2018-06-04 Emacs news
=====================
- Emacs Lisp:
- [Updated format$ macro]
(https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8nxxjr/updated_format_macro/)
- [What's the theme?]
(http://manuel-uberti.github.io//emacs/2018/06/01/get-colour-theme/)
- Emacs development:
- [Examples of programs/libraries/snippets that use Emacs 26 threads]
(https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8mt8th/examples_of_programslibrariessnippets_that_use/)
- [emax64-20180529 (26.1 final) released]
(https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8n2wga/emax6420180529_261_final_released/)
- [Emacs 26 Brings Generators and Threads]
(https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/05/31/) ([Reddit]
(https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8nr0ou/emacs_26_brings_generators_and_threads/),
[HN] (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17203341))
- [What's New in Emacs 26.1?]
(https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-26-1) ([Reddit]
(https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8ogvp1/whats_new_in_emacs_261/))
- [Emacs 26 Brings Generators and Threads]
(http://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/05/31/)
- [Some proposed backports from master to emacs-26]
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-06/msg00072.html)
- [Un-obsolete 'string-to-unibyte']
(http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=4a7e74fea687011ee81dcbb02294bccd99b3a05f)
- [Add Imenu support to CSS mode and its derivatives]
(http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=58d0642e1ca006fa550bff50fd328bc166c572da)
- [Allow access to MS-Windows Registry from Lisp programs]
(http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=5be83e343f9f0f3487793b54ff95bc89ee6b824a)
- Appearance:
- [GNU Emacs 26.1 | 24bit colors | Suckless St Terminal:]
(https://imgur.com/a/zVqSVTI) ([Reddit]
(https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8ndm2x/gnu_emacs_261_24bit_colors_suckless_st_terminal/))
- Navigation:
- [TIP: How to be a beast with hydra]
(https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8of6tx/tip_how_to_be_a_beast_with_hydra/)
- [A dashboard like this would be interesting in Emacs]
(https://wtfutil.com/) ([Reddit]
(https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8ny4wp/a_dashboard_like_this_would_be_interesting_in/))
- Org Mode:
- [Changing height of org-mode `#+BEGIN_SRC *` on the fly]
(https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8occur/changing_height_of_orgmode_begin_src_on_the_fly/)
- [Extending org-mode!]
(https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8nvnlu/extending_orgmode/)
- Coding:
- [EDBI (Emacs Database Interface) Tutorial]
(https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8n7w3z/edbi_emacs_database_interface_tutorial/)
- [Switched over to a literate config, if anyone needs a launching off
point for moden-web-development in emacs, Im fairly happy with my setup.]
(https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8nbh28/switched_over_to_a_literate_config_if_anyone/)
- [Magit v2.13 released]
(https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8o54fs/magit_v213_released/) ([HN]
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17220630))
- [Collaborating with non-Git-users - Emacs support]
(http://mbork.pl/2018-05-28_Collaborating_with_non-Git-users_-_Emacs_support)
- [Clojure + libGDX + Emacs] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxW62vuO2eA)
(46:37)
- [Making Emacs Like Sublime Text 3]
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VkJNmE9KLM) (8:11)
- Other:
- [Texting from inside Emacs]
(https://gnucode.me/2018/05/texting-from-inside-emacs/) ([Reddit]
(https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8n8zvj/texting_from_inside_emacs/))
- [logpad.el: Notepad-like logging for GNU Emacs]
(https://bitbucket.org/tux_/logpad.el) ([Reddit]
(https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8ns40r/logpadel_notepadlike_logging_for_gnu_emacs/))
- [Copy/Paste in Emacs]
(http://blog.binchen.org/posts/copypaste-in-emacs.html)
- [Emacs 26, Wanderlust, and modern Gmail authentication]
(https://medium.com/@enzuru/emacs-26-wanderlust-and-modern-gmail-authentication-36e1ae61471f)
- [My first Emacs package: Powerthesaurus integration]
(https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8o7azx/my_first_emacs_package_powerthesaurus_integration/)
- [How your "emacs" looks like?]
(https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8nzbvj/how_your_emacs_looks_like/)
- [Best Emacs learning and building path?]
(https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8n8pm8/best_emacs_learning_and_building_path/)
- [Package: Access your Ampache library from Emacs]
(https://github.com/aancel/ivy-ampache) ([Reddit]
(https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8mu9z3/package_access_your_ampache_library_from_emacs/))
- [Emacs & gpg files: use the minibuffer for password prompts]
(http://gromnitsky.blogspot.com/2018/06/emacs-gpg-files-use-minibuffer-for.html)
- [dired-rsync 0.4 released]
(https://www.bennee.com/~alex/blog/2018/06/01/dired-rsync-0-4-released/)
- [Michael Speaks Spacemacs: File Renaming Automation Workflow]
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCdD4J1tb-0) (5:29)
- [First Emacs Hangout - Xah Lee]
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZdGgkxzwsU)
- [Emacs Logo Sticker Pack]
(https://shop.fsf.org/stickers/emacs-logo-sticker-pack) ([Reddit]
(https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8nh5ps/emacs_logo_sticker_pack/))
- New packages:
- com-css-sort <http://melpa.org/#/com-css-sort>: Common way of sorting the
CSS attributes.
