2016-02-01 Emacs News (fixed HTML formatting)

[Sacha Chua]

It turns out that the order of parts in a multipart-alternative e-mail
matters. =) Let's try this one to see if it shows up nicely for people.
John Wiegley, thanks for the quick feedback!

2016-02-01 Emacs News

• Configuration:
  • How do you get window system init code to run when using a emacs daemon/client?
  • Tried Spacemacs but I don't like how it's phoning back several hosts when I run it: dotspacemacs-check-for-update
• Org Mode:
  • Inserting an Org Date Quickly
  • How to achieve auto-compilation for the org->latex->pdf publishing chain - configurations around latexmk
  • Speed up pdf export from org-mode with latexmk
  • Pointy org-bullets
  • Awesome way to write blog in emacs (Reddit) - blog-admin for hexo or org-page
  • How do org-refile-targets work?
  • How to auto-publish org-mode publish projects ? after-save-hook
  • Org-mode for GTD? org-query
• Coding:
  • Use Tab to Indent or Complete
  • Diff regions in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Magit v2.5 released
  • Elpy 1.11.0 released
  • Is there a way to choose compilation command from a list? helm-make, multi-compile
  • On-the-fly evaluation of forms/code in Emacs! (2013, 1:37) (Reddit)
  • Any solution for editing a region in a different major mode? fence-edit, org-mode, poporg, edit-indirect
  • Emacs equivalent of dbext?
  • Updated xcode-mode to support xctool
  • Organize restclient files with outline-minor-mode (Reddit)
  • Emacs magic - преобразование ifelse в switch (0:43)
  • Go support added to etags
  • Ruby support improved in etags
• Emacs development:
  • Display the Keybinding for a Command with substitute-command-keys
  • New in Emacs 25.1: Round quotes in Help buffers
  • What's the best practice to write emacs-lisp(at 2016)?
  • First Emacs 25 pretest is out (Reddit)
  • Removing support for Emacs unexec from Glibc (Reddit)
  • Async DNS progress
  • Discussion of how to make project–find-in-file generic
  • Fixed filename for second dir-locals file
• Other:
  • Highlight and navigate all instances of a regex in current region occur, helm-swoop, loccur
  • Praising the Command Line
  • Dimming out tildes in AUCTeX
  • Emacs has a fast infix calculator that's not calc or quick-calc… - calculator, helm-calcul-_expression_
  • Is there a emacs -> vim transition guide?
  • Zone out with steam locomotives (just for fun) (Reddit)
  • Evalator-An Emacs package for interactive evaluation and transformation of data
  • Why Spacemacs? (Reddit)
  • Emacs打滴 4th x h4 (2:16:01)
• New packages:
  • chapel-mode: a CC Mode for Chapel derived from derived-mode-ex.el
  • char-menu: Create your own menu for fast insertion of arbitrary symbols
  • commenter: multiline-comment support package
  • contextual: Contextual profile management system
  • evalator: Package for interactive transformation of data with helm
  • flycheck-cstyle: Integrate cstyle with flycheck
  • govc: Interface to govc for managing VMware ESXi and vCenter
  • litecoin-ticker: No description available.
  • metafmt: Emacs interface for metafmt
  • mocha: Run Mocha or Jasmine tests
  • org-tfl: Transport for London meets Orgmode
  • pony-snippets: Yasnippets for Pony
  • suscolors-theme: Colorful theme, inspired by Gruvbox.
  • zone-sl: Zone out with steam locomotives.

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