2020-10-19 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2020-10-19 Emacs news

• Emacs User Survey 2020 is open! (Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • TIL how to load file- or dir-locals before a minor mode like lsp-mode
  • Diego Zamboni: My Doom Emacs configuration, with commentary
  • LIVE: Emacs From Scratch #7 - Configure Everything with Org Babel (10/16, 9:15am PDT) (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Awesome Elisp, a list of resources about Emacs Lisp (Reddit)
  • xr: A new weapon for your regex arsenal
  • Emacs Latency Tracing for the Chromium Catapult Trace Event Format
• Emacs development:
  • Raimon Grau: An emacs' Feature Development
  • Add command package-menu-filter-upgradable
  • Add new choice 'keep' to next-error-message-highlight (bug#32676)
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Call out the new variable 'shr-offer-extend-specpdl'.
  • Document the new smiley value
  • Add support for emojis i smiley.el
  • * etc/NEWS: Mention new lexical binding conversion aid.
  • Base bookmark-bmenu-mode on tabulated-list-mode (Bug#39293)
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Move 'narrow-to-prompt' entry to "Shell" section.
  • New shell-mode command to narrow to the command under point
  • Add a new variable to control Gnus Agent caching
  • Search harder for file name matches in compilation buffers
  • Make `C-x C-e' work more like `C-M-x' on defvar etc
  • Highlight regexp sub-expressions in query-replace
  • Add option to highlight the 'next-error' error message
  • Add a new variable tab-first-completion
  • * etc/NEWS (Calc): Note new precedence of '/' in TeX input mode.
  • Fix documentation of Outline cycling commands
  • * etc/NEWS: Mention 'make_unibyte_string'; reformat modules entries.
  • Calc: allow infinite binary word size (bug#43764)
• Appearance:
  • SVG tag minor mode (Reddit, Reddit)
  • Smooth scrolling over images (Reddit)
  • pdf-continuous-scroll-mode.el: A minor mode for Emacs that implements a two-buffer hack to provide continuous scrolling in pdf-tools
• Org Mode:
  • org-superstar-mode: Upcoming version 2.0
  • Full introduction to Gkroam, up to version v2.3.7, no voice (Reddit)
  • Export Day One (macOS) Journals to Emacs org-mode Diary Entries • Christian Tietze
  • SSH config export for org-mode (Reddit)
  • EmacsConf 2020 & My Submission - org-webring
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs: org block complete and edit
  • {ANN} org-inline-video-thumbnails: allow Org to show video thumbnails inline like regular images
  • Paste an image into an org file (Windows)
  • Journaling with org-journal · zaiste.net
  • Org with Perl: 001: Moving/removing done todo items (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • semi-automated interactive stream editing: piping through expect and emacs (Reddit)
  • Python's f-string syntax highlighting now supported thanks to Stefan Monnier (Reddit)
  • Andrea: My Emacs setup for Scala development
  • Manuel Uberti: Reliable REPL switching and buffer loading with CIDER
  • Andrea: My Emacs setup for Scala development
• Math:
  • Emacs-Calc: The Poor Man’s Mathematica (2010)
  • calc is fun
• Mail and news:
  • mu4e-helm-attachments : Replaces some attachments functions of the Emacs email client mu4e with functions based on helm (Reddit)
  • mu4e-helm-folders : Folder selection for some functions of the Emacs email client mu4e using helm
• EXWM:
  • Love lost: when exwm falls short (Reddit)
  • Emacs in Emacs: A triumph for EXWM (Reddit)
  • Tory Anderson: Emacs in Emacs: A triumph for EXWM
• Community:
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
  • Why I Chose Emacs as My New Text Editor // Take on Rules (Reddit)
  • Emacs was mentioned inside my lexicography textbook (Reddit)
  • What builtins do you use above popular external packages?
  • What does emacs do that makes it irreplaceable for you?
  • org-contacts2vcard: Converting Emacs Org-mode org-contacts contact information to VCard format suitable for importing to Android 4.4
  • Highlight: Why Emacs? (24:39)
• Other:
  • Dungeon-mode - Free Software Directory (Reddit)
  • Real time collaborative editing in Emacs
  • wandersoncferreira/oblique-strategies (Reddit)
  • Hardcore spell checking in Emacs (Reddit)
  • emacsninja: Worst Reverse Shell Ever
  • Accord: Interact with Discord via Emacs
  • Tory Anderson: How to send an interrupt without C-c C-c?
  • The Different Shells Available In Emacs (17:20, Irreal)
• New packages:
  • greenbar: Mark comint output with "greenbar" background
  • etherpad: Interface to the Etherpad API
  • kana: Learn Japanese hiragana and katakana
  • maxima: Major modes for writing Maxima code
  • nntwitter: Gnus Backend For Twitter
  • ob-deno: Babel Functions for _javascript_/TypeScript with Deno
  • ocamlformat: Utility functions to format ocaml code
  • ox-ssh: SSH Config Backend for Org Export Engine
  • teletext-yle: Teletext provider for Finnish national network YLE

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