2022-04-18 Emacs news
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- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Don’t explain, show me examples! A tour of the catch/throw pattern in the Emacs source code (Reddit, Irreal)
- Emacs newbie fixes stuff (02:32) - searching forward
- draw-tree.el (Reddit)
- Multi-select Tree widget - patch
- Functional programming: an (Emacs) Lisp view 2/n (57:23)
- Appearance:
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Introducing "cursory" package for Emacs
- tree-sitter highlighting rocks
- Emacs widget icons (Reddit) - you can customize them
- Navigation:
- Org Mode:
- A Developer’s Second Brain on Plaintext | by Junji Zhi (Irreal)
- Org mode math research notes workflow (Irreal)
- I made an macro + package for more easily defining org-agenda-category-icon-alist (Reddit)
- [ANN] ob-dsq.el: Use SQL to join and query JSON, CSV, Org tables, all the things!
- Import, export, and integration:
- Plain Org v1.3 released (link to notes in comments) (Reddit)
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Gerrit in Emacs | λ (Reddit) - for the Gerrit code review tool
- Web:
- Community:
- Other:
- Emacs as a lawyer? (and a non programmer / writer) - comments have lots of suggestions for using Emacs in a law practice
- el-secretario: The Emacs Secretary - Manage tasks, feeds, email under a unified interface (Reddit)
- Lars Ingebrigtsen: More vtable fun
- Manuel Uberti: Restart Emacs
- Andrea: Moldable Emacs: mold can now update themselves with their :when clause!
- Emacs Has Builtin Chat :) Those Other IDEs Don't :( (14:52) (Irreal)
- Chen Bin (redguardtoo): Emacs 28.1 on Debian Linux
- Emacs development:
- Make it easier to use Emacs as a script interpreter
- Improve the support for the Brahmi script
- Allow editing variable values in Help buffers
- Add new function `flush-standard-output'.
- Further improve buffer-match-p related documentation
- Add a new command `restart-emacs'
- Clarify setopt NEWS entry
- Add a doc string to xref-current-item
- Improve exif-field discoverability
- Document project-kill-buffers-display-buffer-list
- Document prefix to project-find-file
- Fix glyphless-display-mode indexing
- Document completions-sort
- Mention completion-wrap-movement in relevant commands
- Document minibuffer-completion-auto-choose/M-up/M-down
- Bind TAB and <backtab> on buttons
- Add a new mode for editing and viewing the Emacs NEWS file
- Add new function buttonize-region
- Improve support for the Brahmi script
- Improve buffer-match-p documentation
- Add rcirc-cycle-completion-flag
- Document additions of cl-with-gensyms and cl-once-only
- Make list-times not include zero elements
- ; * etc/NEWS: Mention that PGTK build needs GTK >= 3.20.
- Add NEWS entry for `C-h m' change
- Mention animated WebP images
- New packages:
- clingo-mode: A major mode for editing Answer Set Programs (MELPA)
- flymake-collection: Collection of checkers for flymake, bringing flymake to the level of flycheck (MELPA)
- liblouis: Mode for editing liblouis braille translation tables (MELPA)
- vundo: Visual undo tree (GNU ELPA)
- wordreference: Interface for wordreference.com (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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