2018-10-29 Emacs news

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacsers with beautiful init.el files: what about customize?
  • Emacs, Spacemacs, or your friend’s configuration ? choose them all (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Long discussion about replacing trivial pcase occurrences
  • Long discussion about performance degregation from long lines
  • lisp/isearch.el (lazy-highlight-buffer): New defcustom (Bug#29360)
  • Add support in emacsclient for EMACS_SOCKET_NAME
  • Installing Emacs now installs the emacs-module.h file for building modules outside the Emacs source tree
• Appearance:
  • parrot 1.0.0 – rotate text with a twist!
  • Emacs Notes: Highlight text, not with faces, but with other texts (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • bln-mode: a minor mode for binary line navigation
  • emacs : set up config 05 (key bindings & other setup) (13:10)
  • emacs: set up config 06 (ivy + counsel + swiper) (9:16)
• Org Mode:
  • New org-mode mobile client is out and it’s name is “Organic”
  • Using Emacs 51 – Day to day work with org-mode (Reddit)
  • Worgle: yet another org-mode tangler, written in ANSI C
  • Importing all of your orgmode notes into Apple Notes.
• Coding:
  • Configuring emacs from scratch – 07 (magit)
  • Make your own autocomplete from a custom dictionary (Reddit)
• Other:
  • What emacs packages have upped your game recently?
  • EmacsCast 6: less software and back to defaults and basics, as much as possible (Reddit)
  • The Emacs Calculator – null program (Reddit)
  • What do you do with eyebrowse?
  • Marcin Borkowski: Launching terminal in current directory
  • Marcin Borkowski: Running visual commands in Eshell
  • Now I get it! Emacs is the best.
  • Emacs helped me recover from depression
  • Emacs users who still use vim: what do you use vim for?
  • Next browser campaign: last week of fundraising!
• New packages:
  • debian-el: Emacs helpers specific to Debian users
  • dpkg-dev-el: Emacs modes for debian packaging
  • parrot: Party Parrot rotates gracefully in mode-line.

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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2018-11-05 Emacs news

November 5, 2018, 8:27 pm

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • el-patch: Future-proof your Emacs Lisp customizations
  • Overloading mathematical operators in elisp (2017) (Reddit)
  • threading macros from dash for Emacs Lisp (Reddit)
  • Jonas Bernoulli: Many new releases: ghub, closql, epkg, borg, emir, … (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: A few remarks about defining minor modes
  • Alexander Gromnitsky: Elisp history for trivia buffs
  • Want some feedback on my first little elisp package (su-toggle)
  • emacs : set up config -08 (iedit & paredit) (8:29)
• Emacs development:
  • Add URL truncation support to rcirc (bug#33043)
  • ‘minor-mode-menu-from-indicator’ now display full minor mode.
  • New option ‘nnir-notmuch-filter-group-names-function’
  • Fix interaction between vc-hg find-file-hook and vc state caching
  • Remote file name completion is also performed by auth-sources search
• Navigation:
  • A new text object editor for Emacs
  • Using Emacs Episode 52 – Eyebrowse
• Org Mode:
  • ob-tmux: allows org mode to evaluate code blocks in a tmux session (Reddit)
  • Using Emacs 53 Emailing Org Agenda (Reddit)
  • Hacker News to Org Mode (Reddit)
  • Faster Large Table Editing: Disable Flyspell!
  • Org parser
• Coding:
  • I wrote another LinkedIn article about how to make your Emacs instance more like a full-fledged IDE (Reddit)
  • lldb/cdb in Emacs
  • Web development with Emacs, Tips and Tricks
  • Handy dandy indexing trick
  • A Little Scheme Setup and Development on the Galaxy S9 Plus (April 2018, Timo Geusch)
  • Make emacs open files at specific line numbers as outputted by grep and other shell commands
  • Extract Variable in Emacs (Perl) (Reddit)
• Security:
  • Feasibility of Improving Emac’s Security through Fine-Grained Access Controls?
  • Abusing Text Editors with Third-party Plugins (Reddit)
• Other:
  • Synchronized emacs input with website
  • Configuring Emacs from scratch -09 (company anaconda company-quickhelp company-anaconda)
  • Installing Arch Linux, Emacs, XOrg and Exwm (Reddit)
  • For people using the default Emacs keybindings, what is your reason?
  • Emacs: Upcase Sentences (2017, Irreal)
  • Share “unusual” Emacs material
  • Emacs Notes: Run the latest Emacs, even when your OS doesn’t provide one: Introducing Flatpak (Reddit)
  • freenode #live 2018 – Sachin Patil – GNU Emacs for all (29:56)
• New package:
  • zones: Zones of text – like multiple regions

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.

2018-11-12 Emacs news

November 12, 2018, 8:16 am

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • A nice feature for theme makers
  • CIDER’s Orchard: The Heart (Reddit)
  • Magit: Found a simple way to force me to keep track of changes in my init, thought others my find useful
  • When turning to the profiler turns out to be a good call (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Provide branch information for both Emacs and Tramp (Bug#33328)
  • Add setter for ‘xref-marker-ring-length’
  • Add ‘ring-resize’ function
  • Fix last change
  • src/editfns.c (group-name): New function.
  • * lisp/windmove.el (windmove-create-window): New defcustom (bug#32790).
• Appearance:
  • TIL: vcursor-mode
  • Screenshot Showcase 2018!
  • A Minor mode for ligatures in Emacs
• Navigation:
  • evil-better-visual-line: better gj and gk for those with evil inclinations
  • What do you have bound to M-n and M-p?
  • Raimon Grau: e{vil,macs} macros
  • macros by example
• Org Mode:
  • OrgMode – literate programing – thi-ng/geom: 2D/3D geometry toolkit for Clojure/Clojurescript
  • Organizing Notes With Refile (Irreal)
• Coding:
  • Jonas Bernoulli: Magit 2.90 released (Reddit)
  • ANN: GDB graphical interface using C dynamic module (gdb-mi.el alternative) (Reddit)
• Science:
  • The tntphylo-mode Emacs package
  • First “release” of the rev-mode package (April)
• Other:
  • Configuring Emacs from scratch -10 (yasnippets)
  • An easy-kill – Emacs Redux (Reddit)
  • I like to move it! (Emacs version) (Reddit)
  • Emacs pop-up shell
  • Updates to W32 Server Mode (Reddit)
  • Emacs as an operating system (Irreal)
  • A keyboard with thumb modifiers and Emacs cursor joystick (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • activity-watch-mode: Automatic time tracking extension.
  • alarm-clock: Alarm Clock
  • anki-mode: A major mode for creating anki cards
  • backline: Preserve appearance of outline headings
  • company-phpactor: company-mode backend for Phpactor
  • company-tabnine: A company-mode backend for TabNine
  • editorconfig-generate: Generate .editorconfig
  • elsa: Emacs Lisp Static Analyser
  • evil-better-visual-line: gj and gk visual line mode fix
  • evil-textobj-entire: text object for entire lines of buffer for evil
  • evil-textobj-line: evil textobj line
  • evil-textobj-syntax: Provides syntax text objects.
  • flycheck-soar: Analyze the SQL statements using mi soar.
  • hasklig-mode: Hasklig ligatures
  • helm-slime: helm-sources and some utilities for SLIME.
  • lsp-dart: Dart support for lsp-mode
  • lxd-tramp: TRAMP integration for LXD containers
  • objed: Navigate and edit text objects.
  • outline-minor-faces: Headings faces for outline-minor-mode
  • ox-slack: Slack Exporter for org-mode
  • ox-wk: Wiki Back-End for Org Export Engine
  • path-helper: Set PATH environment variables from config files
  • pine-script-mode: Trading View Pine Script major mode
  • redtt: Major mode for editing redtt proofs
  • vc-hgcmd: VC mercurial backend that uses hg command server
  • veri-kompass: verilog codebase navigation facility
  • zmq: ZMQ bindings in elisp
  • zprint-mode: reformat Clojure(Script) code using zprint

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.

