2018-10-22 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2018-10-22 Emacs news

• Emacs Lisp:
  • Configuring emacs from scratch -02
  • Elsa: Emacs Lisp Static Analyzer (Reddit)
  • Evolution of Emacs Lisp (PDF) (Reddit, HN)
  • configuring emacs from scratch -03
  • emacs :set up config 04
  • Comint: Writing your own Command Interpreter
• Emacs development:
  • Always define 'define-fringe-bitmap'
  • Expand host names in Tramp's ad-hoc multi-hop file names
  • * emacs-lisp/package.el (package-get-version): Change into a function
  • In follow mode windows in a GUI, don't display inactive cursors
  • * lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el (package-get-version): New macro
  • * lisp/progmodes/octave.el: Register on auto-mode-alist
• Appearance:
  • PeachMelpa 1.0: the equilibrium release
  • An insightful tiling window manager mode (Reddit)
  • Is there a zen mode, focus mode for Emacs like in Atom?
• Web:
  • eww's awesome isearch support just blew my mind
  • Basic Web Scraping with Emacs (Reddit)
  • Standard method to use Emacs as a web browser?
• Org Mode:
  • Be productive with Org-mode (Aug, Irreal)
  • Email notifications for SCHEDULED and DEADLINE
  • org-fit
  • Had a great time playing with Emacs Lisp, building a sidebar to manage org notes (Reddit)
• Mail:
  • Regale me with your mu4e tips & tricks
  • Working thread workflow for mu4e in emacs
• Coding:
  • ESS 18.10 released!
• Other:
  • Porting Lisp Functions | REmacs (Reddit)
  • libvterm (Reddit)
  • Marking and splitting pdfs with pdfs-tools
  • How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language (Reddit)
  • A synopsis of Dan Weinreb's undergrad thesis: A Real-Time Display-oriented Editor for the LISP Machine
  • Lisp Machines (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • flucui-themes: Custom theme inspired by the Flat UI palette
  • lab-themes: A custom theme carefully constructed in the LAB space
  • ns-auto-titlebar: Set the MacOS transparent titlebar to match theme
  • pacfiles-mode: pacnew and pacsave merging tool
  • sqlformat: Reformat SQL using sqlformat or pgformatter
  • visual-fill: Auto-refill paragraphs without modifying the buffer

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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