2016-03-14 Emacs News

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2016-03-14 Emacs News

• Navigation:
  • Irreal: Find a Related File
  • Pragmatic Emacs: Quickly preview images and other files with peep-dired
• Email:
  • Pragmatic Emacs: Tweaking email contact completion in mu4e
  • What's the best Gmail-like email client for Emacs?
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs org mode really needs good looking, modern, responsive mobile app.
  • Better system than deft/helm/org-mode to manage many .org files? org-occur-in-agenda-files
  • Introduction to org-ref (a beautiful citation management tool integrated with org-mode) (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Endless Parentheses: Conditional breakpoints in the CIDER Debugger
  • Emacs vs Sublime Text on Salesforce development (Reddit)
  • 'No frills' theme for Emacs code buffers
  • What's the best approach for byte-compiling el files with dependencies from a Makefile
  • Package of the day: company-statistics records which completions you use and sorts those first! (Reddit)
  • Syntax highlighting for Caffe/Prototxt files
  • Function to "verticalize" a sequence
  • Customizable Lisp reader for Emacs (Reddit)
  • linux log files syntax highlight
  • Conditional breakpoints in the CIDER Debugger
  • Autocompletion in Emacs: what to do?
  • Emacs restclient (0:34)
• Emacs development:
  • Character folding
  • Long discussion on changelog vs VC log
  • Merging comment-cache branch?
  • Long discussion about updating the tutorial
• Other:
  • Irreal: Using Emacs for Prose
  • Emacs.el Episode 5 Jason Lewis - Exercism.io - Released (Youtube - 33:11)
  • Emacs rdf @ dbpedia (Reddit)
  • EmacsGolf (2013) (Hacker News)
  • GNU Emacs #2: Buffer y Ventana (6:35)
• New packages:
  • aa-edit-mode: Major mode for editing AA
  • ace-mc: Add multiple cursors quickly using ace jump
  • arbitools: Package for chess tournaments administration
  • assess: Test support functions
  • auto-pause: Run processes which will be paused when Emacs is idle
  • cheerilee: Toolkit library
  • chinese-conv: Conversion between Chinese Characters with opencc or cconv
  • click-mode: Major mode for the Click Modular Router Project
  • command-queue: shell command queue
  • company-dict: A backend that emulates ac-source-dictionary
  • company-ngram: N-gram based completion
  • coverage: Code coverage line highlighting
  • dark-mint-theme: dark & minty fresh theme
  • eink-theme: E Ink color theme
  • elm-yasnippets: Yasnippets for Elm
  • emacsist-view: Mode for viewing emacsist.com
  • ess-view: View R dataframes in a spreadsheet software
  • evil-extra-operator: Evil operator for evaluating codes, taking notes, searching via google, etc.
  • evil-mu4e: evil-based key bindings for mu4e
  • evil-multiedit: multiple cursors for evil-mode
  • excorporate: Exchange integration
  • exwm-x: Addition tools for exwm (emacs x window manager)
  • gams-mode: Major mode for editing GAMS (General Algebraic Modeling System) files.
  • general: Convenience wrappers for keybindings.
  • go-gopath: Will guess GOPATH using gb and projectile.
  • go-guru: Integration of the Go 'guru' analysis tool into Emacs.
  • grails: Minor mode for Grails projects
  • harvest: Harvest integration
  • helm-clojuredocs: search for help in clojuredocs.org
  • helm-purpose: Helm Interface for Purpose
  • hexo: Major mode & tools for Hexo
  • itasca: Major modes for Itasca software data files.
  • magit-p4: git-p4 plug-in for Magit
  • mozc-temp: Use mozc temporarily
  • nix-sandbox: Utility functions to work with nix-shell sandboxes
  • ob-redis: Execute Redis queries within org-mode blocks.
  • ob-sagemath: org-babel functions for SageMath evaluation
  • ob-sly: org-babel functions for common lisp evaluation with SLY.
  • opencl-mode: Syntax coloring for opencl kernels
  • org-clock-convenience: convenience functions for org time tracking
  • ox-jira: JIRA Backend for Org Export Engine
  • persistent-overlays: Minor mode to store selected overlays to be loaded later
  • play-routes-mode: Play Framework Routes File Support
  • projectile-direnv: Set environment variables from .envrc
  • punpun-theme: A bleak theme
  • rats: Rapid testing suite for Go
  • realgud-byebug: realgud front-end to the Ruby byebug debugger
  • realgud-old-debuggers: realgud front-end to older lesser-used debuggers
  • realgud-pry: realgud front-end to the Ruby pry debugger
  • realgud-rdb2: realgud front-end for interacting with Ruby debugger2
  • robots-txt-mode: Major mode for editing robots.txt
  • sed-mode: Major mode to edit sed scripts
  • select-themes: Color theme selection with completing-read
  • silkworm-theme: Light theme with pleasant, low contrast colors.
  • slime-docker: Integration of SLIME with Docker containers.
  • sly-quicklisp: A template SLY contrib
  • smblog: samba log viewer
  • sprunge: Upload pastes to sprunge.us
  • sudo-edit: Utilities for opening files with sudo
  • tramp-theme: Custom theme for remote buffers
  • url-http-ntlm: NTLM authentication for the url library
  • vhdl-capf: Completion at point function (capf) for vhdl-mode.
  • wttrin: Emacs frontend for weather web service wttr.in
  • yoshi-theme: Theme named after my cat
  • zenity-color-picker: Insert and adjust colors using Zenity

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