2016-02-08 Emacs News

[Sacha Chua]

2016-02-08 Emacs News

• Beginners:
  • Get Emacs - http://emacs.link/ - Aaron Schumacher's cross-platform, how-to-get-emacs website (Reddit)
  • Tips for a beginner moving away from GUI IDEs?
  • Emacs Installation 0 (2:53) - Mac OS X
• Configuration:
  • What's some small thing in your dotemacs that you couldn't live without?
  • How to make emacs stop split-screen when M-x shell'ing? - display-buffer-alist
  • Managing Spacemacs settings in git?
  • Emacs pinky….
  • Changing basic key-binds in Evil? - evil-normal-state-map
  • Changing behaviour on select current line function
  • Is there a way to change the init.el location on startup?
  • How to keep region marked after copying?
• Org Mode:
  • How to use org-mode with evernote as storage? - Syncthing, Dropbox, Git, Google Drive, etc.
  • Is there any way to integrate Evernote into my Emacs GTD workflow? - emacs-geeknote
  • Enable wordwrap in org-mode?
  • Blogging using org-mode (and nothing else)
• Email:
  • Email attachment reminders in mu4e
  • An attachment reminder in mu4e - should also work for Gnus; more interactive
  • Ma Gnus v0.16 is released
  • Publishing Emacs News as plain text, HTML, and attached Org file
  • Grab email address in Gnus
• Coding:
  • Auto-indent your code with aggressive-indent-mode
  • A Magit Tip - ! to run git commands
  • gruvbox dark ported to GNU Emacs with better support for various modes (Reddit)
  • Solve practice problems in elisp (among others) (Reddit)
  • Better compile buffer? - auto-close, multi-compile, dedicated window
  • How to normalize indentation for different projects?
  • Today's xkcd reminds me of Emacs Lisp regexes (Reddit) - see Reddit thread for regexp tips
• Emacs development:
  • New in Emacs 25.1: Easily search for non-ASCII characters
  • Automatically scale images up on high-density screens
  • Allow various Gnus and Message address variables to be functions
  • New function read-multiple-choice
  • Discussions:
    • Long discussion of character folding
    • Improving the presentation of Emacs user documentation
    • Entering Unicode characters
    • Continued discussion of asynchronicity
    • Customizing universal argument (C-u), instead of hardcoding 4?
• Other:
  • Ogbe on Why He Uses Emacs - TRAMP, dired, Org Mode, mu4e, MATLAB
  • New `helm-describe-modes` package
  • Just had a "wow, Emacs is smart" moment - kill-compilation
  • Switching from Emacs to Vim (actually Spacemacs)
  • Vim to Emacs+Evil Users, thoughts on Neovim?
  • Emacs.el Episode 4 Interview with John W. is out! also, Youtube - 35:30
  • Role-playing with Emacs - Episode 02 (11:14) - more of a presentation
  • The Touch of Emacs (2:41) - an Emacs jukebox on a touch screen
  • emacs-friends: an emacs package to open the current file with other applications (5:33)
• New packages:
  • blog-admin: Blog admin for emacs with hexo/org-page supported
  • cabledolphin: capture Emacs network traffic
  • dired-atool: Pack/unpack files with atool on dired.
  • dumb-jump: Dumb jumping to variable and function definitions
  • evalator-clojure: Clojure evaluation context for evalator via CIDER.
  • latex-unicode-math-mode: Input method for Unicode math symbols
  • mu-cite: A library to provide MIME features.
  • omtose-phellack-theme: A dark, soothing theme with a cold bluish touch.
  • org-dp: Declarative Local Programming with Org Elements
  • org-random-todo: notify of random TODO's
  • replace-pairs: Query-replace pairs of things
  • xml+: Utilities for xml and html trees

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, Youtube, EmacsWiki:RecentChanges, the Emacs commit log, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

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