2021-09-20 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2021-09-20 Emacs news

• EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals (Reddit, HN) until Sept 30
• Upcoming events:
  • EmacsConf Office Hour https://emacsconf.org/2021/office-hours/ Tue Sep 21 1800 Vancouver / 2000 Chicago / 2100 Toronto – Wed Sep 22 0100 GMT / 0300 Berlin / 0630 Kolkata / 0900 Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Sep 25 0130 Vancouver / 0330 Chicago / 0430 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 1030 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore
  • EmacsConf Office Hour https://emacsconf.org/2021/office-hours/ Tue Sep 28 1800 Vancouver / 2000 Chicago / 2100 Toronto – Wed Sep 29 0100 GMT / 0300 Berlin / 0630 Kolkata / 0900 Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Sep 29 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1630 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2200 Kolkata – Thu Sep 30 0030 Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Oct 1 0700 Vancouver / 0900 Chicago / 1000 Toronto / 1400 GMT / 1600 Berlin / 1930 Kolkata / 2200 Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Bikeshedding Friday: How do you organize your init file?
  • My Current Emacs Configuration (34:34)
  • Since 1992, an 8,000 lines long, old-style .emacs, still currently updated [Karl Fogel]​ (Reddit)
  • chriztheanvill's config for C++, Markdown, Org and later for lua
  • pascalfleury's personal Emacs configs, consisting mostly of configuration of free tools.
• Emacs Lisp:
  • deffy.el: Show definitions and top-level forms in an Elisp project or file (Reddit)
  • T. V. Raman: Snarfing String Within Delimiters With One Defun
  • T. V. Raman: Generalize Snarf Tool: How The General Can Be Simpler Than The Specific
  • Transient API Example (Part 2: transient-do-stay)
  • eltr : ELTR is an Emacs Lisp Terminal REPL.
  • Andrea: Moldable Emacs: making molds a little easier to write
• Emacs development:
  • Add support for url-retrieve-synchronously to eww-retrieve-command (bug#50680)
  • * etc/NEWS: Add section on recent checkdoc changes.
  • Add new '/opme' and '/deopme' convenience ERC commands
  • Add new help-enable-symbol-autoload user option
  • Mention xref-quit-and-pop-marker-stack in the manual
  • Do some xwidget NEWS markup (and adjust doc string)
  • Check for null bytes in filenames in 'expand-file-name' (bug#49723)
  • * etc/NEWS: Announce update of IRC-related references to point to Libera.Chat.
  • Stop imenu indexing after a certain number of seconds
  • Split Unicode emoji into their own script
  • Add new sequence function 'seq-union'
  • ERC: NickServ: Prompt for password last, overall simplifications (bug#46777)
  • Doc fix for y-or-n-p; trailing space is no longer needed
  • Merge branch 'feature/rcirc-update'
  • Update Unicode support to Unicode version 14.0.0
  • Mention `lisp-data-mode' in `emacs-lisp-mode' doc string
  • Allow for multiple attempts when reconnecting
  • Make `find-function-source-path' into obsolete alias
  • Add support for project-wide diagnostics in Flymake (bug#50244)
  • Project File Commands manual clarification
  • Add user option to avoid checkdoc warning for unescaped left paren
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Beautification Using Mode-Line Dashboard And Themes (12:15)
  • Screenshot Sunday: What does your Emacs look like today?
• Navigation:
  • Emacs: introduction to bookmarks (24:21)
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs Org-Mode Intro (13:15)
  • Emacs as a Time Tracker (Reddit)
  • Simple Gantt chart from an Org todo list with SVG lib (Reddit)
  • Weblorg Static HTML Generator: New Release 0.1.2
  • [feature proposal] Headline caching via org-element-cache = up to 2.5x p
  • Org Roam:
    • Eigenbahn: Graphing my External Brain with Org-Roam
    • 5 Org Roam Hacks for Better Productivity in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Plain Org for iOS (a month later)
  • Plain Org for iOS: latest render + inline edit experience (Reddit)
• Completion:
  • Which completion framework do you use and why?
  • ido-grid.el: reimplementation of ido-grid-mode to be simpler/faster
• Coding:
  • turbo-log: Fast log message inserting for quick debug.
  • Emacs, Expand-region and LaTeX (Irreal)
  • Tim Heaney: Haskell
  • Emacs Configuration for Rails (w/ doom)
  • Xah Html Mode got refactored (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Term-toggle: Quake-style popup console for Emacs just got refactored (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
• Other:
  • koe-PIM-crypt.el: KOE - Simple gpg setup for org-crypt/EXWM (2020)
  • The Way of Emacs (2020, Reddit)
  • System Crafters Live! - The Many Varieties of Emacs (48:27)
  • System Crafters Live! - The Many Varieties of Emacs (Part 2) (01:07:42)
• New packages:
  • justl: Major mode for driving just files
  • khalel: Import, edit and create calendar events throuh khal
  • newspeak-mode: Major mode for the Newspeak programming language
  • qrencode: QRCode encoder
  • ue: Minor mode for Unreal Engine projects

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.

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