2024-02-26 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2024-02-26 Emacs news

• Help wanted:
  • FYI: volunteer needed for maintaining centaur-tabs
• Upcoming events:
  • 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
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/299015500/ Wed Mar 6 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto – Thu Mar 7 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 Mar 7 1730 Europe/Paris
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #4 2024 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/c20d71eb-72ad-4633-8289-5f8623f5e9fb Thu Mar 7 1900 CET
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Mar 8 1800 Europe/Paris
• Beginner:
  • Emacs: Guide for Beginners(WIP)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs Redux: Changing The Emacs Configuration Directory (Irreal)
  • folding everywhere - literate programming (almost) without the tangle - outline-minor-mode
  • Notes on text editing (HN)
  • Using GIT to sync Emacs config (09:51)
  • Bit of random weeds notes about things I'm learning for Emacs
  • From Doom to Vanilla Emacs (Reddit)
  • Nearly halfed my config with new emacs 30
  • agzam's Doom Emacs Config
  • domsch1988's Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs: how to activate the functionality X for all files of type Y?
  • Cycles all way down (Reddit, lobste.rs)
• Appearance:
  • How to change theme in Emacs
  • Andrea: A quick-fix for golden-ratio and lsp-mode
  • My new Emacs macOS icon
  • Cute pink icon for Emacs ()
• Navigation:
  • More UI progress - drag and drop tabs
• Writing:
  • crmsnbleyd/djot-mode: Djot (https://www.djot.net/) editing support for emacs; feature requests welcome () - light markup syntax
  • Irreal: OSX Dictionary Interface
• Org Mode:
  • Guía de Org Mode (Reddit)
  • Mario Jason Braganza: Org Mode Narrowing and Widening Buffers
  • Jeremy Friesen: Update on the Campaign Status Document
  • Jeremy Friesen: Quick and Dirty Function to Sort My Feed
  • ArneBab/emacs-org-clock-daytime: Emacs mode to display the time clocked today in the modeline ()
  • Release v0.8.5 · alphapapa/org-ql (Reddit) - bugfixes
  • Jeremy Friesen: Emacs Function to Assign Org-Mode Property to Matching Criteria
  • Publicar al blog desde mis notas - Cyberiadas ()
  • bramadams/embark-org-roam: Embark export buffer for org roam nodes (Reddit)
  • emacs-ssg: Emacs static site generator (HN)
  • Org development:
    • org-table.el: Enhanced table parsing
    • org-bibtex-yank: Allow to populate existing item
    • org-id.el: Add search strings, inherit parent IDs
    • lisp/org.el (org-insert-heading): Allow specifying heading level
    • lisp/ox-beamer.el: customize the beamer frame environment name
• Denote:
  • Exploring Your Ideas With the Denote-Explore Package - v1.3 released ()
• Completion:
  • rahguzar/consult-hoogle: Hoogle for emacs - Codeberg.org ()
  • Agilidad escribiendo en Emacs : abreviación -i
• Coding:
  • Search Github for code based on current major mode (ex: Python, Emacs Lisp)
  • justl-mode release v0.14 (Reddit) - support per recipe buffer, major rewrite
  • golang dape config for debugging tests ()
  • Meta Redux: nREPL 1.1.1: Improved Completion with compliment-lite
  • Unreal Development with just Vim or Emacs (and other text editors) (13:21)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mu/mu4e release 1.12 (Reddit) - speedups, message composition, query parser, folding, indexing, search
• Multimedia:
  • How to play media on Emacs (Linux and Android) using MPV (Reddit)
  • listen.el: Audio/music player for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Michal Sapka: Emacs: watching YouTube with Yeetube and mpv
• AI:
  • ELISA - ellama with Emacs knowledge (Reddit)
  • LLMs take control of Emacs
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread - consult-outline, consult-org-heading, org-ql-find, cleaning up help
  • Is Emacs dying? (Reddit, HN, bbatsov, Irreal)
  • Great recent paper on Elisp's History with Interviews (Reddit)
  • Robert C. Martin back to Emacs (Clean Code author)
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Can you spot the date I said "I'm done"? - and Gnus t-shirts
  • Live: Emacs package maintenance ('fontaine', 'spacious-padding', 'ef-themes', 'denote', …) (01:59:38)
• Other:
  • Emacs find of the day: M-X ()
  • Emacs için en iyi 5 eklenti (07:11) - org-roam, org-roam-ui, gptel, avy, magit
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Docs on ELPA (was Re: Adding Flycheck to NonGNU ELPA) - web-rendered Texinfo manuals for GNU ELPA / NonGNU ELPA might be nice
    • Re: Adding Flycheck to NonGNU ELPA - Flycheck made it in after much discussion
    • Re: Code for cond* - easier to understand/debug cond* code, maybe pcase can eventually be rewritten on top of it?
    • Re: master babe6a5e948 1/2: Introduce a new TRAMP method `androidsu' - how Android su binaries work
  • Translations README for Emacs manuals installed, progress being made ()
  • Introduce a new TRAMP method `androidsu'
  • 'read-passwd' can toggle the visibility of passwords
  • Improve wording of diff-refine-nonmodified
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Recommend obarray-make as correct replacement.
  • ; * etc/NEWS: How to fix old code that uses vectors as obarrays.
  • diff-mode.el (diff-refine-nonmodified): New option
  • Warn about docstrings with control characters
  • Update NEWS and manual after obarray changes
  • * lisp/help-fns.el (describe-mode-outline): New user option (bug#64684).
  • Add Tramp methods dockercp and podmancp

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