2022-06-06 Emacs news
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- Beginner:
- Emacs configuration:
- 21天学会Emacs 2022Edition 第九天 (17:57) - use-package
- Emacs Lisp:
- Mickey Petersen: Emacs's Builtin Elisp Cheat Sheet (Reddit, Irreal)
- Mickey Petersen: Why Emacs has Buffers (Reddit, Irreal)
- Emacs Redux: Detecting Whether Emacs is Running in Terminal or GUI mode (Irreal)
- Zachary Kanfer: Testing buffer-modifying Emacs code (again) (Reddit)
- Chen Bin (redguardtoo): Use CI to improve the quality of emacs distribution (Reddit)
- Emacs Redux: Extract Version Metadata from a Package
- Anonymous state variables in emacs lisp (Reddit)
- Pimacs: a toy implementation of an Elisp interpreter in Go (Reddit)
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Org Mode:
- This Month in Org: May 2022 (Reddit)
- Irreal: Org 9.5.4 - bugfix release
- Emacs Org Mode - Navigation (05:27)
- [ANN] org-ql-find (new Org QL command using Emacs's built-in completion API)
- Org capture from everywhere in macOS
- scripter.co | Emacs: Zero HTML Validation Errors! - with ox-hugo
- 21天学会Emacs 2022Edition 第十天 (22:18) - Org mode
- Found this important note while reading some documentation to configure org-journal (Reddit)
- Completion:
- Math:
- Shells:
- Community:
- Other:
- Bozhidar Batsov: Who Needs Modern Emacs? (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
- commercial-emacs (Reddit, HN, Bozhidar Batsov, Irreal)
- A new epub reader in Emacs: nov-xwidget.el
- Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs: Password-protect current pdf (HN)
- PDF drop mode to get the DOI of a PDF dropped onto an emacs buffer (Reddit)
- Emacs Redux: Enable Mouse Support in Terminal Emacs
- GNU Emacs Gestures (Reddit) - multi-touch
- T. V. Raman: Emacspeak: The Complete Audio Desktop Under Pulseaudio
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel: Discussion about converting README.org to plain text README while installing package
- emacs-devel: Explanation of Applescript
- emacs-devel: graphs of Emacs build times and CPU build usage
- Nonrecursive Lisp reader in Emacs 29 (Reddit, HN)
- Make the goal column work for the scrolling commands, too
- Add new command find-sibling-file - that looks handy
- Extend file-expand-wildcards to allow regexps
- Make vc-mtn obsolete
- Add support for the Grantha script (bug#55782)
- Add new user option project-vc-include-untracked
- Let ?\LF signal an error (bug#55738)
- Add new user option `mouse-drag-mode-line-buffer'
- Add a new user option battery-update-functions
- Remove window-max-characters-per-line
- delete-selection-mode: Add user option to delete temporary regions only
- Add support for the Hanifi Rohingya script (bug#55745)
- 'gui-set-selection' can now specify different values for different data types.
- Note changes in ;;;### parsing
- Add a last-modified field when a bookmark is set
- Speed up generation of loaddefs files
- Add support for the Makasar and Lontara scripts (bug#55734)
- New packages:
- frimacs: An environment for the FriCAS computer algebra system (MELPA)
- fussy: Fuzzy completion style using `flx' (MELPA)
- org-contacts: Contacts management system for Org Mode. (MELPA)
- zetteldesk-kb: Keybindings for zetteldesk.el (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. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links!
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