2017-07-10 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2017-07-10 Emacs news

• Emacs Lisp:
  • current-prefix-arg
  • Fancy Outline Bullets
  • Read arbitrary number of values - loop read-string until empty
  • Emacs In a Box (Reddit) - Emacs Lisp tutorial, resources
  • Managing your init file(s)
  • How can I see what keybindings a new package has potentially overlapped? - tip about minor-mode-overriding-map-alist
  • Emacs - Efficient Delete Whole Line (3:20)
  • Modules:
    • Adding numerical methods to emacs with dynamic modules (Reddit)
    • Adding a GSL integration function to Emacs with a dynamic module
  • Macros:
    • Here's a short but sweet macro viewing function I came up with this morning (Reddit) - see: pp-macroexpand-last-sexp
    • with-markers macro
• Emacs development:
  • you should really check out the line-numbers scratch branch (Reddit, emacs-devel discussion]]
  • Need a git interface that can be included in Emacs, need improvements to copyright assignment process
  • Discussion regarding adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads
  • NEWS:
    • Support display of line numbers natively
    • Fix vertical-motion across the place where line-number width changes
    • Allow comment-indent-functions to specify exact indentation
    • Use hook instead of face list to inhibit electric quoting
    • Offer non-aligned indentation in lists in js-mode
    • Add absolute optional parameter to line-number-at-pos
• Org Mode:
  • A workflow to quickly add photos to org-mode notes
  • Here's how to do emacsclient global org-capture with Mac OSX
  • How this blog is setup - Org Mode, Anaconda, Nikola, Github
• Coding:
  • Can Emacs compete with PHPStorm, and other jetbrains ides?
  • C++ in GNU Emacs
  • handling multiple projects with ibuffer-vc (Reddit)
  • A hydra for js2-refactor (Reddit)
  • Language Server Protocol (lsp), rust and Emacs (Reddit, Hacker News)
  • How do you handle multiple projects/workspaces simultaneously?
• Mail:
  • Using Emacs as Default Mailer on macOS
  • Which package you use to have email in emacs? What is your setup?
• Other:
  • Favorite ways to make emacs "smarter?"
  • Emacs evil mode as a way to learn Vim (Reddit)
  • What is the best way to keep personal accounting in Emacs? - ledger
  • You go back in time until 1976 and are allowed to decide which default keybindings emacs has. What do you change?
  • best reference book - physical book - for emacs?
  • author of An introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp, Robert Chassell died
• New packages:
  • face-explorer: Library and tools for faces and text properties
  • gl-conf-mode: Mode for editing gitolite config files
  • helm-directory: selecting directory before select the file
  • helm-elscreen: Elscreen with helm interface
  • helm-kythe: Google Kythe helm interface
  • julia-repl: A minor mode for a Julia REPL
  • makefile-executor: Emacs helpers to run things from makefiles
  • numbers: Display information and trivia about numbers
  • rdxmk: A small set of tools for redox developments
  • rufo: use rufo to automatically format ruby files

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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