2024-02-19 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2024-02-19 Emacs news

• Upcoming events:
  • 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
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Feb 28 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 29 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Mar 1 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Mar 2 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • European Lisp Symposium 2024 (May 6-7, Vienna) - Andrea Corallo wants to know if anyone wants to meet up
• Beginner:
  • The Ultimate Collection of Emacs Resources (2011, Reddit)
  • Mario Jason Braganza: Note to Self, Emacs Help Stuff
  • Lookup the Documentation of Functions, Variables and Faces
• Emacs configuration:
  • What are the best practices in laying out an init.el that won't turn into spaghetti after a year or two?
  • Temporarily rebind a key with automatic restore
  • Kickstart.emacs is now Stable! (Reddit)
  • greenbeast's Emacs Config - treesitter, dirvish, meow, dashboard, svg-tag, …
  • manueljlin's Emacs Config - Potato Emacs: elpaca, meow + Canary Ortho, lsp, drt-indent, corfu, …
  • masukomi's Doom Emacs Config - includes copilot
  • TanbinIslam43's Doom Emacs Config - short
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Lessons learned from creating my first ELPA package - box.matto.nl (@pkal@emacs.ch)
  • Finding the maximum number of days in a month (@jchelary@emacs.ch) - monthMaxDay, hardcoded
  • TIL to use cl-callf to toggle a var without repeating the name (Irreal)
  • Emacs Redux: Replacing dash.el with Built-in Emacs APIs
  • TIL: Emacs has a very nice built-in binary data library (Reddit)
  • Elisp testing example | Programador Web Valencia (@andros@hostux.social)
• Appearance:
  • Beautifying the Mode Line (@ifiinlist@mastodon.social)
  • [auto-dark] 0.12 - Now supports emacs-mac (MacOS) and allows 'default' Emacs theme (Reddit)
  • NANO: hacking tab-line-mode to display under the mode-line, putting mode-line info in the header
• Navigation:
  • Charles Choi: cc-isearch-menu now on MELPA
• Dired:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Opening external drives in Dired (Irreal)
  • Update to dired-auto-readme-mode (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Create and yank bibtex entry from a DOI
• Org Mode:
  • Org Capturing Introduction - Howardism (Reddit)
  • Encrypting the content of Emacs Org files (2021)
  • A small update to org-view-mode (Reddit)
  • A small, but useful org-agenda tweak - jumping to narrowed subtrees (@svbck@fosstodon.org)
  • [WIP/RFC] Reorg: reorganize your life (Reddit)
  • Charles Choi: Computing Truth Tables in Org
  • Karthik Chikmagalur: For Your Reference: RefTeX in Org Mode
  • Org development:
    • org-insert-link: Do not expand path arg when `org-link-file-path-type' is a function
    • ox-org: Do not process citations by default
• Denote:
  • Adding Denote files to the Org agenda by filename (@mph@social.lol)
• Completion:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: modern minibuffer packages (Vertico, Consult, etc.) (44:01 YouTube, Reddit)
  • Vertico: Minimalist Vertical Interactive Completion in Emacs (07:04)
  • Emacs Helm Essentials (10:11)
• Coding:
  • Mike Zamansky: Using Emacs 82 - Conda and Direnv (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Meta Redux: CIDER: Preliminary Support for clojure-ts-mode
  • Meta Redux: Configuring fixed/tonsky indentation in clojure-mode
  • Meta Redux: Flycheck Updates: A new Stable Release and Way More
  • Release 1.7.1 · alphapapa/magit-todos
  • Summarizing debbugs patch acceptance
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • rcirc-voirc.el - VoIRC for rcirc (@pkal@emacs.ch) - very compressed voice over IRC
  • lem.el 0.16 update - Lemmy
  • Irreal: OPML and RSS
• Web:
  • [RFC] Proposed change to EWW history navigation
• Fun:
  • Chinese Zodiac Time for Your Emacs Mode Line (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Meta Redux: CIDER: Community Impact
  • Why No One Can Answer The "Vim Versus Emacs" Question (13:44)
• Other:
  • EmacsConf - 2023 - talks - The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023, HN)
  • CeleritasCelery/rune: Rust VM for Emacs (@jnpn@mastodon.social)
• Emacs development:
  • A vision of a multi-threaded Emacs • Core Dumped (2022, HN)
  • Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA discussion about lisp/obsolete and others
  • Re: Some thoughts about Emacs performance randomness and sorting, and also this thread is nice =)
  • Make key selection method configurable in EPA.
  • Add support for reading/writing IELM input history (bug#67000)
  • titdic-cnv.el: Bring all definitions under the `tit-` namespace
  • Add 'custom-variable' command
  • Tree-sitter support for outline-minor-mode (bug#68824)
• New packages:
  • cc-isearch-menu: A Transient menu for isearch (MELPA)
  • eglot-signature-eldoc-talkative: Make Eglot make ElDoc echo docs (MELPA)
  • iso-639: ISO 639 (MELPA)
  • org-cite-overlay: Overlays for org-cite citations (MELPA)
  • org-cite-overlay-sidecar: Show Sidecar for overlaid org-cite citations (MELPA)
  • org-nix-shell: Org local nix-shell (MELPA)
  • pinyin-isearch: Pinyin mode for isearch (MELPA)
  • rcirc-sqlite: rcirc logging in SQLite (GNU ELPA)

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