2023-10-23 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2023-10-23 Emacs news

• Emacs 29.1.90 pretest is available (Irreal)
• Upcoming events:
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): Note taking for research https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 25 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Oct 25 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 26 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Oct 27 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Oct 28 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Oct 28 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Oct 28 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): Pumpkin Spice coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/296788676/ Sat Oct 28 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • The conception and depiction of lines in Emacs (Advanced Topic) (on Oct 29)
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Oct 29 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1000 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/295467663/ Wed Nov 1 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Nov 2 0030 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Paris (virtual, in French) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Thu Nov 2 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Nov 3 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #12 2023 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/b292e3d3-2c53-4c00-b86a-f1bbff4c97b5 Thu Nov 2 1900 CET
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Nov 3 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Nov 4 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Window Management - share your display-buffer-alist
  • What the .emacs.d!?: appearance.el-02 - ring-bell-function
  • cframe: Allows for customization of frame types, which includes height and width of new Emacs frames
  • Emacs Goodies - #22 Repeat Mode (05:20)
  • New version of Emacs Writing Studio: A configuration for authors
  • Crafted Emacs V2 Released — Bowmansarrow
  • grumph's Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Great links to help you learn Emacs Lisp (12:40, Reddit)
  • Mike Zamansky: Learning Elisp 11 - Emoji Replace Part 1 (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Kisaragi Hiu: Emacs: silencing messages - inhibit-message, inhibit-redisplay
  • Exploring a little bit of the Intricacies and Elegance of Loop Macros
• Navigation:
  • What the .emacs.d!?: buffers.el-01 - quick-switch-buffer
  • Emacs Tip: Intentional Navigation In Emacs Using Form Feed #coding #emacs (00:55)
  • ISEARCH tips, settings, options and uses (Advanced Topic) (Reddit)
  • All you need to know about the Emacs OCCUR command in 4 minutes (Reddit)
  • my pain points with Emacs code search and how I fixed them (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
• TRAMP:
  • emacs-bypass-tramp-hack.el · GitHub
• Dired:
  • Ruslan Bekenev: find-grep-dired: Filter files based on content (Irreal)
• Writing:
  • Use Emacs to Insert Bible Verses from any Text (07:28)
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs(Doom) | Org Mode | Актуально для Sublime, VsCode и IDEA (01:05:12)
  • A collection of short Org-mode snippets demonstrating the usage of code blocks. (2012 onwards)
  • Tried plantuml for drawing and it amazing on org babel (Irreal)
  • Casting spells in PlantUML as a wizard in org babel to translate words to graph (Reddit)
  • Tried gnuplot which plot only require basic math
  • Sacha Chua: Getting Mermaid JS and ob-mermaid running on my system - needed to symlink Chromium for Puppeteer
  • Org development:
    • * lisp/ob-plantuml.el: Support tikz output
    • org-fold-hide-drawer-all: Make interactive
    • * etc/ORG-NEWS (UNNUMBERED property …): Add reference to the manual
    • org-num: Allow property inheritance for UNNUMBERED property
• Completion:
  • ido-yes-or-no: Use ido to answer yes or no questions.
  • chmouel/consult-vc-modified-files: List git modified files in a project with vc (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Java: REPL Driven Development with 𝓔𝓶𝓪𝓬𝓼 (Reddit)
  • New Journald log viewer package
  • James Dyer: Better Syntax Highlighting Sway Configuration Files
  • Emacs token count command
  • “Send region to process” for all languages ᕦ( ᴼ ڡ ᴼ )ᕤ (Reddit)
  • dape.el: DAP client that does not rely on LSP-mode
  • Fixing Lsp-Mode's Hover Signatures (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Creating a .mailrc file in Emacs FAST! (re-edited) (02:36)
  • Synchronize your 2FA Gmail with mbsync
  • self-rssingle.el: Elisp script that collects all RSS feeds and joins them into a single feed
• EXWM:
  • Would you recommend EXWM as daily driver?
  • Tory Anderson: Would you recommend EXWM as daily driver
• AI:
  • Ellama - new package to call LLMs from Emacs (Reddit)
  • emacs + llm = 🔥 (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • [SUMMARY] #3 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]​] on Wed, Oct 11, 19:00 UTC+3
• Other:
  • Alex Schroeder: Writing pages offline, some of the time
  • New package to scratch an itch: let me embed flashcards in simple paragraphs, rather than siloing them in Org subtrees! (Reddit)
  • Investigating GNU Hyperbole
  • agenix.el: Transparent editing for agenix secrets inside Emacs
  • iPad as Desktop: Emacs – words with kitchen (Reddit)
  • Smallest device which could run comfortably emacs
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Bindat can exhaust memory when unpacking to vector
    • jsonrpc.el uses "Content-Length" headers which seem specific to LSP (and the importance of Content-Length)
    • Re: Adding with-editor to Emacs?
    • discussion of desktop.el, frameset.el, and cl-lib use (Re: Lisp files that load cl-lib in problematical ways)
  • Add completion for 'doas' to pcomplete
  • Allow specifying the dir locals file to edit (Bug#66663)
  • treesit-font-lock-rules now accepts additional global keywords
  • Move lexical-binding warning from checkdoc to byte-compiler
  • (buffer-match-p): Replace `&optional` with `&rest` (bug#65797)
  • (sleep-for): Make the `millisec` argument obsolete
  • Improve SOCKS error handling and support version 4a
  • Gud lldb support (bug#66575)
  • ; Use the "new" calling convention for 'sit-for' in Eshell
• New packages:
  • conan: Generate flags for c++ using conan 2.0 (MELPA)
  • consult-todo: Search hl-todo keywords in consult (MELPA)
  • flycheck-eask: Eask support in Flycheck (MELPA)
  • third-time: Third Time: A Better Way to Work (MELPA)
  • tmux-mode: Major mode for tmux configuration (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, communick.news, lobste.rs, kbin, programming.dev, 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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