2023-11-06 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2023-11-06 Emacs news

• Upcoming events:
  • 200ok: Announcing EmacsConf 2023 (Swiss satellite)
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Nov 10 1800 Europe/Paris
  • Emacs.si: Emacs.si meetup #11 2023 (#online) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/e4748f47-63cc-4891-8c11-ce288c3b9f4b Fri Nov 10 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2000 Europe/Berlin – Sat Nov 11 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Nov 10 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 2000 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Nov 11 0130 Asia/Kolkata - 0400 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Nov 11 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 Nov 12 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 1000 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1530 Asia/Kolkata - 1800 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): hackerdojo.el https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/296985794/ Tue Nov 14 1830 America/Los_Angeles
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Nov 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 16 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Share how did you make Emacs faster.
  • New package: massmapper! Bind lots of new default keys, e.g. prepopulate Super with everything that was under Ctl-Meta
  • [Package of the day] Loophole - set temporarily keybindings (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Mike Zamansky: Learning Elisp 12 - Emoji Replace part 2 (Reddit, Irreal) - using hooks
  • url-rewrite: Elisp library for rewriting URLs
• Appearance:
  • James Dyer: Window Divider Mode
  • All you need to know about the Emacs OCCUR command in 4 minutes (Irreal)
  • auto-highlight-symbol: Automatic highlighting current symbol minor mode.
  • [Guide] Setup NANO Emacs theme properly on Windows (Screenshots inside)
• Writing:
  • Chung-hong Chan: How I prepare ICA papers (version 2023): emacs, overleaf, literate programming
  • 'el-get' recipe for installing auctex
• Org Mode:
  • Introducción a Emacs y Org-mode
  • Notas y tareas en Org-mode
  • orgpaper: Reproducible Research Papers using Org-mode and R: A Guide
  • org-notely: Pop to new Org headings for quick notetaking
  • Applying Literate Programming Techniques to Technical Writing
  • Emacs Org Mode Quick Note 2023_10_27_02:31:24
  • Create flowcharts with org-mode (Irreal)
  • unfinished-ox-typst: Unfinished Typst backend for org-export.
  • Org development:
• Coding:
  • jtsx - New package extending Emacs JSX/TSX built-in support
  • xgqt-elisp-lib-devcontainer: Support for running devcontainers inside GNU Emacs
  • xcscope.el: cscope interface for (X)Emacs
  • Tory Anderson: Cider error: cider-get-ns-name: Wrong number of arguments
• Shells:
  • You don't need a terminal emulator (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Shout out to the eat terminal emulator package
• Evil mode:
  • evil-visual-mark-mode: Display all the evil marks you have registered on a buffer
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Nice and entertaining Emacs praise video. Link points to when he starts talking about emacs and neovim. (Reddit)
  • Emacs merchandise | FreeWear.org
• Other:
  • Emacs Goodies - #26 Auto Insert Mode (05:27)
  • Install Emacs on Chrome OS Flex (06:10)
  • Toggle between backslashes and forward slashes
  • Finally got emacs installed on my steamdeck
  • Announcing Emacspeak 57.0—Tilden! - DECTalk, notes, mpv, repeat-mode, notmuch, light, pulseaudio, bookmarks, ogg
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • continued discussion about cl-lib
      • discussion about cl-lib: cl-pushnew for example
      • why focus on cl-lib? other libraries like seq and pcase; looking at seq, pcase
      • considerations when adding things to Emacs Lisp
    • how to wait for a thread and get the return value - thread-join
  • New option to use arrows in the minibuffer to select completions (bug#59486)
  • Add project-any-command and project-prefix-or-any-command
  • Remove 'M-.' binding from js-mode and js-ts-mode
  • Adapt doc for man.el
  • New commands previous-line-completion and next-line-completion (bug#59486)
  • Run `man' also on remote systems
• New packages:
  • bufferlo: Manage frame/tab-local buffer lists (GNU ELPA)
  • daml-lsp: LSP client definition for daml (MELPA)
  • daml-mode: Major mode for daml (MELPA)
  • decor: Modify visual decorations (X11) (MELPA)
  • flymake-codespell: Flymake backend for codespell (GNU ELPA)
  • plz-see: Interactive HTTP client (GNU ELPA)
  • smlfmt: Format SML source code using the "smlfmt" program (MELPA)

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