2020-09-07 Emacs news

Almost forgot to say: EmacsConf 2020 Call for Proposals is open until Sept 30, 2020. Please encourage someone you’d like to hear from! =)

• Emacs beginners:
  • A Complete Idiot’s Guide to Doom Emacs
• Emacs configuration:
  • Solo Jazz Theme {link in comments} (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Watch “Intermediate Emacs: Extending & Creating Helm Sources” on YouTube
  • New Package: jq.el – get data from JSON
• Emacs development:
  • Introduce nnselect backend for gnus
  • * etc/NEWS: Add changes for D-Bus; fix typos.
  • Show log suppression buttons in display-warning buffer
  • * lisp/mail/mspools.el: Use lexical-scoping. Autoload `mspools-show`.
  • Fix ‘expand-file-name’ for remote files
  • ; Document choice of smtp authentication method
  • Add a new function dom-print
• Appearance:
  • Doom-themes: Miramare – Old-hope – Flatwhite
  • Custom options for the modus-operandi and modus-vivendi themes, | Protesilaos Stavrou
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: note on mixed font heights
  • Unicode, Ligatures and Color Emoji (and how to use them) (Reddit)
  • Enabling Tamil fonts in Emacs (Spacemacs and Doom) – The Bockety
• Navigation:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Better look of the ivy-occur-grep buffer
  • foreign-regexp.el: Search and replace by foreign regexp.
  • Tory Anderson: Tip: shortcut for kill-this-buffer
• Org Mode:
  • {ANN/RFC} Org-clones – orgmode headings in multiple locations and files
  • Sensitive org-mode notes
  • Ricing up org-mode: completely substitute TODO keywrods with icons (Reddit)
  • Andrea: The Poor Org-User Spaced Repetition
  • How I wrote a D&D adventure using Emacs | General nerdness
  • A demo of the thi.ng/org-spec template that simplifies creation & maintenance of technical specifications written in Org-mode
  • gk-roam: light-weight roam replica in emacs
  • Comparing Organice and Orgzly (Reddit)
  • Watch “Emacs – Using Org Mode on multiple computers and Orgzly” on YouTube
  • Status Update: org-webring (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • 7.0 Release of LSP Mode (Reddit)
  • Using Emacs 74 Eglot (Reddit)
  • eslint-flymake: An ESLint backend for Flymake
  • Edit Clipboard (math) with TexMacs
  • Carbon-mode, for prettier code snippets
  • repl.el: Run repl.it like repls in your emacs.
  • See restclient-mode, vterm and more in this screencast I made for Python developers (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
• Other:
  • A tale of emojis in emacs – Emacs daemons and graphical frames
  • Emacs in odd places (Reddit)
  • Package queue-n-spew.el
  • Working Emacs Lock Files and Syncthing
  • Use Emacs to spell check code at CI server
  • The ultimate Emacs hacking tutorial in Windows 10 WSL 2
  • emacs-rime: input method engine supportfor glyph-based input methods, romanization-based input methods, and those for Chinese dialects
  • visual-regexp-steroids.el: Extends visual-regexp to support other regexp engines
  • New Package: eshell-syntax-highlighting
  • emacs-vterm-manager: Manages vterm buffers with configuration files.
  • Who never heard about mouse-avoidance-mode? (Reddit)
  • Irreal: Two Clicks Needed for Menus on macOS
• New packages:
  • ess-view-data: View Data
  • flycheck-aspell: Aspell checker for flycheck
  • flymake-aspell: Aspell checker for flymake
  • fuzzy-finder: Fuzzy Finder App Integration
  • go-translate: Google Translate
  • helm-searcher: Helm interface to use searcher
  • ivy-searcher: Ivy interface to use searcher
  • license-templates: Create LICENSE using GitHub API
  • ox-report: Export your org file to minutes report PDF file
  • revbufs: Reverts all out-of-date buffers safely
  • searcher: Searcher in pure elisp
  • sql-beeline: Beeline support for sql.el

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.