2021-09-27 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2021-09-27 Emacs news

• Ending soon: EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals (Reddit, HN) until Sept 30
• Upcoming events:
  • 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
  • EmacsNYC: Discussion: Remote Collaboration Software and crdt.el https://www.meetup.com/New-York-Emacs-Meetup/events/280981454/ Mon Oct 4 1600 Vancouver / 1800 Chicago / 1900 Toronto / 2300 GMT – Tue Oct 5 0100 Berlin / 0430 Kolkata / 0700 Singapore (Emacs NYC)
  • EmacsATX: TBD https://www.meetup.com/EmacsATX/events/hkckgsyccnbjb/ Wed Oct 6 1630 Vancouver / 1830 Chicago / 1930 Toronto / 2330 GMT – Thu Oct 7 0130 Berlin / 0500 Kolkata / 0730 Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Tory Anderson: Swapping chords in Dvorak, or Why does emacs keyboard-translate fail with (wrong-type-argument characterp 134217845)
  • Tory Anderson: Fail-fast Transients like Hydra
  • System Crafters Live! - Investigating use-package Alternatives (02:08:23)
  • Just out of curiosity, how many bytes/kilobytes/megabytes does your dot file weight?
  • ap.el: A simple, Emacs Lisp-focused Emacs config (Reddit)
  • with-emacs.sh: Script to easily run Emacs with specified configurations (Reddit)
  • My Current Emacs Configuration (34:33) - web dev, software dev - Timothy Unkert
  • Crandel's .emacs
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Sid Kasivajhula: Symex.el: Edit Lisp Code in a Vim-like Way
  • Sid Kasivajhula: The Animated Guide to Symex (Reddit)
  • scimax - formatting strings in elisp (22:35, Irreal)
  • scimax - functions in emacs-lisp (26:02, Irreal)
  • Little Experiment - Source Code View in Built-in Help, a lá Helpful (Reddit)
  • Mattias Engdegård makes an interesting discovery about the Emacs Lisp bytecode interpreter, and ERT tests (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • [ANN] idle-highlight-mode (fast symbol-at-point highlighting) updated
  • Tory Anderson: Replacing beacon.el with hl-line-flash
  • yuri tricys: How to Configure Emacs Themes in var_year
  • an-old-hope-emacs: a syntax theme from a galaxy far far away…
  • Emacs Beautification Using Mode-Line Dashboard And Themes (12:14)
• Navigation:
  • Grant Rettke: Automatically open read-only files in View mode
  • Gumshoe 2.0, my first package in Melpa - fancy point logger to help you remember where you've been
  • Swiper Search & Centaur-Tabs in Emacs (03:56)
  • Emacs filetree package demo (Reddit)
  • Tory Anderson: The lost art of page breaks in text documents
• Dired:
  • Moldable Emacs: extending the Playground powers via hooks (to include Dired) (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs Org-Mode Intro (13:14)
  • O que é, e como utilizar: Org em Emacs (22:48)
  • [ANN] org-ql 0.6 released (Reddit)
  • TAONAW: Refreshing my Capture Templates (Reddit)
  • Images:
    • Now you can real-ly view your org files (Reddit)
    • Use Emacs for Systems Thinking (Irreal)
    • Emacs Drawing Tool (Reddit) - for drawing diagrams in Org, includes color picker
  • Org Roam:
    • I split my brain (Reddit) - org-roam contexts
    • 5 Org Roam Hacks for Better Productivity in Emacs (29:44)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • 😎😎 Emacs exportar .org a .pdf (video random)😜😜 (14:05)
    • Tim Heaney: blogpost - Rust script to create an ox-hugo blog post
    • weblorg - v0.1.2 - Slowly but Surely-weblorg, the modern Static HTML Generator for Emacs and Org-Mode
    • Managing calendar events in Emacs
• Coding:
  • comint-mime: Display graphics and other MIME attachments in Emacs shells
  • Announcing experimental support for Janet programming language in PEL (Pragmatic Emacs Library, configuration)
  • theme-check on Emacs. Theme Check is a command line tool that helps you follow Shopify Themes & Liquid best practices by analyzing the Liquid & JSON inside your theme
  • Tim Heaney: Zig
  • EmacsでのISLispモードが公開されています。 (06:21)
• Mail and news:
  • Mu4e (very) fast thread folding
  • dank-mode: Emacs major mode for browsing Reddit
  • Emacs NYC: Managing Email in Emacs with mu4e (1:13:41)
• Chat:
  • Telega Manual (v0.7.018). telega is full featured unofficial client for Telegram platform for GNU Emacs.
  • Tassilo Horn: Rcirc hack of the day: print timestamps less often
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • XEmacs vs. GNU Emacs
  • Life of an Emacser (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Live stream: Emacs and the Unix philosophy
  • Alex Schroeder: The first programming language is English
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: 11x10%
• Other:
  • Como utilizar o Emacs (com evil mode) (27:59)
  • Emacs Macros (07:43) - keyboard macros
  • System Crafters Live! - The Many Varieties of Emacs (48:26)
  • System Crafters Live! - The Many Varieties of Emacs (Part 2) (1:07:41)
  • I love that you can do this (A few of them got a little destroyed) (Reddit) - running various text editors inside Emacs
  • qrencode-el: QRCode encoder for Emacs in pure elisp
  • Emacs Typing Tutor | Actually (HN)
• Emacs development:
  • 'glyphless-char-display-control' now applies to Variation Selectors.
  • Enhance font_range to check for emoji composition triggers
  • Document shorthands in the Elisp manual section on Symbols (Reddit, emacs-devel) - namespacing
  • Add new macro with-environment-variables
  • * lisp/tab-line.el: Add modified-buffer face
  • Renege on anonymous &rest (bug#50268, bug#50720)
  • Add new user option ispell-help-timeout
  • New :type natnum for defcustom
  • Add support for man page hyperlinks in doc strings
  • Indent bodies of local function definitions properly in elisp-mode
  • New thing-at-point target 'string' used in context-menu-region
  • Add support for "bright" ANSI colors in term-mode and ansi-color
  • Add aggregate project discovery and maintenance functions: project-remember-projects-under, project-forget-project, project-forget-projects-under, project-forget-zombie-projects
  • Move 'kdb-macro-redisplay' key binding (old: C-x C-k Q, new: C-x C-k d)
  • Fix build with native compilation but without zlib
  • New major mode with font-locking for etc/AUTHORS
  • Add new function `ensure-list': makes a list of its object if it's not a list already
  • Add new command 'checkdoc-dired'
  • Consistently test alist keys with equal in map.el
  • Avoid double argument evaluation in vc-call macro
  • Make dired-compress-file query for a directory to uncompress to
  • New command 'project-find-dir' runs Dired in a directory inside project
  • Support for Unicode emoji sequences
• New packages:
  • lacquer: Switch theme/font by selecting from a cache
  • org-movies: Manage watchlist with Org mode

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