MinEmacs v0.3.0

[abougouffa]

Hello all,

First, let me thank you for your interest in my Emacs configuration, and thank everyone who participated in this release by reporting bugs and helping with fixing them.

This release contains several improvements and bug fixes (see CHANGELOG.md for more details). However, I would like to highlight some key features here:

Pin a package to a specific commit

MinEmacs uses straight.el and use-package to install and configure packages. Now, you can use the :pin-ref keyword with use-package to pin a package to a commit (similar to Doom Emacs' :pin keyword):

(use-package closql
  :straight t
  :pin-ref "0a7226331ff1f96142199915c0ac7940bac4afdd")

This keyword adds a convenient wrapper around straight-x's way of pinning packages. It may change in the future, depending on the evolution of straight.el.

MinEmacs packages versions

Now, MinEmacs make use of straight's package freezing to be more stable. I will try to push package versions that work and pin, if needed, problematic packages to their working commits.

You can make sure that you are using the bundled versions by running straight-x-thaw-pinned-versions.

Updating packages

Now, MinEmacs provides the minemacs-update command to force it to update packages, while taking into account the explicitly pinned ones (using :pin-ref).

The provided Makefile also supports now the update rule, so running make update from the command line will update and rebuild all packages (currently, this command does not update MinEmacs itself, you still need to manually git pull origin main to update it).