2022-12-26 Emacs news

Emacs 29:
- A few new things in Emacs 29 (Reddit, HN)
- Irreal: Vivek Haldar on Emacs 29
Upcoming events:
- Mastering Emacs Book Club (Reddit)
- Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Dec 28 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Dec 29 0130 Asia/Singapore
- M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Jan 3 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Wed Jan 4 0000 Asia/Singapore
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/290200609/ Wed Jan 4 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto – Thu Jan 5 0030 Etc/GMT - 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0600 Asia/Kolkata - 0830 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs Paris (virtual, in French) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Thu Jan 5 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Jan 6 0030 Asia/Singapore
- You are invited to the First Congress for Attribution-Based Economics! (Jan 14 1pm US/Eastern)
Beginner:
- On using Emacs for data work with R (Reddit)
Emacs configuration:
- [ANN]: vc-use-package (Reddit)
- Replacing packages with more "stripped down" packages
- What is the "best" GNU Emacs set up one could have just using built-in features?
- Chung-hong Chan: Advent of emacs #23: How I do many things with C-q in emacs
- Chung-hong Chan: Advent of emacs #20: How I do context separation in emacs
- Emacs config tour stream! Christmas 2022 (01:32:58)
- Entorno de desarrollo de Sherblog en Emacs - Sherblog
- junkw's Emacs config for Emacs 28
- smashedtoatoms' Emacs Config
- Irreal: Why Emacs Keys Are So Unergonomic
- EmacsWiki: Moving The Ctrl Key (HN)
Emacs Lisp:
- Chung-hong Chan: Advent of emacs #21: How I do emacs command creation in emacs
- Chung-hong Chan: Advent of emacs #24: How I approach emacs
Appearance:
- True Emacs Transparency (Like in NVIM) (05:09)
Navigation:
- project-rootfile.el: Extension of project.el to detect project root with root file (e.g. Gemfile).
- emacs-iwindow: Interactively manipulate windows
- Emacs rip-grep automatically switch to results buffer (03:46)
Dired:
- Tidying up Dired
Writing:
- emacs-lorem-ipsum: Add lorem ipsum filler text to Emacs
- GitHub - agzam/wiktionary-bro.el: Browse Wiktionary entries in Emacs (Reddit)
- Some Advice for Browsing Wiktionary in Emacs
Org Mode:
- Emacs | Org Mode Basics For Beginners (09:24)
- Emacs | Never Lose a File Again?
- The unnumbered habits of a questionably effective person · Curious Musings
- Project Management with Org-mode and Projectile
- James Dyer: Quick Bash Scripts Augmenting Org Files
- Sacha Chua: Comparison-shopping with Org Mode
- Org-mode - Publishing using org for 3 years (08:52)
- GNU Emacs package: rcd-org-export.el — use Org to export Org
- D.V.F.P.: Converting from Org Mode to Markdown GFM (Irreal)
- Sacha Chua: Collect my recent toots in an Org file so that I can refile them
Denote:
- Managing a bibliography of BiBTeX entries with Denote (Mastodon)
- Creating Quarto Files with Denote (Reddit)
Completion:
- [ANN] Vertico 1.0 and Marginalia 1.0
- Expanding Text using abbrev and skeletons
- Emacs Abbrevs (01:04)
Coding:
- yaml-pro v0.3: Tree-sitter support
- Emacs 29: Install Tree-Sitter parser modules with a minor mode (Reddit)
- Plug go-mode's gofmt to the new go-ts-mode (built-in go mode which uses tree-sitter) in emacs
- Eglot for _javascript_ (Japanese)
- 74. На примере комментариев взаимодействие JQuery Ajax + Django 4 в IDE Emacs. (03:02:13)
Math:
- T. V. Raman: AsTeR: Spoken Math On The Emacspeak Audio Desktop
Shells:
- Why use EShell? (Reddit)
- Nicolas Martyanoff: Clearing the Eshell Buffer (Reddit)
- sticky-shell: Minor mode that displays the latest shell-prompt in a header
Web:
- emacs-websearch: query predefined search engines (websearch-custom-engines) with interactive selection. Provides many features NOT in engine-mode
Chat:
- mastodon-alt-tl.el: Mastodon alternative timeline
Multimedia:
- eev and videos
Fun:
- emacs-ansilove: Display buffers as PNG images using ansilove inside GNU Emacs. Ansilove is a ANSI and ASCII art to PNG converter
Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- Emacs User Survey – 2022 Results (HN)
- Manuel Uberti: My 2022
- Kisaragi Hiu: 2022 review
- Chung-hong Chan: Advent of emacs #25: How I write a postscript in emacs
- Expanding the Craft in 2023 - System Crafters Live! (01:54:05)
- I tried 10 code editors (10:28)
Other:
- Learn two ways to perform a string replacement with visual feedback
- Use Emacs to read English classic books efficiently (Reddit)
- Chung-hong Chan: Advent of emacs #22: How I do ebook reading in emacs
- Emacs and turtle graphics
- Sacha Chua: Using Emacs and Python to record an animation and synchronize it with audio
- emacs-xrandr - a package to parse xrandr output and config xrandr
- Nicolas Martyanoff: Investigating a FFAP issue in Emacs
- GitHub - dleal-mojotech/edie: An Emacs-based desktop environment. (Mastodon)
- Haiku R1/beta 4 and Emacs
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
  - Re: MinGW build on master fails with Error 127 - building with MinGW64 on MS Windows < 10 no longer safe/recommended
  - cl-lib warnings (was: bug#60102: Move gv-expander of substring to cl-lib - compiler warnings about cl-lib are harder to get; should cl-lib be preloaded?
  - progress on native comp in Debian
  - [PATCH] [debbugs] Add mu4e support. (2017)
  - Re: bug#60144: 30.0.50; PGTK Emacs crashes after signal - details about input events and signals
- Redisplay "invisible" frames that are actually visible on modern X
- New user option 'ruby-method-params-indent'.
New packages:
- adwaita-dark-theme: A dark color scheme inspired by Adwaita (MELPA)
- binky-mode: Jump between points like a rabbit (MELPA)
- citar-denote: Minor mode to integrate Citar and Denote (MELPA)
- consult-codesearch: Consult interface for codesearch (MELPA)
- define-scratch: Define new commands to make scratch buffers (MELPA)
- denote-refs: Show links and backlinks in Denote notes (NonGNU ELPA)
- dired-rsync-transient: Transient command for dired-rsync (MELPA)
- erk: Elisp (GitHub) Repository Kit (MELPA)
- khoj: Natural, Incremental Search for your Second Brain (MELPA)
- org-incoming: Sort incoming PDFs into your org files (MELPA)
- pyconf: Set up python execution configurations like dap-mode ones (MELPA)
- simplecov: Colorize untested ruby code (MELPA)
- snap-indent: Simple automatic indentation (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 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:	2022-12-26 Emacs news
Date:	Mon, 26 Dec 2022 21:17:33 -0500
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