2018-11-19 Emacs news

November 19, 2018, 12:14 pm

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs Notes: Elmacro: Write Emacs Lisp snippets even when you aren’t a programmer (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-announce: Emacs 26.1.90 pretest
  • * src/cmds.c (Fself_insert_command): Get last-command-event via (new) arg.
  • * lisp/windmove.el: Directional window display (bug#32790)
  • * lisp/windmove.el: Support more prefix args (bug#32790)
  • Isearch hit count. (Bug#29321)
  • expand-file-name now expands ~ to absolute file names even if HOME is relative
  • New option vc-find-revision-no-save to not write revision to file
  • Support VC revisions in diff-goto-source (bug#33319)
  • Root emacsclient no longer connects to non-root sockets
• Appearance:
  • Configuring Emacs from scratch -11 (highlight-indent-guides)
  • Disable all colours in shell mode
• Navigation:
  • (Emacs+Org-Mode) Migrate From Ido To Ivy In One Quick Step
  • Jump around (Emacs version)
  • Go to Character with Multiple Cursors in Emacs (Reddit)
  • A super useful little package: evil-textobj-syntax (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • (Emacs+Org-Mode) Three Different Ways To Export From Org To A Calendar
  • tutorial: orgmode: I’ve adapted org-mode tutorial from pragmatic emacs to spacemacs usage (Reddit)
  • Extensible Dependencies ‘N’ Actions (EDNA) for Org Mode tasks
  • My writing setup (Irreal)
  • Script to convert a ical url to a holidays.org file for your agenda view
  • My first Emacs package. Frictionless blogging with Org Mode and write.as (Reddit)
  • 2018-11-14: Building a Second Brain in Org Mode – Tasshin Michael Fogleman (Reddit)
  • Orgmode compatible iOS Shortcuts Meeting Capture Workflow with Beorg
  • Importing all of your orgmode notes into Apple Notes for mobile access
  • org-bullets on Windows: workaround that significantly improves speed (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Configuring Emacs, lsp-mode and Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code Python language server.
  • Configuring Emacs, lsp-mode and the python language server. (June)
  • Interactive programming with Fennel Lua Lisp, Emacs and Lisp Game Jam winner EXO_encounter 667 (May)
  • (Emacs+Org-Mode) Close Magit-Process Related Buffers When They Become Obselete
  • Moray Jones – The magic of magit: an emacs porcelain for git (11:27)
• Other:
  • (Emacs+Org-Mode) Don’t Dash Your Hopes Of Utilizing Dashes
  • (Emacs+Org-Mode) A Literate LS
  • How Emacs changed my life by yukihiro_matz
  • The Emacs Commune (Reddit)
  • Pure TTY emacs, all the time
  • GNU Emacs Sink Icon Sticker Pack (Reddit)
  • Emacs bug statistics 2008-2017: Most of the reports are from Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora (in that order) (Reddit)
  • The Perfect Domain for Emacs Projects – Emacs Redux (Reddit)
  • 2018-10-24: Emacs Bay Area + PDX Meetup (Lightning Talks) (2:10:39)
  • My Emacs journey
• New package:
  • package-lint-flymake: A package-lint Flymake backend

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.

2018-11-26 Emacs news

November 25, 2018, 9:44 pm

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs OS Experiment: 02. Package management (12:16)
  • Debugging elisp workflow tips?
  • emacs-toml needs a maintainer
  • eredis 0.9.6 – using Redis with emacs lisp
• Emacs development:
  • sudo:: method in tramp possible security issue
  • A benchmark suite for Emacs
  • Proposal to include ESS in Emacs/ELPA
  • * lisp/windmove.el: Directional window deletion (bug#32790)
  • Isearch now has its own tool-bar and menu-bar menu.
  • Add Tramp rclone method
  • Add tool-bar and menu-bar menu for Isearch (Bug#32990)
  • Add Isearch commands for going to absolute occurrence of matches (bug#29321)
  • Add prefix arg to isearch-forward-symbol-at-point (bug#29321)
  • Let Tramp sudo sessions expire after a timeout
  • Add prefix arg to isearch-repeat-forward/backward (bug#14563, bug#29321)
• Appearance:
  • Doom-modeline 0.8.1 released, 5x faster!!!
• Navigation:
  • Search and Replacement Techniques (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • (Emacs+Org-Mode) Choosing The Best Writing And Publishing Software
  • Writing a PhD thesis with Org Mode (Reddit)
  • Updated Orgmode Compatible iOS Shortcuts Meeting Capture Workflow with Beorg
  • Take Screenshots Straight into Org Files in Emacs on Windows 10 (Reddit)
  • Write a thesis using emacs and org-mode?
  • Configuring Emacs from scratch -12 : (org contrib package repo)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Font-locking diff blocks in Org-mode
  • Execute Org blocks as root (Irreal)
• Coding:
  • Paxedit Demo
  • Create a Gitlab merge request from Emacs
  • Nim repl integration with emacs (Reddit)
  • dispwatch: Watch the current display for changes (ie plugging in a monitor) and run a hook. (Reddit)
• Other:
  • Why use emacs for everything?
  • how much you type per day? (Reddit)
  • GitHub – unhammer/gnus-recent: Avoid having to open Gnus and find the right group just to get back to that e-mail you were reading. (Reddit)
  • I made a web scrapper for DEV (https://dev.to) in Emacs
  • emacspeak: Emacspeak 49.0 (WiseDog) Unleashed
• New packages:
  • buttercup-junit: JUnit reporting for Buttercup
  • dtk: access SWORD content via diatheke
  • emidje: Test runner and report viewer for Midje
  • git-time-metric: Provide function to record time with gtm ( git time metric )
  • ox-mdx-deck: org-mode to mdx-deck exporter
  • poly-ansible: Polymode for Ansible: Jinja2 in YAML
  • rust-auto-use: Utility to automatically insert Rust use statements

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.

