2021-11-15 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2021-11-15 Emacs news

• Help wanted:
  • Looking for spacemacs power user for a 30m/1h lesson. (paid)
• Upcoming events:
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Nov 19 0700 Vancouver / 0900 Chicago / 1000 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1600 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Nov 24 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1730 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2300 Kolkata – Thu Nov 25 0130 Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Marcin Borkowski: y-or-n-p but with RET meaning yes
  • Philip K.: A somewhat brief update on setup.el
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs Lisp book is finished (Reddit, HN)
• Appearance:
  • PSA: Emacs now distinguishes between "regular" and "medium" font weights
  • Christian Tietze: Use macOS System Selection Colors in LIN for Emacs Line-Selection UIs
  • Emacs Icon v2
  • SVG Hack for Emacs Display Engine
• Navigation:
  • yuri tricys: How to Find Just About Anything On Your Computer With Emacs Part 2
• Org Mode:
  • Eigenbahn: Custom Org-mode links abbrevs
  • Emacs TIL: Upload and insert hosted images into Org files
  • Jeremy Friesen: Creating a Documentation Dashboard and Emacs Function
  • org-roam-ui is now in MELPA! (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Plain Org has joined the chat (iOS) (Reddit)
  • [Appreciation] Org mode's new website
• Completion:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: mct is on GNU ELPA
• Coding:
  • Emacs IDE - How to Debug Your Code with dap-mode
  • PCB Design in GNU Emacs
  • Jeremy Friesen: Further Hacking on Emacs for Github Pull Requests
  • [WIP/RFC] Magit-like interface for Nix flake commands (Reddit)
• Web:
  • Using follow-mode and eww to make a multi-columned web browser (Reddit)
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Finally! Videos in eww
• Doom Emacs:
  • Emacs TIL: Setting up grammar check with Doom Emacs in Mac OS X (Reddit)
  • DoomConf November 2021 (Doom Emacs) (02:53:49)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: 12x10%
  • Ask HN: Could VSCode be the new Emacs?
  • Talking about Emacs and Other Things (15:29)
  • System Crafters Live! - Editor Popularity: Does It Matter? (01:57:30)
  • Lex Fridman on Emacs (06:12)
• Other:
  • sndio.el - Emacs major mode for sndio(8) interaction
  • Jeremy Friesen: Send Anything in OS X to Emacs for Editing
  • editWithEmacs: Use emacs to edit any text field/text box in emacs (Reddit)
  • Will Schenk: Getting emacs working on OSX Monterey
• Emacs development:
  • Support abbreviating home directory of Tramp filenames
  • Expose xwidget navigation history to Lisp code
  • Move Info-goto-node-web to "G"
  • image-dired: Revamp slideshow functionality
  • Improve performance of 'file-name-case-insensitive-p' for Tramp files
  • Add a command to go the gnu.org version of the info page
  • xwidget: Add xwidget-webkit-buffer-name-format.
  • Support Tc terminfo flag for 24-bit color support in terminal
  • Options to automatically stop the Emacs server
  • Add `xwidget-webkit-load-html'
  • Add new function 'file-name-split'
  • Expand the etc/NEWS section about the `medium' font changes
  • Optionally use use xwidgets to display <video> elements in shr
  • xwidget.el: limit buffer-name flicker in mode-line
• New packages:
  • mct: Minibuffer and Completions in Tandem
  • dilbert: View Dilbert comics
  • eshell-info-banner: System information as your Eshell banner
  • evil-tree-edit: Evil structural editing for any language!
  • org-roam-timestamps: Keep track of modification times for org-roam
  • org-roam-ui: User Interface for Org-roam
  • tree-edit: A library for structural refactoring and editing
  • xwiki-mode: Major mode for xwiki-formatted text

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