2022-02-21 Emacs news
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- Beginner:
- Emacs configuration:
- Appearance:
- TopSpace, scroll above the top line to vertically center top text (HN)
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Modus themes 2.1.0 for GNU Emacs
- I decided to create my own Emacs theme - Feedback appreciated
- shanty-theme: Theme meant for you and me - the workers - who may not get dirty hands very often but love to code and tinker while looking at a screen full of pleasant colors.
- emacs-simplicity-theme: Minimalist dark theme for Emacs. (Reddit)
- Native Emojis in Emacs (Reddit)
- terminal emacs emoji rendering comparison (00:57)
- Navigation:
- Irreal: Ibuffer
- Christian Tietze: Split Window in Emacs and Resize and Recenter Frame to Make Room
- emacs IDE #13 🚀 Auto Revert and Saveplace [ES]​ (10:44)
- My Avy actions customization
- emacs-wsp: Functions for a workspace-centric workflow
- persp-projectile: Projectile integration for perspective.el
- Buffer-isolated workspaces for emacs with tab-bar and project.el
- Emacs:Multiple Edits At Once 2022 02 21 06:38:30 (09:40)
- Is there a magit-like interface for grep?
- Dired:
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- Emacs TIL: Open org-capture buffer in a new frame
- Quickly Tangling
- Org-babel proved to be excellent for the high volume of code reuse in SICP! (Reddit)
- Org-mode - Fix problems with publishing (03:57)
- Org-view-mode with new 'quick-edit' feature is now available from Melpa
- My Org Roam Notes Workflow
- you want to write a custom org backend? let's write onlybold backend together to get you started
- Completion:
- Coding:
- [ANN] cycle-at-point (cycle literals, numbers or dynamically generated values) now on Melpa (Reddit)
- Andrey Listopadov: What if structural editing was a mistake?
- Sharing my first emacs extension: csharpto.el
- rustic 3.0 released (Reddit)
- Learn AWK with Emacs | jherrlin (2020, HN)
- Modern Git-Gutter in Emacs (Reddit)
- Blamer.el 0.4 has been released. Added popup git blame messages with border and rounded corners (Reddit)
- How to setup a remote pair-programming environment with GNU Guix and GNU Emacs
- Multimedia:
- EXWM:
- Community:
- Getting started with emacs is really hard
- I want to give up Vim
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- 22 years of Emacs (HN)
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Live stream: Emacs, LibrePlanet 2022, philosophy - no more Emacs tutorials/videos, focusing on packages
- Other:
- Text books in Emacs
- emacsbench: Benchmarking Emacs itself
- Is it only me, or did Emacs without native comp get faster lately?
- Making a Game in Janet, Part 6: How to patch Emacs (2021)
- DoomConf February 2022 (Doom Emacs) (01:45:31) - el-secretario, exwm gaps
- Emacs Remote File Editing with SSHFS (05:51)
- Emacs development:
- Discussion re: feature/package+vc 04c4c578c7 3/4: Allow for packages to be installed directly from VCS
- Thinking about advice for global variables
- Public-ize xref-show-xrefs
- Public-ize xref-current-item
- Adapt Tramp password prompts for sudo-like methods
- Add a new library to format variable-pitch tables
- Add a NEWS entry for the bookmark changes (bug#54030)
- Add support for Tai Tham script
- Allow savehist-additional-variables to truncate lists
- Make autoarg obsolete
- New packages:
- cycle-at-point: Cycle (rotate) the thing under the cursor (MELPA)
- edit-as-format: Edit document as other format (MELPA)
- litex-mode: Minor mode for converting lisp to LaTeX (MELPA)
- ob-solidity: Org-babel functions for solidity evaluation (MELPA)
- org-view-mode: Read-only viewer with less markup clutter in org mode files (MELPA)
- simple-indentation: Simplify writing indentation functions, alternative to SMIE (MELPA)
- topspace: Scroll above the top line to vertically center top text with a scrollable top margin/padding (MELPA)
- tramp-nspawn: Tramp integration for systemd-nspawn containers (GNU ELPA)
- wallpreview: Set wallpapers with image-dired (MELPA)
- zk-index: Index and Desktop for zk (MELPA)
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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