2017-01-13 Emacs News

• Emacs Lisp:
  • Resetting a defvar Value
  • Strange Code – dealing with faces before :inherit
  • Pros and cons of Emacs’ everything is a buffer approach
  • Teaching the elisp byte-compiler how to optimise dash.el functions (Reddit)
  • A moderately experienced Emacs user tries Spacemacs
  • BBDB on EIEIO – An Introduction to Object-Oriented Emacs Lisp
• Emacs development:
  • query-replace-from-to-separator and query-replace-read-from
  • New library xdg
  • Signal list cycles
  • Proposed reimplementation of mark-defun
  • Long discussion of comment-cache branch
  • Continued work on HTML, CSS, and JS modes
• Coding:
  • C/C++ Development Environment for Emacs
  • What is your preferred setup for Python?
  • Recommended config/packages for golang
  • Spacemacs – Using Magit With Github
  • Magithub 0.1.1 released a minor revision with major updates
  • JDecomp: decompile Java classfiles
  • xquery-mode/Oook-selector: Convenience tools for interacting with XQuery and MarkLogic
  • Forgotten gem: JDIbug is a graphical Java debugger for Emacs with cond break, watches, locals list supporting compl obj (Reddit)
  • checkpatch-mode
  • My pragmatic decision on GNU Emacs versus vim for my programming (2016, HN)
• Org Mode:
  • org-refile-targets based on current org file
  • org based schedule mode
  • Orgzly is open source now! (Reddit)
  • Evernote to Org mode migration
  • org-ref introduction
• Other:
  • Batch-edit file permissions in dired
  • Audio Deja Vu: Audio Formatted Math On The Emacspeak Desktop
  • Per frame mode/header-line (patches welcome:)) (Reddit)
  • Best way to manage lots of email in the gnus summary buffer?
  • Using hledger with ledger-mode
  • Xah Fly Keys, now supports QWERTY layout
  • paperless – an emacs assisted PDF document filing tool (Reddit)
  • Using Emacs – 28 -Rectangles (Reddit)
  • mu4e 0.9.18: E-Mailing with Emacs now even better. (Reddit)
  • Script to send standard input into the emacs kill ring or a register (Reddit)
  • GNU Emacs #6: Shell (Spanish, 11:37)
  • Emacs Lisp: copy-to-buffer (French, 8:38), Emacs Lisp (8:01)
  • Installing Emacs and Spacemacs Setup from Scratch MacOS (4:59)
• New packages:
  • anything-tramp: Tramp with anything interface
  • async-await: Async/Await
  • font-lock-profiler: Coverage and timing tool for font-lock keywords.
  • goose-theme: A gray color theme
  • green-screen-theme: A nice color theme for those who miss green CRTs
  • guess-language: Robust automatic language detection
  • helm-perspeen: helm extension for perspeen.el
  • helm-tramp: Tramp with helm interface
  • jdecomp: Interface to Java decompilers
  • madhat2r-theme: dark color theme that is easy on the eyes
  • markdown-edit-indirect: Edit markdown code block in a separate buffer
  • paperless: A major mode for sorting and filing PDF documents.
  • pastery: paste snippets to pastery.net.
  • phan: Utility functions for Phan (PHP static analizer)
  • zpresent: Simple presentation mode based on org files.

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