Notes for emacs-berlin meetup on 27.04.2016

1 How to submit a patch to emacs mailing list?

  • ping john wiegley
  • send a screenshot

2 Who runs emacs tests? CI?

  • Andreas already got some CI emails?

3 general-close

  • it's being used!
  • try it on melpa
  • Andreas demonstrates general-close implementation
    • suggestion to use pcase
  • needs autoloads
    • add ;;;###autoload before all command defuns

4 Parenthesis fu

  • smartparens
  • slurping (swallowing stuff into enclosing parens)
  • check-parens

5 We need an xrandr interface in emacs.

6 Arne is writing curriculum for beginners

7 projectile-ag

  • ag is an alternative to grep

8 How to build stuff on Travis

  • emacs support
  • ycmd as an example
  • ycmd at github
  • using cask for package management

9 cask

  • useful for developing emacs packages

10 eshell

  • you can run emacs commandst here
  • no one attending has managed to entirely switch to eshell

11 Reimplement emacs for JVM?

12 Discussion about thing-at-point-utils

Created: 2016-04-27 Wed 23:26

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