2022-06-27 Emacs news
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- GNU Hyperbole: many have heard of it, but what does it do? This is my answer. (Reddit)
- GNU Hypobole 1.0 - mostly-joking minimal subset of Hyperbole
- Karthik Chikmagalur: more < less < emacs - improving paging by hiding cursor and scrolling by half-screens
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- Coding:
- New justl-mode release - save and run project-specific commands
- Sidekick: provide information about a symbol inside a single window. (Reddit, earlier discussion)
- Lsp-Bridge is Good
- Configure Magit Forges for a self-hosted gitlab instance
- scripter.co | Emacs: View GitHub Pull Requests in Magit
- git-zip-commit: Pack a commit's changed files into a zip file
- Community:
- Other:
- What you NEED to know before learning emacs (08:08)
- Marcin Borkowski: Copying the current location (Irreal)
- GitHub - lim6112j/custom-teletype-lisp (YouTube, 1:31) - autotype characters with pauses in between
- Mickey Petersen: Mastering Emacs is now available in Japanese
- Configuring Herbstluft WM with Emacs Lisp - System Crafters Live! (02:03:15)
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel: progress in discussion about plain-text READMEs in installed packages
- Extend Emacs in C or Other Languages (29:49)
- Tree Sitter Emacs Integration (07:11)
- Moving Garbage Collection in Emacs (05:48, Reddit)
- Allow plist-get/plist-put/plist-member to take a comparison function
- Add NEWS entry about C-h v font locking
- find-dired: Add find-dired-with-command
- Make Eshell globs ending in "/" match directories only
- New command recentf-open
- Avoid recording passwords' chars (reworded)
- Allow toggling completion modes for `M-x' with `M-X'
- Add support for image flipping
- Interactively, 'kill-buffer' will now offer to save the buffer if unsaved
- Allow read-multiple-choice to do long-form answers
- Merge branch 'abort-redisplay' - max-redisplay-ticks
- Use shortened filenames in recentf-mode
- New user option tetris-allow-repetitions controls how randomness is implemented
- Increase gc-cons-percentage in -batch Emacs
- Rename recently-introduced dired-omit-line-regexp user option
- New packages:
- embark-vc: Embark actions for various VC integrations (MELPA)
- jsonian: A major mode for editing JSON files (MELPA)
- ob-git-permalink: Import GitHub code given a permalink (MELPA)
- zetteldesk-info: A zetteldesk extension for interacting with the info program (MELPA)
- zetteldesk-remark: Org-Remark integration for zetteldesk.el (MELPA)
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