2018-12-03 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2018-12-03 Emacs news

• Emacs Lisp:
  • emacs-named-timer: Give timers name and manage them with ease
  • hsluv-emacs: An Elisp implementation of the HSLUV colorspace conversions based on http://www.hsluv.org/
  • Debian Emacsen Team / dh-make-elpa: Helper for creating Debian packages from ELPA packages. (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: format-seconds
  • Spin Your Own Spacemacs-lite (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacsclient: prefer XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (Bug#33367)
• Appearance:
  • Cycle through themes
  • hl-fill-column: This package provide two modes to highlight fill column
• Navigation:
  • ska2342/detour: Remember your current cursor position
• Org Mode:
  • slimhtml is an emacs org mode export backend which outputs minimal HTML (Reddit)
  • ox-epub: Generate .epub files directly from OrgMode. This will export EPUB version 2
  • Better beamer block environments in org mode
  • Irreal: The Org-ref Video Revisited
  • Irreal: Making a Poster with Org-mode
  • Org-mode, literate programming in Emacs (1:23:03)
  • org-brain: added new faces and visual options
• Coding:
  • Emacs JIRA integration with Ejira
  • load-bash-alias: Convert bash aliases into eshell ones
  • Incremental construction of command chains to replace text (Reddit)
  • Emacs cafe: Indium 2.0 is out!
• Other:
  • To MELPA or Not: Package authors need not run a separate website
  • tic tac toe game in elisp OR How I stay unproductive in Emacs (Reddit)
  • What to do when melpa.org is down and you have an itch to scratch ….
  • ialign - a visual version of align-regexp (Reddit)
  • so-long: This library mitigates performance degradation that happens when visiting files with long lines
  • Rudel - A collaborative editing environment for Emacs
• New packages:
  • alert-termux: alert.el notifications on Termux
  • caddyfile-mode: Major mode for Caddy configuration files
  • cl-libify: Update elisp code to use cl-lib instead of cl
  • detour: Take a quick detour and return
  • exwm-firefox-core: Firefox hotkeys to functions
  • flymake-vnu: Flymake extension for the v.Nu HTML validator.
  • hl-fill-column: Highlight fill column.
  • hsluv: hsluv color space conversions
  • ledger-import: Fetch OFX files from bank and push them to Ledger
  • load-bash-alias: Convert bash aliases into eshell ones
  • named-timer: Simplified timer management for Emacs Lisp
  • ox-slimhtml: a minimal HTML org export backend
  • solidity-flycheck: Flycheck integration for solidity emacs mode
  • tmux-pane: Provide integration between emacs window and tmux pane
  • vdm-comint: REPL support for vdm-mode
  • writefreely: Push your Org files as markdown to a writefreely instance

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

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