2022-02-14 Emacs news

Help wanted:
- Multi-tty todo list
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Beginner:
- How to start learning emacs - my successful method.
- Ask HN: How to Get Good at Emacs? | Hacker News
- What Is Doom Emacs and How to Install It (03:33)
Emacs configuration:
- Irreal: Emacs Extensibility
- A few cases of literate configuration (Reddit)
- How to show (temporary) cheat-sheet buffer
- Emacs from Source Part 6: Fixing initial evil-mode states and keybindings (14:03)
- /sqrtminusone's Emacs config (Reddit)
- System Crafters Live! - Rational Emacs: A New Base Configuration (01:54:29)
Emacs Lisp:
- How to build an editor with Emacs Lisp - 03 Lisp basics (45:49)
- Emacs Ninja - Forbidden Emacs Lisp Knowledge: Block Comments (HN)
- some examples on closures and lexical-binding
- Emacs Lisp critique (Reddit)
Appearance:
- themes: A megapack of themes for GNU Emacs.
- I made an Emacs theme for Android based on my own configuration (Reddit)
- Floating window in Emacs
- emacs IDE #12 🚀 Rainbow delimiters and Highlight parentheses [ES] (09:38)
- emacs IDE #11 🚀 Ligatures and trailing whitespace [ES] (16:10)
Navigation:
- UOMF: Path-Independent Links to Local Files Via Locate (Reddit)
- Using Emacs tab-bar-mode (Reddit)
- Christian Tietze: Add Numbers to Emacs tab-bar-mode Tab Titles for Quick Access
- Emacs Info Manuals (18:17)
Dired:
- Display README files in Dired buffer similar as on GitHub/GitLab
Writing:
- Screenwriting with Fountain-Mode and Olivetti-Mode is PERFECTION! (Reddit)
Org Mode:
- Sharing some appreciation for how useful org-mode is in my life
- Humanities Dissertation in org-mode? Some Thoughts
- Task Repeaters in Org Mode
- Pretty rendering of paragraphs with org-view mode
- Org Mode Headlines in Org Source Blocks
- journal with the use of org-mode
- Data Analysis with Emacs Org Mode: Tables and AWK Source Blocks (17:34)
- Jeremy Friesen: Org Roam, Emacs, and Ever Refining the Note Taking Process
- Plain Org v1.2 released (Reddit)
- Time management:
- Import, export, and integration:
  - Roam-friendly Diigo.com <–> .org file syncing
Completion:
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: mct version 0.5.0
- Emacs Minibuffer Completions (23:08)
- Trasteando con yasnippets
Coding:
- Building an Intelligent Emacs with LSP (Reddit, HN)
- Irreal: Some Comment Tips from Mickey
- Emacs Macros and HTML (02:53)
- js/react emacs config review
- I finally got full auto-competion in Swift with emacs, here is how: - xcodeprojects
- User Scripts in mpv with Lua (with Lua LSP setup in Emacs) (36:13)
- Connect to existing REPL · Clojure development with Spacemacs & Cider
- Emacs from Source Part 5: Rust setup with rustic (17:43)
- Go Live Coding in Emacs Part 3: Refactoring Input File Parsing (01:01:22)
- Moldable Emacs: learning syntax from your editor! (Reddit)
Math:
- LiTeX mode: Do calculations in Lisp, convert them to LaTeX (YouTube, 12:04)
Science:
- Tired of leaving emacs to calculate your primer melting temperatures?? tmcalculator.el can help!
- sgd-lookup.el: An Emacs API wrapper for Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD).
Shells:
- Dtache Vterm
Mail and news:
- rmail-ordered-headers: Control order of headers in Emacs Rmail messages buffer.
- Irreal: Ecomplete - mail completion
Multimedia:
- D.V.F.P.: Using Emacs to write scores in LilyPond
Fun:
- Emacs as my DnD environment (Follow-up)
- dnd-mode: A minor mode for playing DnD
- org-dnd-srd: System Reference Documents for DnD written in org files to be searchable and interactive when in emacs
- emacs-dnd5e-api: An Emacs interface to the DnD 5e SRD API
- decide-mode: Random decisions for emacs, with functions and a minor mode. Roll various types of dice etc.
Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- Support MELPA (Irreal)
- Lars Ingebrigtsen: 14×10%
- Discussion about whether Emacs needs a commercial
- Eric MacAdie: 2022-02 Austin Emacs Meetup
Other:
- Emacs: Search Engine Mode 2022_02_13_03:14:23 (09:36)
- Edit browser textarea with Emacs - Chromium/Firefox
- Why MSYS was developed
Emacs development:
- Continued discussion re: sqlite3
- Continued discussion Re: Can watermarking Unicode text using invisible differences sneak thro
- Note caveat about remapping basic faces
- Add a mechanism for querying before executing a command
- Add a new macro `setopt'
- Remove the 'C-k' binding in ido-mode
- Make `C-u M-x count-words' also give totals
- Optionally allow point to enter composed character sequences
- Allow customization of the user's eln-cache directory
- Mention `overlay' show-paren-context-when-offscreen value in NEWS
- Make connection-local variables user options
New packages:
- helm-twitch: Navigate Twitch.tv via `helm' (MELPA)
- org-journal-tags: Tagging and querying system of org-journal (MELPA)
- org-remark: Highlight & annotate any text files (GNU ELPA)
- paimon: A major mode for Splunk (MELPA)
- simplicity-theme: A minimalist dark theme (MELPA)

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

Thanks to Andres Ramirez for a few mailing list links!

From:	Sacha Chua
Subject:	2022-02-14 Emacs news
Date:	Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:53:36 -0500
User-agent:	Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)