2018-12-03 Emacs news

December 2, 2018, 9:31 pm

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • emacs-named-timer: Give timers name and manage them with ease
  • hsluv-emacs: An Elisp implementation of the HSLUV colorspace conversions based on http://www.hsluv.org/
  • Debian Emacsen Team / dh-make-elpa: Helper for creating Debian packages from ELPA packages. (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: format-seconds
  • Spin Your Own Spacemacs-lite (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacsclient: prefer XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (Bug#33367)
• Appearance:
  • Cycle through themes
  • hl-fill-column: This package provide two modes to highlight fill column
• Navigation:
  • ska2342/detour: Remember your current cursor position
• Org Mode:
  • slimhtml is an emacs org mode export backend which outputs minimal HTML (Reddit)
  • ox-epub: Generate .epub files directly from OrgMode. This will export EPUB version 2
  • Better beamer block environments in org mode
  • Irreal: The Org-ref Video Revisited
  • Irreal: Making a Poster with Org-mode
  • Org-mode, literate programming in Emacs (1:23:03)
  • org-brain: added new faces and visual options
• Coding:
  • Emacs JIRA integration with Ejira
  • load-bash-alias: Convert bash aliases into eshell ones
  • Incremental construction of command chains to replace text (Reddit)
  • Emacs cafe: Indium 2.0 is out!
• Other:
  • To MELPA or Not: Package authors need not run a separate website
  • tic tac toe game in elisp OR How I stay unproductive in Emacs (Reddit)
  • What to do when melpa.org is down and you have an itch to scratch ….
  • ialign – a visual version of align-regexp (Reddit)
  • so-long: This library mitigates performance degradation that happens when visiting files with long lines
  • Rudel – A collaborative editing environment for Emacs
• New packages:
  • alert-termux: alert.el notifications on Termux
  • caddyfile-mode: Major mode for Caddy configuration files
  • cl-libify: Update elisp code to use cl-lib instead of cl
  • detour: Take a quick detour and return
  • exwm-firefox-core: Firefox hotkeys to functions
  • flymake-vnu: Flymake extension for the v.Nu HTML validator.
  • hl-fill-column: Highlight fill column.
  • hsluv: hsluv color space conversions
  • ledger-import: Fetch OFX files from bank and push them to Ledger
  • load-bash-alias: Convert bash aliases into eshell ones
  • named-timer: Simplified timer management for Emacs Lisp
  • ox-slimhtml: a minimal HTML org export backend
  • solidity-flycheck: Flycheck integration for solidity emacs mode
  • tmux-pane: Provide integration between emacs window and tmux pane
  • vdm-comint: REPL support for vdm-mode
  • writefreely: Push your Org files as markdown to a writefreely instance

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

2018-12-10 Emacs news

December 10, 2018, 4:20 pm

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • Share Links To Emacs Initialization Files With Minimal Effort!
  • general.el – a convenient, unified interface for key definitions (for both evil and non-evil users) (Reddit)
  • BBDB on EIEIO: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Emacs Lisp
  • RFC: ts.el – Emacs date-time library (Reddit)
  • Potentially breaking changes in emacs-request
  • A newb’s first attempt at an init.el file
  • Marcin Borkowski: looking-back-p
  • blog – I love Luke Smith – emacs elisp windows buffers (5:00)
• Emacs development:
  • * lisp/vc/vc.el (vc-root-version-diff): New command (bug#33650).
  • New buffer display action alist entry ‘window-min-height’
  • Document that Eshell follows symlinks in history file names
  • New buffer display action alist entry ‘window-min-height’ (Bug#32825)
  • Mention EMACS_SOCKET_NAME, not XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
  • Mention unsetting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR in doc.
  • Support IBM038 (a.k.a. “EBCDIC-INT”) encoding
  • * lisp/isearch.el (isearch-yank-on-move): New defcustom
  • * lisp/isearch.el (isearch-allow-scroll): New option `unlimited’.
• Appearance:
  • Pretty-outlines: replicating org-bullets in outline-mode (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • with-emacs – Dynamic file browsing grid using ivy (Reddit)
  • Configuring Emacs from Scratch -13 (hide-show-mode)
  • Additions to unpackaged.el: smerge-mode hydra and iedit helpers
• Org Mode:
  • Org-mode, literate programming and Emacs (Irreal)
  • Agenda previews (Reddit)
  • fitness.org: An Emacs food/weight/workout tracker, self-contained in a single Org file
  • Emacs Is Cool EP 0 – init.el from org mode (11:28)
  • Vasaant Krishnan – Org-mode and other useful things in Emacs – SARAO Tech Tuesdays 11/2018 (35:48)
• Coding:
  • Extension: Kubernetes Helm
  • evil-nerd-commenter v3.3.0
  • keyword and operators. Efficient code editing in Emacs (9:54)
• Other:
  • 3 Emacs modes for taking notes
  • Multics Emacs History/Design/Implementation
  • Next, the infinitely configurable browser release 1.1.0
  • Looking for Emacs maintainers view of the Remacs (emacs port to Rust)
  • Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Emacs (2012, Reddit, HN)
  • An Introduction to the EMACS Editor (1978, HN)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Lesser known Dired stuff
  • Irreal: Experts Use Emacs and Vim (also on Reddit)
  • Emacs on Microsoft Windows
  • Live test: Emacs Coffee Maker Control (6:01)
  • Emacs Rocks (HN)
• New packages:
  • buttercup-junit: JUnit reporting for Buttercup
  • buttons: Define and visualize hierarchies of keymaps
  • dtk: access SWORD content via diatheke
  • emidje: Test runner and report viewer for Midje
  • git-time-metric: Provide function to record time with gtm ( git time metric )
  • ox-mdx-deck: org-mode to mdx-deck exporter
  • poly-ansible: Polymode for Ansible: Jinja2 in YAML
  • rust-auto-use: Utility to automatically insert Rust use statements
  • flymake: A universal on-the-fly syntax checker

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

2018-12-17 Emacs news

December 17, 2018, 12:20 pm

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • (Emacs+Org-Mode) HELP: Yet Another Literate Emacs Configuration!
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Cropping Images in Emacs
  • Marcin Borkowski: A simple tip on using destructive functions
  • Helpful: an alternative to the built-in Emacs help that provides much more contextual information (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Emacs text shaping with Harfbuzz (Reddit)
  • Add Tramp sudoedit method
  • * lisp/emacs-lisp/map.el: Make the functions generic
  • * lisp/vc/vc.el (vc-root-version-diff): New command (bug#33650).
• Appearance:
  • Blog post: How to change Emacs font with minibuffer together (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • with-emacs – Projectize commands using numeric arguments (Reddit)
  • comb: search, browse, and annotate occurrences of regular expressions in files
• Org Mode:
  • Re-think your Orgmode files in terms of PARA–Project, Areas, Resources and Archives–and simplify your life
  • org-sort-multi: Sort tree by multiple methods at once (Reddit)
  • Xmas 2018 with Org Mode
  • Raimon Grau: 3 basic org agenda tips for the fundamentally forgetful
• Coding:
  • Emacs vs. Vim (as a Python GUI)?
• Other:
  • emacs is great: Packages and other videos in the series
  • Wanting to dig deeper into emacs
  • Do you think Emacs is awesome because it is written in lisp or would it be better if written in some other language?
  • Harley Hahn’s Emacs Field Guide | Harley Hahn | Apress
  • emacs-reveal: Create presentations (slides with audio) that are suitable as Open Educational Resources (OER)
  • Use Floobits to pair program in Emacs
  • Today was my last day at work. My coworkers got me a cake (Reddit)
  • We are (almost) 25k strong on reddit
  • Using GNU Screen or Tmux inside of ansi-term really make things a lot better.
  • Scuttlebutt on emacs?
  • Emacs Client on Windows tip
  • Irreal: The Default Emacs Key Bindings
• New packages:
  • auto-rename-tag: Automatically rename paired HTML/XML tag.
  • cc-cedict: Interface to CC-CEDICT (a Chinese-English dictionary)
  • elisp-demos: Elisp API Demos
  • evil-nl-break-undo: Break evil’s undo sequence on CR
  • exwm-firefox-evil: Firefox hotkeys to functions
  • format-table: Parse and reformat tabular data.
  • gnus-recent: article breadcrumbs for Gnus
  • help-find-org-mode: Advise help to find org source over tangled code
  • htmltagwrap: Wraps a chunk of HTML code in tags.
  • ibuffer-project: Group ibuffer’s list by project
  • ivy-explorer: Dynamic file browsing grid using ivy
  • jest: helpers to run jest

