2018-04-02 Emacs news

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • lispy-multiline, lispy-oneline – reformat Lisp expressions
• Emacs development:
  • New package-quickstart feature in emacs 27 (Reddit)
  • Change the default value of nxml-sexp-element-flag.
  • New experimental variable read-integer-overflow-as-float.
  • Lisp reader now checks for integer overflow
  • Support Capital sharp S in German input methods
  • (benchmark-run-compiled): Make it work like ‘benchmark-run’ again
• Org Mode:
  • org-variable-pitch.el: variable-pitch in Org mode, but keeps indentation, lists and code blocks in monospace (screenshot in comments) (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Magit v2.12 released
  • Putting the I back in IDE: Jane St’s emacs-based workflow for code review (Reddit)
  • PYNT (PYthon iNTeractive) – A minor mode for getting your code into a jupyter notebook. (Reddit)
  • Irreal: A C++ Configuration for Emacs
  • find-file-in-project v5.6.0
  • Bryan Murdock: Fixing xref-find-references
• Other:
  • Emacs Powerpack – Emacs installer for Windows
  • Asynchronous rsync with Emacs, dired and tramp. (Reddit)
  • Wrote a function that implements toggle (repeat all and repeat one) in simple-mpc
  • outlook.el: Emacs package to send HTML emails in MS Outlook style (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • djangonaut: Minor mode to interact with Django projects
  • symbolword-mode: modify word split

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

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2018-04-09 Emacs news

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • ‘indent-region’ in the Emacs batch mode
• Emacs development:
  • Emacs Bytecode Reference (Reddit)
  • Discussion about reorganizing the FTP archive
  • Discussion about splitting simple.el
  • Handle quotation marks and apostrophes in sgml-quote
  • Detect if a message can be encrypted and add an MML tag
  • Output of ‘help-for-help’ is searchable now
  • Introduce new macro combine-change-calls
  • Ignore color fonts when using Xft
  • Document custom-variable-history
• Appearance:
  • How to disable emacs windowing entirely (in favor of i3/some other window manager) (Reddit)
  • I made my first theme for Emacs! Tell me what you think! (Reddit)
  • Share my first light theme: `doom-nord-light-theme` (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Framegroups.el – workspaces using frames (Reddit)
  • Working with dired
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs integrates all the things (almost): After a decade of vim, I’m hooked on Emacs. Here’s how org-mode pulled me over
  • Instant Latex Fragment Preview in Org Mode
  • Org mode long-term time tracking for freelancers – methods?
  • Org Table Spreadsheet
  • Adding an ‘s’ to Marked Text
• Coding:
  • A walk through the Magit interface (Reddit)
  • Using Emacs Episode 47 – Magit (Reddit)
  • Language Server Protocols will fill the Java gap for emacs (Reddit)
  • Optimize your FontAwesome
  • Use Imenu to list comments in current buffer
• Other:
  • So many packages, can’t stop myself!
  • Helm System Packages update: Guix, XBPS (Void Linux), TRAMP and macOS brew
  • Serve files over HTTP directly from Emacs
  • What minor modes do you always use?
  • Emacs, xkb & xxkb
  • SyncTeX and pdf-view-mode for emacs
• New packages:
  • banner-comment: For producing banner comments.
  • blacken: Reformat python buffers using the “black” formatter
  • citeproc: A CSL 1.0.1 Citation Processor
  • company-box: Company front-end with icons
  • fill-function-arguments: Convert function arguments to/from single line
  • flycheck-tcl: A flycheck checker for Tcl using tclchecker
  • github-stars: Browse your Github Stars
  • gitignore-templates: Access GitHub .gitignore templates
  • horoscope: generate horoscopes.
  • org-index: A personal adaptive index for org
  • other-emacs-eval: Evaluate the Emacs Lisp expression in other Emacs
  • taskpaper-mode: Major mode for working with TaskPaper files

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

2018-04-16 Emacs news

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • fontify-face: Fontification of symbols referencing faces
  • I wrote a super short blog about my motivation to learn Elisp (Reddit)
  • Advanced Syntax Highlighting – Variable Assignments (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Emacs pretest 26.1 RC1 is out (Reddit)
  • Add new command `gnus-summary-attach-article’
  • Rename url-button-google-url
  • Make DISCARD-COMMENTS in `libxml-parse-{html,xml}-region’ obsolete
  • Make image-mode respect `imagemagick-types-inhibit’
  • Make the url file: handler be less clever
  • Prefer settings from ~/.mailcap over system and Emacs settings
  • Mention the new `shr-selected-link’ face
  • Default message-forward-as-mime to nil
  • Allow prefix argument to ‘gnus-summary-limit-to-score’
  • nil is no longer an allowed value for mm-inline-text-html
  • Remove repetitions from recipient addresses in Message
  • Gnus Group Mail Spliting on mailing-list headers
  • Remove the Gmane backend from nnir
• Appearance:
  • Heaven and hell – easily toggle light/dark theme (Reddit)
  • Setting Emacs Based on Ambient Light (Reddit, HN)
• Navigation:
  • counsel-yank-pop
• Org Mode:
  • counsel-org-clock
• Coding:
  • More emacs configuration tweaks (multiple-cursor on click, minimap, code folding, ensime eval overlays)
  • el-fly-indent-mode demo: Indent Emacs Lisp on the fly (0:31)
  • Ranger integration with emacs / spacemacs (4:57)
• LaTeX:
  • How to create LaTeX documents with Emacs | Opensource.com
  • bratex – Emacs package for manipulation of brackets in LaTeX mode (not yet available through package-install) (Reddit)
• Other:
  • slow-keys.el – a global minor mode to make you type slower, to avoid RSI and tiring your fingers out (Reddit)
  • Tutorials on text editing with emacs (emacs-fu, emacs text drills, emacs golf, etc…)
  • Working with dired: bindings, performance boost and more!
  • RPI UPE Vim vs. Emacs Showdown 2018/04/09 (59:07)
• New package:
  • ql: Control Quod Libet

