2022-08-22 Emacs news
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 - Beginner: (Looks like there's an ALX course that might include Emacs, so people are making tutorials for each other? I might not list all of them.)
 - Appearance:
 - Navigation:
- Embar: Emacs bar and launcher combination (Reddit) - no public repo yet
 
 - Writing:
- Compose Emoji in GNU Emacs (YouTube, 00:32)
 
 - Org Mode:
- Straightforward Emacs: Show all unchecked Org Mode checkboxes
 - Using Org-Mode for Work on Book Writing and Translation - tips in the comments
 - org-bibtex-misc.el - using zotra, citar, and org-cite (Reddit)
 - Emacs org-noter in 2022 screencast and demo. (08:25, Reddit)
 - Have some code: a spaced repetition (SRS) review system for org-roam, and better search (Reddit)
 - John D. Cook: Keeping data and code together with org-mode (Irreal)
 - Org development:
 
 - Completion:
- Emacs Snippets and Templates (37:51)
 
 - Coding:
 - Shells:
 - Community:
 - Other:
- qpdf.el: A transient Emacs wrapper for qpdf
 - Emacs Notes: Who stole "C-.", "C-;" and possibly other keys from my Emacs? - dealing with desktop environments
 - Emacs: Cursores Múltiples, Árbol de Deshacer, Use Package (español argentino) (01:34:11)
 
 - Emacs development:
- emacs-devel: long discussion on the abysmal state of the GTK build
 - emacs-devel: discussion on Elisp performance
 - emacs-devel: master f117b5df4d: Add new functions eol and bol - lots of thought goes into the naming of functions
 - Make it possible to mark generalized variables as obsolete
 - Rename newly-added eol/bol functions to pos-eol/pos-bol
 - Delete two functions obsolete since Emacs 23
 - Add new functions eol and bol
 - New command image-transform-set-percent
 - Move dired-guess commands from dired-x to dired
 - Make the bookmark fringe icon look like a bookmark
 
 - New packages:
- calc-prog-utils: Calc programmers utilities (MELPA)
 - citar-org-roam: Citar/org-roam integration (MELPA)
 - codespaces: Connect to GitHub Codespaces via TRAMP (MELPA)
 - cyanometric-theme: A Theme with overwhelming bias towards cyan (MELPA)
 - ef-themes: Colorful and legible themes (GNU ELPA)
 - orangey-bits-theme: A Theme with smashing orangey bits (MELPA)
 - power-mode: Imbue Emacs with power! (MELPA)
 - sakura-theme: Filled with cherry blossoms (MELPA)
 - time-block: Block running commands using time (MELPA)
 - vegetative-theme: A Theme based on green CRT terminals (MELPA)
 
 
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