2016-04-11 Emacs News

[Sacha Chua]

2016-04-11 Emacs News

• Navigation:
  • Extended syntax for hydra docstrings (hat-tip to Irreal for link)
  • Use general.el to provide multiple leader key in evil-mode
  • Super-efficient movement using avy
  • Composable editing for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Use Different Search Methods Depending on Number of Lines (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • A Hydra for the Org Agenda View Dispatcher
  • Vim bindings for Org-Agenda?
• Mail:
  • Using postfix instead of smtpmail to send email in mu4e
  • Emacs and Outlook
  • mu4e with "push" notifications?
• Coding:
  • Tip: M-( inserts a pair of balanced parentheses. Works everywhere AFAIK.
  • Is anybody else scared that you'll break something?
  • Tabs and Spaces
• Emacs development:
  • Introduction to Emacs modules (Reddit)
  • New options for customizing encoding of Git commit log messages
  • New functions sxhash-eq and sxhash-eql
  • Comint and compile no longer set EMACS
  • Allow url.el to use HTTPS proxies using CONNECT
  • Discussion of compiler warnings
• Other:
  • Hiding those annoying Async Shell Command buffers
  • Running Emacs on Android (Reddit, Hacker News)
  • Long time vim user looking to try out emacs + evil, but confused about the options
  • Typing game for Emacs similar to tests on 10 fast fingers
  • use-package (Spanish, 30:15)
• New packages:
  • cask-mode: major mode for editing Cask files
  • company-lua: Company backend for Lua
  • composable: composable editing
  • cql-mode: Major mode for editting CQLs
  • dix: minor mode for editing Apertium XML dictionary files
  • esa: Interface to esa.io
  • flycheck-apertium: Apertium checkers in flycheck
  • howm: Wiki-like note-taking tool
  • ob-coffee: org-babel functions for coffee-script evaluation
  • ob-diagrams: org-babel functions for diagrams evaluation
  • redtick: Smallest pomodoro timer (1 char)
  • restclient-helm: helm interface for restclient.el
  • spark: sparkline generation
  • swap-regions: Swap two regions of text
  • ten-hundred-mode: use only the ten hundred most usual words
  • typit: Typing game similar to tests on 10 fast fingers

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, Youtube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

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