2019-07-08 Emacs news

• Emacs Lisp:
  • New maintainers needed for: emacs-ycmd, god-mode, helm-swoop
  • Defining a custom minor-mode
  • malk: A special mode for completing multiple fields. Demonstrates use of `completion-at-point-functions’
  • eForth: An implementation of an elisp-based FORTH. This means that elisp is used to write the function definitions. (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Should we add decoded time accessors?
  • Handle ‘abbr’ and ‘acronym’ tags in shr.el
• Appearance:
  • About Emacs appearance and defaults (a constructive critique)
  • Victor Mono is a free programming font with semi-connected cursive italics and symbol ligatures (!=, ->>, and so on).
  • Sarasa Gothic (更纱黑体 / 更紗黑體 / 更紗ゴシック): Chinese & Japanese programming font based on Iosevka and Source Han Sans.
• Navigation:
  • evil-easymotion: A port of vim easymotion to Emacs’ evil-mode
  • color-rg: Search and refactoring tool based on ripgrep.
  • helm-occur.el — Incremental Occur for Helm
  • Searching in Buffers with Occur Mode – Mastering Emacs
  • When do you switch vs kill a buffer?
  • Beta-testers wanted for Sunrise Commander (so that I can submit it to MELPA)
• Org Mode:
  • org-latex-classes for notes (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Variable explorer
  • emacs-ansible: Ansible minor mode. Ansible enables agentless IT automation
  • I Give You: arm-mode
  • clean-aindent-mode: Emacs extension for simple indent and unindent
  • How to setup Emacs to edit the Linux Kernel | LIBRENEITOR
  • Compile and run java programs easily in emacs with java-one-click-run (Reddit)
  • Support Microsoft Python Language Server
  • Polymode: Multiple Major Modes and How to Use SQL and Python in one Buffer (Reddit)
• Mail:
  • Is mbsync really faster than offlineimap? A measurement. (Reddit)
  • rcd/kill-to-signature
  • Spacemacs + mu4e + emacs-w3m == awesome
  • Sending queued mails in the background with mu4e.
• Spacemacs:
  • Installing and getting started with Spacemacs: Emacs tutorial – YouTube
  • Spacemacs tutorials – YouTube
• Community:
  • Hardcore emacs users, what rules do you use to separate what you do from within emacs / what you do outside of emacs?
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
  • Nearly everyone who is new to Emacs hates it passionately (2014, HN)
• History:
  • My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs (2002, HN, Reddit)
  • Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation (1979) (HN)
• Other:
  • Dired/Magit like interfaces
  • emacs-powerthesaurus: Powerthesaurus integration for Emacs
  • Syntax-aware navigation, keyboard macros, sleeping Emacs and interactive functions
  • Tried Emacs on Windows, giving up
  • Behold DOOM Emacs on a HP Touchpad
  • My GNU Hyperbole Vision Quest: Odyssey Two (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • centaur-tabs: Provide an out of box configuration to use tabs
  • execline: Major mode for editing execline scripts
  • filetags: Package to manage filetags in filename
  • hg-histedit: Edit HG histedit files
  • icsql: interactive iSQL iteraface to ciSQL
  • memento-mori: Reminder of mortality
  • org-shoplist: Eat the world
  • spacebar: Workspaces Bar
  • telega: Telegram client (unofficial)

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.