2025-12-29 Emacs news
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- org-social 1.5: mention-only posts
- #24 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, October 12, 19:00 UTC+3 meeting notes (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
- Jour 24 : créer une présentation · Emacs expliqué à mes enfants (@vincek@pouet.chapril.org)
- Using org-element-at-point to improve default copying behaviour (@zyd@yap.zyd.lol)
- Jour 22 : gérer une bibliographie · Emacs expliqué à mes enfants (@vincek@pouet.chapril.org)
- Polymode: Enhancing Code Blocks in Org & Markdown in Emacs (02:36)
- Footnotes in page-view-mode, a word processor look for org (Reddit)
- Would you like to use org-templates a lá Mustache templates or cookiecutter?
- Org development: lisp/oc-bibtex.el: Add default bibliography style variable
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- The Evil-nerd-commenter Package for Emacs (02:33) - comment and uncomment lines; does not require evil-mode
- IDEmacs - Emacs qui se prend pour VSCode pour convertir les débutants | Posts | Le site de Korben
- How to calculate fields in tab-separated data using awk via the hawk package
- Fixing Eglot's Hover Signatures (Reddit)
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- jlamothe/soroban: Soroban practice package for Emacs - Codeberg.org - traditional Japanese abacus
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- bommbo/yazi.el: Yazi file manager integration for Emacs using term.el (Reddit)
- New package: eldoc-mouse-nov – Preview epub link content on hover (Reddit)
- I created Grease.el - an Oil.nvim for Emacs (Reddit) - treat your filesystem as a text buffer; create/cut/copy/move/delete
- M-x apropos Emacs: Vim is composable (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
- Emacs on WSLg: Copying to the Windows Clipboard | Lukas Barth
- OS clipboard integration in Emacs in Foot (@dnkl@social.treehouse.systems)
- community: add patch to improve async process read performance by aport · Pull Request #867 · d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus · GitHub (@kommen@hachyderm.io)
- MELPA downloads shields for your README - download count images
- Emacs development:
- New Emacs (Co-)Maintainer: Sean Whitton (Reddit)
- emacs-devel: Re: create-image fails with multibyte image data - Eli Zaretskii - complications with multibyte strings
- * lisp/vc/vc-hooks.el (vc-prefix-map): Move 'B' to 'o' (bug#80037). vc-diff-outgoing-base
- New commands vc-print-change-log & vc-print-root-change-log
- track-changes.el (track-changes-undo-only): New var
- New command 'C-x v b L': vc-print-root-branch-log
- lisp-indent-local-overrides: New variable
- * lisp/tab-bar.el (tab-bar-merge-tabs): New command.
- New packages:
- amaranth-dark-theme: Amaranth Dark theme (MELPA)
- jade-schema-mode: A major-mode for navigating Jade Platform schema files (MELPA)
- javelin: Implementation of harpoon: bookmarks on steroids (MELPA)
- koishi-theme: A sweet theme inspired by Koishi's color tone (MELPA)
- macher: LLM implementation toolset (MELPA)
- nael-lsp: Nael and lsp-mode (MELPA)
- oai: AI-LLM blocks for org-mode (MELPA)
- once: Add-hook and eval-after-load, but only once (MELPA)
- turepo: Open git repository in browser (MELPA)
- vm: VM mail reader (NonGNU ELPA)
- vui: Declarative, component-based UI library (MELPA)
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