2017-01-16 Emacs News

[Sacha Chua]

2017-01-16 Emacs News

• Org Mode:
  • Recurring Events with Org-mode - hat tip to Irreal for the link
  • org-html5presentation.el (Reddit)
  • org-mode: scheduling a task for the nth weekday each month?
  • Experiences building mid-to-large programs in org-mode?
• Coding:
  • Querying a MongoDB bibtex database with Python and emacs-lisp
  • My first Emacs theme: Eziam, a mix of Tao and Leuven.
  • gdb-mi or realgud?
  • millejoh/emacs-ipython-notebook: Jupyter and IPython 2.x/3.x notebook client in Emacs
  • Mode for Assembly language
  • New package for creating and fetching Github pull requests (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • How big of a deal is the upcoming concurrency support?
  • Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust (Reddit, Hacker News)
  • Idiomatic native module API
  • Why does emacs syntax highlighting not color the car of an s-expressoin differently than the cdr?
  • Discussion about anaphoric macros
• Other:
  • I'm now using the right dictionary - Stardict and sdcv-mode
  • A Reminder about Emacs Keybindings on MacOS
  • William Denton's config changes for Org, Projectile, Ivy, Swiper, Counsel, and Zotero
  • What would you suggest for an emacs starter? Visual, keystrokes, optional etc. A bit long.
  • Why Gnus?
  • Introducing ivy-mode
  • Migrating to Emacs, carrying my 4 years of Vim with me ! | Tech n Tips
• New packages:
  • buffer-manage: manage buffers
  • i3wm: i3wm integration library
  • ivy-youtube: Query YouTube and play videos in your browser
  • org-mime: org html export for text/html MIME emails
  • passmm: A minor mode for pass (Password Store).
  • rg: Use ripgrep (grep and ag replacement) like rgrep.
  • stem-english: - routines for stemming English word
  • ydk-mode: Language support for Yu-Gi-Oh! deck files
  • zweilight-theme: A dark color theme for Emacs.
  • cobol-mode: Mode for editing COBOL code

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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