2023-02-27 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2023-02-27 Emacs news

• Help wanted:
  • Magit maintainer Tarsius is losing donators at alarming speed. Please help!
  • The Emacs Bengaluru group has no organizer - step up if anyone wants to become one (Twitter)
• Security:
  • CVE-2022-48337: GNU Emacs through 28.2 allows attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in the name of a source-code file
  • CVE-2022-48338: In GNU Emacs through 28.2. In ruby-mode.el, the ruby-find-library-file function has a local command injection vulnerability.
  • CVE-2022-48339: Emacs <= 28.2: htmlfontify.el has a command injection vulnerability
  • Emacs 28.3 rc1 pretest is available, fixing CVE-2022-45939
• Upcoming events:
  • 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
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Mar 3 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Mar 4 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Mar 3 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 2000 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Mar 4 0130 Asia/Kolkata - 0400 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Mar 4 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 Mar 5 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 1000 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1530 Asia/Kolkata - 1800 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #3 2023 https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/c5630087-b9ec-4f48-9bb1-2ba337c1850f Mon Mar 6 2000 CET
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Mar 10 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • emacs can be "heavy" but still blazingly fast (Irreal)
  • The most important snippet in my Emacs init file. (For Newbs)
  • Aimé Bertrand: Custom functions No. 2 - Modules
  • Jeremy Friesen: My Lesser Sung Packages of Emacs
  • 5 CONFIGURACIONES BÁSICAS que le hago a Emacs (06:54)
  • Elpaca: Async Emacs Package Manager (08:03)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • PLDI 2021: Evolution of Emacs Lisp
  • Xah Talk Show 2023-02-23 Emacs Lisp Writing URL Parser (01:20:10)
• Appearance:
  • Nicolas Martyanoff: Custom Font Lock configuration in Emacs
  • New Doom theme and modeline based on NANO Emacs
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: modus-themes version 4.1.0
• Navigation:
  • Open file from clipboard with common path
  • query-replace-many—query-replace, but for multiple matches (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Moving Away From Deft (Irreal)
• Writing:
  • ekg, a note-taking / knowledge management system for Emacs (Irreal)
  • I've tried EKG
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs and Org-babel for flaw analysis. (Reddit)
  • Mario Jason Braganza: Org Mode Subtree Expansion With the Mouse
  • panapnamana/org-highlight-hydra: A pop-up menu for highlighting in org-mode. (Reddit)
  • OrgMode E02S02: Agenda view (advanced)
  • Emacs org-speed commands: WOW! (10:56)
  • MS Word document comments using org-mode (06:52)
• Completion:
  • What are the benefits of Vertico over Helm or Ivy?
  • Manuel Uberti: Jump to minibuffer from completions
• Coding:
  • Eglot+Tree-Sitter in Emacs 29 | Adventures in Why
  • Eglot "inlay hints" has landed on emacs-29 branch (Reddit)
  • Emacs Magit Way Of Creating Rudimentary Patch 2023_02_21_03:53:35
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • M. Rincón: Adding mu4e Actions
  • [ANN] Ement.el v0.6 released (Matrix client for Emacs) (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • progfolio/marqueeo: Mario in the Emacs header line (Reddit)
  • Animations with Emacs (2015, Reddit)
• AI:
  • Setting up Github Copilot in Emacs
  • Matus Goljer (Fuco1): Using OpenAI GPT to search your org files
  • emacs+whisper+chatgpt: press F12 to record, use whisper to transcribe and chatgpt answers; proof of concept but surreal (Reddit, HN)
  • emacs + whisper + chatgpt rewrite text (00:19)
  • emacs + whisper + chatgpt - refactor code (00:33)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Non-programmers who use EMacs
• Other:
  • Emacs-Appindicator - create and control tray icons with Elisp!
  • zhenhua-wang/emacs-cpu-temperature: Get cpu temperature in emacs (Reddit)
  • Gosling's implementation of Emacs now open source (Reddit)
  • restart-emacs: A simple emacs package to restart emacs from within emacs
  • Discovering Emacs podcast: 2 - Efficiency With The Mark Ring (7:14, Irreal)
  • Using Emacs to backup a Raspberry Pi (Reddit)
  • Emacs is on F-Droid | Hacker News
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Figuring out where to put things for the Emacs Android port (Re: tree-sitter)
    • Re: Excessive redisplay from lots of process output - some notes
  • Detect and prevent function alias loops in `fset` and `defalias`
• New packages:
  • beframe: Isolate buffers per frame (GNU ELPA)
  • brec-mode: A major mode for editing Breccian text (MELPA)
  • gptai: Integrate with the OpenAI API (MELPA)
  • kconfig-ref: A simple package for looking up kconfig symbol quickly (MELPA)
  • kkp: Enable support for the Kitty Keyboard Protocol (MELPA)
  • magit-stats: Generates GIT Repo Statistics Report (MELPA)
  • no-clown-fiesta-theme: Not-so-colorful-theme (MELPA)
  • squirrel-mode: A major mode for the Squirrel programming language (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!

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