2022-09-05 Emacs news

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2022-09-05 Emacs news

• EmacsConf 2022 Call for Participation (Reddit) by Sept 18 - all levels welcome
• Upcoming events:
  • 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
• Beginner:
  • New to emacs; will you hold my hand?
  • Here's a list of Emacs keyboard shortcuts that I use on a regular basis, might be useful to some. (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Emacs For Complete Beginners (34:37)
  • What is a dot emacs (.emacs) file? (05:40)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Learn how to ask for Help while writing Elisp (50:36, Jan 2022)
• Appearance:
  • Sideframes (Reddit)
  • [ANN] Image-popup: A package to rescale images to line height and display them in a child frame. (Reddit)
  • Highlighting backticks in comments
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: cursory version 0.3.0
• Navigation:
  • Manuel Uberti: Search thing at point with Ugrep
  • Simple but fun hamburger menus on the mode-line (beware if you hate hamburger menus)
  • Share Your 'other-window' Commands
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: logos version 0.5.0
• Writing:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: denote version 0.6.0
  • Emacs | Write The Perfect Sentence (13:01)
• Org Mode:
  • Category/org-roam-search: A search function for org-roam, for finding text inside nodes. - NotABug.org: Free code hosting (Reddit)
  • Searching org-roam notes with property information
  • Migrate Tiddlywiki to org-roam - Part1: Export tiddlers (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • ORG-NEWS: `org-info-description-as-command'
    • New babel syntax to pass src block contents as argument
• Completion:
  • Manuel Uberti: Ugrep and consult-xref
• Coding:
  • From vanilla Emacs to Bash IDE in 17 minutes (18:15, Reddit)
  • Build a Basic TypeScript IDE with Emacs | The Astute Developer (Reddit)
  • _P_ython _E_xecutable _T_racker is now available on Melpa (Reddit)
  • Demo of LanguageTool Integration in Emacs
  • Improvements to Terraform support for lsp-mode (Reddit)
  • Bring Zuul into Emacs | λ (Reddit)
  • Integrando #emacs con #elixir usando #websockets (02:06:23)
• Shells:
  • Irreal: Mastering Eshell
• Doom Emacs:
  • How to install Doom Emacs on Windows. (20:36)
• Multimedia:
  • How to Use Emacs to Play Music with EMMS - Make Tech Easier
• Fun:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Just some fun with my Emacs packages
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Your dependency on external packages reduce with experience
  • Can't learn emacs, can't use anything else (rant)
  • Switching From VSCode to DOOM Emacs Recently. Here's My Experience
  • Anyone sticking with "outdated" Emacs versions?
  • GitHub - ag91/emacs-buddy: Emacs Buddy initiative to help new Emacs users with their struggles (repost)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: showing my award from the Free Software Foundation (YouTube, 18:08)
• Other:
  • Demystifying Emacs's Window Manager (Reddit)
  • New Package: units-mode (is on melpa), convert between units interactively and in lisp code. [uses gnu units for conversion]​ (Reddit)
  • Emacs Tricks To Boost Productivity 2022_09_01_16:25:26 (15:39) Commands in other buffer, search tips, query replace, registers
  • Fix annoying max open files for Emacs (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
  • Start Emacs And Vim In Vanilla Mode 2022_09_02_08:12:30 (05:36)
  • which parts of emacs are old exactly?
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: suggestions for a "New user" customize group
  • emacs-devel: Continued discussion of unprintable characters (also note about function-key-map work needed
  • emacs-devel: note about set-frame-position and desktop.el Re: Abysmal state of GTK build
  • emacs-devel: request for comparison of various GUI toolkits
  • Add support for more kinds of redirect operators in Eshell
  • Add new function `seq-positions'
  • Python shells dedicated to a project
  • Add new function `seq-remove-at-position'
  • New command to facilitate text-mode display of unsupported chars
  • Teach 'max-char' about the Unicode code range
  • Increase image-dired-show-all-from-dir-max-files to 1000
  • image-dired: Make HTML gallery generation obsolete
  • image-dired+.el: Non blocking thumbnail creation and adjust image to window
  • Make "rlogin" method obsolete in url*.el
  • Make minibuffer-eldef-shorten-default obsolete
  • Default show-paren-mode to off in special-mode buffers
  • * lisp/char-fold.el (describe-char-fold-equivalences): New command.
• New packages:
  • for: Iteration and sequence (MELPA)
  • ini: Converting between INI files and association lists (MELPA)
  • jit-lock-stealth-progress: JIT lock stealth mode-line progress (MELPA)
  • mos-mode: MOS toolkit usage (MELPA)
  • org-unique-id: Create unique IDs for org headers (MELPA)
  • pet: Executable and virtualenv tracker for python-mode (MELPA)
  • units-mode: Mode for conversion between different units (MELPA)
  • zuul: Interface to Zuul (GNU ELPA)

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