2018-03-26 Emacs news

• Emacs Lisp:
  • Human-readable filesizes
  • EmacsWiki ELPA (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • webkit-color-picker – Color picker widget using child frames (Emacs 26) (Reddit)
  • lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el: New quickstart feature
  • The function eshell/kill is now able to handle signal switches.
  • Allow `&rest’ or `&optional’ without following variable
• Org Mode:
  • Blogging with Emacs Org and Hugo
  • new release from org-static-blog supports tags
  • Marcin Borkowski’s Org-mode hydra (Reddit)
  • Labeling toy storage bins with photos and text using ImageMagick and org-babel
  • Solving the HKG18 puzzle with org-mode
• Coding:
  • Raimon Grau: fixing indentation of lua (busted) in emacs. A nasty hack
  • Ghub 2.0 and Glab 2.0 released (Reddit)
• Other:
  • a collection of ivy-based term-mode utilities
  • Bridging the Ancient and the Modern
• New packages:
  • auth-source-pass: Integrate auth-source with password-store
  • company-suggest: Company-mode back-end for search engine suggests
  • honcho: Run and manage long-running services
  • outlook: send emails in MS Outlook style
  • poet-theme: A prose friendly theme.
  • speeddating: Increase date and time at point
  • webkit-color-picker: Insert and adjust colors using Webkit Widgets

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.