- company-prescient <http://melpa.org/#/company-prescient>: prescient.el +
Company
- counsel-codesearch <http://melpa.org/#/counsel-codesearch>: Counsel
interface for codesearch.el
- diary-manager <http://melpa.org/#/diary-manager>: Simple personal diary.
- dired-recent <http://melpa.org/#/dired-recent>: Dired visited paths
history
- elcouch <http://melpa.org/#/elcouch>: View and manipulate CouchDB
databases
- filelock <http://melpa.org/#/filelock>: Functions for manipulating file
locks
- flycheck-golangci-lint <http://melpa.org/#/flycheck-golangci-lint>:
Flycheck checker for golangci-lint
- flycheck-prospector <http://melpa.org/#/flycheck-prospector>: Support
prospector in flycheck info-beamer <http://melpa.org/#/info-beamer>: Send
commands to info-beamer
- ivy-prescient <http://melpa.org/#/ivy-prescient>: prescient.el + Ivy
- nerdtab <http://melpa.org/#/nerdtab>: Keyboard-oriented tabs
- ob-mermaid <http://melpa.org/#/ob-mermaid>: org-babel support for mermaid
evaluation
- org-make-toc <http://melpa.org/#/org-make-toc>: Automatic tables of
contents for Org files
- prescient <http://melpa.org/#/prescient>: Better sorting and filtering.
- rubocopfmt <http://melpa.org/#/rubocopfmt>: Minor-mode to format Ruby
code with RuboCop on save
- rustic <http://melpa.org/#/rustic>: A major emacs mode for editing Rust
source code
- see-mode <http://melpa.org/#/see-mode>: Edit string in a separate buffer
- side-notes <http://melpa.org/#/side-notes>: Easy access to a directory
notes file
- tj3-mode <http://melpa.org/#/tj3-mode>: major mode for editing
TaskJuggler 3 files
- wakib-keys <http://melpa.org/#/wakib-keys>: Minor Mode for Modern
Keybindings
Links from [reddit.com/r/emacs] (http://reddit.com/r/emacs/new), [/r/orgmode]
(http://reddit.com/r/orgmode), [/r/spacemacs] (http://reddit.com/r/spacemacs),
[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/2018-06).
* 2018-06-04 Emacs news
- Emacs Lisp:
- [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8nxxjr/updated_format_macro/][Updated format$ macro]]
- [[http://manuel-uberti.github.io//emacs/2018/06/01/get-colour-theme/][What's the theme?]]
- Emacs development:
- [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8mt8th/examples_of_programslibrariessnippets_that_use/][Examples of programs/libraries/snippets that use Emacs 26 threads]]
- [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8n2wga/emax6420180529_261_final_released/][emax64-20180529 (26.1 final) released]]
- [[https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/05/31/][Emacs 26 Brings Generators and Threads]] ([[https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8nr0ou/emacs_26_brings_generators_and_threads/][Reddit]], [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17203341][HN]])
- [[https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-26-1][What's New in Emacs 26.1?]] ([[https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8ogvp1/whats_new_in_emacs_261/][Reddit]])
- [[http://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/05/31/][Emacs 26 Brings Generators and Threads]]
- [[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-06/msg00072.html][Some proposed backports from master to emacs-26]]
- [[http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=4a7e74fea687011ee81dcbb02294bccd99b3a05f][Un-obsolete 'string-to-unibyte']]
- [[http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=58d0642e1ca006fa550bff50fd328bc166c572da][Add Imenu support to CSS mode and its derivatives]]
- [[http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=5be83e343f9f0f3487793b54ff95bc89ee6b824a][Allow access to MS-Windows Registry from Lisp programs]]
- Appearance:
- [[https://imgur.com/a/zVqSVTI][GNU Emacs 26.1 | 24bit colors | Suckless St Terminal:]] ([[https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8ndm2x/gnu_emacs_261_24bit_colors_suckless_st_terminal/][Reddit]])
- Navigation:
- [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8of6tx/tip_how_to_be_a_beast_with_hydra/][TIP: How to be a beast with hydra]]
- [[https://wtfutil.com/][A dashboard like this would be interesting in Emacs]] ([[https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8ny4wp/a_dashboard_like_this_would_be_interesting_in/][Reddit]])
- Org Mode:
- [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8occur/changing_height_of_orgmode_begin_src_on_the_fly/][Changing height of org-mode `#+BEGIN_SRC *` on the fly]]
- [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8nvnlu/extending_orgmode/][Extending org-mode!]]
