2023-08-14 Emacs news

Emacs 29:
- Update: MSI Installer for GNU Emacs 29.1 for Windows
- Gnu Emacs acaba de publicar su versión 29.1
- Emacs 28 Antinews (GNU Emacs Manual)
Help wanted:
- [Final call] Please help collecting statistics to optimize Emacs GC defaults
Upcoming events:
- Emacs London Meetup, Tue, Aug 22, 2023, 7:00 PM | Meetup
- Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, August 26, 2023
- M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Aug 16 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Aug 18 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Aug 19 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
- Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Aug 19 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 Aug 20 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
- London Emacs (in person): Emacs London Meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/294668548/ Tue Aug 22 1900 Europe/London
Emacs configuration:
- The Age-Old Question: When to Declare "Configuration Bankruptcy"?
- I can't decide when to use elisp, use-package, and the customize interface in my configuration
- Configurar Emacs con use-package (0x0006) (31:23)
- lunarymacs: casouri's Emacs configuration
- jimenezrick's Emacs Config
- aadi58002's Emacs Config
- bunnylushington's dot-emacs-v29
- Miranda's Emacs configuration
Emacs Lisp:
- Isa Mert Gurbuz: Elisp editing/development tips
Appearance:
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: pulsar version 1.0.0 - temporarily highlight the current line
- My Emacs eye candy
- James Dyer: Emacs 29.1 Transparency Alpha On Sway
- Standard Themes (Reddit, communick)
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 1.3.0
Navigation:
- jac: Just Another buffer Cloning method
- Iggaak: Emacs minor mode: narrow to a certain number of lines
- Optimising Deft for Emacs
Writing:
- Zotra is now on MELPA: The power of Zotero in Emacs
Org Mode:
- org-mode clock tables and spreadsheets
- Org-mode - In search of perfect clock time report (08:41)
- csv2orgclock: Converting CSV clock logs to Org Mode
- Emacs Org Mode Variables Tweak
- confluence_upload.sh: Upload org-mode files directly to a Confluence server, using its API
- [Emacs/iOS users] How would you pay to fund a polished iOS org agenda app?
- Org development:
Completion:
- A brief tutorial on capf-autosuggest: fish like completion in Emacs (02:13)
- snippets: The Doom Emacs snippets library
Coding:
- sqlcl-shell: Emacs interaction with Oracle SQLcl
- How Magit improved my workflow and my Git knowledge
- How to use Pylance in Emacs - Lemmy
- treesitter-context : A package to show code context
- Extending Emacs 29 sqlite-mode (cell navigation + edit) (Reddit)
- Extending sqlite-mode (cell navigation + edits) (Irreal)
- justl-mode release v0.13 (Reddit)
- KarimAziev/igist: Work seamlessly with GitHub gists from Emacs. (communick)
- bigquery-mode: GNU Emacs Major Mode for Editing and Executing BigQuery Scripts
- sql-bigquery: Emacs SQL Mode Support for BigQuery
Math:
- literate-calc-mode.el: 🧮 Literate programming for M-x calc
Shells:
- 15 Useful Emacs Eshell Tips (12:18)
- Eric MacAdie: Example of Eshell Use and Thoughts On Eshell
- I created a WIP major mode for PowerShell (Reddit)
Web:
- Ewnium - The Emacs EWW version of Vimium plugin (Experimental!!!) (Reddit)
- Preview HTML files with Dirvish and Xwidgets in Emacs
Multimedia:
- mpv and ffmpeg screenshots with the timecode in the filename and emacs tips (01:15:39)
AI:
- Discussion of whether an llm package should be in GNU ELPA or NonGNU ELPA
- uniteai: Your AI Stack in Emacs: Voice-to-text, Local LLM, and GPT, +more. Uses `lsp' underneath (Reddit)
- gpt-dictionary-sentence · GitHub
Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- This is the story of how I came to use Emacs and other things (Reddit, lobste.rs)
- communick.news: A welcome to new members and a call to help to make this place even better
- Minutes of Org Meetup on Wed, Aug 9, 19:00 UTC+3
- Eric MacAdie: 2023-08 Austin Emacs Meetup
Other:
- A Complete Tutorial on using DIFF in Emacs for File Comparison (18:56)
- Emacs Goodies - #2 Midnight Mode (07:11) - kills buffers periodically
- GNU Emacs in a snap
- Sorting in Emacs (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
- Compilar Emacs desde el código fuente
- Writing GNU Emacs extensions by Bob Glickstein | Open Library (1997)
- calfw-blocks: Visual enhancements for the Emacs Calendar Framework (calfw)
- Compiling GNU Emacs 30 on Debian 12 (Reddit)
- Raise an Emacs window or run Emacs · GitHub using xdotool
- James Dyer: Saving My Favourite Wallpapers (styli.sh and some Emacs Lisp)
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
- * etc/NEWS (cl-print-ellipsis): Mention `backtrace-ellipsis`
- Improve kill-ring-deindent-mode
- New global minor mode `kill-ring-deindent-mode'
- Merge remote-tracking branch 'savannah/master' into master-android-1
- Enable visiting FIFOs as files
- Make Emacs 21 compat aliases easy-mmode-* obsolete
New packages:
- anki-editor-view: Open anki-editor notes from Anki (MELPA)
- binky: Jump between points like a rabbit (MELPA)
- project-tasks: Efficient task management for your project (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!

From:	Sacha Chua
Subject:	2023-08-14 Emacs news
Date:	Mon, 14 Aug 2023 18:07:15 -0400