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

2018-04-23 Emacs news

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • My shared emacs file
  • Emacs lite: “just the essentials” config in < 200 lines. (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Timo Geusch: Emacs 26.1-RC1 on the Windows Subsystem for Linux
  • Discussion about bignum support
  • Discussion about Flathub support
  • Brainstorming text property searching
  • Improve Isearch error handling
  • Mention next-error-select-buffer in etc/NEWS
  • Mention ‘display-buffer-in-major-side-window’ change (Bug#31194)
  • Add `text-property-search-forward’ and `-backward’
• Appearance:
  • Doneburn – a new light theme
• Navigation:
  • Yet another package for emacs persistent sessions by thierryvolpiatto (Reddit)
  • Using Emacs 48 Silversearcher (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: counsel-rg and symbol at point
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs #5: Documents and Presentations with org-mode (Reddit)
  • How do you use org-mode?
  • Irreal: Org Babel Recipes
• Coding:
  • Writing react/jsx in 2018, what addons do you all use?
• Other:
  • Unit Tests Grading Workflow
  • Where can i find screencasts of people ACTUALLY working with Emacs (preferably standard, otherwise doom/spacemacs), not tutorials ?
• Discussion:
  • What upset you most about Emacs?
  • Dallas based Emacs users?
• New packages:
  • carbon-now-sh: https://carbon.now.sh integration.
  • company-reftex: Company backend based on RefTeX.
  • dired-rsync: Allow rsync from dired buffers
  • el-fly-indent-mode: Indent Emacs Lisp on the fly
  • fontify-face: Fontify symbols representing faces with that face.
  • format-all: Auto-format C, C++, JS, Python, Ruby, etc. source code
  • frame-local: Variables local to a frame
  • gpastel: Integrates GPaste with the kill-ring
  • heaven-and-hell: easy toggle light/dark themes
  • helm-eww: Helm UI wrapper for EWW.
  • klere-theme: A dark theme with lambent color highlights and incremental grays
  • lines-at-once: Insert and edit multiple lines at once
  • muban: Lightweight template expansion tool
  • northcode-theme: A dark theme focused on blue and orange colors.
  • repeater: Repeat recent repeated commands
  • srcery-theme: Dark color theme.
  • svnwrapper: Highlighting and paging for shell command `svn’
  • upbo: Karma Test Runner Integration

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

2018-04-30 Emacs news

April 30, 2018, 2:31 pm

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • Advanced Techniques for Reducing Emacs Startup Time (Reddit)
  • Looking for really unorthodox .emacs.d
  • My first emacs library. What is good or wrong in it?
  • So, I modified `package–save-selected-packages` into this monstrosity
  • Raimon Grau: bootstrap your emacs lisp learning
• Emacs development:
  • Closing a privilege escalation (sudo and .emacs)
  • New function ‘string-distance’
  • Strip most headers when forwarding messages
• Appearance:
  • Test Your Emacs Themes In Black And White On macOS
  • Presentation Mode, display large character for presentation and live coding (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • expand-region emacs 26.1 pretest
  • Raimon Grau: It’s like copy-paste, but reversed
• Org Mode:
  • Slides with Emacs Org-mode and Reveal.js (Reddit)
  • Emacs #2: Introducing org-mode | changelog.complete.org
  • My first org-mode CSS stylesheet, feedback welcome (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: org-mru-clock
• Coding:
  • How to use CockroachDB with Emacs SQL Mode
  • Ben Simon: A Little Scheme Setup and Development on the Galaxy S9 Plus
• Other:
  • ZSH, tmux, Emacs and SSH: A copy-paste story (Reddit)
  • Emacs -as a terminal- perform better than urxvt, GNOME Terminal, Xfce Terminal andTerminator (Reddit)
  • How do you guys work in Emacs?
  • Managing Contacts in Emacs
  • Emacs Online?
  • Timo Geusch: Another way to use Emacs to convert DOS/Unix line endings
  • Irreal: Emacs Video: Play Emacs Like an Instrument
• New packages:
  • counsel-org-clock: Counsel commands for org-clock
  • desktop-environment: Helps you control your GNU/Linux computer
  • doneburn-theme: A light theme based on Bozhidar Batsov’s Zenburn
  • flycheck-phpstan: Flycheck integration for PHPStan
  • gams-ac: auto-complete source file for GAMS mode
  • intel-hex-mode: Mode for Intel Hex files.
  • moom: Commands to control frame position and size
  • mxf-view: Simple MXF viewer
  • netease-music: listen netease music
  • nodemcu-mode: Minor mode for NodeMCU
  • ob-elvish: org-babel functions for Elvish shell
  • omnibox: Selection package
  • org-variable-pitch: Minor mode for variable pitch text in org mode.
  • phpstan: Interface to PHPStan.
  • presentation: Display large character for presentation
  • proxy-mode: A minor mode to toggle proxy.

