2022-08-29 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2022-08-29 Emacs news

• Upcoming events:
  • Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, August 27, 2022
  • Upcoming Talk, Featuring Uses of Hyperbole's Koutliner in the Context of Knowledge Management
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 31 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1630 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2200 Kolkata – Thu Sep 1 0030 Singapore
  • Emacs Paris (virtual, in French) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Thu Sep 1 0830 Vancouver / 1030 Chicago / 1130 Toronto / 1530 GMT / 1730 Berlin / 2100 Kolkata / 2330 Singapore
  • Emacs users group Slovenia https://emacs.si/ Thu Sep 1 1100 Vancouver / 1300 Chicago / 1400 Toronto / 1800 GMT / 2000 Berlin / 2330 Kolkata – Fri Sep 2 0200 Singapore
  • EmacsSF: coffee.el, Playa Edition https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/287871307/ Sat Sep 3 1100 Vancouver / 1300 Chicago / 1400 Toronto / 1800 GMT / 2000 Berlin / 2330 Kolkata – Sun Sep 4 0200 Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): Show & Tell - For non RSECon attendees https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Sep 6 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/287915164/ Wed Sep 7 1630 Vancouver / 1830 Chicago / 1930 Toronto / 2330 GMT – Thu Sep 8 0130 Berlin / 0500 Kolkata / 0730 Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Sep 9 0900 Vancouver / 1100 Chicago / 1200 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1800 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata – Sat Sep 10 0000 Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Splitting an Unwieldy Emacs `init.el` | Janusworx
  • But She's a Girl: Keyboard layout updates and Meow
  • Request for Comments: Emacs Package management from Source (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs Lisp Basics
  • Marcin Borkowski: The Emacs range package
  • Let's code Emacs Lisp: creating the beginnings of a package (01:21:43)
  • Object-Oriented Emacs Lisp with EIEIO - System Crafters Live! (01:45:19)
  • Compiler from scratch, for fun :p | Emacs Major Mode and Breaking Function Parsing | 019 (04:57:48)
• Appearance:
  • Straightforward Emacs: Automatically Highlight Buffer Text
  • [ANN] jit-lock-stealth-progress (show font locking progress while idle in the mode-line)
  • Autothemer version 0.2.8
  • Sakura - a cherry blossom (or cherry cola? flavoured theme) (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Ef themes 0.4.0 for GNU Emacs
  • The ef-themes now include two deuteranopia-friendly themes | Protesilaos Stavrou
  • Modus themes 2.6.0 for GNU Emacs | Protesilaos Stavrou
  • Emacs: pulsar version 0.5.0 | Protesilaos Stavrou
• Navigation:
  • Amit Patel: Emacs: marking text - update after a 5-year experiment
• Writing:
  • [ANN] spell-fu now supports buffer-local word lists
  • Ben Simon: Emacs for Project Notes: Quick Capture, Automatic Organization
  • reverso.el: Emacs client for reverso.net; translation, grammar check, context and synonyms search (Reddit)
  • Tamil Phonetic Input Method in Emacs / Emacs-இல் தமிழ் ஃபொனெடிக் முறையில் type செய்வது எப்படி? – Emacs Notes
  • El mundo de las notas - zetteldeft
• Org Mode:
  • P0 beats #A. Using Programmer-style Priorities in Org (Reddit)
  • Thoughts on Writing Technical Documentations using Org mode (April 2022)
  • Sam Wallace's workflow for math research notes (spoiler: lots of org-mode).
  • Moving Tasks Between Org Files in Emacs | Janusworx (Irreal) org-refile
  • Demo of how to embed source code/text, link, and picture in ORG buffer/file.
  • Copy Slack behavior of automatically creating link when pasting url with text selected
  • org-project: Capture TODOs in project.el using org-mode (Reddit)
  • org-bib-mode redesign (Reddit)
  • ob-elixir: org-babel functions for elixir evaluation
  • Latest Org2Blog maybe just broke some of your keybindings 2022-08-22
  • Org development: lisp/ox-md.el: Add top level header setting
• Completion:
  • Caching Yankpad snippets for a quicker note capturing
• Coding:
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Setting up Emacs for OCaml Development
  • codespaces.el — a completing-read interface to select and connect to GitHub Codespaces over TRAMP (Reddit)
  • what is your config for java programming? (some tips in the comments)
  • c++ programming screenshot - variable font, symbols
  • Automatic Code Formatting: _javascript_, Python, PowerShell, Golang, Emacs Lisp, WolframLang (01:04:11)
• Mail and news:
  • What is your favorite email client?
  • How to Use Emacs As a USENET Reader With Gnus
  • Signature above the cited text in mu4e | macOS & (open-source) Software (Reddit)
  • Tumblr access from GNU Emacs
• Evil mode:
  • Code faster by extending Emacs EVIL text object (Reddit)
  • Made a EVIL cheat sheet wallpaper, for quick reference, for my friend who's learning Vim bindings and figured I'd share with the community. :D (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread - change bg color on compile failure, org-roam capture to link, etc.
  • Lesser known built-in Emacs gems? - Lemmy
  • This is how computing should feel
  • The email that made me convert to emacs
  • 19×10% – Random Thoughts
  • Distilling the Essence of Emacs (1:34:02)
• Other:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Screenshots from Emacs
  • Calling Emacs from XMonad
  • Yeah, I Run Emacs on my Steam Deck, Ever Heard of It? (YouTube 0:58, Reddit)
  • Emacs on PinePhone (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: work needed to prepare for no-toolkit build for more control of Emacs behavior
    • and problems with the GTK build
  • emacs-devel: long discussion re: display of undisplayable characters in the terminal - recently changed to \U01F3A8 instead of diamond and discussion of different consoles' capabilities
    • init file workaround
  • emacs-devel: challenges of working with the display engine (Re: locked narrowing in ELisp)
  • emacs-devel: cedet/semantic may still be able to work with other parser/taggers
    • emacs-devel: how to build a lexer
  • 'C-x v v' on a diff buffer commits it as a patch (bug#52349)
  • Use a list of text properties to search in symlink filenames in Wdired
  • Support "replacement characters" on TTY frames
  • Mention C-x C-q + revert change in NEWS
  • Make frame-width obsolete as a generalized variable
  • Add NEWS entry about obsoleted generalized variables and update
• New packages:
  • cern-ldap: Library to interact with CERN's LDAP servers (MELPA)
  • ipp: Implementation of the Internet Printing Protocol (MELPA)
  • media-thumbnail: Utility package to provide media icons (MELPA)
  • org-bookmarks-extractor: Extract bookmarks from Org mode (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, emacs-devel, and lemmy/c/emacs. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for links!

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