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

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2018-12-24 Emacs news

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • elisp tip: It’s much faster to use buffer-local-value than with-current-buffer (Reddit)
  • Displaying and Interacting with processes using Proced (old but still relevant) (Reddit)
  • emacs is great – Ep 4, A Bit of Lisp (9:45)
  • emacs :set up config – 14 (language tool, org auto complete, expand region) (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • map.el goes generic (cl-defmethod) (Reddit)
  • Add file name handler support for ‘make-process’ (Bug#28691)
  • * lisp/windmove.el (windmove-delete-in-direction): Change prefix arg C-u
  • * lisp/window.el (switch-to-buffer-obey-display-actions): New defcustom.
  • * lisp/emacs-lisp/map.el: Add support for plists
  • Syntactic fontification of diff hunks (bug#33567)
  • * lisp/emacs-lisp/map.el: Avoid special casing lists.
• Appearance:
  • New features in doom-modeline
  • (with-emacs – White Christmas in Emacs (Reddit)
  • (THEMES) Your favorite less-well-known or modified themes
  • Emacs Right Click Context menu (Reddit)
  • Emacs Poet theme (Irreal)
• Navigation:
  • (with-emacs – Keep scrollin’ scrollin’ scrollin’ (Reddit)
  • Raimon Grau: TIL: search-whitespace-regexp
• Org Mode:
  • Organizing your dotfiles with Org mode
  • Org: Command to refile to a datetree using the earliest/latest timestamp in an entry (Reddit)
  • Managing a pen and paper rpg campaign
  • Keeping A WebDev/Tech Notebook In Org Mode (Irreal)
  • Blogging with Org publishing (Sept 2018, Irreal)
• Coding:
  • Auto Insert headers in Emacs (7:52)
  • Playing hide-and-seek with my REPLs
  • GitHub – flycheck/flycheck-inline: Display Flycheck errors inline
  • Jonas Bernoulli: Work with Git Forges inside Emacs (Reddit, HN)
• Other:
  • Equake – emacs drop-down console (Reddit)
  • GitHub – alphapapa/yequake: Drop-down Emacs frames, like Yakuake (Reddit)
  • emacs is great – Ep 6, linting and spelling
  • Blog: Using Emacs with external terminals (Reddit)
  • Collect clipboard entries according to regex rules in Emacs. (Reddit)
  • GitHub – oflatt/esonify: An emacs extension that sonifies your code. (Reddit)
  • An interactive, executable, combined Bash and Emacs Lisp script (not using –script or –batch)
  • Next browser 1.2.0 is out! (Reddit)
  • My First Emacs Commit (Reddit)
  • What are biggest shortcomings of Emacs?
  • Emacs T-shirt ideas
  • Lucid Energize Demo VHS 1993 (Wisdom and Wonder)
• New packages:
  • forge: Access Git forges from Magit.
  • right-click-context: Right Click Context menu

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.

2018-12-31 Emacs news

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • unpackaged.el now available as a package (Reddit)
  • Easily upgrade a quelpa-use-package form’s package, deleting old versions (Reddit)
  • unpackaged/sort-sexps: Sort sexps in region, smartly handling comments
  • I’m starting to write more Elisp; help me improve this code
  • Announcing use-package-hydra
• Emacs development:
  • EMBA (Emacs Gitlab CI build server) is now available
  • emacs-announce: Emacs 26.1.90 pretest
  • Prepend ‘rubocop’ with ‘bundle exec’ when appropriate
• Appearance:
  • emacs-fireplace: A cozy fireplace for emacs. (HN)
  • A small code to manage window configuration (Reddit)
  • Emacs OS Experiment: 03. Ricing Emacs (16:07)
• Navigation:
  • scrollkeeper.el: Configurable scrolling commands with visual guidelines (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Org 9.2 released! (Reddit, Irreal, Orgmode.org, list)
  • org-gantt: Gantt chart for emacs org-mode
  • Export to HTML with useful, non-random IDs and anchors (Reddit)
  • New #org-mode:matrix.org chat room
  • Expand variables in “conf” org src-blocks
  • Blog: How I’m failing literate config in Emacs (Reddit)
  • emacs-orgmode: 36C3 and Emacs Org mode
  • Emacs is great – Ep 9, upgrading org-mode and fancy code blocks (12:03)
• Coding:
  • unpackaged/magit-status: open magit-status buffer, hide other windows, and go to file’s unstaged changes
  • Literate Agda with Org-mode
  • Emacs is great – Ep 10, trying outshine and talking about literate programming (12:28)
  • poporg is great
• Other:
  • Github – emacs-pool: An emacs daemon pool for faster startup time (Reddit)
  • Integrating Emacs and Chrome on i3wm (Reddit)
  • Emacs in 2018: My Year in Review (Reddit)
  • How are you planning the next year using Emacs/ Org-mode?
  • Buttery Smooth Emacs (2016) (HN)
  • Add individual feeds from Planet Emacsen
  • zetteldeft: A Zettelkasten system! Or rather, some functions on top of the emacs deft package. (Reddit)
  • Liquid: Emacs alternative with Clojure for extensiblity, with Vim’s modal nature. (Reddit, HN)
• New packages:
  • agtags: A frontend to GNU Global
  • dashboard-hackernews: Display Hacker News on dashboard
  • flymake-diagnostic-at-point: Display flymake diagnostics at point
  • k8s-mode: Major mode for Kubernetes configuration file
  • literate-elisp: literate program to write elisp codes in org mode
  • ms-python: A lsp client for microsoft python language server.
  • ob-html-chrome: HTML code blocks converted to PNG using Chrome
  • org-snooze: Snooze your code, doc and feed
  • ox-spectacle: spectacle.js Presentation Back-End for Org Export Engine
  • pack: Pack and unpack archive files
  • q-mode: A q editing mode
  • recently: Recently opened files
  • teacode-expand: Expansion of text by TeaCode program.
  • treemacs-icons-dired: Treemacs icons for dired
  • unicode-math-input: Insert Unicode math symbols using TeX notation
  • with-venv: Execute with Python virtual environment activated
  • yequake: Drop-down frames, like Yakuake

