2024-03-25 Emacs news

Important updates:
- Demonstration of vulnerability - rename to .org, open in Emacs and check messages buffer
- Emacs 29.3 released (Reddit, lobste.rs) - security update
- [ANN] Emergency bugfix release: Org mode 9.6.23 … - Emacs.ch
Upcoming events:
- 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: 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
- Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Apr 2 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/299015525/ Wed Apr 3 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Apr 4 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #6 2024 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/db14a364-8a55-41d5-a1a4-189ac7c33772 Thu Apr 4 1900 CET
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Apr 5 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
Beginner:
- A Beginner's Guide to Using Emacs Text Editor in Linux (@governa@fosstodon.org)
- Primeros pasos con Emacs
Emacs configuration:
- James Dyer: Eliminating Key Chords in Emacs under Linux with Sticky Keys
- Use Information Theory to choose better keybindings [OC] (13:40, Reddit)
- Current init.el file
- drshapeless' Emacs Config
- port19x/dotfiles: My Arch Linux Configuration
Emacs Lisp:
- Irreal: Prompting With The Interactive Command
Appearance:
- Wrote a plugin to make popup windows/buffers show in posframe (Reddit)
- Visualización de iconos con nerd-icons (@Notxor@tuiter.rocks)
- Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs: Toggling the continuation indicator (Reddit)
- Titlebar Color Sync and Rounded Corners - Lemmy
- barocio/transparency.el: A minor-mode for transparency in Emacs - Codeberg.org (@barocio@emacs.ch)
- Some themes i created automatically
- Dashboard with a Doom dashboard style
Navigation:
- treesit-jump: jump around using treesit and avy (Reddit)
- Marcin Borkowski: Follow mode (Irreal)
- Emacs Window Positioning Enlarge And Shrinking 2024_03_26_03:33:17 - YouTube (4:08)
- Arialdo Martini: Emacs: Mark Ring
- Arialdo Martini: Emacs: Playing Hansel and Gretel with Marks, Registers and Bookmarks (Reddit)
Writing:
- LaTeX Input for Impatient Scholars | Karthinks (2021, @aksharvarma@mathstodon.xyz)
- jinder1s/pkm - another personal knowledge management package using sqlite3 (@PuercoPop@mastodon.social)
- The Emacs howm package for notes - Jack Baty
- 2024-03-19 Emacs: English Dictionary Completion With Dabbrev
- Live updating for LaTeX, with emacs support (Reddit, lobste.rs)
Org Mode:
- org-refile + vertico + orderless fix (@jtr@fosstodon.org)
- Org Mode Fundamentals Volume 1 (06:45)
- Emacs Org Edit Special For Editing Section 2024_03_24_16:51:18 (03:39)
- My little adventure to speed up a very SLOW Org Mode (07:13)
- Emacs: Intro a Org-mode (español de argentina) (01:03:19)
- obsidian-to-org: Convert an Obsidian directory to org-roam
- Emergency bugfix release: Org mode 9.6.23 (Reddit)
- Quick journaling in org-mode (Reddit)
- [Worg:new-article] How many files? (Reddit)
- Presenting Hyperorg version 0.1.0: The Org to HTML Converter (Reddit)
- I'm just here to rave about `org-clock`
- Org-tufte v0.4.0
- Unwound Stack: Org Mode & LaTeX
- tobli: A static Backloggery clone with Emacs org-mode and Python
Denote:
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Denote version 2.3.0
Coding:
- CIDER: new feature for debugging on exception (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
- Emacs - VC-Git conflicts resolution | KanchiLUG | Tamil (17:26)
- C fundamentals with Emacs + Org-mode practice: C operators (1/4) (11:25), part 2 (13:04), part 3 (09:24), part 4 (05:08)
- Writing Go templ with Emacs
- flymake-perlcritic: Run Perl::Critic static analysis "While U Type" via Emacs Flymake
- Combobulate: Interactive Node Editing with Tree-Sitter - (Reddit)
- Have you bound RET to default-indent-new-line for programming yet?
- sqlite-mode-extras now on MELPA (Reddit)
- Alvaro Ramirez: sqlite-mode-extras on MELPA
Math:
- Charles Choi: Announcing Casual - An opinionated porcelain for Emacs Calc
- [mp4] calc-preview
- Emacs/gnuplot/GAWK/: Modal Age of Death Analysis (50:25)
- sje30/ess-unigd - proof-of-concept for using httpgd to view ESS plots directly within Emacs (@sje@fosstodon.org)
- Data Visualization with GNU Emacs: Live Preview (00:32, Reddit)
- Data Visualization with GNU Emacs - Time series (Reddit)
Web:
- 2024-03-22 Emacs: Pull Random Gemini Capsules
Mail, news, and chat:
- message-fix-quote-alignment.el · GitHub (@rayslava@lor.sh)
- One of my MH-E customizations: 'narrow-to-pending' (refiles and deletes)
- Irreal: PSA: Mu 1.12.1 - bugfixes
Doom Emacs:
- Doom Emacs and Keycast (10:55)
- TUI, Doom Emacs, and Codespaces (42:31)
- Multiplayer editing with Zellij and Doom Emacs (13:17)
Multimedia:
- T. V. Raman: Smart Media Selector For The Emacspeak Audio Desktop (Update)
- Release v0.8 · listen.el (Audio/music player for Emacs) (Reddit)
AI:
- Robby: Extensible Emacs Interface to OpenAI (Reddit)
Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- #126 Lex-Free Man Podcast | James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing (01:31:26)
Other:
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Re: Advice regarding note-taking in Emacs (Irreal)
- myme.no - Focus by Automation
- Irreal: A Simple Macro
- Adding a tooltip at the former top or bottom of a PDF when scrolling
- Emacs IETF mirror now works with automatically updated view-mode (@florian@bsd.network)
- Managing Local Services in Emacs with Prodigy
- ephone.el: Control ofonod through Emacs (Reddit)
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel: Explanation of how Java and C handle character encoding during communication - relevant to Android port
- Recompute :map when image :scale, :rotation, or :flip changes
- Add 'eww-readable-urls'
- Allow toggling "readable" mode in EWW
- Use 'regexp-opt' in 'dired-omit-regexp'
- etc/NEWS: Document the new behavior of `describe-function`
- (help-fns-function-name): New function
- 'vtable-update-object' can now be called with one argument
- (primitive-function): New type
- (cl-type-of): New function to return more precise types (bug#69739)
New packages:
- casual: Transient UI for Calc (MELPA)
- consult-eglot-embark: Embark integration for `consult-eglot' (MELPA)
- firstly-search: Search with any key: Dired, Package, Buffer menu modes (MELPA)
- org-sliced-images: Sliced inline images in org-mode (MELPA)
- pq: libpq binding (GNU ELPA)
- satysfi-ts-mode: A tree-sitter based major-mode for SATySFi (MELPA)

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From:	Sacha Chua
Subject:	2024-03-25 Emacs news
Date:	Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:01:14 -0400