
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- A smart agenda View which integrates day and week
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Modus themes: review of the org-habit graph colours
- Literate & annotated bibliography (WIP) (Reddit)
- Org-mode - Repeat tasks multiple times a day (06:36)
- PSA: Default branch of Org repo changed to "main"
- Magnus: Trimming newline on code block variable
- This Month in Org: December 2021 (Reddit)
- Org-transclusion 1.1.1 released
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Shells:
- Web:
- Community:
- Other:
- On Emacs 28 context menu and mouse-usage in general (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
- Christian Tietze: Remote Bulk Editing Using Regexp with Emacs - wgrep
- (Red_Starfish) mastodon.el: A fork that implements the 2FA login for Mastodon
- GNU/Emacs Aggressive indent Undo-tree & Beacon (03:23)
- Bhavin Gandhi: Using GNU Emacs in Linux Foundation exam
- How I write 5-minute hacks in eev with `M-x find-find-links-links-new' - DO try this at home!!!
- Irreal: A Nice Example of Emacs Keyboard Macros (video from 2017)
- Xwidgets support pgtk now
- Emacs TIL: aide.el Update: Demo and More Commands
- Emacs TIL: aide.el - An OpenAI Wrapper on Emacs
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel discussions:
- Propose to add setup-wizard.el to ELPA, discussion about Customize
- Development Speed
- Platform independent graphical display for Emacs
- Touchscreen support
- New :type key for defcustom
- Minor improvements of 'lisp-directory' docs
- Don't store docstrings of preloaded .el files in etc/DOC
- Properly report errors about unbound ERT test symbols.
- Fix EIEIO tests to account for eieio-compat move
- * etc/NEWS: Mention completion-wrap-movement.
- * doc/emacs/search.texi (Lax Search): Add char-fold-include.
- * lisp/tab-bar.el (tab-bar-history-mode-map): New defvar-keymap.
- emacs-devel discussions:
- New packages:
- arxiv-mode: Read and search for articles on arXiv.org
- blist: Display bookmarks in an ibuffer way
- counsel-at-point: Context sensitive project search
- filldent: Fill or indent
- ilist: Display a list in an ibuffer way.
- matrix-theme: Green-on-black dark theme inspired by "The Matrix" movie
- org-visibility: Persistent org tree visibility
- perspective-exwm: Better integration for perspective.el and EXWM
- redacted: Obscure text in buffer
Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, emacs-devel, and lemmy/c/emacs.
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