2018-02-05 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2018-02-05 Emacs news

• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs Lisp is Fun?
  • elcontext
• Emacs development:
  • Properly integrate modules into the loading process
  • Fix handling of modifier keys on macOS
  • Discussion about confusable characters in Emacs Lisp
• Appearance:
  • Custom truncation bitmaps I made (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Helm vs Ivy: What are the differences, what are the advantages?
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode: Inserting a function definition
  • Import Firefox bookmarks to Org mode file?
  • Converting Org keywords to lower-case
  • Add projects as a concept to org with org-project (note project name conflict)
  • Long-time GTD users, what works for you in being productive? What doesn't?
  • Org-noter - A synchronized, Org-mode, document annotator (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • company-childframe - a company extension, which let company use child frame as its candidate menu. (Reddit)
  • Change management for text modes?
  • Python Interactive (PYNT) - Emacs Python to Jupyter Notebook Converter Feature Demo (3:36)
• Mail:
  • Mu has now reached version 1.0 (Reddit)
• Other:
  • Youtube subscriptions using elfeed & mpv - no browser!
  • Emacs Chromebook Keymap: Swap Ctrl, Alt, Overlay
  • Using Emacs 40 - Atomic Chrome (Reddit)
  • Editing in Emacs from Terminal to GUI (Reddit)
  • emacs2rst (Sphinx from emacs dotfiles utility) (Reddit)
  • What packages can you not live without?
  • Abo-abo hasn't gone a day without committing to GitHub in over 3 years (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • aws-snippets: Yasnippets for AWS
  • bart-mode: Real time BART departures info.
  • centered-window: Center the text when there's only one window
  • company-solidity: Company-mode back-end for solidity-mode
  • elcontext: Create context specific actions
  • extmap: Externally-stored constant mapping for Elisp
  • feebleline: Replace modeline with a slimmer proxy
  • git-attr: Git attributes of buffer file
  • info-colors: Extra colors for Info-mode
  • lcr: lightweight coroutines
  • monotropic-theme: Monotropic Theme
  • multi-run: Manage multiple terminals and run commands on them
  • nordless-theme: A mostly colorless theme
  • panda-theme: Panda Theme
  • pipenv: A Pipenv porcelain.
  • playground: Manage sandboxes for alternative configurations
  • posframe: Pop a posframe (just a frame) at point
  • prog-fill: Smartly format lines to use vertical space.
  • pynt: Generate and scroll EIN buffers from python code
  • recentf-remove-sudo-tramp-prefix: Normalise recentf history
  • rum-mode: Major mode for Rum programming language
  • s3ed: No description available.
  • usql: U-SQL support for sql-mode
  • rbit: Red-black persistent interval trees

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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