2019-08-05 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2019-08-05 Emacs news

EmacsConf 2019 (Nov 2, online): Propose a session: https://emacsconf.org/2019/cfp (before Aug 31) Share ideas: https://emacsconf.org/2019/ideas

• Emacs configuration:
  • emacs-for-vimmers: Introduction to Emacs config, for developers used to Vim.
  • How have you tweaked spacemacs (or emacs) using elisp?
• Emacs Lisp:
  • What are some good packages to read the source to as someone learning elisp?
  • Trying to understand emacs memory usage and gc-cons-threshold
  • What you need to do when your Emacs is slow
  • auth-source-xoauth2: A package that adds XOAuth2 capabilities to Emacs' auth-source infrastructure
  • Trained GPT-2 on Emacs Lisp code. It generates fake packages, fake maintainers, has decent understanding of lisp indentation, and carefully documents most functions. (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • The guys and gals at Remacs are not doing too bad (Reddit)
  • {kind of off-topic} Any C programming book for learning for a wannabe Emacs contributor?
  • Improved ChangeLog generation for vc log (Bug#16301)
  • Make gravatar.el more configurable
  • Clean up file-size-function
  • format-time-string subsumes time-zone-format
  • Add new function time-zone-format
  • `decoded-time-set-defaults' refactored out from iso8601 code
  • Call out the Gnus widget->button makeover in NEWS
  • Extend button.el to take callback data
  • * lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-macs.el (cl-defstruct): Add slot option :documentation
  • Add an ISO 8601 parsing library
  • Add support for dealing with decoded time structures
• Appearance:
  • PeachMelpa 2.0: a colourful breeze through the unbearable summer heat
  • Dark Emacs Planet: a KISS dark theme for Planet Emacslife (link in comments)
• Navigation:
  • Opening Files With Line Numbers in Emacs - Stuff… And Things…
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode 9.2.5 Is Released
  • Orgmode Gantt Chart - prototype package
  • Pomodoro timer on an OLED display via org-clock (Reddit)
  • vscode-org-mode: Emacs Org Mode for Visual Studio Code
  • Emacs Doom E13: Org Mode, Code Snippets 101 (Reddit)
  • Making Media rich Medical Presentations using Emacs, Org-mode and Reveal.js – Part 1 |Pediatric Orthopedic & Spine Surgeon | Dr. Easwar T.R |
  • Export Org to S5. S5 is "A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System".
  • Emacs Doom E12: Org Mode - Linking to words & Bookmarks (Reddit)
  • org-pdftools: a custom org link type for pdf-tools
• Coding:
  • emmet-mode: A minor mode providing support for Zen Coding by producing HTML from CSS-like selectors.
  • Emacs for iOS development
  • Anyone has a recommendation for a game IDE (unity, godot, etc…) that works well using emacs instead of it's built-in editor?
• Spacemacs:
  • flexw's spacemacs config
  • Spacemacs Tutorials | Jack of Some - YouTube
• Community:
  • EmacsConf 2019 Call for Proposals (Reddit)
  • EmacsConf 2019 - Planning
  • I have been using Emacs for over 10 years and I have never meet another Emacs user. (and I work in tech)
  • What do you think about the future of emacs?
  • TIL Knuth is an emacs enthusiast (Reddit)
  • Repo for talks held at the M-x Erlangen Emacs group.
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
  • Emacs Hack Night! | New York Emacs Meetup. — Monday, August 5, 2019 - 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
  • Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs) | Wenshan's Blog
• Other:
  • emacscalc (or ec) is a script that lets you run the Emacs built-in calculator calc-mode "stand-alone", without needing to first open Emacs. (Reddit)
  • Features from other editors one should consider using in Emacs
  • Vim vs Emacs: Detailed Comparison – Linux Hint
  • emdocs: A minor mode for emacs to create buffers readily editable by multiple users over the internet.
  • engine-mode: Minor mode for defining and querying search engines through Emacs.
  • stumpmacs: Emacs contrib module for stumpwm (ported from DSWM emacs module)
  • New package to learn languages from your Emacs, memrise.el
  • EMACS Bindings EVERYWHERE!
  • eless is a combination of Bash script and a minimal emacs view-mode config. It is like 'less' but better …
  • Emacs for Vimmers (Reddit)
  • Awesome support for Telegram in emacs
  • XKeymacs: Create Emacs-like key bindings for applications running on Microsoft Windows.

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

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