2019-03-04 Emacs news

• Emacs Lisp:
  • Xah Lee Live Stream. emacs lisp for beginner.
• Emacs development:
  • Merge diff-font-lock-refine and diff-auto-refine-mode into diff-refine
  • Correct regexp-opt return value for empty string list
  • rx: fix `or’ ordering by adding argument to regexp-opt
  • Allow control on the threshold for using ‘distant-foreground’
  • * lisp/replace.el (flush-lines): Return the number of deleted lines.
  • Directional window swap states (bug#34656)
• Beginner:
  • Fifteen year old learning EMACS
  • Long time Ruby programmer, never used Emacs/VIM, finally want to switch over to Spacemacs. How do I learn?
  • How young is too young?
• Package management:
  • Emacs Is Great – Ep 34, Advanced package managers (9:58)
• Appearance:
  • Nimbus: a pretty neat dark theme (Reddit)
  • mixed-pitch: mixing fixed-pitch and variable-pitch fonts
• Navigation:
  • discover.el: discover more of Emacs using context menus
  • undo-propose published in MELPA
  • Torus buffer group manager is on MELPA
  • emacs. most efficient way to open file. (43:02)
• Writing:
  • Writing in Emacs
  • wordsmith-mode: syntax highlighting (nouns, verb, adverbs…) in English text, for MacOSX
• Org Mode:
  • Org-mode 9.2.2 is Out
  • org-todo-yesterday
  • BeOrgApp: Top 10 reasons to try a different kind of iOS task management app (Reddit)
  • ob-ml-marklogic: org-babel integration with MarkLogic XQuery and (server side) JavaScript code blocks
  • Emacs Org-mode for (even more of) the win
  • Serve Org-mode as an EDITABLE webpage
  • Static Site Generator with Org Mode support – Feedback Request
• Coding:
  • Autoformatting source code in Emacs
  • Setting up Emacs for Java Development
  • sparql-mode: A SPARQL mode for emacs
  • My el hack to increment hex&dec #s in the buffer.
  • How I became a vertebrate, or skeletons help lazy programmers
  • (Beta) Package to run a Splunk search from Emacs: pepita
  • My Emacs + RTags, rmsbolt, Ivy/Counsel C++ Configuration 2019-Feb-26 (4:55)
• Fun:
  • Fun with DPMS; or, An Emacs-Based Screensaver
  • Eboy – a gameboy emulator for Emacs (Reddit, HN, Youtube video)
• Other:
  • Running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (/r/programming, /r/emacs, HN)
  • Emacs is great, LIve! Making a screencast package. (1:28:59)
  • Running Emacs as Your OS
  • YOUTUBE: Getting started with Doom, an Emacs configuration for the Stubborn Martian Vimmer.
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
  • What’s the best argument against using emacs (and in favor of the competition)?
  • TIP: Packages to include in your workflow (Part II)
  • A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust (HN)
  • Emacs Is Great – Ep 36, Web Browsing in emacs (30:47)
  • Why Emacs uses the Meta key (Reddit)
• Emacs on Windows:
  • `emacs-26-x86_64-deps.zip’: When installing stock Emacs on Windows, remember to install these additional dependencies (Reddit)
  • emax64:emax64-20180406 – 64-bit Windows build of Emacs 26.1 with pdf-tools and other goodies
• Other software:
  • MISC: kate-macs: emacs keybindings for the Kate text editor
  • Firefox key fixes for Emacs users
• New packages:
  • bibclean-format: Reformat BibTeX and Scribe using bibclean
  • comment-or-uncomment-sexp: Command for commenting the sexp under point.
  • crontab-mode: Major mode for crontab(5)
  • djinni-mode: Major-mode for editing Djinni files.
  • eldoc-cmake: Eldoc support for CMake
  • elscreen-tab: minor mode to display tabs of elscreen in a dedicated buffer
  • github-review: GitHub based code review
  • goto-line-preview: Preview line when executing `goto-line` command.
  • greek-polytonic: Quail package for inputting polytonic Greek
  • helm-taskswitch: Use helm to switch windows and buffers
  • immaterial-theme: A flexible theme based on material design principles
  • ivy-omni-org: One command to rule all Org buffers and files
  • mutt-mode: major mode for editing mutt configuration
  • org-recur: Recurring org-mode tasks.
  • org-reverse-datetree: Create reverse date trees in org-mode
  • ox-rfc: RFC Back-End for Org Export Engine
  • pytest-pdb-break: A pytest PDB launcher
  • terminal-toggle: simple pop-up terminal
  • torus: A buffer groups manager
  • undo-propose: Simple and safe undo navigation
  • urscript-mode: major mode for editing URScript.

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