- Coding:
- [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8n7w3z/edbi_emacs_database_interface_tutorial/][EDBI (Emacs Database Interface) Tutorial]]
- [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8nbh28/switched_over_to_a_literate_config_if_anyone/][Switched over to a literate config, if anyone needs a launching off point for moden-web-development in emacs, Im fairly happy with my setup.]]
- [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8o54fs/magit_v213_released/][Magit v2.13 released]] ([[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17220630][HN]])
- [[http://mbork.pl/2018-05-28_Collaborating_with_non-Git-users_-_Emacs_support][Collaborating with non-Git-users - Emacs support]]
- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxW62vuO2eA][Clojure + libGDX + Emacs]] (46:37)
- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VkJNmE9KLM][Making Emacs Like Sublime Text 3]] (8:11)
- Other:
- [[https://gnucode.me/2018/05/texting-from-inside-emacs/][Texting from inside Emacs]] ([[https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8n8zvj/texting_from_inside_emacs/][Reddit]])
- [[https://bitbucket.org/tux_/logpad.el][logpad.el: Notepad-like logging for GNU Emacs]] ([[https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8ns40r/logpadel_notepadlike_logging_for_gnu_emacs/][Reddit]])
- [[http://blog.binchen.org/posts/copypaste-in-emacs.html][Copy/Paste in Emacs]]
- [[https://medium.com/@enzuru/emacs-26-wanderlust-and-modern-gmail-authentication-36e1ae61471f][Emacs 26, Wanderlust, and modern Gmail authentication]]
- [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8o7azx/my_first_emacs_package_powerthesaurus_integration/][My first Emacs package: Powerthesaurus integration]]
- [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8nzbvj/how_your_emacs_looks_like/][How your "emacs" looks like?]]
- [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8n8pm8/best_emacs_learning_and_building_path/][Best Emacs learning and building path?]]
- [[https://github.com/aancel/ivy-ampache][Package: Access your Ampache library from Emacs]] ([[https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8mu9z3/package_access_your_ampache_library_from_emacs/][Reddit]])
- [[http://gromnitsky.blogspot.com/2018/06/emacs-gpg-files-use-minibuffer-for.html][Emacs & gpg files: use the minibuffer for password prompts]]
- [[https://www.bennee.com/~alex/blog/2018/06/01/dired-rsync-0-4-released/][dired-rsync 0.4 released]]
- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCdD4J1tb-0][Michael Speaks Spacemacs: File Renaming Automation Workflow]] (5:29)
- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZdGgkxzwsU][First Emacs Hangout - Xah Lee]]
- [[https://shop.fsf.org/stickers/emacs-logo-sticker-pack][Emacs Logo Sticker Pack]] ([[https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8nh5ps/emacs_logo_sticker_pack/][Reddit]])
- New packages:
- http://melpa.org/#/com-css-sort: Common way of sorting the CSS attributes.
- http://melpa.org/#/company-prescient: prescient.el + Company
- http://melpa.org/#/counsel-codesearch: Counsel interface for codesearch.el
- http://melpa.org/#/diary-manager: Simple personal diary.
- http://melpa.org/#/dired-recent: Dired visited paths history
- http://melpa.org/#/elcouch: View and manipulate CouchDB databases
- http://melpa.org/#/filelock: Functions for manipulating file locks
- http://melpa.org/#/flycheck-golangci-lint: Flycheck checker for golangci-lint
- http://melpa.org/#/flycheck-prospector: Support prospector in flycheck
http://melpa.org/#/info-beamer: Send commands to info-beamer
- http://melpa.org/#/ivy-prescient: prescient.el + Ivy
- http://melpa.org/#/nerdtab: Keyboard-oriented tabs
- http://melpa.org/#/ob-mermaid: org-babel support for mermaid evaluation
- http://melpa.org/#/org-make-toc: Automatic tables of contents for Org files
- http://melpa.org/#/prescient: Better sorting and filtering.
- http://melpa.org/#/rubocopfmt: Minor-mode to format Ruby code with RuboCop on save
- http://melpa.org/#/rustic: A major emacs mode for editing Rust source code
- http://melpa.org/#/see-mode: Edit string in a separate buffer
- http://melpa.org/#/side-notes: Easy access to a directory notes file
- http://melpa.org/#/tj3-mode: major mode for editing TaskJuggler 3 files
- http://melpa.org/#/wakib-keys: Minor Mode for Modern Keybindings
Links from [[http://reddit.com/r/emacs/new][reddit.com/r/emacs]], [[http://reddit.com/r/orgmode][/r/orgmode]], [[http://reddit.com/r/spacemacs][/r/spacemacs]], [[https://hn.algolia.com/?query=emacs&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story][Hacker News]], [[http://planet.emacsen.org][planet.emacsen.org]], [[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=emacs&search_sort=video_date_uploaded][YouTube]], the changes to the [[http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/etc/NEWS][Emacs NEWS file]], and [[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-06][emacs-devel]].