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

2019-01-07 Emacs news

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • Elisp script to install all packages very fast with parallel processes
  • Live stream: Configuring Emacs (almost) from scratch (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Emacs pretest 26.1.91 is out
  • Fix logb on zero, infinite, NaN args
  • Document the new functions of seq.el
• Appearance:
  • Found a simple solution to colorize “ls” on shell mode
  • Making Poet, an Emacs theme (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • most efficient ways to switch window/app (Reddit)
  • Make mouse wheel behave in like in firefox: Use shift+wheel to scroll horizontally and use ctl+wheel to zoom
  • How I used ‘advice’ to make ‘window-jump’ and ‘golden-ratio’ work together
• Org Mode:
  • RFC: org-pretty-tags
  • yequake-org-capture: Drop-down Org Capture frames that automatically close after capturing
  • Capturing, archiving, and viewing archived web sites with Emacs and Org (screencast) (Reddit)
  • Processing and visualising ORG task state changes (Reddit)
  • Multiline fontification with org-emphasis-alist (Irreal)
  • Quickly refile a bunch of headlines
  • Emacs is great – EP 12.1, getting easy templates back (2:56)
  • Emacs Is Great – EP 12, org-mode noweb links (17:37)
  • Emacs Is Great – EP 11, org-mode detangle (8:00)
  • Novels.org: Read Novels in plain text | Life +70 (Reddit)
  • Export:
    • How to Migrate LaTeX Template into org-mode (Reddit)
    • Announcing ob-html-chrome
    • ox-hugo/PSA: A little breaking change: The auto-export on save feature is now implemented as a minor mode
    • org mode blogging rss feed (Irreal)
  • Agenda:
    • unpackaged/agenda-for-subtree-or-region: Display an agenda view for the current subtree or region
    • Make agenda clockreport respect org-extend-today-until
    • org-ql-search: Search Org files with a lispy query language and get an agenda-like view (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Company completion with content of tmux panes
  • Live coding in Emacs: Drawing in the terminal with Python. (Reddit)
  • A style-check.rb flycheck checker in Emacs
  • The Power of Emacs: Developing Websites in Real-time with Impatient Mode
  • It’s Magit! – John Weigley EmacsSF (Reddit)
  • emacs-quickrun: Execute the buffer you are editing. quickrun.el is Emacs port of quickrun.vim.
  • A textlint flycheck checker in Emacs (Reddit)
• Other videos and podcasts:
  • Libre Lounge podcast, episode 1 includes discussions of the hosts’ use of Emacs/Org mode. (Reddit)
  • Open Source Your Digital Life with Emacs – Linuxing in London – John Stevenson
  • Why I use both Emacs and Vim (5:31)
  • emacs talk: vim golf delete lines (11:36)
  • emacs talk show. workflow. command log mode, working with raw html (23:53)
  • emacs talk show, typing game, RSI, rule the world (22:15)
  • emacs. demo of image scale/crop/convert jpg/png commands (16:48)
• Other:
  • unpackaged/flex-fill-paragraph: Flexibly fill/unfill paragraphs
  • Useful function to revert buffer or show changes made to buffer and prompt for discard/save
  • emacs-ereader: Epub reader for emacs with org-mode integration
  • Build Emacs for iPhone from scratch
  • Marcin Borkowski: An info about the size of message attachments
  • Marcin Borkowski: Emacs server and other Emacs instances
  • Why Emacs keys are painful (2007) (HN)
  • MSI Installer for GNU Emacs (Reddit)
  • NEWS: Debian Package Tracker: emacs 1:26.1+1-3 MIGRATED to testing
  • Question: How do you manage tasks & calendars with friends and family?
  • Building an Emacs configuration using nixpkg
  • Does emacs simplify, or create an easier complexity?
  • Good summaries of Emacs strong points?
  • Making Emacs easier to use?
  • Looking for Emacs Users in Buenos Aires – Argentina to create an Emacs Users Group
• New packages:
  • abs-mode: Major mode for the modeling language Abs
  • exunit: ExUnit test runner
  • idle-org-agenda: Shows your agenda when editor is idle.
  • ordinal: Convert number to ordinal number notation
  • scrollkeeper: Custom scrolling commands with visual guidelines
  • use-package-hydra: Adds :hydra keyword to use-package macro
  • clipboard-collector: Collect clipboard entries according to regex rules

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

2019-01-14 Emacs news

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • Elisp script to install packages with parallel processes. Updated.
  • Attach keys to commands
  • How to improve this elisp function?
  • Convert a Keyword to a Symbol
  • New library: reformatter.el
  • Emacs Is Great – Ep 16 Moving the config live (7:12)
  • Eldoc goes global (Nov)
• Emacs development:
  • Run window change functions during redisplay
  • Add native image scaling (bug#33587)
  • Fix drag and drop behaviour on NS (bug#30929)
  • Handle dedicated status in ‘window–display-buffer’ (Bug#33870)
  • Mention Japanese change in documentation
• Navigation:
  • emacs is great – Ep 14, better matching with ivy (21:52)
  • First package – ‘swiper-follow’ – feedback?
  • Do you use FZF? If yes, how do you customize it?
• Org Mode:
  • Using Emacs 54 Org Tables
  • Anyone using Org mode as snippet manager
  • secretaria.el small announcement: bug fixes and code testing
  • org-super-agenda 1.1 released (Reddit)
  • OrgModeWeb – a new web app for org-mode
  • Org-mode: clean tag string on refile.
  • Marcin Borkowski: Some Org Agenda keybindings
• Coding:
  • Mindblow for me, never saw this earlier: Emacs Comment Box (Reddit)
  • Your preferred solution for working on a large, decades-old C++ codebase?
  • Cider: Debugging and browsing Java code using lsp-java and dap-mode
  • My First package: ecloud. A magit-style interface to access Azure, AWS and GCP.
  • How did you learn magit?
  • Configure Anaconda on Emacs (Irreal)
  • emacs and node in 2019
  • The Power of Emacs: Developing Websites in Real-time with Impatient Mode
• Keys and keybinding:
  • Raimon Grau: Remapping Keys “Up to Eleven”
  • I just moved away from evil-mode, feeling good
• Spacemacs:
  • How would I go about breaking down Spacemacs features?
• Other:
  • Using org-mode for novel writing/creative writing – replicating Scrivener type functionality? Thoughts?
  • The Emacs Year in Review – Emacs Redux (Reddit)
  • NES emulator written in ELisp (Reddit)
  • Master your inbox with mu4e and org-mode (2015, Irreal)
• New packages:
  • esonify: Sonify your code
  • reformatter: Define commands which run reformatters on the current buffer
  • sql-presto: No description available.
  • map: Map manipulation functions

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

2019-01-21 Emacs news

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• Emacs development:
  • Add portable dumper as an alternative to unexec
  • Support native image resizing on MS-Windows
  • Expand spectrum of window change functions
  • FOSDEM 2019 – Extend Emacs in C or Other Languages (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • Doom-modeline 1.6.x
• Org Mode:
  • Using org-ql-search to generate a to-do list from files in a directory tree (Reddit)
  • Code to add org hyperlinks to customize windows.
  • My org-mode templates – part one. Any interest in more?
  • How to use Emacs Org Mode to plan your life (Irreal)
  • 3,500 note files, 40 MB of plain text, 100s of tags. Will Org mode work for me?
  • Tangling some source blocks – based on a property/variable
  • Convert Evernote notes to org mode with EverOrg
  • El mejor Metodo para Crear, Gestionar y Automatizar Notas, Tareas, Hojas de calculo… (podcast episode in Spanish)
• Coding:
  • Announcement: lsp-mode 6.0 released
  • Emacs is great – EP 17.0 – php-mode (11:36)
  • Emacs is great – EP 17.1 – php-mode 2 linting (12:58)
  • Emacs is great – Ep 13 faster git usage (13:51)
• Writing:
  • Having flyspell + hunspell issues? Read here – FINALLY got flyspell working properly with hunspell backend!
  • Marcin Borkowski: Filling and version control
  • Selectric Mode – Emacs (Reddit)
• Games:
  • Some Advice for How to Make Emacs Tetris Harder (Reddit)
  • M-x dunnet – a text adventure game built in to Emacs (Reddit)
• Other:
  • projects for improving discoverability in emacs
  • Organize your hard drive with Emacs?
  • My First package: Salah time. Display the salah time in Emacs
  • Syncthing.el – Taking inventory
  • emacs tramp-term (2:02)

