2019-02-11 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2019-02-11 Emacs news

• Emacs Lisp:
  • Is there a practical way to completely disable package without uninstalling it?
  • scripts.el - collection of tiny but useful Emacs Lisp code (inspired by unpackaged.el) (Reddit)
  • Do you have a favorite persistent caching method in elisp?
  • Weighted Graph Elisp Monad – J.V. Toups
• Emacs development:
  • Add vc-hg-revert-switches
  • Rename multifile.el to fileloop.el
  • Add dwim function for inserting @ref variants
  • Don't map imaps to 993 anymore except on old Windows versions
  • Support (locale-info 'paper) on MS-Windows
  • Allow doc-view to open password-protected PDF files (bug#33684)
• Navigation:
  • Making NeoTree work with Perspectives (Reddit)
  • Switching buffers
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode To Google Docs and Beyond
  • Part 3 of my capture templates (last part)
  • Refiling hydra with pre-defined targets
  • Org 9.2.1 - bugfix release
  • Google Calendar integration in OrgMode | Konig von Haunstetten (2017)
• Coding:
  • Understanding GNU Emacs and Tabs
  • Working with log files in Emacs
  • emacs-up: A simple Emacs starter kit for clojure programmers
  • VLS (Vanilla Lisp Shell): VLS provides an Emacs interface to a Lisp process that works the same across all flavors of Lisp
  • editorconfig-emacs: EditorConfig plugin for emacs - maintain consistent coding styles for multiple developers
  • esscss: Collection of links to ESS configurations shared by #rstats community members.
  • dante: Emacs mode for Interactive Haskell
  • emacs-lsp: List of repositories related to Language Server Protocol client for Emacs. Right now, there are 21 repositories.
  • GitHub Helps Me Help Students - also magit and git-timemachine
  • GitHub - wasamasa/chip8.el: CHIP-8 emulator for Emacs (Reddit)
• Other:
  • mg: Portable version of the OpenBSD maintained mg, micro emacs clone
  • beancount.el: A minor mode that can be used to edit beancount input files (text-based double-entry bookkeeping)
  • A Tutorial Introduction to Emacs (from UChicago)
  • voco: Create a speech recognition system for programming by voice using Kaldi
  • What are some good strategies to reduce Emacs memory usage on a very low powered machine?
  • google-translate: Emacs interface to Google Translate
  • Third trial for a weekly tips/tricks/etc thread
  • Making recover-this-file messages more prominent
  • Staying sane with Emacs (when facing drudge work) (2015, Irreal)
  • Running Your Life With Emacs (Irreal)
  • emacs-calc-tutorials: A series of tutorials about emacs-calc (Reddit)
  • Emacs packages you wish existed?!
• Mail:
  • Checking email with gmailieer + notmuch + Emacs | John's Blog
  • mu 1.0 Release Notes: The mu/mu4e e-mail searcher and mail client have reached 1.0 – after 10 years! Rejoice
• New packages:
  • dired-rmjunk: A home directory cleanup utility for Dired.
  • dune: Integration with the dune build system
  • equake: drop-drop console for eshell & terminal emulation
  • hyperspace: Get there from here
  • jupyter: Jupyter
  • magit-reviewboard: Show open Reviewboard reviews in Magit
  • nswbuff: Quick switching between buffers.
  • ob-ammonite: org-babel for scala evaluation in Ammonite.
  • org-re-reveal-ref: Citations and bibliography for org-re-reveal
  • xr: Convert string regexp to rx notation
  • greader: a reader with espeak tts

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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