2022-05-09 Emacs news
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- Beginner:
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- Dired:
- Org Mode:
- Marcin Borkowski: My productivity system - implementation
- Org mode - Insert timestamp in proposals (06:38)
- org-imenu-filter to filter imenu-list with "regular" tags/properties expressions. (Reddit)
- [ANN] org-ql 0.5 released; (Reddit)
- #4 Org mode profiling meetup on Sat, May 7 - meeting notes (Reddit)
- org-store-link… powerful and flexible | THIS IS EMACS (Reddit)
- org-mode links everywhere, not only in org-mode buffers | THIS IS EMACS (Reddit, Irreal)
- Import, export, and integration:
- Org Roam:
- Making Connections in Your Notes (13:49, Irreal) - org-roam
- How to rank your backlinks notes with Org Roam (Reddit)
- Org development: ob-plantuml: Allow setting PlantUML args for jar file
- Coding:
- Fun:
- Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- Making fan Doom Emacs logo for dashboard. Plan to make both Nord and Doom One versions. Any suggestions? and day 2
- Protesilaos Stavrou: I am translating the Emacs TUTORIAL into Greek
- Lars Ingebrigtsen: 16x10%
- Let's Give Emacs Another Look | Before TheLinuxCast 😎😅 (02:30:09)
- Other:
- Mickey Petersen: The Emacs 28 Edition of Mastering Emacs is out now (Irreal)
- New package: Clippo - Clipboard Manager via Emacs (currently, tailored only for yabai but support for other WM's shouldn't be too hard!)
- Emacs for Professionals: "Emacs as a Shell" (not about shell-mode) about how Emacs is a shell in and of itself (Reddit)
- flite mode demo: Text to Speech (TTS) using Festival Lite in Emacs (01:57)
- New package image-roll! Improved document display engine providing continuous scrolling.
- Update: MSI Installer for GNU Emacs 28.1 for Windows (Reddit)
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel progress on feature/tree-sitter
- Add support for the Sharada script
- Add new user option table-latex-environment
- Allow precision-scrolling nonselected windows when the minibuffer is resized
- Add Greek translation of the tutorial
- Add support for the Tirhuta script
- Allow term-mode to send function keys to the underlying shell
- Make 'delete-process' into a command
- (dabbrev-completion): Fix bug#45768
- Add support for the Kaithi script
- Document the `x' DWIM action in the manual
- Make `x' in package-menu-mode more DWIM
- Allow dabbrev to ignore binary buffers
- Allow inhibiting linkification in Help buffers
- Avoid having font locking triggering unnecessary auto-saving
- Char-fold quotation characters in info and Help
- Add new helper macros for minor modes to restore variables
- Turn on XInput 2 support by default
- Add NEWS entry about incompatible sorting command behaviors
- Add new macro with-buffer-unmodified-if-unchanged
- Improve the behavior of concatenating parts of Eshell arguments
- Return a list of numbers if all lines of an Eshell subcommand are numeric
- Eshell variable expansion should always return strings inside quotes
- Add new command 'package-update'
- New packages:
- cpupower: cpupower command interface (GNU ELPA)
- cue-mode: Major mode for CUE language files (MELPA)
- evm-mode: Major mode for editing Ethereum EVM bytecode (MELPA)
- le-thesaurus: Query thesaurus.com for synonyms of a given word (MELPA)
- project-rootfile: Extension of project.el to detect project with root file (MELPA)
- scholar-import: Import Bibtex & PDF from Google Scholar (MELPA)
- sisyphus: Create releases of Emacs packages (MELPA)
- timu-rouge-theme: Color theme inspired by the Rouge Theme for VSCode (MELPA)
- tomelr: Convert S-expressions to TOML (GNU ELPA)
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