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel. 

2018-05-07 Emacs news

May 7, 2018, 7:40 am

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs Lisp Bytecode | irreal.org
  • Elisp Snippet – Kill Buffer and Window On Shell Process Termination
  • TIP: How to speed up your Emacs config by 0.3 seconds
  • Raimon Grau: TIL elisp has iterators
• Emacs development:
  • Any objections to releasing Emacs 26.1 in a week’s time, anyone?
  • /u/jwiegley: “What if we had a compiler from Emacs Lisp -> Lisp-flavored C, which could turn .el files into .c files suitable for compiling into .so’s that can be loaded into Emacs?” (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • A Brief Introduction to Data Exploration/Analytics With org-babel (Reddit)
  • Pragmatic Emacs: Write code comments in org-mode with poporg
  • (Emacs+Org-Mode) The Best Font For LaTeX Exports With Org-Mode
• Coding:
  • Emacs as a C# development environment (First post, feedback welcome) (Reddit)
  • Any long time emacs users tried VSCode?
  • Phil Hagelberg: 188
  • How to use UndoDB with Emacs (5:56)
• Other:
  • File manager discussion
  • A Hydra To Help Describe
  • Emms 5.0 released (Reddit)
  • Treemacs News
  • FilkTeX and songbook mode for sheets with chords
  • EXWM is awesome or what?
  • What window manager and terminal emulator do you use alongside Emacs?
  • Why Emacs Instead of Other Software
  • emacspeak: Emacspeak 48.0 (ServiceDog) Unleashed!
  • ZSH, tmux, Emacs and SSH: A copy-paste story (HN)
  • Mark Dawson – emacs for vim users (48:31)
• New packages:
  • habamax-theme: Boring white background color that gets the job done.
  • hmac: hash-based message authentication code
  • lsp-intellij: intellij lsp client
  • lxc-tramp: TRAMP integration for LXC containers
  • mxf-view: Simple MXF viewer
  • nix-update: Update “fetch” blocks in .nix expressions
  • nova-theme: a dark, pastel color theme
  • pyramid: Minor mode for working with pyramid projects
  • orgalist: Manage Org-like lists in non-Org buffers

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

2018-05-14 Emacs news

May 13, 2018, 9:21 pm

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • Hydra To Insert Timestamps
  • now use-package had `:chords` and `:ensure-system-package`
  • Elisp Guide: A quick guide to Emacs Lisp programming | chrisdone (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Interest in having an Emacs benchmarking suite
  • Looking for people to update the Intro to Emacs Lisp programming
• Navigation:
  • Using context dependent Hydras in Emacs (Reddit)
  • What is your workspace model in emacs?
• Org Mode:
  • Making it easier to extend the export of org-mode links with generic functions
  • Nuage v0.1: M+aking+x org-mode awesome on the web (Reddit)
  • The Many Uses of Org Mode (Reddit)
  • Web-based file manager that includes features for viewing Org-mode files (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • (Emacs+Org-Mode) Hydra For Committing Thing Messages
  • Accessing Devdocs from Emacs (Reddit)
  • Eglot: “Emacs Polyglot. An Emacs client to Language Server Protocol servers” (Reddit)
  • Using Emacs for JavaScript development! (31:13)
• Other:
  • How has Emacs ever really blown you away?
  • Emacs: screenshot showcase & WatchPeopleEmacs Monthly
  • Emacs dashboard + emacsclient
  • Emacs Is Awesome (1:15)
  • Stallman | The Development of GNU Emacs (Reddit)
  • How To Use Beeminder Without Ever (Hardly Ever) Leaving Emacs
  • Emacs for Writers (2015) (1:01:15, HN)
  • Eshell as a main shell (HN)
  • EXWM is awesome or what?
• New packages:
  • ccls: ccls client for lsp-mode
  • ivy-yasnippet: Preview yasnippets with ivy
  • load-env-vars: Load environment variables from files
  • pinboard-popular: Displays links from the pinboard.in popular page.
  • yasnippet-classic-snippets: “Classic” yasnippet snippets

