2024-03-18 Emacs news

Help wanted:
- ivy-posframe looking for new maintainer (@Mehrad@fosstodon.org)
- Looking for Emacs users in Hamburg for meetups
Upcoming events:
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Mar 20 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 21 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Mar 23 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Mar 27 1030 America/Vancouver - 1230 America/Chicago - 1330 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 28 0130 Asia/Singapore
- EmacsSF (in person): Emacs Lisp Hacking Night: Org Mode (Hybrid) https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/299740714/ Thu Mar 28 1800 America/Vancouver - 2000 America/Chicago - 2100 America/Toronto – Fri Mar 29 0100 Etc/GMT - 0200 Europe/Berlin - 0630 Asia/Kolkata - 0900 Asia/Singapore
Beginner:
- Introduction to GNU Emacs (54:27)
Emacs configuration:
- Structuring an Emacs configuration
- chaosemer/init-dir
- Project-specific packages
- Accepting your own solutions to your own problems (Reddit)
- James Dyer: My Dotfile
- public/emacs_settings.org · master · JTR / Taonah (@jtr@fosstodon.org)
- haplo's Emacs Config
- shaleh's Emacs Config
- broquaint's Emacs Config
- Wai Hon's Emacs Config
Emacs Lisp:
- Arialdo Martini: Emacs: Let's surround! - Prompt the user for inputs (Reddit)
- Wrote my first function :) - highlight-word
- m-buffer-el: List Oriented Buffer Operations for Emacs
- Declaring Lisp function types
Appearance:
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 1.6.0
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: modus-themes version 4.4.0
- `lsp-treemacs-nerd-icons` - Nerd Icons for `lsp-treemacs`
- Gruvbox theme Emacs logo (Reddit)
Navigation:
- Arthur A. Gleckler: narrow-to-focus (Irreal)
- replace-from-region: Perform `query-replace-regexp', but getting FROM string from region
- diff-so-fancy: Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs. 🎉
Hyperbole:
- ANNOUNCE: GNU Hyperbole package major release 9 (V9.0.1) released
Dired:
- Dired-auto-readme is now available via Melpa
Writing:
- Some meow configuration for friendlier LaTeX editing (Reddit)
Org Mode:
- Ace Maths tool for training basic math skills - Org Mode document with _javascript_, tangle and detangle - @ArneBab@rollenspiel.social
- A meow-state for speedy org structure navigation (Reddit)
- orgtbljoin: Enrich an Org-table with a reference table
- orgtblfit: Do regression fitting on Org Mode tables
- [Blog] Org, AWK, and Anki (Reddit)
- Jeremy Friesen: Completion at Point for Org Macros
- Org-roam causes less complications than Denote (Reddit)
- Org development:
Completion:
- Emacs Recipes With Yasnippet | Mark's Project Blog (@mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)
- 2024-03-15 Emacs: Completion And Function Bundles
Coding:
- dape: Debug Adapter Protocol for Emacs - Version 0.9 (Reddit)
- Let's talk about Clojure editors and IDEs: Emacs, IntelliJ IDEA Cursive, VSCode Calva, Vim (11:41)
- Jeremy Friesen: An Emacs Function for Wrapping Ruby Functions
- Robe 0.8.4 released (Reddit) - Ruby 3 compatibility, etc.
- RPM Treesitter grammar parser packaging for Emacs, Vim and co
- Committing a partial changeset in Emacs | On coding and tools (@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social)
Web:
- EWW Redirecting reddit to old.reddit.com automatically
Fun:
- Spotted Emacs in a comic - Emacs Cultural References in the Wild
- GC-geiger: Make a click sound when emacs does garbage collection (Reddit)
AI:
- Release Version 0.8.0 · gptel (LLM client for Emacs) (Reddit)
Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- Things you do in Emacs that will make non-Emacs users go WOW? (Irreal)
- How do you collaborate/interact with the non-emacs users in your life?
- A little vent about people who are trying to change Emacs (Reddit)
- GNU Emacs sessions streaming on Twitch, Sundays (@shakthimaan@mastodon.social)
- emacs@groups.io: Emacs users group Slovenia
- emacs_si: Spletna stran slovenske skupnosti, ki se dobiva na temo emacsa
- Telegram Channel Emacs (español) A nosotros nos gusta Emacs, y hablamos en español ;) (Reddit)
Other:
- Emacs Mode Specific Commands 2024_03_17_06:27:52 (04:28)
- lentic-server: A literate web server for Emacs
- The revised edition of the howm manual.
- Anand Tamariya: Data Visualization with GNU Emacs (YouTube 00:50, Reddit)
- Gijs Hillenius: Blog - Gopher - Elpher
- boox-attach.el · GitHub (@lucasvreis@mathstodon.xyz) - insert last figure drawn on Boox tablet into an Org note as SVG
- Introducing Chrome-Emacs: Elevate Your Live Coding Experience in Online Editors
Emacs development:
- An alternate pattern-matching conditional for Elisp
- Continued work on faster JSON parsing
- * lisp/tab-bar.el (tab-bar-select-restore-windows): New defcustom.
- Document and announce 'marker-last-position'
- Further adjustments for restoring killed buffer windows (Bug#68235)
- * lisp/textmodes/flyspell.el (flyspell-check-changes): New user option.
- Add user option to disable _javascript_ in xwidget webview
New packages:
- bril-mode: Major mode for Bril text format (MELPA)
- dired-auto-readme: Auto-display README file in Dired buffers (MELPA)
- dired-hist: Traverse Dired buffer history: back, forward (MELPA)
- elisa: Emacs Lisp Information System Assistant (MELPA)
- mpdired: A dired-like client for Music Player Daemon (GNU ELPA)
- sops: SOPS encrypt and decrypt without leaving the editor (MELPA)
- sqlite-mode-extras: Extensions for sqlite-mode (MELPA)

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From:	Sacha Chua
Subject:	2024-03-18 Emacs news
Date:	Mon, 18 Mar 2024 20:52:58 -0400