2023-06-26 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2023-06-26 Emacs news

• Help wanted:
  • EmacsConf 2023 Call for Participation - speakers: proposals by Sept 14; volunteers welcome any time!
  • Please help gather data on garbage collection by installing the emacs-gc-stats package (Reddit, Irreal) share the results after a few weeks
• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jun 28 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jun 29 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Jun 30 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Jul 1 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Jul 1 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Jul 2 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si: Emacs.si meetup #7 2023 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/5e62fdfd-9401-405d-8c5e-b7b7054dbd4a Mon Jul 3 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/GMT - 2000 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Tue Jul 4 0200 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social and Org-Reveal https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/294050029/ Wed Jul 5 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Jul 6 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Paris (virtual, in French) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Thu Jul 6 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jul 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Basic Commands for Vi and Emacs Editors(A Beginner's Guide). (21:24)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Should I start with vanilla Emacs?
  • Emacs - Choose the right distribution (51:11)
  • Configure Vanilla Emacs in 10 Minutes (Reddit)
  • Taming Your Emacs Packages with Elpaca - System Crafters Live! (01:58:30)
  • Ivy, Shells and Custom Theming - Configuring Emacs 03 (39:49)
  • Emacs Key Bindings. Kinesis. Submarine. (20:49)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Xah Talk Show 2023-06-25 Emacs Lisp, Write HTML/XML Validator (01:31:06)
• Navigation:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: file and Dired basics (YouTube, 01:02:38)
  • Emacs - I search backward (and forward) to grab the word faster (03:34)
  • Quick fix to make buffer cycling easier in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: logos version 1.1.0
• Dired:
  • Announcing Dired-Delight! - color-coding
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: public test for my "dired-preview" package
• Org Mode:
  • Nano agenda capture (Reddit)
  • Org-mode - Display time mode (04:29)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Emacs orgmode attach basics
    • Org-mode - Multiple column in Beamer Table of Contents (03:52)
    • Share an Org buffer as a web page. In addition, a URL will be created that you can share to view it. (Reddit)
    • Erik L. Arneson: Update: Org to DOCX with Citations
    • Automate Your Blog Workflow with Org-mode TODOs and Ox-Hugo
    • ob-ledger-convert: Convert anything to ledger using Babel
    • Note-Station-to-org python script.
  • Org development:
    • lisp/org-habit.el: Inherit habit style property
    • org-capture.el: Allow `(here)' as a template target
    • org-priority-show: Fix the docstring after changes in "priority" for agenda
• Coding:
  • James Dyer: Cycling Colours in CSS and Other Files
  • SqrtMinusOne/micromamba.el: Emacs package for working with micromamba environments - Python environments
  • Jupyterlab shortcuts configuration
  • Consult-GH: View GitHub Issues inside Emacs (08:02)
  • Consult-GH: Browse GitHub Repo Files Inside Emacs (06:12)
  • Consult-GH: View, Clone, Fork GitHub Repos inside Emacs (06:18)
  • Consult-GH Intro: Interact with GitHub inside Emacs (05:45)
  • Consult-GH Intro: GitHub Repo Previews inside Emacs (02:51)
• AI:
  • Use emacs as a ChatGPT app
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Stock Emacs, in its current form, really is extremely unintuitive.
• Other:
  • Valentin Herrmann / anki-editor-view · GitLab
  • How to Install Emacs on Windows (01:51)
  • Emacs Password Management on Linux - Philipp Uhl
  • Charles Choi: Using Emacs to make phone calls and lookup map places on macOS (Irreal)
  • maccalfw: A calfw interface for MacOS's Calendar app
  • XEmacs: XEmacs 21.5.35 "kohlrabi" is released (Reddit, Irreal)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Prefer cperl-mode over perl-mode? Consolidate them?
    • Workaround for soft keyboard visibility on Android - Back and Overview
    • Opinions on risks/benefits of including large features that have only a single maintainer?
      • and maybe how to make it easier for people to learn how to port Emacs or maintain ports?
  • New command 'eww-copy-alternate-url'
  • Extend Tramp kubernetes method
  • Revert "Avoid header line with some empty non-nil formats"
  • * etc/NEWS: Announce the fix for bug#44418 (,@ prefix syntax)
  • Straighten regexp postfix operator after zero-width assertion parse
  • Delete eval-command-interactive-spec
  • Allow displaying tool bar on the bottom of the frame
• New packages:
  • evil-tutor-sc: Simplified Chinese Evil-tutor (MELPA)
  • kaesar-pbkdf2: PBKDF2 extension for kaesar.el (MELPA)
  • quakec-mode: Major mode for QuakeC (MELPA)
  • spanish-holidays: Spain holidays for calendar (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, kbin, programming.dev, communick.news, lemmy, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. 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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