2016-05-09 Emacs News ===================== - Org Mode: - [Conforguration] (https://www.miskatonic.org/2016/05/05/conforguration) - configuration management with Org - [hn2org, read HN pages in Emacs Org mode] (https://github.com/rmloveland/hn2org) - [Is using babel + org for configuration files worth it?] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4i5wiq/is_using_babel_org_for_configuration_files_worth/) - [Video from EmacsNYC: Have Emacs Teach You Chinese] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uraPXeLfWcM) ([Reddit] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4i10ea/video_from_emacsnyc_have_emacs_teach_you_chinese/)) - org-drill - [org-fstree: an org package that inserts a directory tree into your Org buffer] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4hybk7/orgfstree_an_org_package_that_inserts_a_directory/) - [Video from EmacsBoston: Getting Started with Org-mode] (http://emacsboston.org/2016/03/21/getting-started-with-org-mode.html) ([Reddit] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4hmwph/video_from_emacsboston_getting_started_with/)) - Other: - [Emacs Keyboard Design 33: What If Emacs Pinky Isn't Real] (https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/article/10220/emacs-keyboard-design-33-what-if-emacs-pinky-isnt-real) and [34: Grid Layout Revisited] (https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/article/10222/emacs-keyboard-design-34-grid-layout-revisited) - [Tiling managers and emacs] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4igo8s/tiling_managers_and_emacs/) - [Silent and auto package upgrader] (https://github.com/mola-T/spu) ([Reddit] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4iewb3/silent_and_auto_package_upgrader/)) - [New GNU Emacs website] (http://gnu.org/software/emacs/index.html) ([Hacker News] (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11655573)) - 210+ comments - [I wrote a little script for downloading / updating all of the themes indexed over at emacsthemes.com] (https://gitlab.com/broels/emacsthemes-downloader) ([Reddit] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4iaf94/i_wrote_a_little_script_for_downloading_updating/)) - [a nicer notmuch-hello screen for Emacs] (http://www.holgerschurig.de/en/emacs-notmuch-hello/) - [how much evil in emacs] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4hmmla/how_much_evil_in_emacs/) - [BBDB autocomplete different ways?] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4hiw45/bbdb_autocomplete_different_ways/) - [kraklisp-meeting #4.2 - Emacs od zera by KZiemian (1:08:25)] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y99KBEs72iA) - Navigation: - [Volatile Highlights] (http://pragmaticemacs.com/emacs/volatile-highlights/): highlights recent change - [Day 10 - Search and Replace Using Regex] (http://www.omps.in/blog/2016/01/20/day-10-search-and-replace-using-regex/) - hat-tip to [Irreal] (http://irreal.org/blog/?p=5231) for the link - [Swiper/Ivy tip] (http://blog.binchen.org/posts/swiperivy-tip.html) - [Disable Mouse only inside Emacs] (http://endlessparentheses.com/disable-mouse-only-inside-emacs.html?source=rss) - [Equivalent to todo-show in atom?] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4ihex3/equivalent_to_todoshow_in_atom/) - [Moving Between Emacs Windows] (http://irreal.org/blog/?p=1562) ([Reddit] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4i5twx/moving_between_emacs_windows/)) - [Vim like scrolling in Emacs] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4hpjwp/vim_like_scrolling_in_emacs/) - [Spacemacs (Vim mode) Cheatsheet] (https://simpletutorials.com/c/3034/Spacemacs+%28Vim+mode%29+Cheatsheet) ([Reddit] (https://www.reddit.com/r/spacemacs/comments/4i8baa/spacemacs_vim_mode_cheatsheet/)) - Coding: - [emacsrepl, a new Emacs Lisp REPL] (https://github.com/tetracat/emacsrepl) ([Reddit] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4ieoaa/emacsrepl_a_new_emacs_lisp_repl/)) - [Compile time .emacs.d versioning with Nix(OS)] (https://github.com/yawnt/ehecatl/blob/master/pkgs/emacs/default.nix#L15) - [Emacs multithreading library] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4i46rp/emacs_multithreading_library/) - [web-mode.el v14 is released] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4i0no1/webmodeel_v14_is_released/) - [elpa-mirror v1.2.2] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4hyy5d/elpamirror_v122/) - [Emacs Bug Trends] (https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/05/03/emacs-bug-trends/) ([Reddit] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4hs91s/emacs_bug_trends/)) - [Emacs and Visual Studio] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4hj33q/emacs_and_visual_studio/) - Emacs for editing, VS for debugging - Emacs development: - [New :after-hook for define-derived-mode] (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=2eb6817ba971184cc109f8530f4b3b38f65650ea) - [New option edebug-sit-on-break] (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=ed5282d239b4304bcc6274dd06e1ce2b5e575053) - [text-quoting-style, message-user-fqdn] (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=89ce83b20249dfb4e45f09dfdddf4c4b66d82968) - [HTML tags can be completed in css-mode] (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=d546ed13b04521308ef7ec8e7e5b68e03f1bbb38) - [Discussion of M-x send-emacs-patch] (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-05/msg00088.html) - [Volunteers to implement test for stuff called at startup?] (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-05/msg00015.html) - New packages: - coverlay : Test coverage overlays - darkokai-theme : A darker variant on Monokai. - dired-quick-sort : Persistent quick sorting of dired buffers in various ways. - dix-evil : optional evil-integration with dix.el - emms-state : Display track description and playing time in the mode line - evil-find-char-pinyin : Evil's f/F/t/T commands with Pinyin support - flyspell-correct : correcting words with flyspell via custom interface - helm-qiita : Qiita with helm interface - hgrc-mode : major mode for editing hgrc files - ksp-cfg-mode : major mode for editing KSP CFG files - moonscript : Major mode for editing MoonScript code - ob-php : Execute PHP within org-mode blocks. - ob-swift : org-babel functions for swift evaluation - org-capture-pop-frame : Run org-capture in a new pop frame - paganini-theme : an Emacs 24 theme based on FireCode - pinyinlib : Convert first letter of Pinyin to Simplified/Traditional Chinese characters - plur : Easily search and replace multiple variants of a word - projectile-hanami : Minor mode for Hanami projects based on projectile - quiet : disconnect from the online world for a while - spu : Silently upgrade package in the background - steam : Organize and launch Steam games - tawny-mode : Ontology Editing with Tawny-OWL - timp : Multithreading library - validate : Schema validation for Emacs-lisp Links from [reddit.com/r/emacs] (http://reddit.com/r/emacs/new), [/r/orgmode] (http://reddit.com/r/orgmode), [Hacker News] (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=emacs&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story), [planet.emacsen.org] (http://planet.emacsen.org), [Youtube] (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=emacs&search_sort=video_date_uploaded), the changes to the [Emacs NEWS file] (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/etc/NEWS), and [emacs-devel] (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-05). [Past Emacs News round-ups] (http://sachachua.com/blog/category/emacs-news)