2022-06-20 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2022-06-20 Emacs news

• Upcoming events:
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• Beginner:
  • Emacs Part I (15:32)
  • Emacs is Powerful Part I and II (01:03:48)
• Emacs configuration:
  • A Meta-dot Of Your Emacs Dreams (03:59) - using the elpaso package manager
  • Download packages without fetching repositories when using Straight* (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • scripter.co | Emacs: Emacs Lisp: Advice Combinators - with diagrams
  • Performance comparison between cl-lib, dash, and seq - Kisaragi Hiu
  • How to build an editor with Emacs Lisp - 07 Basic Loops (16:42, Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • [ANN] info-variable-pitch: View Info with proportional fonts while keeping (most of) what needs to be monospace in mono (Reddit)
  • Irreal: Highlighting
  • scripter.co | Emacs: Gujarati fonts in Emacs
• Writing:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: demonstration of my Denote package (simple note-taking) (39:04, YouTube, Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • TAONAW - Emacs: Another look at my Journal Capture Templates
  • scripter.co | Emacs: Org: Show only Post subtree headings
  • jao: simple note taking
  • org-roam is absolutely fantastic!
  • org-verse - bible verse with backlinks (Reddit)
  • Emacs org mode library in C++ (45:36)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Emacs Notes: How to create a Table with multi-paragraph content & spanned cells using Emacs Org mode - transcluded tables using footnotes. Looks neat, wonder if HTML export can do it too.
    • Citations in org-mode: Org-cite and Citar | Kristoffer Balintona (Reddit)
    • Org-mode as a Static Site Generator (Reddit)
    • How I run my wiki with org mode (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • Auto-Upcase/downcase #+begin/#+end in structure templates
    • ob-core.el/babel: Special handling for attachment links in src block
• Coding:
  • Meta Redux: Compliment 0.3.13 - Clojure code completon
• Fun:
  • Magnus: Power-mode in Spacemacs - fancy particles
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Most visually impressive emacs packages?
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Re: Tree-sitter integration on feature/tree-sitter - request for feedback on API, porting to use core treesitter API
  • emacs-devel: Re: [Patch] Avoid recording chars when reading passwords - probably new default behavior, with the option to restore old behavior (passwords getting captured in lossage)
  • emacs-devel: Explanation of difference between make distclean and make extraclean
  • emacs-devel: Re: Exposing buffer text modifications to Lisp - technical details on markers, and suggestions for package developers to work more closely with core
    • also some details on how the Org parser works
  • Make images found through `find-image' be handled like `create-image'
  • Allow using :width/:height as normal with xbm images
  • Allow removing quotes around links in Help buffers
  • Let `dired-omit-mode' match lines, as well as file names
  • Don't handle reverseVideo X resource specially
  • Fix test failures due to 'xterm-select-active-regions'
  • Filter out NS non-key events from `where-is-internal'
  • Allow pretty-printing results from `C-x C-e' in edebug
  • Support `select-active-regions' with xterm
  • Extend 'e' in edebug to pretty-print the values
  • Delete another library obsolete since 24.1
  • Add new command `duplicate-line'
  • Cancel editing bookmark annotations with C-c C-k
  • Delete most libraries obsolete since 24.1 and 24.3
  • Add new package.el commands for recompilation
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Add entry for recent minibuffer abbrev table changes.
  • Leave the contents on the Backtrace buffer on `q'
  • * lisp/minibuffer.el (minibuffer-complete-history): New command.
  • * lisp/simple.el (completion-auto-wrap): Rename from completion-wrap-movement.
• New packages:
  • ansilove: Display buffers as PNG images using ansilove (MELPA)
  • cargo-transient: A transient for cargo (MELPA)
  • ebnf-mode: Major mode for EBNF files (MELPA)
  • insert-random: Insert random characters from various character sets (MELPA)
  • lingva: Access Google Translate via lingva.ml (MELPA)
  • org-mac-link: Insert org-mode links to items selected in various Mac apps (MELPA)
  • ppcompile: Ping-pong compile projects on remote machines (MELPA)
  • smithy-mode: Major mode for editing Smithy IDL files (MELPA)
  • zetteldesk-ref: A zetteldesk extension for interfacing with literature nodes (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 Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links!

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