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

2018-05-21 Emacs news

May 21, 2018, 6:59 pm

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • f-strings in emacs-lisp
  • Pretty for loops (Reddit)
  • GitHub – plexus/chemacs: Emacs profile switcher (Reddit)
  • emake.el: Test Elisp without the hoops (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Request: Improve the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual with intro sections
  • Proposal for propagating local variables
  • What is the on going status of adding multi-threads to Emacs ?
  • Mention change in `edebug-prin1-to-string’
  • New user option tramp-ignored-file-name-regexp
  • Use Enriched mode in etc/HELLO to keep charset information
• Appearance:
  • Announcing Peach-Melpa.org
  • emacs theater (Reddit)
  • Proofreading with Emacs: Change font and size
• Navigation:
  • frame-purpose.el: Purpose-specific frames (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • An approach to references from code to text in Orgmode.
  • Tip: Org clock on desktop (Gnome top-bar)
  • A Tip for Org Mode N00bs | Irreal (Reddit)
  • org-mode extensions? Workflows?
  • Org-mode IOS app now supports outline editing! (Reddit)
  • TIP: How I use org-journal to improve my productivity
  • Reproducible Research and Software Development Methods for Management tasks
  • Better Code Snippets with org-capture (hat-tip to Irreal)
• Coding:
  • Literate programming with python doctests
  • houdini hython live coding = houdini + emacs + org-mode + hy(org-babel) + python (1:25)
  • tfs.el – interaction with TFS repositories from Emacs (Reddit)
• Other:
  • Emacs as a musical instrument (Reddit)
  • Vim 8’s :terminal makes ansi-term look bad.
  • The Emacs Web Wowser: Browsing and Searching the Web with Emacs (Reddit)
  • Emacs is now on flathub (Reddit)
  • What are some of the most useful extensions for Emacs? (Reddit)
  • Request For Comment – LangTool Update (Grammar Checker)
  • Michael Speaks Spacemacs: 3 Tips for Windows Users (5:05)
• New package:
  • eglot: Client for Language Server Protocol (LSP) servers

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

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2018-05-28 Emacs news

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • A fancy Emacs version
  • Emacs Notes: Keyboard Macros: Build custom commands with the Emacs Command Language (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Emacs 26.1 released
  • Support for bringing package change logs to the user’s attention (Reddit)
  • Call out recently removed aliases in epa.el.
  • Move epa-pinentry-mode to epg-config (Bug#26298)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Notes: Personalizing Emacs: Color schemes and more (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • GitHub – alphapapa/org-sidebar: A helpful sidebar for Org mode (Reddit)
  • PSA: People who get their packages from Git: the Org-Mode repository has moved.
  • A Python version of org-babel-tangle, for literate programming with Org, 100 times faster than the real thing. (Reddit)
  • A basic overview of my org-mode workflow
• Other:
  • Emacs Mini Manual – The Basics
  • Getting started with Emacs on Windows
  • TIP: How to make ERC fun to use
  • Irreal: Using Request to Download Financial Data
  • New Emacs videos from Xah Lee
• New packages:
  • debian-changelog-mode: major mode for Debian changelog files.
  • fennel-mode: a major-mode for editing Fennel code
  • helm-lines: A helm interface for completing by lines
  • libelcouch: Communication with CouchDB
  • lsp-javascript-flow: Javascript/Flow support for lsp-mode
  • merlin-eldoc: eldoc for OCaml and Reason
  • mqr: Multi-dimensional query and replace
  • one-themes: One Colorscheme
  • organize-imports-java: Mimic Eclipse’s Organize Imports functionality.
  • phpactor: Interface to Phpactor
  • powerthesaurus: Powerthesaurus integration
  • side-notes: Easy access to a directory notes file

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

2018-06-04 Emacs news

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • Updated format$ macro
  • What’s the theme?
• Emacs development:
  • Examples of programs/libraries/snippets that use Emacs 26 threads
  • emax64-20180529 (26.1 final) released
  • Emacs 26 Brings Generators and Threads (Reddit, HN)
  • What’s New in Emacs 26.1? (Reddit)
  • Some proposed backports from master to emacs-26
  • Un-obsolete ‘string-to-unibyte’
  • Add Imenu support to CSS mode and its derivatives
  • Allow access to MS-Windows Registry from Lisp programs
• Appearance:
  • GNU Emacs 26.1 | 24bit colors | Suckless St Terminal: (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • TIP: How to be a beast with hydra
  • A dashboard like this would be interesting in Emacs (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Changing height of org-mode `#+BEGIN_SRC *` on the fly
  • Extending org-mode!
• Coding:
  • EDBI (Emacs Database Interface) Tutorial
  • Switched over to a literate config, if anyone needs a launching off point for moden-web-development in emacs, Im fairly happy with my setup.
  • Magit v2.13 released (HN)
  • Collaborating with non-Git-users – Emacs support
  • Clojure + libGDX + Emacs (46:37)
  • Making Emacs Like Sublime Text 3 (8:11)
• Other:
  • Texting from inside Emacs (Reddit)
  • logpad.el: Notepad-like logging for GNU Emacs (Reddit)
  • Copy/Paste in Emacs
  • Emacs 26, Wanderlust, and modern Gmail authentication
  • My first Emacs package: Powerthesaurus integration
  • How your “emacs” looks like?
  • Best Emacs learning and building path?
  • Package: Access your Ampache library from Emacs (Reddit)
  • Emacs & gpg files: use the minibuffer for password prompts
  • dired-rsync 0.4 released
  • Michael Speaks Spacemacs: File Renaming Automation Workflow (5:29)
  • First Emacs Hangout – Xah Lee
  • Emacs Logo Sticker Pack (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • com-css-sort: Common way of sorting the CSS attributes.
  • company-prescient: prescient.el + Company
  • counsel-codesearch: Counsel interface for codesearch.el
  • diary-manager: Simple personal diary.
  • dired-recent: Dired visited paths history
  • elcouch: View and manipulate CouchDB databases
  • filelock: Functions for manipulating file locks
  • flycheck-golangci-lint: Flycheck checker for golangci-lint
  • flycheck-prospector: Support prospector in flycheck info-beamer: Send commands to info-beamer
  • ivy-prescient: prescient.el + Ivy
  • nerdtab: Keyboard-oriented tabs
  • ob-mermaid: org-babel support for mermaid evaluation
  • org-make-toc: Automatic tables of contents for Org files
  • prescient: Better sorting and filtering.
  • rubocopfmt: Minor-mode to format Ruby code with RuboCop on save
  • rustic: A major emacs mode for editing Rust source code
  • see-mode: Edit string in a separate buffer
  • side-notes: Easy access to a directory notes file
  • tj3-mode: major mode for editing TaskJuggler 3 files
  • wakib-keys: Minor Mode for Modern Keybindings

