2016-11-21 Emacs News

[Sacha Chua]

2016-11-21 Emacs News

• Navigation:
  • Moving around faster in Emacs
  • How do I keep my buffers list clean?
• Org Mode:
  • Improvements to lazyblorg: blogging with org-mode improved with easier setup and upgrade
  • Easier way to convert text to ordered list in org mode?
  • using babel to put your init file in org
  • I just received my custom org-mode stickers!! (Reddit)
  • scientific paper management with orgmode; autotag,full text search, read out cross refs?
• Emacs Lisp:
  • format-spec
  • Read and write files in Emacs Lisp
  • Debug a function in Emacs with Spacemacs (0:14)
• Coding:
  • Refactor clojure code like a champ! (16:43)
  • emacs-flow-jsx: Emacs mode for Flow type annotations and React JSX syntax (Reddit)
  • Emacs compiling your js and CSS on save
  • configure whitespace mode to show only trailing whitespaces
  • Using Emacs - 21 - web mode
• Emacs development:
  • New option –new-daemon runs in foreground, doesn't fork
  • New function file-local-name
  • New specifier for format-time-string: calendar quarter is %q
  • New input method cyrillic-tuvan
  • Discussion about truncated backtraces and the ability to expand … at point
• Other:
  • Emacspeak 45.0 (IdealDog) Unleashed!
  • Using Emacs - 22 - emacsclient (Reddit)
  • New (faster) test-build of Emacs 25.1 for Windows
  • GitHub - waymondo/apropospriate-theme: A colorful, low-contrast, light & dark theme set for Emacs with a fun name (Reddit)
  • TIP: Get all keys working in the Linux Console (Reddit)
  • Prevent Browser Processes Started by Emacs from Being Killed When Emacs Exits on GNU/Linux - Top Bug Net
  • Andrea Crotti Emacs and shell as your best friends (50:07)
• New packages:
  • dashboard: A startup screen extracted from Spacemacs
  • flycheck-scala-sbt: sbt-mode checker for Scala
  • language-detection: Automatic language detection from code snippets
  • org-babel-eval-in-repl: Eval org-mode babel code blocks in various REPLs.
  • projectile-ripgrep: Run ripgrep with Projectile
  • pygen: Python code generation using Elpy and Python-mode.
  • region-convert: Convert string in region by Lisp function

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

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