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

2019-01-28 Emacs news

January 28, 2019, 9:11 pm

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs supports help menus for prefix keys by default
  • Divide an ice-cream recipe with Emacs (0:57)
• Emacs development:
  • Is there a detailed “under the hood” writeup of emacs?
  • Discussion on new portable dumper
  • ; Document input-event-functions
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Mention changes in image-transform-* variables.
  • Check for client certificates when using GnuTLS
  • doc-view-presentation, doc-view-fit-window-to-page, and use mutool
  • Add hook for all events
• Navigation:
  • Objed spotlight: Move to first or last instance (Reddit)
  • Dynamic filter groups for Ibuffer
• Org Mode:
  • My org-mode templates – part two!
  • org-grasp: browser extension for org-capture
  • Do you use org-mode’s archive feature?
  • Journal and URL Templates?
  • Use the input method from original org buffer in log note buffer (Irreal)
  • Structure research, talks and trainings using mindmaps, reStructuredText and Emacs Org mode (2017)
  • Get Started with Org Mode Without Emacs
• Coding:
  • Easy Moving from Vscode to Emacs (Dec, Irreal)
  • Raimon Grau: Formatting JSON
  • Using Emacs Episode 55 – Irony Completions (Reddit)
  • Use Emacs to create OAuth 2.0 UML sequence diagrams (2017)
  • Emacs Screencast: EP04 login using hash in python (4:27)
  • emacs preview-latex demo (2:04)
• Other:
  • First trial of a weekly emacs tips/tricks/etc thread
  • Emacs on the go (Reddit)
  • r/Emacs had huge subscribers here. Please show your love to vote Emacs in SO Developer Survey
  • Compiling WordNet on Windows to use with Emacs
  • zsh shell inside Emacs on Windows (2017)

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

2019-02-04 Emacs news

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • Threading IO-bound functions in Emacs
  • elisp.js: Emacs Lisp interpreter in JavaScript
  • Marcin Borkowski: A simple template mechanism in Elisp
• Emacs development:
  • Use IPv6 localhost when family is ‘ipv6
  • Support (locale-info ‘paper) on GNU platforms
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Theme Gallery
  • Emacs is Great – Ep 19 I need emoji support (12:32)
• Navigation:
  • Package for SearchEverything (Windows) – easy file searching from inside emacs
  • New package: major-mode-hydra inspired by Spacemacs major mode leader key
• Org Mode:
  • zpresent.el: Make presentation from within Emacs
  • Literate Programming against REST APIs (Reddit)
  • Getting Boxes Done, the Code (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Minor mode for Dungeon Masters (Reddit)
  • Org mode and google calendar sync
  • EverOrg: Evernote to Org mode migration tool
  • Flashcards in Emacs: making and reviewing flashcards (12:29, see other videos in the series too)
• Coding:
  • Using the Rust Language Server
  • js-arrow-function-inflection, new package https://github.com/larebsyed/js-arrow-function-inflection.el
  • quil-mode.el: Emacs major mode for editing Quil
  • The best latex Editor
  • bibretrieve: BibRetrieve: An Emacs library for searching and downloading BibTeX entries from the web. (Video, 1:58)
  • ess-smart-equals: Better smart-assignment with = in R and S, with no underscores.
  • Marcin Borkowski: A simple tip with killing and yanking code
  • How to use Magit to manage Git projects
  • A script to quickly move from Xcode to Emacs while keeping point and region (Reddit)
• Performance:
  • Revisiting editor performance
  • EmacsCast 7: Evil, vim and performance of Emacs (Reddit)
• Other:
  • Tales Of Editors & Keyboards: A Personal Introduction To Vim & Emacs
  • Using Emacs Episode 56 – Dictionaries (Reddit)
  • slow-keys: Emacs minor mode to avoid RSI
  • Companies which use emacs as the primary editor?
  • textbringer: An Emacs-like text editor written in Ruby
  • Emacs on Windows: Native vs. VMware vs. WSL vs. Mingw-w64 (Reddit)
  • Second trial for a weekly tips/tricks/etc thread
  • Emacs Introduction and Demonstration (36:33, 2014)
  • The Ultimate emacs course p1 (2:12:20)
  • Pomodoro timer and tracking with Emacs (18:25)
• New packages:
  • ammonite-term-repl: Scala Ammonite REPL in term mode.
  • biblio-bibsonomy: Lookup bibliographic entries from Bibsonomy
  • dashboard-project-status: Display a git project status in a dashboard widget.
  • eldoc-box: Display documentation in childframe
  • flutter: Tools for working with Flutter SDK
  • flycheck-ensime: ensime for flycheck
  • helm-lsp: LSP helm integration
  • helm-lxc: Helm interface to manage LXC containers
  • keystore-mode: A major mode for viewing and managing (java) keystores
  • kubel: extension for controlling Kubernetes with limited permissions
  • kubernetes-helm: extension for helm, the package manager for kubernetes
  • language-id: Library to work with programming language identifiers
  • lsp-elixir: Elixir tooling integration into Emacs
  • lsp-elixir.el: No description available.
  • lsp-scala: Scala support for lsp-mode
  • lsp-sourcekit: sourcekit-lsp client for lsp-mode
  • major-mode-hydra: Major mode keybindings managed by Hydra
  • markless: Major mode for Markless documents
  • org-d20: minor mode for d20 tabletop roleplaying games
  • org-journal-list: Org mode Journal List
  • org-pivotal: Sync Pivotal Tracker to org buffer
  • org-re-reveal: Org export to reveal.js presentations
  • org-sql: Org-Mode SQL converter
  • panda: Client for Bamboo’s REST API.
  • poet-client: Client for po.et network api
  • pretty-hydra: A macro for creating nice-looking hydras
  • scalariform: Format Scala code with scalariform.
  • treemacs-magit: Magit integration for treemacs