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

2018-06-11 Emacs news

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• Emacs development:
  • A recipe for creating parallel futures using threads and dynamic modules
  • Allow to reset Deleted flag when exporting messages in Rmail
  • Support terminal focus notifications
  • Describe flymake-start-on-save-buffer in manual and NEWS
  • Add support for per-window face remapping
  • Remove Tramp “obex” and “synce” methods
  • Obsolete Flymake’s flymake-diagnostic-types-alist
• Navigation:
  • prescient.el: Simple but effective sorting and filtering for Emacs. (Reddit)
  • Sunrise Commander, an orthodox file manager for Emacs (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs for better understanding! (Reddit)
  • Use Emacs Org Mode and REST APIs for an up-to-date Stock Portfolio (Reddit, HN)
  • It’s here: Org Agenda for the World Cup 2018
• Coding:
  • Automating Internationalization Workflow in Emacs
  • Does anyone use emacs for enterprise Java?
  • Configuring Emacs, lsp-mode and the python language server (Reddit)
  • tfsmacs – TFS source control from Emacs (formerly tfs.el) (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Git diff in Eshell
• Other:
  • My first package is now on MELPA: evil-fringe-mark (Reddit)
  • bebop for Firefox/Chrome – Offer incremental completion command line interface like helm.
  • telega.el: GNU Emacs telegram client (unofficial) (Reddit)
  • Emacs + Golang == control my keyboard lamps (0:14)
• New packages:
  • belarus-holidays: Belarus holidays whith transfers
  • company-nginx: company-mode keywords support for nginx-mode
  • digitalocean-helm: Create and manipulate digitalocean droplets
  • digitalocean: Create and manipulate digitalocean droplets
  • evil-fringe-mark: Display evil-mode marks in the fringe
  • exwm-edit: Edit mode for EXWM
  • gf: Major mode for editing GF code
  • imgbb: Simple image upload client for imgbb.com
  • logpad: Simulate Windows Notepad for logging.
  • mqtt-mode: client for interaction with MQTT servers
  • org-make-toc: Automatic tables of contents for Org files
  • tfsmacs: MS TFS source control interaction.

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

2018-06-18 Emacs news

June 18, 2018, 9:37 pm

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • Create an idea box for creating new packages
• Emacs development:
  • Move tls.el and starttls.el to lisp/obsolete/ (Bug#31457)
  • rmail-summary-by-senders defaults to sender
  • comint-insert-previous-argument doesn’t detect and ignore trailing &
  • comint-insert-previous-argument counts args from start or from end
  • Add new macro dolist-with-progress-reporter
  • Apply non-user themes only when asked
  • Rewrite memory-limit in Lisp
  • Flymake and backends exchange hints abouts changed regions
  • Fix initialization of custom-delayed-init-variables
  • Add after-delete-frame-functions
  • New focus management interface
• Navigation:
  • Marcin Borkowski: ivy-use-selectable-prompt
  • Irreal: Line Numbers in Emacs 26.1
• Org Mode:
  • ical2org integrations
  • Better mouse support for Org Mode (Reddit)
  • New org-count-words command
  • Emacs cafe: Using Ledger for YNAB-like envelope budgeting
  • scripter.co | Emacs: Org Table Spreadsheet
• Coding:
  • RFC: GitHub – alphapapa/magit-todos: Show source files’ TODOs (and FIXMEs, etc) in Magit status buffer (Reddit)
  • digitalocean.el api
  • Chen Bin (redguardtoo): How to spell check function/variable in Emacs
• Mail:
  • TIP: How to easily manage your emails with mu4e
  • Who Uses EMacs to read mail?
  • mu4e-conversation: Single buffer full-thread display to make e-mails great again!
• Other:
  • Best practices for Emacs on Microsoft Windows?
  • TIP: How to better manage your spelling mistakes
  • Non technical uses and suggestions for Emacs (ie: Note taking)
  • Sanel Zukan: declutter – read online content without clutter
  • emacs abbrev tutorial (10:16)
  • Emacspeak, The Complete Audio Desktop (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • lsp-typescript: Javascript/Typescript support for lsp-mode
  • mu4e-conversation: Show a complete thread in a single buffer
  • mw-thesaurus: Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
  • org-listcruncher: Parse Org mode list contents into table

