2024-02-12 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2024-02-12 Emacs news

• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs.si meetup (Ljubljana, Slovenija): , April 4, 2024 at 7:00 PM
  • Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, February 24, 2024
  • Emacs.si: Emacs.si meetup #3 2024 (#online) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/737deab1-bfa3-4b44-b87e-000a7d3be294 Fri Feb 16 2330 America/Vancouver – Sat Feb 17 0130 America/Chicago - 0230 America/Toronto - 0730 Etc/GMT -
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/299081007/ Sat Feb 17 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Feb 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 22 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): Emacs Lisp Hacking Night https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/299082479/ Thu Feb 22 1800 America/Los_Angeles
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Feb 24 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Emacs - System Crafters (HN)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs, configuraciones básicas
  • Emacs config snippets for system-type, x-display-pixel-width, display-monitor-attributes-list ()
  • Help and critique my dotfiles (nix/nixos/Joe/emacw.nix) (Reddit)
  • karthink's Emacs Config
  • emacs-os: The finest linny dib on the market, for all your needs, as long as they are only emacs
  • emacs-exordium/exordium: An Emacs configuration that will make your C++ IDE jealous. ()
• Emacs Lisp:
  • el-project.el – Generate project skeleton for Emacs Lisp
  • Anand Tamariya: Just In Time Lazy-Loading
  • Test your ELisp knowledge: (their-fun (/ my-x 0))
• Appearance:
  • James Dyer: selected-window-accent-mode now on MELPA
  • [auto-dark] 0.12 - Now supports emacs-mac (MacOS) and allows 'default' Emacs theme (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Emacs movement by thing
  • Multi buffer (Reddit)
  • Release: v0.5 - activities.el: Activities for Emacs (suspend and resume activities, i.e. frames/tabs and their windows, buffers) (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: control where buffers are displayed (the display-buffer-alist) (29:52 YouTube, Irreal)
  • Demo of Emacs package outshine (2023)
• Writing:
  • zotelo: Manage zotero collections from emacs
  • Emacs: abbreviations with abbrev-mode (quick text expansion) (26:23, Reddit, Irreal)
    • The Art Of Not Asking Why - Emacs abbrevs hacks ()
• Org Mode:
  • Writing Setup
  • SpeedKeys: when the pointer is on a headline, you get specific keybindings. When pointer is on plain text again, then you have the custom keybindings again (Reddit)
  • paper-planner: An emacs org-mode planner based on a paper planner format
  • Hierarchical archiving for Org-mode
  • Emacs Orgmode Tricks Although Rudimentary (13:50) - C-c * headlines, C-c ; comments, C-c - changing bullets
  • org-toggle-emphasis: easily toggle emphasis markers: =~*/_+
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Executing code in Org files with Babel (@mms@emacs.ch)
    • dala-emacs-lisp/ray-tracer.org at master · dalanicolai/dala-emacs-lisp · GitHub
    • Use Emacs to Create a PowerPoint Presentation in Seconds! (03:35) Org Mode and pandoc
    • Exporting Files in Emacs Using Pandoc (06:44)
    • Turning Freeplane mindmaps into Org-mode outlines with structure intact
    • ol-simplenote.el: Org links for simplenote2
    • Yi Tang: Blog in Emacs - Use Jekyll's Draft Mode
  • Org development:
    • ox-org: Export special table rows by default
    • org-babel: New babel backend API function org-babel-session-buffer:<lang>
    • org-insert-subheading: Never insert sub-heading above current
    • lisp/ob-comint.el: Introduce a fallback prompt regexp
    • org-agenda: Fix meaning of 'repeated-after-deadline value of `org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-deadline-is-shown'
• Denote:
  • Jeremy Friesen: Renaming Files Using Denote Schema in a Dired Buffer
  • Emacs - Denote package | KanchiLUG | Tamil (33:24)
• Coding:
  • spell-check-code-in-ci: Free and powerful solution to spell check code at Continuous integration server
  • Tree-Sitter: Superior Syntax Highlighting in Emacs
  • eglot-signature-eldoc-talkative: Let Eglot let Eldoc echo more docs (Reddit)
  • The State of Flycheck: Alive and Kicking (Reddit)
  • ebanner/hexasm: Emacs minor mode for connecting hexl and nasm source code buffers (HN)
  • Cameron Desautels: Fix clj-refactor Libspec Stealing
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Mastodon in .emacs - switching accounts
  • A $100,000 app inside Emacs… - theming elfeed to look as nice as a Kickstarter-backed app
• Fun:
  • Celebrating Year of the Dragon ()
• AI:
  • djliden/ollama-elisp-sdk: An elisp SDK for ollama (@dliden@emacs.ch)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • What is it that makes using emacs fun for you? (Irreal)
  • As someone with ADHD, I find Emacs extremely handy
  • 24H24L NeoVim vs Emacs (55:17)
• Other:
  • Looking ahead to Emacs 30 [LWN.net]​ (Reddit)
  • Emacs Magic #coding #codingstream #emacs (00:22) - keyboard macros, rectangles
  • QR codes with external qrencode tool ()
  • ekg version 0.5.0: inline tags, auto-save, and other improvements (YouTube)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Finding Bible quotes
  • Emacs on Macos for Linux Peeps – Random Thoughts (2020, Irreal)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: [External] : Re: cond* vs pcase - on consistency
      • recommendation of chapter on Lisp Style in "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp" by Peter Norvig (free online)
    • Use fill-column of 64 for commit messages so that ChangeLog entries don't exceed 72 columns
  • Tree-sitter support for outline-minor-mode (bug#68824)
  • (pcase): New `_` syntax in pred/app functions
  • Add the public API of Compat to the core
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce support of 'lzip' compressed Info files (bug#69004).
  • Add option gnus-mode-line-logo
  • Mention 'C-h' in echo for unfinished commands
  • Optionally show internal buffers in Buffer Menu mode
• New packages:
  • consult-hoogle: Hoogle frontend using consult (GNU ELPA)
  • doctest: Doctests for Emacs Lisp (MELPA)
  • filechooser: An xdg-desktop-portal filechooser (GNU ELPA)
  • gnosis: Spaced Repetition System For Note Taking & Self Testing (MELPA)
  • org-drawio: Convert and include drawio image to orgmode (MELPA)
  • org-epa-gpg: Patch to enable EasyPG .gpg images in Org mode inline (MELPA)

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