2023-12-11 Emacs news

Help wanted:
- Please contribute to Tree-Sitter based _javascript_ and TypeScript Modes in GNU Emacs core
- Plan of attack or division of labor for documenting cl-lib
Upcoming events:
- EmacsSF (in person): Holiday Party for Parenthesis Lovers https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/297781144/ Wed Dec 13 1800 America/Los_Angeles
- Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Dec 15 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 2000 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Dec 16 0130 Asia/Kolkata - 0400 Asia/Singapore
- Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Dec 16 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 Dec 17 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 1000 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1530 Asia/Kolkata - 1800 Asia/Singapore
- M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Dec 20 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Dec 21 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Dec 23 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore announcement
Emacs configuration:
- github-elpa: Build and Publish Your Own ELPA Repositories with GitHub Pages
- dwt1's Emacs Config
- mrcnski's Emacs Config
Emacs Lisp:
- Supercharge your eval-_expression_ with ielm! (Reddit)
- Emacs Goodies - #32 Which Function Mode (02:40)
- Marcin Borkowski: Replacing TeX control words behind the point - spelunking for a variable with the desired values; org-entities
- Sacha Chua: Updating YouTube videos via the YouTube Data API using Emacs Lisp and url-http-oauth
Appearance:
- Emacs Advent Calendar 8: emacs-goodnight
- New Emacs macOS icon
Navigation:
- Getting into the straights in Emacs with narrowing
- James Dyer: Redefining mark-paragraph and mark-word
Writing:
- electric-ospl-mode: Automatically enforce a "one-sentence per line" style in text file
Org Mode:
- Emacs Tips - How to Show Reminders for Org Mode Tasks
- Release 1.3.1 · alphapapa/org-bookmark-heading (Reddit)
- Archive subtrees under the same hierarchy as original in the archive files
- Literate Documentation with Emacs and Org Mode (42:46)
- Org development:
- Non-Emacs:
Denote:
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Denote version 2.2.0 (Irreal)
Completion:
- Emacs Advent Calendar 7: orderless, embark 1.0 and some bric-a-brac
- Fuzzy Finding with Emacs Instead of fzf (Reddit, HN)
Coding:
- Emacs Advent Calendar 9: devdocs, code-cells, dREPL, etc.
- GitHub - svaante/dape: Debug Adapter Protocol for Emacs (Reddit)
- New tree-sitter based major mode for TLA+ / PlusCal v0.1.0
- BrandonIrizarry/Advent-of-Code-Helper: An Emacs Lisp library to aid in downloading Advent of Code input (Reddit)
- swagg.el: Fetch and interact with OpenAPI (formerly Swagger) definitions
Web:
- JasZhe/hurl-mode: emacs major mode for hurl (Reddit) - cli tool for sending HTTP requests
Mail, news, and chat:
- emacs lemmy client lem.el 0.4 update - Lemmy
- Tory Anderson: Emacs message message-mark-inserted-region (Irreal)
Multimedia:
- Emacs Advent Calendar 4: chordpro-mode.el v2.2.0
- Anand Tamariya: Stream ListenBrainz.org Music Playlist in GNU Emacs (Reddit)
EXWM:
- My Steam Deck EXWM setup (Reddit)
Fun:
- Jeremy Friesen: Test Driving a Campaign Status Document
AI:
- Elfeed + LLM
Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- EmacsConf 2023 Retrospective | Erik L. Arneson
- starhugger.el: Hugging Face/AI-powered text & code completion client (unofficial)
- Bad NEWS, Emacs (emacs-devel, Eli's request for feedback, Reddit, HN, lobste.rs, communick.news) - maybe people can be nicer even when frustrated? discussions seem pretty level-headed, things look like they're cooling down
- Packages that you would like to be in emacs core ?
Other:
- More advanced emacs tutorials
- Emacs Advent Calendar 6: elfeed-tube, popper, consult-dir, gptel and more
- super-save 0.4 is out with a bunch of new features! (Reddit)
- How to Lock Yourself out of a GPG encrypted file with Emacs (Irreal)
- Emacs code editor in browser. Link to the Dockerfile (Reddit)
- The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp
Emacs development:
- STM (Software Transactional Memory) for Emacs/Elisp?
- [Results] Please help collecting statistics to optimize Emacs GC defaults
- NEWS:
New packages:
- dape: Debug Adapter Protocol for Emacs (GNU ELPA)
- dtext-mode: Major mode for Danbooru DText (MELPA)
- init-dir: Init directory instead of just a single file (MELPA)
- one: Static Site Generator for org-mode users (MELPA)
- orgnote: Sync org-roam notes with OrgNote app (MELPA)
- syncthing: Client for Syncthing (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, kbin, programming.dev, lemmy, communick.news, 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:	2023-12-11 Emacs news
Date:	Mon, 11 Dec 2023 22:05:52 -0500