2020-11-30 Emacs news

• Beginner:
  • Trying out Emacs again (Reddit)
  • Everything you need to know before try Emacs – KeepCoding
• Emacs configuration:
  • packed: Emacs package utilities
  • vanilla-doom: doom emacs configuration for a vanilla taste
  • My Emacs Config – ぐるっとぐりっど
  • Introducing elcontext (Reddit)
  • Spacemacs to Doom Emacs | A Non-Coder’s Perspective (10:41)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • FOSDEM 2020 – Emacs Should Be Emacs Lisp – Thoughts on the Future of Emacs (Irreal, Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering
  • Allow following symlinks when recompiling directories
  • * lisp/minibuffer.el (completions-format): Add new value ‘one-column’.
  • (defvar): Detect defining a variable currently lexically bound
  • Add ‘completions-detailed’ to add prefix/suffix with ‘affixation-function’
  • Make text-scale-mode optionally adjust the header line
  • Yank items selected from kill-ring using completion and minibuffer history
  • Allow controlling whether SPC in Gnus goes to the next article
  • Add a user option to control how links are followed in eww
• Appearance:
  • Fun with a distractionless Emacs and posframes
  • Making Emacs cute and gay is hard work but well worth it
  • On the design of text editors Nicolas P. Rougier | arxiv.org
  • Putting all the pieces together (Reddit) – Nicolas Rougier’s experiments with Emacs appearance
  • Experimental SVG toolbar (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Don’t search, swipe | Pragmatic Emacs
  • Improving avy-goto-char-timer | Tassilo’s Blog
  • zoom-window: Zoom and Unzoom window (Reddit)
  • Emacs Through Macros – 11 – Narrowing (9:02)
• Org Mode:
  • org-table is so cool! (Reddit)
  • org-upcoming-modeline: put upcoming org event in modeline (Reddit)
  • Inside Emacs #6 (part 1) org-table Create Tables Convert From Region Import Tables – YouTube
  • org-z: Lightweight, Org-mode flavored zettelkasten links.
  • Org-protocol (capture, store-link) setup with emacs inside WSL (Reddit)
  • How I Keep Track of My Servers (r/orgmode, r/emacs, Irreal) – ox-ssh
  • Running a Blog with Hugo, Emacs, and Netlify (r/orgmode, r/emacs)
  • org-pandoc-confluence: How to avoid confluence as much as possible · Allan Eising
  • {RFC} org-timed-alerts – receive warnings for upcoming events in your day
  • Declaring new “special blocks”, with arguments, tersely using `defblock` (EmacsConf2020) (Reddit)
  • Org QL Custom Predicates Tutorial (Reddit)
• Completion:
  • {RFC} Immediate completion feature (checking before publishing package)
  • consult – counsel/swiper alternative for icomplete/selectrum (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Cool Emacs Things: Magit
  • bundler.el: Bundler helpers for Emacs. Gem Bundler helps you track and install the gems you need for your Ruby project.
  • Emacs integration package for Unity
  • Auto-inserting .gitignore (and license) templates in Emacs
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs: Clone git repo from clipboard
• Mail and news:
  • elfeed-dashboard – a frontend for elfeed (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
  • What is the single thing that makes you want to use emacs?
  • what hooked you on emacs
  • Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list
  • Emacs de Luxe Bundle | FSF Shop
• Other:
  • {ANN} valign.el now supports table.el tables: almost as good as it can get (Reddit)
  • Fill a table
  • Gccemacs available for Guix!
  • The Emacs 27 Edition of Mastering Emacs is out now (Reddit)
  • Emacs as a standalone application
  • Emacs From Scratch #9 – Learn to Love the Terminal Modes – YouTube
  • ledger-mode: org-level colors for comment headlines with an asterisk at flush-left.
  • emacros: Emacros: A Package for Organizing and Handling Keyboard Macros in GNU Emacs
  • scroll-text – Scroll the text for content
  • acrolinx-mode.el: Acrolinx for Emacs.
  • emacs-grammarly: an Emacs extension to send a text to/from Grammarly
• New packages:
  • helm-org-ql: Helm support for org-ql
  • monkeytype: Mode for speed/touch typing
  • org-latex-impatient: Preview org-latex Fragments Instantly via MathJax
  • svg-tag-mode: Replace keywords with SVG tags

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.