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

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2019-02-11 Emacs news

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • Is there a practical way to completely disable package without uninstalling it?
  • scripts.el – collection of tiny but useful Emacs Lisp code (inspired by unpackaged.el) (Reddit)
  • Do you have a favorite persistent caching method in elisp?
  • Weighted Graph Elisp Monad – J.V. Toups
• Emacs development:
  • Add vc-hg-revert-switches
  • Rename multifile.el to fileloop.el
  • Add dwim function for inserting @ref variants
  • Don’t map imaps to 993 anymore except on old Windows versions
  • Support (locale-info ‘paper) on MS-Windows
  • Allow doc-view to open password-protected PDF files (bug#33684)
• Navigation:
  • Making NeoTree work with Perspectives (Reddit)
  • Switching buffers
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode To Google Docs and Beyond
  • Part 3 of my capture templates (last part)
  • Refiling hydra with pre-defined targets
  • Org 9.2.1 – bugfix release
  • Google Calendar integration in OrgMode | Konig von Haunstetten (2017)
• Coding:
  • Understanding GNU Emacs and Tabs
  • Working with log files in Emacs
  • emacs-up: A simple Emacs starter kit for clojure programmers
  • VLS (Vanilla Lisp Shell): VLS provides an Emacs interface to a Lisp process that works the same across all flavors of Lisp
  • editorconfig-emacs: EditorConfig plugin for emacs – maintain consistent coding styles for multiple developers
  • esscss: Collection of links to ESS configurations shared by #rstats community members.
  • dante: Emacs mode for Interactive Haskell
  • emacs-lsp: List of repositories related to Language Server Protocol client for Emacs. Right now, there are 21 repositories.
  • GitHub Helps Me Help Students – also magit and git-timemachine
  • GitHub – wasamasa/chip8.el: CHIP-8 emulator for Emacs (Reddit)
• Other:
  • mg: Portable version of the OpenBSD maintained mg, micro emacs clone
  • beancount.el: A minor mode that can be used to edit beancount input files (text-based double-entry bookkeeping)
  • A Tutorial Introduction to Emacs (from UChicago)
  • voco: Create a speech recognition system for programming by voice using Kaldi
  • What are some good strategies to reduce Emacs memory usage on a very low powered machine?
  • google-translate: Emacs interface to Google Translate
  • Third trial for a weekly tips/tricks/etc thread
  • Making recover-this-file messages more prominent
  • Staying sane with Emacs (when facing drudge work) (2015, Irreal)
  • Running Your Life With Emacs (Irreal)
  • emacs-calc-tutorials: A series of tutorials about emacs-calc (Reddit)
  • Emacs packages you wish existed?!
• Mail:
  • Checking email with gmailieer + notmuch + Emacs | John’s Blog
  • mu 1.0 Release Notes: The mu/mu4e e-mail searcher and mail client have reached 1.0 – after 10 years! Rejoice
• New packages:
  • dired-rmjunk: A home directory cleanup utility for Dired.
  • dune: Integration with the dune build system
  • equake: drop-drop console for eshell & terminal emulation
  • hyperspace: Get there from here
  • jupyter: Jupyter
  • magit-reviewboard: Show open Reviewboard reviews in Magit
  • nswbuff: Quick switching between buffers.
  • ob-ammonite: org-babel for scala evaluation in Ammonite.
  • org-re-reveal-ref: Citations and bibliography for org-re-reveal
  • xr: Convert string regexp to rx notation
  • greader: a reader with espeak tts

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

2019-02-18 Emacs news

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • REDDIT: Emacs Lisp Cheat Sheet
  • Copying the Whole Buffer
  • Inserting the current file name at point
  • ht.el: The missing hash table library for Emacs
  • modalka: Easily introduce native modal editing of your own design
  • An Emacs+Nix IDE
  • emacs “cl-“generic design abomination | comp.lang.lisp | Google Groups (Reddit)
  • VIDEO: 2015-04-08 Emacs Lisp Development Tips with John Wiegley
• Emacs Lisp debugging:
  • Determine source of messages printed to Messages buffer
  • How can I know what modified a variable?
• Emacs development:
  • Emacs modules | Philipp’s documents
  • emacs-modules: List of resources for Emacs modules
  • Prevent over-eager rx character range condensation
  • Add documentation for last change in eww.el
  • ; * etc/NEWS (New ‘flex’ completion style): New entry
  • Rename project-query-replace to project-query-replace-regexp
• Appearance:
  • Emacs: prettier tabbar
• Navigation:
  • back-button: Visual navigation through mark rings in Emacs
  • NeoTree and Perspectives
  • Working Faster in Emacs by Reading the “Future” – CollBox Engineering
  • Jump around
• Org Mode:
  • Using results from one code block in another org-mode
  • Org Contribution Flow-chart – A Scripter’s Notes (Reddit)
  • List of Videos on Orgmode by John Kitchin
  • Productivity and workflow:
    • Getting Organized with an Engineering Logbook | Viget
    • My methods and tips about using org-mode and Emacs
    • Plan Your Day: Daily Time Management With Emacs, Org-Mode, and Google Calendar
    • Org Capture and Refiling
  • Other tools:
    • qute-capture: Qutebrowser userscript for filing the current webpage into an org-mode file
    • pinboard-org: A Python script for exporting your information from Pinboard.in as an Org mode file
    • Amit’s Thoughts: Emacs org-mode and KaTeX
    • Org-Kungfu: Editing Confluence pages with Org-mode (Reddit)
    • How I created a web site using Org-mode without having to write a lot of elisp | John’s Blog
    • goorgeous: A go org syntax parser to html
    • org-toggl-py: Create Toggl entries from Emacs org-mode CLOCK entries. See https://www.toggl.com/ (Reddit)
  • Org Mode on the go:
    • Do you connect android to your computer via ssh to use org-mode on emacs?
    • How to use emacs org-mode on android and iOS.
• Coding:
  • Eglot based Emacs C++ IDE with clangd | ddavis.io
  • Emacs and Python 3 – aliquote
  • The Emacs Ipython Notebook – John Miller (Honeywell UOP): a full-featured client for the Jupyter Notebook in Emacs
  • cmake-ide: Use Emacs as a C/C++ IDE
  • REDDIT: Featureful one-sentence-per-line mode for AUCtex.
  • Notify when M-x compile finishes
  • ttl-mode: … for Turtle (RDF) files.
  • CppCon 2015: Atila Neves “Emacs as a C++ IDE”
  • Completion:
    • Make your company behave – manu.el
    • emacs-ycmd: client for ycmd, the code completion system
    • Helm news for Geiser, SLIME, Comint, M-x shell, and more!
  • Version control:
    • Introducing Transient Commands: Magit-popup successor (Reddit)
    • dired-git-info: Show commit info about files in dired (similar to repo view at github/gitlab).
    • New Melpa Package Magit-Reviewboard
• Other:
  • Learn Emacs – 2019: Most Recommended Emacs Tutorials | Hackr.io (Reddit)
  • awesome-emacs: A community driven list of useful Emacs packages, libraries and others.
  • Alex Schroeder: 2018-12-16 Importing old Google Plus posts
  • reddit-mode: Reddit mode for Emacs
  • GNEVE GNU Emacs Video Editing:: GNU Emacs video editor mode for editing video using an Edit Decision List EDL
  • emacs – Mailing Lists Savannah: (Reddit)
  • Keymacs – the keyboard layout for Emacs users (see also https://people.ergodox-ez.com/alex-grafov/)
  • VIDEO: Emacs Is Great – Ep 28, Mastodon.el
  • Jason Dufair | ErgoDox EZ: The People
  • How to Install GNU Emacs 26.1 in Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, 18.10 | UbuntuHandbook
  • Emacs on Chromebook
  • VIDEO: Emacs Is Great – Ep 22: Using emacs, mpv and elfeed to consume YouTube videos.
  • Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel
  • md4rd: Emacs Mode for Reddit – Read Reddit from within Emacs interactively.
  • Alex Schroeder: 2018-08-27 Mastodon and rcirc
  • Alex Schroeder: 2018-08-30 Learning to Type
  • Debian – Packages up for adoption (Reddit)
  • Emacs Berlin: Next meetup is on Wednesday, February 27th 2019. Azer Koculu will present iA writer mode
• Mobile:
  • One Month with Pixelbook and Chrome OS: My experience running Emacs
  • emacs-berlin: Slides for December’s “Emacs and Gemini” Talk
• New package:
  • transient: Transient commands

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

2019-02-25 Emacs news

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • melpa/CONTRIBUTING.org: Read this if you want to include your package in MELPA.
  • What is the best workflow to contributed to Emacs package?
  • ELPA: guess-language: Robust automatic language detection
  • linear algebra (and maths) in elisp
• Emacs development:
  • Emacs pretest 26.1.92 is out!
  • How to contribute to Emacs documentation?
  • emacs-devel: poor stability and security of ImageMagick – should Emacs link to ImageMagick by default?
  • Linear algebra in Emacs using MKL and dynamic modules
  • A New Eval Server For Emacs (by Lars Ingebrigtsen )
  • Ignore pending_signals when checking for quits.
  • Improve replace-buffer-contents/replace-region-contents
  • Handle HTML ‘ol’ start attribute in shr.el
  • * lisp/progmodes/sql.el: Added password wallet using `auth-source’ package
• Beginner:

  [[https://david.rothlis.net/emacs/howtolearn.html][How to learn Emacs

  self-driven discovery by leveraging the Emacs built-in help, debugging facilities, and source code]]

  (no term)

  world-of-emacs: A brief guide for getting into and through the world of Emacs

  (no term)

  How do I start to learn emacs?