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

2018-06-25 Emacs news

June 24, 2018, 10:00 pm

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • Helpful: One Year On (Reddit)
  • How to Make an Emacs Minor Mode | null program (Reddit)
  • Can I force Emacs to load the rest of my configuration when it encounters an error in my init file?
  • emacshorrors: Determining if the server is started, or the wonders of server-running-p
  • emacs live elisp debugging session (7:01)
• Emacs development:
  • Document ‘major-mode-suspend’ and ‘major-mode-restore’
  • New functions to switch back and forth to another major mode
  • Implement command completion in remote shells. (Bug#31704)
• Security:
  • A couple of questions and concerns about Emacs network security
  • Make more TLS checks trigger on the default `medium’ level
  • Refactor the protocol NSM checks for flexibility
  • Emacs’ TLS defaults are downright dangerous
• Navigation:
  • The Emacs Guru Guide to Key Bindings | wilfred.me.uk (Reddit)
  • Working with multiple files in dired | Mastering Emacs (Reddit)
  • Finally, scrolling over large images with pixel scrolling.
  • Irreal: Xah Lee on Frames vs. Window in Emacs
• Org Mode:
  • Capturing Content for Emacs
• Coding:
  • Run any PyQt5 program in Emacs
  • template-overlays: Emacs overlays for template files
• Mail:
  • Using Emacs Episode 49 mu4e-conversation (Reddit)
• Other:
  • TIP: How to better manage your spelling mistakes
  • How to run a graphical emacsclient on a remote instance of Emacs
  • EMacs Mud CLients
  • Making music in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Whats the current state of browser plugins ?
  • diary-manager: Simple command-line tool and Emacs package for managing diary entries. (Reddit)
  • First week with emacs (revised from first day)
  • emacspeak: Effective Suggest And Complete In An Eyes-Free Environment
  • Raimon Grau: emacs-like browsing in firefox and chrome
• New packages:
  • backlight: backlight brightness adjustment on GNU/Linux
  • bicycle: cycle outline and code visibility
  • frame-purpose: Purpose-specific frames
  • helm-posframe: Using posframe to show helm window
  • night-owl-theme: A color theme for the night owls out there
  • sesman: Generic Session Manager
  • use-ttf: Use the same font cross OS.

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

2018-07-02 Emacs news

July 2, 2018, 2:31 pm

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • Uses of regular expressions in Emacs
  • Guide to config Emacs from scratch (Reddit)
  • How you browse elisp, or lisp project in general?
  • Emacs from scratch
  • Complete computing environment and future
• Emacs development:
  • Continued work on security
  • Optionally add argument description in minor mode DOC (bug#10754)
  • Add a new argument to ‘recenter’ to allow finer control of redisplay
  • Add lisp/jsonrpc.el
  • Speed up reading sub-process output on MS-Windows
  • Allow ‘file:’ protocol for Info-follow-nearest-node.
• Navigation:
  • Dired: quickly jumping to previously visited folders
• Org Mode:
  • Getting geo-tagged information from photos for blogging
• Coding:
  • My development workflow (13:42)
• Other:
  • A GitHub repo for historical Emacs software preservation (Reddit)
  • A (Space)Emacs / LaTeX Editing Combination That Works As Fast As You Do (Reddit)
  • Using Emacs Episode 50 – presentations (Reddit)
  • Emacs Mini Manual (PART 1) | tuhdo (Reddit)
  • emacs Google Hangout, join, have fun chat (Reddit)
  • TIP: How to integrate snippets with YASnippets
  • emacspeak: Effective Suggest And Complete In An Eyes-Free Environment
  • Irreal: The Emacs Commune
  • Marcin Borkowski: Smart yanking
• New packages:
  • lv: Other echo area
  • jsonrpc: JSON-RPC library
  • frame-tabs: show buffer tabs in side window

