2018-11-19 Emacs news

• 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.