2022-09-12 Emacs news

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2022-09-12 Emacs news

• Emacs 28.2 released (HN)
• Last week! EmacsConf 2022 Call for Participation (Reddit) by Sept 18 - all levels welcome
• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, September 24, 2022
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): 6th class - Advanced(ish) Features of Functional Languages https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Sep 20 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Sep 24 0130 Vancouver / 0330 Chicago / 0430 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 1030 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Basic EMACS Command | EMACS Tutorials for Beginners (Latest Updates) (28:36)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs Notes: Three bonus keys "C-i", "C-m" and "C-[" for your GUI Emacs; all with zero headache
  • Super fast Emacs start up
  • A simplistic modal editing system
  • HannesHaglud's Emacs config
  • Tips On Customizing Emacs To Fit Your Needs (10:46)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • emacs lisp for beginner (01:34:46)
• Appearance:
  • pangu-spacing: Add space between Chinese and English characters
  • image-roll.el: Virtual scroll display engine for Emacs
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: lin version 1.0.0 - current line highlighting
  • Manuel Uberti: Automatically highlight regular expressions
  • fontaine version 0.4.0: Specify presets of font configurations and switch between them on demand.
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: The ef-themes now include two duo-chrome themes
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Ef themes 0.5.0 for GNU Emacs
• Navigation:
  • Christian Tietze: Replacing zoom-window with winner-mode to Temporarily Change Window Splits in Emacs
• Dired:
  • Learn the Basics of the Dired File Manager (Doom Emacs) (28:40)
  • dired-queue: A small experiment to add a queue to Dired buffers to preserve order in which files are marked.
• Writing:
  • Use abbrev to Enter Special Characters (Irreal)
  • A package that abbreviates the word at point
  • Generating a Blog Site from Denote Entries - System Crafters Live! (01:57:37)
  • Emacs Blog Mode Customized 2022_09_12_04:06:16 (13:22) - hugo
• Org Mode:
  • Workflows:
    • Reflections On A Year of Anki, Knowledge Management, Emacs & More | Adham Omran (HN)
    • Building My Second Brain with Emacs and Org-Roam (An Overview) (00:55)
    • Evolving my note-taking processes (Reddit)
    • John D. Cook: Literate programming to reduce errors (Irreal)
    • Jeremy Friesen: Org Mode Capture Templates and Time Tracking (Irreal)
  • Andrea: Too many org ids! How to tell no to Org mode for certain files
  • Intra-word Emphasis in Org mode using ZERO WIDTH SPACEs; East Asian Language Users please take note
  • Come gestisco un BLOG con un SOLO file ORG MODE (WARNING: 🔥🔥🔥) (46:17)
  • Previsualizar párrafos con LaTeX en Org Mode (test) (02:09)
  • org-journal: View history
  • Emacs as an Org capture server
  • Khoj: A Natural Language Search Engine for your Org-Mode Notes (Reddit)
  • Show HN: Org-mode reader, setup for a collaborationtool (Reddit, HN)
  • Org development:
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Document new ":step quarter" value
    • ox-icalendar.el: Customize vevent summary prefix
• Coding:
  • Configuring Emacs for Rust development | Robert Krahn
  • Setup emacs on a new M1 Max MacBook Pro for coding React, _javascript_, Emacs Lisp, Kubernetes, etc (31:29)
• Shells:
  • Eshell Aliases, Prompt, And Colors - The Emacs Cat (Irreal)
• Mail and news:
  • Reddit thread view (concept)
  • tumblesocks: An Emacs tumblr client for tumblr's v2 API.
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs (2002, Reddit, HN, Irreal)
  • What are the kinds of things you've written Emacs Lisp for?
  • Irreal: Leslie Lamport on Deconstructing the Bakery Algorithm
• Other:
  • [ANN] Ement.el (a Matrix client) now available in GNU ELPA (Reddit)
  • Emacs: Study on constructing Regular Expressions to delete or reduce blank lines | FP Site
  • Global Interactive Emacs
  • interris: An interactive replace-regexp-in-string previewer.
  • Marcin Borkowski: Comments in srt files
  • Christian Tietze: Delete to Beginning of Line in Emacs to Rewrite Code
  • Reverso Context in Emacs - The Emacs Cat - translation
  • 1999 open Emacs bugs (Reddit, HN)
  • DMS To Decimal Degree Conversions And More - The Emacs Cat
  • My goal of closing 10% of Emacs bugs (2020) (HN)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Add new –timeout flag to emacsclient
  • emacs-devel: Discussion about how to implement image support for kitty terminal (layout challenge)
  • Revert "Add new user option 'custom-ensure-single-theme'"
  • Add new user option 'custom-ensure-single-theme'
  • Make `format-prompt' use `substitute-command-keys'
  • New function substitute-quotes
  • * lisp/subr.el (string-split): New alias for split-string.
  • Delete variable window-system-version obsolete since 24.3
  • Delete many items obsolete since 24.3
  • Add new user option ecomplete-auto-select
  • Add new user option 'diff-add-log-use-relative-names'
  • Add new –timeout flag to emacsclient
  • Add new functions for splitting the root window
  • Font lock long Git commit summary lines
• New packages:
  • ement: Matrix client (GNU ELPA)
  • math-tex-convert: Convert LaTeX macros to unicode and back (MELPA)
  • mybuild-mode: Major mode for editing Mybuild files from Embox (MELPA)
  • samskritam: Library to get samskrit word definition, translate to & from (MELPA)
  • yul-mode: Major mode for editing Ethereum Yul intermediate code (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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