• Appearance:
  • How I beautified my Emacs Mode Line
  • borland-blue-theme: Emacs Theme based on Borland(Turbo) C for DOS
  • THEME: cyberpunk-2019: This theme is a spin on the Tron Legacy theme and Cyberpunk VS Code theme
• Navigation:
  • buffer-expose: Visual buffer switching using a window grid (Reddit)
  • torus: Switching buffers and buffer groups at will in emacs. Based on MTorus
  • emacs-mission-control: Mac mission-control-like buffer switch
  • undo-propose: Simple and safe undo in emacs
  • redo+.el: Redo/undo system for Emacs
  • Evil Mode:
    • evil-collection: A set of keybindings for evil-mode
    • VIDEO: Evil Mode: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Emacs
• Package management:
  • borg: Borg is a bare-bones package manager for Emacs packages
  • paradox: Project for modernizing Emacs’ Package Menu (with package ratings, usage statistics, customizability, and more)
• Org Mode:
  • Linking to emails in org-mode (using neomutt) – Stefan van der Walt
  • orgit: Support for Org links to Magit buffers
  • emacs-orgmode: RFC: Fixing link encoding once and for all
  • How I used `ob-async’ to run tasks in the background and collect the commit history of my git project
  • Running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL
  • Org Mode workflows:
    • org-mode todo setup so far – John’s Blog (Reddit)
    • Annotated Bibliography Template
    • Org Speed Keys: speed up the execution of the most common tasks you do in Org Mode
    • org-reverse-datetree: Reversed date trees in Org mode. Here newer contents come first.
    • Org edit special show all source blocks
    • emacs-calfw calendar
    • Tag based vs hierarchical structure (tree) – which method of data organization do you prefer?
  • Org Mode and exporting:
    • Org mode blogging: Make your headlines clickable
    • Sortable tables in org-mode | William R. Greene
    • org-export-json: Export org mode files/elements to JSON
    • org-to-xml: Library to convert Emacs org-mode files to XML
    • org-mode-parser: Org mode parser for nodejs
    • ox-rst: reStructuredText Back-End for Org-Mode Export Engine
• Coding:
  • GitHub code review with Emacs (Reddit)
  • line-reminder: Visual Studio like line annotation in Emacs.
  • TIP: How to use a stable and fast environment to develop in C++
  • REditorSupport/languageserver: An implementation of the Language Server Protocol for R
  • Fixing attribute completion in Emacs nxml-mode | Martin Fowler
  • Using Emacs as a C++ IDE – Take 2
  • Code formatting:
    • browse-at-remote: Browse target page on github/bitbucket
    • carbon-now-sh.el: beautiful images of your source code
    • blacken: Reformat python buffers using the “black” formatter
    • prettier-emacs: Minor mode to format JS code on file save
    • PSA: Kludge to speed up vhdl-mode buffer beautification
• Community:
  • MEETUP: Emacs as a Python IDE – Sean Farley @Noisebridge, San Francisco, CA on Wed, Feb 27, 2019 (Reddit)
  • Quitter IM/FSFStatus: Check here for Up / Down status of all FSF related websites
  • Contact Page for FSF sysadmins: Handy when elpa.gnu.org is down and your packages updates fails.
  • emacs-tangents Archives: Detailed recaps of the happenings of the Emacs community (Reddit)
  • Looking for maintainers for Emacs-Dashboard
  • Donate to CIDER, a Clojure interactive development environment
  • All Things Emacs Bundle (Reddit)
  • I’m Brian Fox, I am the first employee at Richard Stallman’s Free Software And This Is How I Work | LifeHacker (Reddit)
• Other:
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
  • WakaTime for Emacs: productivity metrics, goals, leaderboards, and automatic time tracking
  • Smooth Video Game Emulation in Emacs
  • A minor mode for Dvorak (Reddit)
  • Emacs bindings for libsodium (Give feedback for my first C module)
  • Palimpsest: various strategies when deleting text
  • google-maps.el: Google Maps support for Emacs
  • lentic: Lentic allows two buffers to share the same content but otherwise operate independently.
  • selectric-mode: Make your Emacs sound like a proper typewriter.
  • ACM Digital Library (2019) | Intelligently recommending key bindings on physical keyboards with demonstrations in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Notes on the path from EXWM to EXDE
  • How to install Emacs (on Linux) under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
  • Emacs Modified for macOS: bundled with a few select packages for R developers and LaTeX users (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • disk-usage: Sort and browse disk usage listings
  • dired-git-info: Show git info in dired

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

2019-03-04 Emacs news

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• 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.

2019-03-11 Emacs news

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• Emacs Lisp:
  • An Async / Await Library for Emacs Lisp
  • Emacs Is Great – Ep 37, Better pair editing. Expand Region (15:19)
• Emacs development:
  • Long discussion about Emacs internationalization
  • Rewrite minibuffer window resizing code
  • Improve binary-as-unsigned treatment (Bug#34792)
  • Do not hardcode “/bin/sh” in compile. Bug#24338, Bug#29723
  • Further redesign of window change functions
  • Fix handling of minibuffer-only child frames (Bug#33498)
• Packages:
  • How I Emacs and So Can You: Packages
  • Your favorite packages? And best packages?
• Appearance:
  • doom-modeline is integrated into doom-emacs develop branch
• Navigation:
  • Why do you use Helm over Ivy?
  • What workflows do you have with projectile and find-file-in-project?
  • Emacs-wgrep: Writable grep buffer and apply the changes to files
• Org Mode:
  • org-recur: Easily schedule recurring org-mode tasks (Reddit)
  • DnDMacs First Look – Emacs/Org-mode minor mode for playing D&D over Discord
  • Does anyone else “work literally” or document all or large parts of what they do?
  • Org Mode and blogging:
    • Building a static website with Emacs and Hugo (Reddit)
    • How To Create A Blog With Emacs and Jekyll (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Help with extending Magit to use git plugins
  • magic-latex-buffer: Emacs: magical syntax highlighting for LaTeX-mode buffers
  • Shackle and magit, how to bring them together
• Other:
  • How to improve emacs performances?
  • delete-horizontal-space
  • emms ftw
  • matrix-client.el: A matrix client for Emacs!
  • Dashboard ideas?
  • Emacs Is Great – Ep 38, Taking screenshots (3:56)
• New package:
  • visual-filename-abbrev: Visually abbreviate filenames

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.