2022-02-21 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2022-02-21 Emacs news

• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Feb 23 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1730 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2300 Kolkata – Thu Feb 24 0130 Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Feb 26 0030 Vancouver / 0230 Chicago / 0330 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 0930 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Mar 1 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata – Wed Mar 2 0000 Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Elisp Debugging and Writing Major Modes https://www.meetup.com/EmacsATX/events/283667955/ Wed Mar 2 1630 Vancouver / 1830 Chicago / 1930 Toronto – Thu Mar 3 0030 GMT / 0130 Berlin / 0600 Kolkata / 0830 Singapore
  • Emacs Paris (virtual, in French) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Thu Mar 3 0830 Vancouver / 1030 Chicago / 1130 Toronto / 1630 GMT / 1730 Berlin / 2200 Kolkata – Fri Mar 4 0030 Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Emacs Tutorial For Beginners |alx software engineering (09:23)
  • 4.1. Emacs Basics - Unix/Linux Text Editor | Software Engineering Journey (32:31)
  • Emacs Editing Text Part 1 (16:03)
  • Emacs Search and Replace (16:50)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Timo Geusch: How can I pin dependent packages when using use-package?
  • Spartan Emacs (A New Minimal Emacs Configuration Framework ?
• Appearance:
  • TopSpace, scroll above the top line to vertically center top text (HN)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Modus themes 2.1.0 for GNU Emacs
  • I decided to create my own Emacs theme - Feedback appreciated
  • shanty-theme: Theme meant for you and me - the workers - who may not get dirty hands very often but love to code and tinker while looking at a screen full of pleasant colors.
  • emacs-simplicity-theme: Minimalist dark theme for Emacs. (Reddit)
  • Native Emojis in Emacs (Reddit)
  • terminal emacs emoji rendering comparison (00:57)
• Navigation:
  • Irreal: Ibuffer
  • Christian Tietze: Split Window in Emacs and Resize and Recenter Frame to Make Room
  • emacs IDE #13 🚀 Auto Revert and Saveplace [ES]​ (10:44)
  • My Avy actions customization
  • emacs-wsp: Functions for a workspace-centric workflow
  • persp-projectile: Projectile integration for perspective.el
  • Buffer-isolated workspaces for emacs with tab-bar and project.el
  • Emacs:Multiple Edits At Once 2022 02 21 06:38:30 (09:40)
  • Is there a magit-like interface for grep?
• Dired:
  • emacs IDE #14 🚀 Dired-mode and Dired all the icons [ES]​ (16:26)
• Writing:
  • LiTeX mode now available in melpa. For people who like lisp and like LaTeX do give it a look, you might like it. (Reddit)
  • Emacs Abbreviation Mode (13:36)
  • Emacs Spell Checking (17:22)
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs TIL: Open org-capture buffer in a new frame
  • Quickly Tangling
  • Org-babel proved to be excellent for the high volume of code reuse in SICP! (Reddit)
  • Org-mode - Fix problems with publishing (03:57)
  • Org-view-mode with new 'quick-edit' feature is now available from Melpa
  • My Org Roam Notes Workflow
  • you want to write a custom org backend? let's write onlybold backend together to get you started
• Completion:
  • helm-twitch
  • Consult-project - consult extension for project.el
  • Emacs TIL: Use yasnippet for personal planning
• Coding:
  • [ANN] cycle-at-point (cycle literals, numbers or dynamically generated values) now on Melpa (Reddit)
  • Andrey Listopadov: What if structural editing was a mistake?
  • Sharing my first emacs extension: csharpto.el
  • rustic 3.0 released (Reddit)
  • Learn AWK with Emacs | jherrlin (2020, HN)
  • Modern Git-Gutter in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Blamer.el 0.4 has been released. Added popup git blame messages with border and rounded corners (Reddit)
  • How to setup a remote pair-programming environment with GNU Guix and GNU Emacs
• Multimedia:
  • emacs mpv.el control mpv and seek by frames, hydra and waveform-el (50:32)
• EXWM:
  • ep1. Emacs EXWM Showcase by thecashew | #4BugsWriter (05:27)
• Community:
  • Getting started with emacs is really hard
  • I want to give up Vim
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • 22 years of Emacs (HN)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Live stream: Emacs, LibrePlanet 2022, philosophy - no more Emacs tutorials/videos, focusing on packages
• Other:
  • Text books in Emacs
  • emacsbench: Benchmarking Emacs itself
  • Is it only me, or did Emacs without native comp get faster lately?
  • Making a Game in Janet, Part 6: How to patch Emacs (2021)
  • DoomConf February 2022 (Doom Emacs) (01:45:31) - el-secretario, exwm gaps
  • Emacs Remote File Editing with SSHFS (05:51)
• Emacs development:
  • Discussion re: feature/package+vc 04c4c578c7 3/4: Allow for packages to be installed directly from VCS
  • Thinking about advice for global variables
  • Public-ize xref-show-xrefs
  • Public-ize xref-current-item
  • Adapt Tramp password prompts for sudo-like methods
  • Add a new library to format variable-pitch tables
  • Add a NEWS entry for the bookmark changes (bug#54030)
  • Add support for Tai Tham script
  • Allow savehist-additional-variables to truncate lists
  • Make autoarg obsolete
• New packages:
  • cycle-at-point: Cycle (rotate) the thing under the cursor (MELPA)
  • edit-as-format: Edit document as other format (MELPA)
  • litex-mode: Minor mode for converting lisp to LaTeX (MELPA)
  • ob-solidity: Org-babel functions for solidity evaluation (MELPA)
  • org-view-mode: Read-only viewer with less markup clutter in org mode files (MELPA)
  • simple-indentation: Simplify writing indentation functions, alternative to SMIE (MELPA)
  • topspace: Scroll above the top line to vertically center top text with a scrollable top margin/padding (MELPA)
  • tramp-nspawn: Tramp integration for systemd-nspawn containers (GNU ELPA)
  • wallpreview: Set wallpapers with image-dired (MELPA)
  • zk-index: Index and Desktop for zk (MELPA)

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