2023-11-20 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2023-11-20 Emacs news

• Upcoming events:
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Nov 24 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 2000 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Nov 25 0130 Asia/Kolkata - 0400 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Nov 25 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Nov 25 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 26 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 1000 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1530 Asia/Kolkata - 1800 Asia/Singapore
  • Tbilisi Emacs Meetup (in person) https://akater.gitlab.io/emacs-tbilisi-meetup-page - 15:30 Georgia Time
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Nov 29 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 30 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Dec 1 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Dec 2 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Anything goes: Using use-package to bootstrap quelpa and quelpa-use-package
  • acanimal's dotfiles: These are my dotfiles. If you don’t like them I have others.
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs: Enough elisp to get you started
  • Emacs-Elisp-Programming: Tutorial about programming Elisp and Emacs text editor customization. (2018)
  • Defalias: a quick guide to making an alias in Emacs (3:19, Reddit)
  • Eoops: an object-oriented programming system for Emacs-Lisp: ACM SIGPLAN Lisp Pointers: Vol V, No 3 (1992, Reddit, HN)
  • tip on using advice-add and org-edit-special
• Appearance:
  • selection-highlight-mode - A minor mode for highlighting matches to the selection (inspired by VS Code) (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: "spacious-padding" covers more User Interface elements (Jack Baty)
  • Andrey Listopadov: Overcolorization
  • To get Roboto Mono to display italics in Linux Emacs, edit the vendor ID in the .ttf files (@wirthy@emacs.ch)
• Navigation:
  • Ruslan Bekenev: Did you know about IBuffer? (Irreal)
  • Ready-made regexp replacers (Irreal)
  • Tips for renaming variables using query-replace-regexp
  • emacs-pophint: Provide navigation like the Vimperator/KeySnail Hint Mode of Firefox
  • symbols-outline.el: Display symbols (functions, variables, etc) in a side window.
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: beframe version 1.0.0
  • maximize-window-vertically in emacs
  • Mario Jason Braganza: Having My Emacs Tasks and Notes Ready (Irreal and response)
  • A Smarter Other Window #shorts #emacs (00:30)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ediff basics (15:49, YouTube, Irreal)
• Dired:
  • Using Dired with only one hand (for browsing dired and files while relaxing) Super cool.
  • Tory Anderson: Mass file conversion using find and exec - mention of dired-toggle-read-only
• Writing:
  • My LaTeX setup with emacs (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • GNU Emacs to manage actionable items when Building a Second Brain | Poview - together with Denote
  • James Dyer: Quick Search Through Org Headers using Consult Outline
  • William Denton: Exporting Org source code blocks to LaTeX with minted
  • Emacs Workspace: IDE + Yet Another Jupyter (Reddit)
  • org-roam: Automatically log modified nodes in daily note
  • cpbotha/org-roam-canvas: render org-roam nodes as part of the obsidian canvas (@cpbotha@emacs.ch)
  • 20231119 org roam canvas ors-get-link (00:51)
  • OrgNote - mobile app inspired by org-roam and org-roam-ui (early beta) (Reddit)
• Denote:
  • Denote (denote.el) version 2.1.0 released! (Reddit)
• Completion:
  • TempEL, an Emacs package for managing templates : .dot life — p-snow a.k.a. こなゆき
• Coding:
  • Using the golang mode shipped with Emacs (Reddit)
  • Debug multi threaded Python apps with Emacs, eglot and dape (Reddit)
  • Pseudo-REPL-driven programming in Rust with Evcxr and Emacs
  • Tony Zorman: Using XMonad with NixOS - including basic Emacs support for C-c C-c
  • clangd-inactive-regions.el: Emacs Eglot support for clangd inactiveRegions LSP extension. Make ifdef code semitransparent following build time flags and defines.
  • I'm bumping `treesit-auto` to v1.0
• Shells:
  • Making Emacs without terminal emulator a little more usable (Reddit)
  • Irreal: Eat: A Preliminary Report
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Emacs Advent Calendar 2023 - sign-ups and a calendar of upcoming blog posts in Japanese
  • Eric MacAdie: 2023-11 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • New in-person meetup - Tbilisi Emacs
  • In a thread about pcase, Po Lu describes polling 34 coworkers "all in some capacity involved in the maintenance of Emacs Lisp" (C programmers who use Emacs for programming). Neat!
• Other:
  • ⚡Talking about Emacs for 11 minutes - Aidan H (11:08)
  • Anoncheg: "#Emacs : Ways to handle long lines("Line Wrap"): …" - Emacs.ch
  • Some new Emacs packages I tried: Denote, zoom-frm, visual-regex, zzz-to-char, and more
  • A not-so-simple function and keybinding for querying the user during keyboard macros
  • EMT - Emacs MacOS Tokenizer for enhanced CJK word operations
  • Mario Jason Braganza: Getting Emacs Windows to Not Be Shy - xdotool and emacsclient
  • Navigating the Linux Textscape using Vim and Emacs
  • Emacs - FOCUS ON: Linux - Podcast (in German)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Idea about having a cond-let
    • Ideas for improving 'pcase' documentation
    • why pcase is complicated
    • on the use of pcase on different scenarios
    • explanation of backquotes and commas in pcase
    • Other issues with complex specifications
    • watching out for the XY problem; good idea to start with "what are you trying to do?"
  • Recognize shebang lines that pass '-S/–split-string' to 'env'
  • Add key translations 'C-x 8 a e' and 'C-x 8 A E'.
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Add entry about new input methods. (Bug#66470)
  • * etc/NEWS: Mention incompatible change in `pp` (bug#67180)
  • Merge branch 'derived-mode-add-parents'
  • Add Completion Preview mode
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Use setopt not setq for project-switch-commands.
• New packages:
  • easky: Control the Eask command-line interface (MELPA)
  • llvm-ts-mode: LLVM major mode using tree-sitter (MELPA)
  • ruff-format: Ruff format Python source (MELPA)
  • sequential-yank: Minor mode to copy and paste strings sequentially (MELPA)
  • tab-bar-notch: Adjust tab-bar height for MacBook Pro notch (MELPA)

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