2019-03-11 Emacs news

• 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.