2021-08-16 Emacs news

Help wanted:
- EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals (Reddit, HN) until Sept 30
- Prot's laptop is having a hard time (Reddit) - Prot has a Paypal donation link at the bottom of the page
- Command Discovery in Emacs (Feb 2021) - might be a good way to start contributing to Emacs
Upcoming events:
- M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Aug 20 0700 Vancouver / 0900 Chicago / 1000 Toronto / 1400 GMT / 1600 Berlin / 1930 Kolkata / 2200 Singapore
- Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 25 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1630 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2200 Kolkata – Thu Aug 26 0030 Singapore
- Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Aug 28 0130 Vancouver / 0330 Chicago / 0430 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 1030 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore
Beginner:
- 30 days of Emacs – Day 1: Installation using Homebrew on macOS, first steps, tutorial, use-package
- A gentle introduction to Emacs for ex-ViM users (09:08)
- The Modern Emacs - Andrew Tropin (1:33:38, Reddit)
Emacs configuration:
- Emacs config without use-package - an experiment
- yuri tricys: Emacs Snitch and How to Improve Performance
- unpackaged/custom-toggle-all-more-hide: Expand all options’ documentation (Reddit) - discussion of helm in the comments
- System Crafters Live! - Emacs Package Potluck (Trying Your Suggestions!) (02:02:23)
- ahmadnazir's Emacs config - Spacemacs, .NET, Helm
Emacs Lisp:
- Submitting a Package to NonGNU ELPA (Reddit)
- plz.el: An HTTP library for Emacs, using curl as a backend
- Andrea: Moldable Emacs: editing your file via Treesitter (or, how I fixed my CSS with a Playground)
- First time writing elisp code from scratch - 1password handler
Emacs development:
- * lisp/simple.el (shift-select-mode): Add new choice 'permanent' (bug#50038).
- Revert "Bind the GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS environment variable"
- Add new functions for lax mail address splitting
- Fix merging of ambiguous nil maps
- Add font-lock-doc-markup-face (bug#50041)
- Add new face diff-changed-unspecified
- Add save-some-buffers-root to save-some-buffers-default-predicate (bug#46374)
- Add a `pcase-setq' macro
- Add new image-dired commands
- Mark marked images in Image-Dired mode
- Let image-dired-mouse-toggle-mark act on active region
- Use ### for outline headings in shell-script-mode
- Add support for outlining in shell-script-mode
- Add new user option `gnus-topic-prepare-topic'
- Add a new command `revert-buffer-quick'
Appearance:
- highlight-parentheses.el: Emacs: highlight surrounding parentheses
- Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Arabic & Hebrew)
Navigation:
- crux - a Collection of Ridiculously Useful eXtensions for Emacs (08:52)
- thing-edit: Copy and paste anything under cursor. (2020)
- [ANN] dogears.el: Never lose your place in Emacs again (Reddit)
- Manuel Uberti: Switching buffers (Take 3)
Completion:
- consult-dir: switch directories in Emacs at any time (Reddit)
Writing:
- fanyi.el: English-Chinese translator for Emacs.
- mw-dictionaries: This is modified from mw-thesaurus.el with support for Learner dictionary
Org Mode:
- Peter Prevos: Ricing Org Mode: A Beautiful Writing Environment (Irreal)
- Emacs Agenda Views | DummyHead (2019)
- Timekeeping with Emacs and Org-Mode (2020)
- Irreal: Org-ref-cite Video
- Org parser libraries | org-almanac (Reddit)
- iOS: Improving org task rendering (Reddit)
- Org Roam:
Coding:
- Getting Emacs and Julia to work
- 30 days of Emacs - Day 2 — kevinsjoberg OCaml
- datum Query databases from the command line, via ODBC. Plays nicely with Emacs' SQLi mode
- parcont.el: Continuation-based sexp editing commands
- comp-ide.el: A simple and efficient Emacs Competitive IDE. (Youtube)
- Fast switching between two git branches (Reddit) helm-git-branch
Math:
- Easy Entry of Math Symbols (Global Keybindings) (Reddit)
Mail and news:
- Tassilo Horn: Make your RSS enjoyable in feed readers such as elfeed
- [ANN] New package: mu4e-column-faces (Reddit)
Web:
- Switch nyxt buffers and run nyxt commands from emacs (Reddit)
- Andrea: Following wise suggestions: making emacs-with-nyxt more consistent
Spacemacs:
- GUI Spacemacs support for Dockerized Pen.el
Doom Emacs:
- One year of doom emacs and never looked back
- Use Emacs-Tree-Sitter for Highlighting in Doom Emacs (2020)
Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- Telegram @emacs_posts: Emacs News and Posts (Reddit)
- Lars Ingebrigtsen: 10×10% – Random Thoughts (closing 45% of open Emacs bugs) (Reddit, HN)
Other:
- Termux + Emacs
- How to run multiple Emacs daemon instances
New packages:
- consult-dir: Consult based directory picker
- efar: FAR-like file manager
- evil-textobj-treesitter: Provides evil textobjects using treesitter
- gumshoe: Scoped spatial and temporal POINT movement tracking
- netease-cloud-music: Netease Cloud Music client
- session-async: Asynchronous processing in a forked process session
- streamlink: A major mode for streamlink output
- untappd: Display your latest Untappd feed

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar and emacs-devel.

From:	Sacha Chua
Subject:	2021-08-16 Emacs news
Date:	Mon, 16 Aug 2021 01:20:05 -0400
User-agent:	Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)