2022-04-25 Emacs news
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- Beginner:
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Configuration Generator (amodernist.com) (Reddit, HN)
- Christian Tietze: Transient Menus Galore - org-menu, tray
- Starting fresh?
- Repeat with me: Avy actions are awesome! (Reddit) - setting up repeatable Avy commands
- Short Intro to my Emacs Config (11:11)
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- Christian Tietze: Center Window on the Current Monitor in Emacs, Simplified
- pulsing-cursor-mode - UI tweak cursor animation: fades in & out. (Reddit)
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: colour theory and techniques used in the Modus themes
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Modus themes: case study on Avy faces and colour combinations
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- Org Mode Release 9.5.3 (bugfix) (Irreal)
- New workflow for reading epubs and taking notes using calibre + org mode
- Marcin Borkowski: Calculating fuel consumption in Org
- Org-mode - Field formatters in table calculations (08:15)
- #3 Org mode profiling meetup on Sat, Apr 23 - includes notes
- Import, export, and integration:
- Org development:
- ORG-NEWS: Add list of changes - new folding backend, isearch checks hidden parts of links, org-catch-invisible-edits works for links, preserving folding state of drawers, outline-* functions may be broken, org-at-heading-p has optional argument
ob-python
improvements to:return
header argument
- Plain Org v1.4 released (Reddit)
- Coding:
- Pict2e-lua: a library for diagrams that is being developed with eev and test blocks - YouTube (8:13)
- GNU Emacs as a lightweight Java IDE - 3 (Getter/Setter) (00:52, Reddit)
- [ANN] New Package: Oh My GitHub
- flymake-rakudo - Another syntax checker for Raku on Emacs
- GitHub - mohkale/flymake-collection: Collection of checkers for flymake (Reddit)
- If you have never used wgrep with rg.el to rename a function in several files, try it | that will blow your mind (Reddit, Irreal)
- Shells:
- Community:
- Other:
- Irreal: Invoking the Messages Buffer
- Best emacs books
- Emacs Curated List Of Apps And Utility By The Community 2022 04 24 16:22:17 (03:43) Overview of Awesome Emacs
- ERC - IRC in Emacs (07:19)
- Let's do IRC the secure way in Emacs (04:11) erc-tls
- Emacs development:
- Discussion of PGTK-related misconceptions
- Discussion of a possible binding for imenu and the merits of M-g i vs M-s i
- Discussion of time resolution
- Use (TICKS . HZ) for current-time etc.
- Support (encode-time (list s m h D M Y))
- Change the display of menu bindings in Help
- Add new function `read-string-from-buffer'.
- Allow 'C-u C-h .' to describe button/widgets
- Allow not clearing the echo area
- Add new minor mode word-wrap-whitespace-mode
- New electric forward slash Eshell module
- Bind 'imenu' to 'M-g i' globally
- Allow searching for regexps with a prefix
- Document how to specify fallback modes
- Allow several mode: elements in the local variable section
- New packages:
- consult-ag: The silver searcher integration using Consult (MELPA)
- cursory: Manage cursor styles using presets (GNU ELPA)
- flymake-rakudo: Flymake syntax checker for Rakudo (MELPA)
- stem-reading-mode: Highlight word stems for speed-reading (MELPA)
- talonscript-mode: Major mode for Talon Voice's .talon files (MELPA)
- tmr: Set timers using a convenient notation (GNU ELPA)
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. Also thanks to Andrés Ramírez for a few emacs-devel links!
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