2018-11-12 Emacs news

• Emacs Lisp:
  • A nice feature for theme makers
  • CIDER's Orchard: The Heart (Reddit)
  • Magit: Found a simple way to force me to keep track of changes in my init, thought others my find useful
  • When turning to the profiler turns out to be a good call (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Provide branch information for both Emacs and Tramp (Bug#33328)
  • Add setter for 'xref-marker-ring-length'
  • Add 'ring-resize' function
  • Fix last change
  • src/editfns.c (group-name): New function.
  • * lisp/windmove.el (windmove-create-window): New defcustom (bug#32790).
• Appearance:
  • TIL: vcursor-mode
  • Screenshot Showcase 2018!
  • A Minor mode for ligatures in Emacs
• Navigation:
  • evil-better-visual-line: better gj and gk for those with evil inclinations
  • What do you have bound to M-n and M-p?
  • Raimon Grau: e{vil,macs} macros
  • macros by example
• Org Mode:
  • OrgMode - literate programing - thi-ng/geom: 2D/3D geometry toolkit for Clojure/Clojurescript
  • Organizing Notes With Refile (Irreal)
• Coding:
  • Jonas Bernoulli: Magit 2.90 released (Reddit)
  • ANN: GDB graphical interface using C dynamic module (gdb-mi.el alternative) (Reddit)
• Science:
  • The tntphylo-mode Emacs package
  • First "release" of the rev-mode package (April)
• Other:
  • Configuring Emacs from scratch -10 (yasnippets)
  • An easy-kill - Emacs Redux (Reddit)
  • I like to move it! (Emacs version) (Reddit)
  • Emacs pop-up shell
  • Updates to W32 Server Mode (Reddit)
  • Emacs as an operating system (Irreal)
  • A keyboard with thumb modifiers and Emacs cursor joystick (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • activity-watch-mode: Automatic time tracking extension.
  • alarm-clock: Alarm Clock
  • anki-mode: A major mode for creating anki cards
  • backline: Preserve appearance of outline headings
  • company-phpactor: company-mode backend for Phpactor
  • company-tabnine: A company-mode backend for TabNine
  • editorconfig-generate: Generate .editorconfig
  • elsa: Emacs Lisp Static Analyser
  • evil-better-visual-line: gj and gk visual line mode fix
  • evil-textobj-entire: text object for entire lines of buffer for evil
  • evil-textobj-line: evil textobj line
  • evil-textobj-syntax: Provides syntax text objects.
  • flycheck-soar: Analyze the SQL statements using mi soar.
  • hasklig-mode: Hasklig ligatures
  • helm-slime: helm-sources and some utilities for SLIME.
  • lsp-dart: Dart support for lsp-mode
  • lxd-tramp: TRAMP integration for LXD containers
  • objed: Navigate and edit text objects.
  • outline-minor-faces: Headings faces for outline-minor-mode
  • ox-slack: Slack Exporter for org-mode
  • ox-wk: Wiki Back-End for Org Export Engine
  • path-helper: Set PATH environment variables from config files
  • pine-script-mode: Trading View Pine Script major mode
  • redtt: Major mode for editing redtt proofs
  • vc-hgcmd: VC mercurial backend that uses hg command server
  • veri-kompass: verilog codebase navigation facility
  • zmq: ZMQ bindings in elisp
  • zprint-mode: reformat Clojure(Script) code using zprint

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.