2022-12-19 Emacs news

Upcoming events:
- M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Dec 20 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Wed Dec 21 0000 Asia/Singapore
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Beginner:
- Setting up and Using Emacs (06:32)
Emacs configuration:
- Let's build a comprehensive list of design considerations when making an Emacs configuration.
- Semicolon to underscore trick
- emacs package change management with quelpa and use-package - YouTube (Mastodon)
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Re: Questions regarding use-package (Emacs)
- jmcbray/basic-emacs: A very basic emacs config - basic-emacs - Carcosa Git (Mastodon)
- Fossil Files: My .Emacs | Hackaday
- grtcdr's literate Emacs configuration
- Funmacs - Yet Another Lightweight Emacs Configuration, Using KISS philosophy.
Emacs Lisp:
- Learning To Use the Emacs Debugger - System Crafters Live! (01:51:54)
- Advent of code … But in Elisp (15:56, Reddit)
Appearance:
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: modus-themes version 4 demo (YouTube, 29:45)
Navigation:
- liuyinz/binky-mode - jump between positions in buffers and files with the same mechanism of register-to-point (Reddit)
- Jeremy Friesen: Walkthrough of my Project Workspace Functionality
Dired:
- You can be faster at renaming files and changing file permissions in dired buffers (Reddit)
- Undo moving, renaming, copying, symlinking in Dired (Reddit)
Writing:
- Chung-hong Chan: Advent of emacs #15: How I do citation in emacs
- Chung-hong Chan: Advent of emacs #19: How I do "note taking" in emacs
- [Update] Zotra: using the power of Zotero in Emacs to manage citations and pdf files (Reddit update - PDFs)
- 0058. Emacs. Howm. Начало (11:42)
Org Mode:
- Irreal: Writing With Org Mode
- Using Org Mode to keep track of exercise | Polaris64's blog (2020)
- Emacs | Never Lose a File Again? (07:00)
- Reintroducing Opel: Put All Your Pelican Posts in One Org File (Reddit)
- [changed URL] Org-fleuron: extra fancy HTML documents with OrgMode (Reddit)
- Programación Literal con Emacs - Introducción (21:24)
- Programación literal con Emacs - Integrando LSP (19:16)
- Org-mode - Wrap code in LaTex export (04:37)
- emacs - How to create hyperlinks for noweb references in org-mode - Stack Overflow (Mastodon)
- Org development:
  - lisp/ox-latex.el: Add `org-latex-listings-src-omit-language'
Denote:
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: denote version 1.2.0
- whhone/consult-denote: A bunch of convenience functions for operating denote with the help of consult (Mastodon)
Completion:
- Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs: Context-aware yasnippets (Reddit, HN)
- burnthekernel/helm-browser: helm-browser is an Emacs package that can be used to quickly find and switch between multiple browser windows and tabs. (Mastodon)
- Emacs packages ednc, vertico, consult, embark, marginalia, orderless and fd-dired (41:14)
Coding:
- My IDE is too heavy so I moved to Emacs (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
- Yi Tang: PoorMan's CI in Emacs (continuous integration)
- Nicolas Martyanoff: Fixing unquote-splicing behaviour with Paredit
- Jiacai Liu: What I learn by implementing argparser in Zig
- Chung-hong Chan: Advent of emacs #18: How I do R package development in emacs
- Tree-sitter:
Web:
- Vimium plugin to EWW (not yet packaged) (Reddit)
Chat:
- mastodon.el: a Hydra to memorize/access it's many commands (Mastodon)
Spacemacs:
- Spacemacs: Combining the best of Emacs and Vim (01:18)
Multimedia:
- ffmpeg and macOS aliasing (Reddit, HN)
EXWM:
- configuring ement.el to open on a specific tab-bar on a specific tab-group on a specific EXWM workspace (Mastodon)
Fun:
- running vscode inside emacs… (Reddit)
- [Fun, old] snow and fireplace
AI:
- Aime Bertrand: Refactoring Emacs Lisp with ChatGPT
- Is anyone working a gpt3/copilot extension that mimics the copilot prompting methodology? (Reddit)
Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- People who switched from vim/neovim to emacs, what made you switch?
- EmacsConf 2022: What I'd like to see in Emacs - Richard M. Stallman (Reddit, Irreal)
- Emacs User Survey – 2022 – Results (lobste.rs)
- Amin Bandali: Why I love participating in LibrePlanet
Emacs 29:
- Irreal: John Wiegley on Emacs 29
- Marcin Borkowski: A few new things in Emacs 29
- use-package has been merged into emacs-29 (lemmy)
Other:
- I've been waiting for this! Emacs 28 is in debian testing! Thanks Rob Browning! (Reddit)
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: my new "sxhkdrc-mode" package
- Irreal: Academic Writing in Emacs
- Emacs Flymake (00:56)
- Chung-hong Chan: Advent of emacs #16: How I use the online LaTeX editor Overleaf in emacs
- GitHub - natrys/whisper.el: Speech-to-Text interface for Emacs using OpenAI's whisper model and whisper.cpp as inference engine
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
  - [RFC] Adding threads to Eshell
  - Tree-sitter introduction documentation - figuring out where to put the info and what Emacs should take care of
    - example from ruby-ts-mode
    - You will have to download and install language grammar libraries yourself
  - Possibly defaulting native-compile-target-directory to XDG_CACHE_HOME/.. - Debian and package manager issues with native compilation
  - Plug treesit.el into other emacs constructs - forward-sexp, etc.
  - proposal to improve package discoverability by extending keywords
- Add yaml-ts-mode (Bug#60105)
- New input method 'cyrillic-chuvash'
- Add support for the "splice operator" in Eshell
- Add go-ts-mode and go-mod-ts-mode (Bug#60025)
- Mention 'tree-sitter' in user manual and NEWS
- ; Announce 'toml-ts-mode' in NEWS.
- Update the documentation of overlays (bug#59996)
- Add cmake-ts-mode
New packages:
- sxhkdrc-mode: Major mode for sxhkdrc files (Simple X Hot Key Daemon) (GNU ELPA)

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 emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!

From:	Sacha Chua
Subject:	2022-12-19 Emacs news
Date:	Mon, 19 Dec 2022 11:00:16 -0500
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