2018-02-12 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2018-02-12 Emacs news

• Emacs Lisp:
  • More emacs configuration tweaks (2016; hat tip to Irreal for the link)
  • What are the best places to learn about writing performant elisp? (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Buttery Smooth Emacs (2016; hat tip to Alex Schroeder for the link)
  • JIT Compilation for Emacs (Reddit, Hacker News)
  • Update `server-name' :version & document sockname
  • Remove NS special handling of 'frame-title-format'
• Navigation:
  • Emacs Tip: find-file-at-point
• Org Mode:
  • Orga, the Ultimate org-mode parser, in _javascript_ (Reddit)
  • Suggestions on making slides (for presentations) (Reddit)
  • org-rich-yank - Rich text clipboard for org-mode (paste into a BEGIN_SRC block of correct mode, with link to where it came from) (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Emacs as a C++ IDE - Martin Sosic's blog (Reddit)
  • Starting in Emacs 26, you might not need flycheck! (Reddit)
  • Refactoring power-ups
• Other:
  • How can I make line rendering faster?
  • One-frame-per-action GIF recording
  • append-next-kill
  • Update on MELPA removing EmacsWiki packages
  • Using countdown timers for alerts
• Discussion and opinions:
  • What has emacs replaced in your life?
• New package:
  • helm-rg: a helm interface to ripgrep

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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