2022-10-31 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Emacs User Survey (emacs-devel, Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
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- Emacs configuration:
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- Appearance:
- Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs: A welcoming experiment (Reddit)
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: introduction to the ef-themes "cyprus" theme
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: introduction to the ef-themes "cherie" theme
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 0.9.0
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: modus-themes version 3.0.0
- Navigation:
- Nicolas Martyanoff: Eye level window centering in Emacs
- Irreal: Undo In Region
- What killer feature(s) make you prefer projectile over project.el?
- Projectile 2.6 released! (Reddit)
- doc-tools-toc: Create, cleanup, add and manage Table Of Contents (TOC) of pdf and djvu documents with Emacs (Reddit)
- jarchive: Navigate to files inside jars. (Reddit)
- Writing:
- What are your favorite packages for improving vanilla emacs text editing?
- Arabic Input Setup (Reddit)
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: use custom file type with Denote
- languagetool.el: LanguageTool suggestions integrated within Emacs
- Using Grammarly With Emacs
- TAONAW - Emacs: Of TiddlyWiki, Emacs, and Digital Gardens
- xah talk show 2022-10-30 emacs, best way to insert unicode, emoji, math symbols (01:06:36)
- Org Mode:
- Jeremy Friesen: Adding a Function to Carry Forward an Org-Mode Agenda Item
- Minimal Emacs config to work with Bibliographies and references
- An Org-mode to DOCX Pipeline | Erik L. Arneson — Writer and Software Developer (Irreal)
- Andrea: Find Org Roam notes via their relations
- Org-Orgzly RELEASE: v0.0.4.1- Originally planned features implemented…and it works too…
- Org development:
- Coding:
- Multimedia:
- Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture - I am very happy that I will be able to use emacs forever (Reddit)
- Adventures with Emacs - high12noon blog - why high12noon switched to Emacs
- two weeks with emacs as a vimmer
- Sacha Chua: Learning a lot on the way to EmacsConf
- Other:
- Significant Garbage Collection Improvement For Emacs: Reducing Wall Clock Latency For sweep_conses By 50%. (Reddit, Irreal, emacs-devel)
- hammy.el: Programmable, interactive interval timers (e.g. for working/resting)
- twlz0ne/separedit.el: Edit comment or string/docstring or code block inside them in separate buffer with your favorite mode
- mmm-mode: New official home for mmm-mode, fixed for Emacs >= 23
- Take Charge of PDF in GNU Emacs (Reddit)
- Mickey Petersen: Keyboard Shortcuts every Command Line Hacker should know about GNU Readline (Reddit, Irreal, lobste.rs)
- Using emacs artist-mode (Reddit)
- Emacs Notes: Use xkb to setup full-spectrum of modifiers (Meta, Alt, Super, and Hyper) for use with Emacs (Irreal)
- Crafting a Configuration Site Generator in Emacs - System Crafters Live! (56:16)
- Emacs: adattamento nella Storia del software @ Linux Day 2022 Roma (01:50:42)
- Emacs development:
- The "noverlay" branch was merged to master. This should speed up overlays in emacs (Reddit)
- emacs-devel: challenge with shorthands Re: Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages (context of shorthands)
- emacs-devel: CL packages landed (goal, versus shorthands)
- emacs-devel: explanation of feature/ and scratch/ branches Re: CL packages landed
- emacs-devel: libgccjit leaking memory Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)
- emacs-devel: tip for building on macOS - com.apple.security.get-task-allow Re: Volunteering to help on etc/TODO item: Improved xwidgets support
- emacs-devel discussion about whitespace in commits
- ; * etc/NEWS: Add entry about more performant overlays.
- Allow Hierarchy to delay computation of children
- Allow applying Rmail summary filters consecutively
- (Ffunction): Make interpreted closures safe for space
- Handle context changes in Tramp kubernetes method
- New packages:
- ddate: Manage Discordian dates with ddate (MELPA)
- farmhouse-themes: Farmhouse Themes, dark and light versions (MELPA)
- guake: Interact with Guake via DBus (MELPA)
- nameframe-project: Nameframe integration with project.el (MELPA)
- ox-linuxmag-fr: Org-mode exporter for the French GNU/Linux Magazine (MELPA)
- url-scgi: SCGI support for url.el (GNU ELPA)
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