2020-08-31 Emacs news

EmacsConf 2020 Call for Proposals until Sept 30, 2020. Please encourage someone you’d like to hear from! =)

• Beginners:
  • New Creator – My Video teaching Emacs fundamentals to everyone(non-programmers, somewhat technical people).
  • Exploring Emacs: Simple IDE-lite like Set Up for Emacs for Windows – YouTube
  • Clojure Journey III – Emacs for Beginners Course – O. Valadares’ Blog
• Emacs configuration:
  • caihocs’s Emacs configuration: programming, markup, RSS, media player, window manager, file manager, password manager, wiki, blog
  • Respecting visual lines in Doom Emacs – Jack Baty’s weblog – use-package-hook
  • James Cash: An Emacs Configuration Overview
• Emacs development:
  • Emacs 27.1 Windows Released
  • Update: MSI Installer for GNU Emacs 27.1 for Windows
  • Add support for parsing column numbers in Visual Studio messages
  • Add commands to run shell commands in project root
  • dired: Show broken/circular links w/ different face
  • Add themes modus-operandi and modus-vivendi
  • Fix expand-file-name symlink-to-dir bug
  • Allow disabling double buffering at build time
  • Implement a way to customize “default” values
  • Document ispell comment/string checking commands in the user manual
  • ispell: Commands to check comments or strings at point or in region
  • Add basic D-Bus integration to Gnus
  • Revert previous hideshow commit
  • Document file-backup-file-names
• Appearance:
  • The Modus themes are built into Emacs!!! (Reddit, Reddit)
  • Alex Schroeder: Emacs without the bling
• Navigation:
  • goto-line-faster.el: Go to a line in Emacs just a little faster than normal
• Org Mode:
  • Getting started with org-mode – Jean-Loup Adde’s blog
  • New blog and new post about exercise tracking in Org mode (Irreal)
  • org-starless: Hide heading stars in org-mode.
  • org-padding: Padding for org-mode.
  • Help wanted: org-variable-pitch.el users, could you help testing potentially breaking change so that I can make sure it’s backwards compatible
  • Slack messages in your Org Agenda (Reddit)
  • Andrea: Org crypt and LOGBOOK: how they can work together for a secure agenda.
  • Displaying org-mode appointments in calendar
  • org-kasten: A set of improvements and conventions on top of org-mode to use it for knowledge management. (Reddit)
  • Emacs – Using Org Mode on multiple computers and Orgzly – YouTube
  • Capturing text from any Mac Application into Emacs org-mode with Automator and org-protocol (Reddit)
  • A simple GTD approach using Org mode and Org Edna | Plain DrOps
  • Telegram Channel for Emacs Orgmode
• Completion:
  • James Cash: Intermediate Emacs: Customizing Helm
  • (with-emacs · Customize completion-at-point (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • TIP: How to use a stable and fast environment to develop in Python
  • Making Emacs use correct Python interpreter in a virtual environment
  • 2bit.el: An Emacs package for pulling data from 2bit files – DNA
  • eglot + sqls = SQL client?
  • web-mode + eglot + Vetur + Vue.js = happy (Reddit)
  • Set up CI for Windows
  • gitlab-pipeline – A tool to check Gitlab pipelines
  • ess-view-data: tidyverse data viewer support for ESS-r
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Smarter Swift snippets
  • Roblox With Emacs (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
• Other:
  • Managing ArXiv RSS Feeds in Emacs
  • Secure GPG In Emacs, Featuring Agent Smith (Reddit)
  • Configure EMMS — Emacs Multi-Media System on GNU/Linux
  • My Backup Script: Rsync-Based With Orgmode-Friendly Summary and Desktop Notifications (Reddit)
  • macOS native-comp: A (mostly) automated build script which produces a self-contained Emacs.app application
• New packages:
  • eshell-outline: Enhanced outline-mode for Eshell
  • find-file-rg: Find file in project using ripgrep
  • flycheck-projectile: Project-wide errors
  • gitlab-pipeline: Get infomations of Gitlab pipelines
  • imbot: Automatic system input method switcher
  • modern-sh: Minor mode for editing shell script
  • mu4e-views: View emails in mu4e using xwidget-webkit
  • notmuch-maildir: Visualize maildirs as a tree
  • twtxt: Client twtxt
  • vtm: Manages vterm buffers with configuration files

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