2022-10-03 Emacs news
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- Org Mode:
- Get Things Done with Emacs (2020, HN)
- Org-mode tricks for team management (Reddit)
- Mario Jason Braganza: Blocks in Org Mode
- Org mode - Macro replacement, variables in org files (06:50)
- Org-mode - Header images, horizontal line and line breaks | Ravi Sagar (Irreal)
- Jeremy Friesen: On Storing Glossary Terms in Org Roam Nodes
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- A script to parse and generate org files for syncing with orgzly. (Reddit, Github)
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- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- Benefits of learning Elisp besides hacking Emacs
- (Me) Joining The Church Of Emacs (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
- I Switched From Neovim to Emacs, Here’s Why | by Michael Bao (Aug 2022)
- TAONAW - Emacs: MS Word Wins… For Now (Reddit)
- An elegy for GNU and RMS | gay robot noises (lobste.rs)
- Other:
- Mario Jason Braganza: Restart Emacs on System Startup
- The Most Efficient Emacs Workflow, more efficient than vim (46:30)
- Anyone use Emacs Application Framework (EAF)?
- mentor: mentor is a GNU Emacs frontend for the rTorrent bittorrent client.
- [ANN] Ement.el v0.3 released (Matrix client for Emacs) (Reddit)
- MSI Installer for GNU Emacs 28.2 for Windows (HN)
- Browser Emacs
- How far are we from Magit becoming part of Emacs? (Reddit)
- Evaluating integrated development environments
- Pédiluve 2025 - Conférence Emacs (33:32)
- CLiki: CL-Emacs - Emacs-like editors written in Common Lisp (HN)
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel: long discussion about suppressing native compilation (short and long term)
- emacs-devel discussion about what's needed in order to shift from Texinfo to Org for GNU manuals
- files.el (major-mode-remap-alist): New custom var (bug#58075)
- Add new variable 'inhibit-native-compilation'
- Fix coding systems used for X input methods
- Add –with-native-compilation=aot configuration option
- Add support for the Gothic script (bug#58194)
- Rename osc.el to ansi-osc.el (bug#58200)
- Rename comint-fl-* to comint-fontify-input-* and mention it in NEWS
- Add vc-edit-next-command
- Add support for the Toto script (bug#58181)
- New command `image-dired-do-flagged-delete'
- Make format-spec accept function substitutions
- Add support for the Wancho script (bug#58159)
- Add support for the Mende Kikakui script (bug#58151)
- Add support for the Adlam script (bug#58111)
- Add new macro 'while-let'
- image-dired: End thumbnail file names with ".jpg"
- New packages:
- doc-toc: Manage outlines/table of contents of pdf and djvu documents (GNU ELPA)
- org-tagged: Dynamic block for tagged org-mode todos (MELPA)
- sweeprolog: Embedded SWI-Prolog (NonGNU ELPA)
- tesouro: Brazilian Portuguese synonym search in dicio.com.br (MELPA)
- xit-mode: A [x]it! major mode (MELPA)
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