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

2018-07-09 Emacs news

July 8, 2018, 9:30 pm

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • Using Emacs Threads To Execute Commands Asynchronously (Reddit)
  • Emacs Mini Manual (PART 3) – CUSTOMIZING AND EXTENDING EMACS (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Continued discussion about security
  • Minor improvements in recent NSM documentation changes
  • NSM-related doc fixes
• Navigation:
  • If you have a “software engineering notebook”, this may be useful to you!
  • deadgrep: fast, friendly searching with ripgrep and Emacs (Reddit)
  • Emacs Notes: Your Google Drive, now within your Emacs (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Completely custom org-agenda, with support for GTD projects
  • Literate Programming: Empower Your Writing with Emacs Org-Mode (HN)
• Coding:
  • Automating bash/perl arguments handling in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Execute current Emacs buffer for any language (3:27)
• Other:
  • Emacs key maps in PyCharm has increased my speed
  • Mastering Key Bindings in Emacs | masteringemacs.org
  • Emacs 26.1 (64-bit) for mingw64 with imagemagick 7 support
  • The Road to Emacs – Notes of An Evil user (Reddit)
  • TIP: How I use ledger to track my money
  • Irreal: ESC ESC ESC
• New packages:
  • alan-mode: Major mode for editing M-industries Alan files
  • code-archive: git supported code archive and reference for org-mode
  • company-posframe: Use a posframe as company candidate menu
  • counsel-org-capture-string: Counsel for org-capture-string
  • deadgrep: fast, friendly searching with ripgrep
  • doom-modeline: A minimal modeline from DOOM.
  • helm-tail: Read recent output from various sources
  • libgit: Thin bindings to libgit2.
  • line-reminder: Remind current line status by current buffer.
  • lsp-html: HTML support for lsp-mode
  • magit-todos: Show source file TODOs in Magit
  • org-outline-numbering: Show outline numbering as overlays in org-mode
  • pinyin: Convert Hanzi to Pinyin
  • project-abbrev: Customize abbreviation expansion in the project.
  • template-overlays: Display template regions using overlays
  • vyper-mode: Major mode for the Vyper programming language
  • filladapt: Adaptive fill

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

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2018-07-16 Emacs news

July 16, 2018, 9:05 am

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • Created a configuration for simple users
  • Marcin Borkowski: A mistake with modes and advice
• Emacs development:
  • Discussion about action stamps in commit messages
  • * lisp/format.el (format-proper-list-p): New alias.
  • * lisp/vc/diff-mode.el (diff-font-lock-prettify): New var
  • Add predicate proper-list-p
• Navigation:
  • cmdtree: spacemacs’ key-binding popup for X11 (Reddit)
  • How do you organize workflow in Emacs? It has so many buffers.
  • Irreal: Dired Hacks Redux
• Org Mode:
  • How do you sort your info so you can find it later?
• Coding:
  • magit-todos: Show source files’ TODOs (and FIXMEs, etc) in Magit status buffer (now on MELPA) (Reddit)
  • Config snippet for setting up Emacs for React + TypeScript development
  • TIP: How to integrate company as completion framework
  • Tip: in modeline, show buffer file path, relative to project’s root (without external dependencies)
  • Irreal: Run a Raw Git Command From Within Magit
• Other:
  • Avoid accidental execution in comint mode
  • yakr: remapping control space and get a hyper key for free
  • The “24-bit Emacs+Tmux+SSH Terminal Color Challenge”
  • Who here actually likes Emacs-the-editor (as opposed to Emacs-the-LispM), and why?
  • What practical use have you found for xwidgets support
  • Other programs with a philosophy like Emacs?
• New packages:
  • lsp-clangd: clangd support for lsp-mode
  • lsp-css: CSS/LESS/SASS support for lsp-mode
• Mail:
  • Getting started with GNUs for Email, RSS feeds and newsgroups (Reddit)
  • Gnus is such a neat and good idea. Why doesn’t it get more love from Emacs community?

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

2018-07-23 Emacs news

July 22, 2018, 10:07 pm

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• Emacs development:
  • Discussion about the GNU GMP library and bignums
  • RFC: automatically retrying network connections
  • Emacs docker images are available (Reddit)
  • Emacs & TLS – LWN.net (Reddit, HN
  • Make nnimap support IMAP namespaces
  • thread-join returns the result of finished thread
  • New option to make ‘C-x 4 a’ use file-less ChangeLog buffers
  • Add ‘font-lock-maximum-decoration’ levels for Python
  • * lisp/comint.el: Clean up namespace
  • * etc/NEWS: Mention eql etc. NaN fix.
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Mention ‘main-thread’. (Bug#32169)
  • Improve description of window configs in ‘register-val-describe’
• Appearance:
  • color-file.el : Colorize Minibuffer lines based on mode/file format
  • Eyeliner = Spaceline + All-the-icons
  • Let stuff that interest you stand out: Customize faces (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • TIP: How to use Ivy and its utilities in your workflow
• Org Mode:
  • Org file realtime preview in Emacs
  • Plan Your Day: Daily Time Management with Emacs, Org-Mode, and Google Calendar (Reddit)
  • How to store commands in org file in an easily copyable manner ?
• Coding:
  • The Ultimate Guide To Using Tabs For Indentation In Emacs (Reddit)
• Other:
  • Olé! Diacritics in Emacs – Mastering Emacs (Reddit)
  • How so you use EShell?
  • What do you use the scratch buffer for?
  • Marcin Borkowski: Eshell aliases
  • 3 Emacs modes for taking notes (Irreal)
• New packages:
  • evil-python-movement: Port Neovim’s python movement to Evil
  • org-emms: Play multimedia files from org-mode

