2023-02-20 Emacs news

Upcoming events:
- M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Feb 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Wed Feb 22 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Feb 22 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 23 0130 Asia/Singapore
- Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Feb 24 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 2000 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Feb 25 0130 Asia/Kolkata - 0400 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Feb 25 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
- Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Feb 25 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 1000 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1530 Asia/Kolkata - 1800 Asia/Singapore
- Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Feb 26 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 1000 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1530 Asia/Kolkata - 1800 Asia/Singapore
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/291143186/ Wed Mar 1 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto – Thu Mar 2 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 Mar 2 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Mar 3 0030 Asia/Singapore
Beginner:
- Introduccion a Emacs (0x0001) (33:40)
- [Emacs] I am once again trying to sell you Emacs (21:30)
- Emacs From Scratch, An Emacs tutorial for beginners – 13 Editing Modes, Part 1 (21:15)
- Configure Vanilla Emacs in 10 Minutes (08:37)
Emacs configuration:
Emacs Lisp:
- Seamlessly Merge Multiple Documentation Sources with Eldoc (Reddit)
Appearance:
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: "standard-themes" version 1.2.0
Navigation:
Writing:
- Tony Zorman: Announcing: latex-change-env Version 0.3 (Reddit)
Org Mode:
- My simple, effective org mode setup (Reddit)
- Emacs and Org-Mode for Project Break Downs and Estimation (Irreal)
- Marcin Borkowski: My approach to TODOs
- gists/format-org-mode-source-blocks.el - format source blocks on exit
- Backlink count for Org Roam (Mastodon)
- gists/tempel-org-links.el (Mastodon)
- Org Mode Gripes
- ~arnebab/vorlesung-netztechnik - lectures about network technology with Org Mode source, in German, with a Makefile that generates thumbnails (Mastodon)
- Org development:
  - oc-natbib: Provide a fallback bibliography style
Completion:
- Introduction to Ido Mode (Reddit)
- The Latest in Emacs Completions - System Crafters Live! (02:00:25)
Coding:
- James Dyer: Commenting Un-commenting
- wkirschbaum/surface-ts-mode (Mastodon)
Fun:
- Stream VOD: Pokemon A.I. in Emacs Lisp - LLLL Colonq Episode 4 (03:14:52)
AI:
- Emacs extension for Codeium: free (gratis, not libre) Copilot-like AI autocomplete (Reddit) - has proprietary binary, see comments
- Using AI with Emacs: Nothing will be the same after this (Reddit)
Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread - active regions, keybinding help, etc.
- I started a podcast focused on Emacs!
- Eric MacAdie: 2023-02 Austin Emacs Meetup - write-up with links
- The History of Emacs - TILvids (Irreal)
- Making Emacs more approachable
- Jack Baty: Things I can’t quit: Film photography and Emacs
- Emacs StackExchange | Hacker News
Other:
- Introduction to ekg, the Emacs Knowledge Graph (45:42)
- James Dyer: my/pure-paragraph-refill
- Gosling's implementation of Emacs now open source (HN)
- rune: Rust VM for Emacs
- A spiritual successor to Emacs (Reddit, HN, Irreal) - VSCode?
Android:
- Android port - more or less feature-complete
- Explanation of differences between Emacs builds for Android
- Tell HN: Emacs is now available for Android devices | Hacker News
- Emacs for Android and Termux (Git and other tools)
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
  - Re: Request to backport fix for CVE-2022-45939 to Emacs 28 - concerns about security vulnerability in etags (update from Stefan Kangas)
    - challenges of process of making the tarball
  - feature/inhibit-native-comp-cleanup
  - goto-chg recommendation
  - Thanks for making desktop-restore-frames work with TTYs - also now works on Linux consoles
- Rename 'display-time-time-and-date-indicator' to 'display-time-date-and-time' (bug#61567)
- Define 'display-time-time-and-date-indicator' face
- Allow unloading Eshell
- New option 'diff-ignore-whitespace-switches'
- Teach 'diff-ignore-whitespace-hunk' how to regenerate all hunks
New packages:
- beef-mode: A major mode for the Beef programming language (MELPA)
- bqn-mode: Emacs mode for BQN (MELPA)
- director: Simulate user sessions (MELPA)
- flycheck-falco-rules: On-the-fly syntax checking for falco rules files (MELPA)
- verilog-ext: Verilog Extensions (MELPA)
- vhdl-ext: VHDL Extensions (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:	2023-02-20 Emacs news
Date:	Mon, 20 Feb 2023 11:15:16 -0500
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