2021-07-19 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2021-07-19 Emacs news

• Upcoming events:
  • Frankfurt: Emacs FFM Meetup! July 2021 https://www.meetup.com/emacs-ffm/events/279408068/ Wed Jul 21 1000 Vancouver / 1200 Chicago / 1300 Toronto / 1700 GMT / 1900 Berlin / 2230 Kolkata – Thu Jul 22 0100 Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Jul 24 0130 Vancouver / 0330 Chicago / 0430 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 1030 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jul 28 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1630 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2200 Kolkata – Thu Jul 29 0030 Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • How I Write Code, Track Time and Tasks, Take Notes, and Stay Organized in Emacs | Hacker News (Reddit, HN)
  • System Crafters Live! - Do we really need use-package in Emacs? (1:58:00)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • lf.el: A Language Features library for Emacs Lisp
  • Geoffrey Lessel's Emacs Videos - Let's Write Some Emacs Lisp
  • Looking for more elisp videos
• Emacs development:
  • Add support for sourcehut to bug-reference.el
  • Allow ignoring local variable values permanently
  • Make indent-tabs-mode into a regular mode instead of just a variable
  • Add new function 'grep-file-at-point'
  • Add lock-file-mode
  • Add new user option 'query-about-changed-file'
  • Add new user option to abbreviate file names in save-place
  • Allow restoring the original order in 'tabulated-list-mode'
  • Rename shell-split-string to split-string-shell-command
  • Add a new function 'shell-split-string'
  • Add new function 'insert-into-buffer'
  • Add remote-file-name-inhibit-locks
  • Add new user option to avoid piling on Dired buffers
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Modus themes 1.5.0 for GNU Emacs (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • emacs-registers-completing-read : This is wrapper for Emacs registers with completing-read function (Reddit)
  • Effortless Ctags with Git
• Dired:
  • Directories First in Dired on Windows (Reddit)
  • Manuel Uberti: Reuse Dired buffers
  • Christian Tietze: Two Improvements to Open macOS Finder Window in Emacs Dired + Automator Quick Action Downloads
• Calc:
  • helm-convert: Helm interface for unit conversions in Emacs
  • Emacs Calc Tricks: Comparing and Contrasting Curve fitting on spreadsheet columns using LibreOffice Calc and Emacs Calc
  • Calc formulas, all you need to know (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Counting business days
• Writing:
  • Emacs For Writers | Count Words, Goals In Buffer (09:33)
• Org Mode:
  • Irreal: See the Underlying Org Entry for an Agenda Item
  • I made a thing for org: bespoke completion & sparse tree view
  • Editing formulas at the speed of light - the Org Spreadsheet (Reddit)
  • How I achieved "named rows” in native org-table formulas
  • Nicer org ids
  • Citations merged into org-mode (Reddit)
  • A quick preview of the next generation of 'org-ref' package
  • bag.el: convert URLs to org links with tags (Reddit)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Hindi/Devanagari presentations using orgmode, R, latex and beamer | R-bloggers
    • ox-context: An Org Mode export backend for ConTeXt (Reddit)
    • org-git-hooks - export and tangle when you commit (new project) (Reddit)
    • Publishing Articles and Books with Org Mode Export (May 2021)
    • export large cells in tables to odt and latex: list–>tables: org-mode-ox-odt (Reddit)
  • Org Roam:
    • Org-roam V1 will be deprecated soonish. This is a new repo (with installation instructions) with the current state of V1 while the users transition to V2. (Reddit)
    • Releasing Org-roam v2 - Jethro's blog (Reddit)
    • Config for org-roam v2
    • Put all your org-roam files in your fingertips by extending 'consult-buffer"
• Completion:
  • From Ivy & Counsel to Vertico & Consult (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • presentations/2020-jhug-emacs-for-java-developers at master · iocanel/presentations · GitHub
  • Open call for an ELisp hacker to bring GitHub Copilot to Emacs (yes, really) (Reddit)
  • emacs-secondmate: An open-source, mini imitation of GitHub Copilot using EleutherAI GPT-Neo-2.7B for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Magit:
    • Everyday Git Workflow in Emacs with Magit (Reddit)
    • Everyday Git Workflow in Emacs with Magit - Part 2
    • Christian Tietze: Open Magit for Current Repository from the Terminal
    • Simple explanation of magit-forge fork/pull request workflow
• Web:
  • Alex Schroeder: Elpher as the universal browser for Emacs
• TRAMP:
  • Emacs TRAMP over AWS SSM APIs (Reddit, HN)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: 9×10% – Random Thoughts (Reddit)
  • Reading: Mastering Emacs: Chapter 2: The Way of Emacs (2/2) (39:07)
• Other:
  • app-launcher: Launch application from Emacs
  • Package praise: Prodigy and fancy-dabbrev
  • Andrea: Moldable Emacs: capturing text from open images with an OCR mold
  • Graph Visualization of MELPA with d3 (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • capnp-mode: Major mode for editing Capn' Proto Files
  • logms: Log message with clickable links to context

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