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

2018-07-30 Emacs news

July 29, 2018, 9:32 pm

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • bench-multi macro: Easily compare the performance of lisp forms (Reddit)
  • The Emacs Widget Library (Reddit, HN)
  • Guide to profiling and optimizing an Org-related function (or, use regexp searches whenever possible)
• Emacs development:
  • Introducing thread-safe Tramp (Reddit)
  • New scratch branch: list-threads, “a tabulated list buffer showing the currently live threads with their status” (Reddit)
  • Pushing a patch to the Emacs repository (3:14)
  • * lisp/term.el (term-read-noecho): Mark obsolete.
  • Prefer ?* to hide passwords
  • %o and %x can now format signed integers
  • Notify systemd in daemon-initialized and kill-emacs (Bug#31498)
  • Revert “Make nnimap support IMAP namespaces”
• Navigation:
  • Kakoune editing model in Emacs?
  • Getting productive with selection and navigation in Emacs (Irreal)
  • Multiple cursors in Emacs (2:31)
• Org Mode:
  • An Org query language, or Prototype code for a next-generation Org Agenda (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • doom-todo-ivy – display all TODO and FIXME entries for a project or buffer in ivy. Extracted from doom-emacs. (Reddit)
  • What are the current, best, options for language sensitive syntax checking, completions, etc.?
  • What are the best ways to “speed up” LSP mode?
  • isolate.el – surrounding with a powerful customization system (Reddit)
  • Irreal: Clone a GitHub Repository from Within Emacs
• Other:
  • Addons for your Emacs: A quick guide to installing packages with the Emacs Package Manager (Reddit)
  • Learn default emacs or learn evil?
  • An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp ((en|es)(morg|html) version)
  • Marcin Borkowski: 2018-07-29 The INSIDE EMACS variable

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

2018-08-06 Emacs news

August 5, 2018, 11:11 pm

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • Much improved elisp backtraces! (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Use Gnulib regex for lib-src
  • ; etc/NEWS: Remove read-answer, it was backported to v26
  • Rename Tramp method “owncloud” to “nextcloud”
  • Add new commands to Edebug backtraces
  • Add backtrace-mode and use it in the debugger, ERT and Edebug
  • New commands to create an empty file
  • Substitute a <ieee754.h> on hosts lacking it
  • Read and print NaN significand if <ieee754.h>
• Appearance:
  • Is it possible to have a different font in the editor per major mode?
• Org Mode:
  • Hugo users: Update to Hugo v0.46 to get syntax highlighted Org mode blocks using Chroma (Reddit)
  • Ferret: A Lisp that compiles to C++, written in Clojure, literate-style, in a single Org file using Babel (Reddit)
  • org-sidebar custom commands (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Finally, a decent method outline for my Emacs (ECB) (Reddit)
  • TIP: How to adopt flycheck as your new best friend
  • dap-mode.el – Debug Adapter Protocol integration for Emacs
• Other:
  • New podcast about a beginner’s journey into Emacs
  • Whats your Job? Whats your daily emacs workflow?
  • TIP: Packages to include in your workflow (Part I)
  • So, are you using Emacs in your school?
  • Which are the reasons you love emacs over other text editors?
  • Playing Minesweeper in Emacs (2:43)
  • Emacs security woes
  • EXWM under Gnome-Flashback – pretty slick and easy
• New package:
  • fd-dired: find-dired alternative using fd

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

2018-08-13 Emacs news

August 13, 2018, 1:59 am

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • WAR STORY: When turning to the profiler turns out to be a good call
• Emacs development:
  • Is there a limit to the extensibility of Emacs?
  • New ‘configure’ arg –with-mini-gmp
  • Turn misc objects into pseudovectors
  • Merge branch ‘feature/bignum’
  • Add variable auto-save-no-message
  • Make nnimap support IMAP namespaces
  • Merge remote-tracking branch ‘origin/master’ into feature/bignum (emacs-devel)
• Navigation:
  • Hydra for my frequently edited (Manjaro) Linux config files
• Org Mode:
  • Blogging with Emacs org-mode (Reddit, HN)
  • An Update on Blogging with Emacs
  • EmacsCast 3 – Org mode (and a bit about Helm + Projectile + ag) (Reddit)
  • sharing an Emacs org text file with non Emacs org use?
  • Is anyone using Memacs?
  • Using RxJS in Emacs Org Mode
  • Raimon Grau: Adopting org-gcal.el
  • need feedback for org-mode web app – view/search org files from Dropbox on web (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • TIP: How to get started with Git
• Other:
  • Getting started with Doom Emacs: A great transition from vim to Emacs (Reddit)
  • Magit stickers are now available for everyone
  • Emacs Notes: Emacs for your modern document needs: A quick guide to working with PDF, LibreOffice and Microsoft Office files (Reddit)
  • Two Years With Emacs as a CEO (and now CTO) (Reddit, Irreal)
  • A tutorial for setting up a second keyboard to use for shortcuts in emacs (Reddit)
  • Irreal: Emacs Podcast
  • simple emacs demo (7:55): TeX, Org, Hydra, presentations, etc.
• New package:
  • flycheck-grammalecte: Integrate Grammalecte with Flycheck

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.