2021-12-06 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2021-12-06 Emacs news

• Emacs pretest 28.0.90 is out (Reddit)
• Help wanted:
  • Looking to hire elisp hacker for small project
• Upcoming events:
  • EmacsNYC: Discussion: Is VSCode Better? https://www.meetup.com/New-York-Emacs-Meetup/events/281810145/ Mon Dec 6 1600 Vancouver / 1800 Chicago / 1900 Toronto – Tue Dec 7 0000 GMT / 0100 Berlin / 0530 Kolkata / 0800 Singapore
  • Emacs Paris (virtual, in French) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Tue Dec 7 0830 Vancouver / 1030 Chicago / 1130 Toronto / 1630 GMT / 1730 Berlin / 2200 Kolkata – Wed Dec 8 0030 Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Dec 17 0700 Vancouver / 0900 Chicago / 1000 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1600 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Splitting Emacs config (31:06)
  • Meow 1.1.0 release
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Old McCarthy Had a Form (Reddit)
  • Advent of Code 2021 with Emacs Lisp
  • Advent of Code in Elisp (SPOILERS)
  • easy-namespace.el: Elisp namespace helper
• Appearance:
  • Meow - Yet another modal editing for Emacs - beacon state introduction (03:55)
  • Drop shadowed text (using SVG) (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Note for modus-themes users on Emacs 29
  • emacs-faff-theme: A light theme based on the Emacs default, extensively tweaked
  • kaolin-inspired: Kaolin theme inspired by beautiful Kaolin themes made for Emacs
• Navigation:
  • Emacs: Discovering project.el (17:40)
  • Avy can do anything / you’re using Avy wrong. (extra tips in comments)
• Dired:
  • Expanding a Directory With Tab in Dired Mode
• Org Mode:
  • This Month in Org: November 2021 (Reddit)
  • Emacs NYC: Literate Programming with Org Mode
  • Marcin Borkowski: Org timer once again
  • [ANN] An Org parser for Julia
  • TiddlyWiki y Emacs
  • Emacs org roam basics
• Completion:
  • GNU/Emacs - Vertico Embark Consult Marginalia Orderless for completion & some extra functionalities (10:44)
• Coding:
  • LisTeX: yet another s-_expression_ to latex converter
  • Emacs TIL: Run a selection / region of Ruby code
  • [ANN] doc-show-inline: in-line doc-string display for C/C++ now on melpa
  • [v0.0.3] Code Review package
  • Manuel Uberti: Rebasing with VC
  • Reproducible Dev Environment for Clojure with Guix and Emacs
  • Emacs client for Advent of Code private leaderboard
• Doom Emacs:
  • Emacs TIL: Doom Emacs Workspace Workflow
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Remote High School Emacs ❤️ - Jake B (09:28)
  • TAONAW: Of Responsibility to spread Knowledge
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Live stream: Status update on my Emacs work
• Other:
  • Tory Anderson: macro power: removing weekends from repeating event
  • Sacha Chua: EmacsConf backstage: picking timestamps from a waveform
  • Keep track of your expenses
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Emacs is not a Proper GTK Application
  • Emacs Abbreviation Creation 2021_11_30_06:43:29
  • yuri tricys: Emacs Conference Comments 2021 (discusses EmacsConf videos starting at about 9:18)
  • Shell script to build emacs on macos (works well with M1 mac on Monterey)
  • Emacs 28.0.90 pretest build for macOS with native compilation, in a fully self-contained Emacs.app bundle
  • portableEmacs: Containing useful scripts and resources for making emacs portable (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Use gnus-error to report mail-source failures
  • eieio-core.el: Allow assignment to cl-structs through `slot-value`
  • Fix (date-to-time "2021-12-04")
  • Move 'C-x 8 .' to 'C-x 8 . .'
  • Fix typo in NEWS about 'write-file'
  • image-mode: Advertize viewing as text less eagerly
  • * etc/NEWS: Mention change in `insert-directory' derivates. Fix typos.
  • Make `C-c C-w' copy the executable bits to the new file
  • Add a new variable 'process-error-pause-time'
  • Add `touch-end' event type
  • Change how Dired displays available space
  • Add new face `variable-pitch-text'
  • Add a new minor mode `glyphless-display-mode'
  • Enable gnus-treat-fold-headers by default
  • Use proportional fonts in the Gnus headers by default
  • Document pixel-fill-region
  • Allow storing buffer names in registers
  • Add new package pixel-fill.el
• New packages:
  • doc-show-inline: Show doc-strings found in external files
  • flymake-yamllint: YAML linter with yamllint
  • gmsh-mode: Highlight GMSH mesh generator script syntax
  • parser-generator: Parser Generator library
  • ruled-switch-buffer: Rule based buffer switching
  • subed: A major mode for editing subtitles
  • tok-theme: My theme

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