macsAirI have releases new versions of many of my packages: auto-compile 1.5.2, borg 3.1.2, closql 1.0.1, elx 1.2.9, emir 2.4.0, epkg 3.2.2, hl-todo 3.1.0, keycast 1.0.0, minions 0.3.2, moody 0.5.0, no-littering 1.0.3, orgit 1.6.0, orglink 1.1.4 and outline-minor-faces 0.1.2.
Some of these packages (orgit and orglink) had to be adjusted to
adapt to changes in org, which was released very recently. Others
(auto-compile, closql, moody and outline-minor-faces) had to
be adjusted for Emacs 27, which will soon enter the pre-test phase.
Some other changes include:
borg-rewrite-urls-alist allows rewriting certain urls
when a package repository is cloned. This is mostly intended to
replace Github and Gitlab ssh URLs with https urls.epkg-list-matching-packages.Added new option hl-todo-exclude-modes and for consistency also
renamed the existing option hl-todo-enable-in-modes to
hl-todo-include-modes.
Added new option hl-todo-color-background allowing users to
highlight keywords using distinct background colors instead of using
distinct foreground colors.
The command hl-todo-insert handles some edge-cases better.
Give up on highlighting ???. Supporting this is just not worth the
effort and risk of breaking other features.
This package has marinated long enough for an initial stable release: 1.0.0.
While reading a password (using read-passwd) the typed keys are no
longer broadcast.
Merely loading the library no longer results in
keycast-mode-line-update being added to pre-command-hook.
minions-mode-line-face.The maintainers of other mode-line packages should take notice of these changes.
Advice fit-window-to-buffer to explicitly call redisplay. This
causes the actual height of the mode-line to be taken into account.
Without this parts of the buffer can end up being cut of if the
mode-line is higher than a regular buffer line.
Detecting whether the window whose mode-line is currently being formatted is the actual selected window was believed to be difficult because that window was always temporarily selected while doing so.
I brought this up on emacs-devel and two approaches were suggested that are much better than what any of the third-party mode-line packages are doing.
Starting with Emacs 27 we use old-selected-window, whose value as
far as I can tell is always what such packages need. For older
Emacs versions use pre-display-functions to record the selected
window, an approach that is much simpler than all the hacks we have
been using in the past.
Added new option orgit-abbreviate-hashes.
Added new options orgit-store-reference and
orgit-store-repository-id.
orgit-rev-store now stores all marked commits, if any.
Adapt to changes in Org and Magit.
I also performed some other maintenance tasks.
Most importantly this blog, as well as magit.vc and emacsmirror.net no longer fetch fonts from Google Fonts. Sorry it took so long. What finally got me to do it is that I just accepted a $250 donation from Google, which brings me to the next topic.
I have been accepted to the Github Sponsors program about two months ago. After a quick start new sponsors have become much rarer lately, so I decided to do some marketing. In my experience many users are happy to donate, but need a few friendly nudges until they actually do, so:
