2022-05-30 Emacs news
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- Emacs configuration:
- My own Transient example
- 2 years of yak shaving (Reddit) - Simple Emacs configuration aimed at enhancing the default experience, akin to something equidistant between vanilla & doom.
- Emacs Lisp:
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- TAONAW - Org Mode: Of Narrowing Subtrees and Focus
- Appreciation thread for org-special-block-extras
- Emacs Get Youtube Video Contents In ORG File 2022_05_26_03:13:56 (23:18)
- A python script to sync from Google calendar to an org file
- HN discussion of Organice (an implementation of Org mode for mobile and desktop browsers)
- Coding:
- Fun:
- Community:
- Other:
- gNife, an emacs ecosystem for servicing: Knowledge-Management; and Problem Solving Workflows (Reddit) - uses Hyperbole
- Version 0.7 of detached.el (formerly known as dtache) - An Emacs package to launch, and manage, detached processes
- A vision of a multi-threaded Emacs (Reddit, HN)
- Emacs development: Lots of scripts added
- emacs-devel: discussion about whether ns-do-applescript should be removed or replaced
- emacs-devel: details about how frames are handled in the terminal
- emacs-devel: Discussion about unmaintained ELPA packages
- Add support for the Rejang script (bug#55718)
- Add support for the Batak script (bug #55694)
- Make `count-words' count sentences.
- Add support for the Sundanese script (bug#55686)
- Extend 'C-x 8 =' to produce characters with macron
- Add support for the Javanese script (bug#55667)
- Add support for the Balinese script (bug#55648)
- ; Fix up doc of recent elisp-eldoc-var-docstring-with-value addition
- Add support for the Limbu script (bug#55621)
- Make yank-transform-functions into defvar
- Make byte compilation warn about wrong quoting in doc strings
- Add support for the Buhid and Tagbanwa scripts (bug#55610)
- Add elisp-eldoc-var-docstring-with-value function
- New packages:
- inspector: Tool for inspection of Emacs Lisp objects. (GNU ELPA)
- latex-change-env: Change in and out of LaTeX environments (MELPA)
- svgo: SVG optimization with SVGO (MELPA)
- swsw: Simple window switching (NonGNU ELPA)
- vcomplete: Visual completions (NonGNU 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. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links!
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