2023-12-25 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2023-12-25 Emacs news

• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Dec 27 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Dec 28 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Dec 29 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 2000 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Dec 30 0130 Asia/Kolkata - 0400 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Dec 30 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 31 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 1000 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1530 Asia/Kolkata - 1800 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/297487956/ Wed Jan 3 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto – Thu Jan 4 0030 Etc/GMT - 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0600 Asia/Kolkata - 0830 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Thu Jan 4 1730 Europe/Paris
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jan 5 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Jan 6 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Que es GNU EMACS El editor de texto extensible y mucho mas (05:02)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs From Scratch, Part 1: Foundations
  • Norm: Primarily emacs - defining custom command-line flags
  • Discover interesting packages by sorting MELPA by descending order of downloads (@aksharvarma@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Why Emacs Keys are Painful (2019, HN)
  • Emacs: advanced Org literate configuration (Reddit, Irreal) - Prot
  • My Emacs Configuration (@howard@emacs.ch)
  • jjwatt's vanilla emacs "config"
  • KaratasFurkan's Emacs Config
  • Horrih's Emacs config
  • GNU Emacs - A in-depth look at my config (48:03) - LinuxTechGeek
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Introduction to Emacs Hooks (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Lite - Simple Templates with Emacs (Reddit, Reddit)
  • Diff in elisp
  • It's now possible to read and write JSON data with transducers (@fosskers@emacs.ch)
• Appearance:
  • What are your top 3 themes?
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: spacious-padding version 0.3.0
  • James Dyer: Selected Window Accent
  • shapeless-theme.el
• Navigation:
  • Stay Organized and Focused in Emacs in 9 Minutes (tab-bar-mode) (09:12)
  • More blather on the XDG recently-used database
• Writing:
  • Get to know the howm package
• Org Mode:
  • My GTD Emacs Workflow (Getting Things Done) (13:50) (Irreal, Reddit)
  • Jeremy Friesen: Using a TODO List and Keyboard Macros to Guide RSS Feed Review
  • update the org-agenda-files variable by appending/deleting a candidate org file when it is saved (@oatmeal@emacs.ch)
  • Release v1.3 · alphapapa/org-web-tools
  • Release v0.8 · alphapapa/org-ql (Reddit)
  • Ergonomic inline equations with Typst (Reddit)
  • minibuffer.tonyaldon.com is built with one.el package. Here is the source code.
  • Using age with org-journal
  • Yi Tang: Jekyll in Emacs - Align URL with Headline
  • Sacha Chua: Audio braindump workflow tweaks: Adding Org Mode hyperlinks to recordings based on keywords (00:57)
  • orgroamtools: Python library for assisting data analysis of org-roam collections
• Coding:
  • From Zero To IDE with Emacs and LSP · Justin Barclay
  • My Python Emacs Workflow - YouTube (Reddit)
  • Emacs in tamil part 8 - Recap & Basic Java IDE (32:53)
  • Testing Arei, a New Guile Scheme IDE for Emacs (01:57:19)
  • Meta Redux: CIDER & clojure-lsp Sitting on a Tree
  • REPLs in strange places: updates, a demo, and how to try it - YouTube
• Web:
  • Read Confluence pages from Emacs! (Reddit)
• Chat:
  • Helm interface for the Ement matrix client
• EXWM:
  • Tory Anderson: exwm triple monitor winum mode-line window numbers need to update better
  • Using bufler and exwm to group my browser windows (NOT tabs!) (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • twitchy-ears/zone-matrix: Attempt to fix up zone-matrix for being a bit simpler in structure and working on Emacs 29.1 (@morix@loci.onl)
  • snow.el: Let it snow in Emacs!
  • Champagne Timer (Emacs PGTK Support) (00:25)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: A Murder at the End of the World: Are you Vi or Emacs? (HN, lobste.rs)
• AI:
  • Sacha Chua: Getting live speech into Emacs with Deepgram's streaming API
  • LLMs in Emacs with gptel (17:56)
  • Using FastGPT to make a dictionary function for Chinese
  • Kagi can now summarize buffer/region/URL (@bram85@emacs.ch)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Elisp development habits, practices, and tools? - discussion of video ideas
  • PSA (as part of `advent` series): /r/planetemacs is a low traffic–almost to the point of non-existent– Emacs subreddit will finish almost 5 years in few days. If you need to no drama, bird's eye view of happenings in the Emacs world then this subreddit is just for you
  • [Michał Sapka's website] C-X Emacs
  • Sacha Chua: Braindump from radiostudent.si interview with Lio Novelli and Jurij Podgorsek: Emacs, focused time
• Other:
  • Vivek Das Mohapatra / totp.el · GitLab (@ersatzmaus@mastodon.social)
  • buffer-snapshotter: Minor mode that keeps snapshots of changed versions buffers (visiting files or not) written to disk, and limits those snapshots by number or time
  • Spanish holidays for Emacs calendar
  • Emacs 29.1 AppImage (self-contained single executable for linux) with native-compile (Reddit)
  • Emacs Advent Calendar, day 24: blamer, file-info, orgnote, etc
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: EmacsConf2023: hyperdrive.el peer-to-peer filesystem (Joseph Turner and Protesilaos) (YouTube, 40:01)
  • Emacs Does Everything, Including Viewing PDFs and Diffs - YouTube (Irreal)
  • Chung-hong Chan: The tool situation 2023 Q4: shell, dirvish, expand-region, iPhone SE
  • Get a fully working install of Emacs on Fedora Silverblue (05:03)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Ideas for improving 'pcase' documentation
    • Org version breakage will probably improve over the next few versions (Re: Permanently fix org versioning breakage during builds?)
    • Continued work on the design of cond*
  • Introduce a toolbar for Log Edit mode
  • Make ffap correctly guess remote file names at point
  • Tramp's direct asynchronous processes use 'tramp-remote-path'
  • Improve and update documentation of registers
  • Specific rcirc log file time stamp format
• New packages:
  • coercion: Naming convention style switch (MELPA)
  • open-color: Open Color color palette (MELPA)
  • org-agenda-files-track: Fine-track `org-agenda-files' to speed-up `org-agenda' (MELPA)
  • org-agenda-files-track-ql: Fine-track `org-agenda-files' to speed-up `org-ql-views' (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!

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