2024-05-20 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2024-05-20 Emacs news

• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat May 25 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/301127537/ Sat May 25 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed May 29 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu May 30 0030 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • marienz/nix-doom-emacs-unstraightened
  • Charles Choi's Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • A minimal elisp status_command – literatelisp.eu (@thees@emacs.ch) - run-with-timer
• Appearance: it's so nice to see all these experiments
  • Show current time in modeline if fullscreen is enabled
  • Turn Emacs tab-bar into a global mode line (Reddit)
  • make-box.el (Reddit, Irreal)
  • make-tab-box.el (Reddit)
  • grid.el - library for organizing blocks of text horizontally and vertically (Reddit) like a more flexible boxy
• Navigation:
  • Jeremy Friesen: Modifying Emacs link-hint Package Open URL Behavior for Local Repositories
  • Jeremy Friesen: A Quiet Morning of Practice to Address an Observed Personal Computering Workflow Snag nice reflection, too
  • Strategies for Emacs Window Management - System Crafters Live! (01:47:23)
• Dired:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs: git rename, courtesy of dired (Reddit, Irreal) - set dired-vc-rename-file to t
  • my-find-file-noselect-wild-dired
• Writing:
  • Auctex 14.0.5: indirect buffers, latexmk preliminary support, TeX folding, new custom options
  • Tagged view (experimental)
• Org Mode:
  • Life in Text using Org mode (2020, @spelk@emacs.ch)
  • How I use Emacs and Org-mode to implement GTD
  • Org Agenda Fundamentals Volume 2: TODOs (Advanced)
  • Jeremy Friesen: Adding an Emacs Command to Summarize Headlines with Chosen Tags
  • Emacs at Lunch: Programmer Power Point (11:01) Dslide (formerly Macro Slides) Github
  • Guide to Org-roam interoperability with Logseq on the go
  • Org development:
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Move more impacting changes near the top for Org 9.7 release
    • lisp/org.el: Add `org-after-note-stored-hook'
    • etc/ORG-NEWS (Org mode now fontifies…): Add references to manual
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Denote file name components can be reordered
• Coding:
  • Isa Mert Gurbuz: Announcement: upver.el – Interactively update your project dependencies
  • New Home for Rustic (Reddit)
  • Exploring ASTs in Emacs with Tree-sitter (Reddit)
  • What is the coolest thing you do on Emacs if you are a hardware designer?
• Shells:
  • shx-for-emacs: An Emacs shell-mode (and comint-mode) extension that enables displaying small plots and graphics and lets users write shell commands in Emacs Lisp
• Fun:
  • For some reason, the Emacs calendar can display the names of the months as they were used by the French revolutionaries of 1792.
• AI:
  • Show HN: A Better LLM UI in Emacs | Hacker News
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread - smerge transient map
  • Andrea Corallo appointed as new Emacs co-maintainer (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Eric MacAdie: 2024-05 Austin Emacs Meetup hahaha, "Karthink’s Emacs Mic Drop Hour of Power"
  • Zapisnik sestanka cet 8. 5. 2024 [Orgmode predstavitev]​
  • Multics Emacs: the history, design, and implementation (1979, HN)
  • Irreal: Two World Views
  • Learning in Public Adventures – The Accidental Gardener (@birv2@pkm.social)
• Other:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Substitute version 0.3.0
  • Texinfo is superior (Irreal: Texinfo)
  • James Dyer: Writing Elisp to Find Available Keybindings in a Sway Config
  • Anand Tamariya: Alternatives in GNU Emacs - Wheel of time (Reddit, YouTube, Reddit)
  • godmaire/charm-freeze.el - export region to PNG (@godmaire@mstdn.social)
  • if you use hammerspoon, summon emacs wherever you are
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • emacsclient-mail.desktop and –display - also mention of server-eval-args-left
    • MPS development stalling, work needed; branch might not land if it becomes inactive - help might be good
    • Info search tip: i, info-apropos
    • Re: status of touchscreen support - complete on X and Android, workaround
    • stipple progress
  • Allow defining custom providers for more "thingatpt" functions
  • Add connection-local variable `tramp-direct-async-process'
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce Oklab support.
  • New nXML schemas for Mono/.NET development
  • New functions '(set-)window-cursor-type'
  • Make 'vtable-insert-object' more versatile
  • Use "/local:" prefix in Eshell to run local commands when cwd is remote
  • * etc/NEWS: Rename 'type' -> 'ftype' and tweak it.
  • Add documentation about sorting Imenu completions (bug#70846)
  • * etc/NEWS (Safety compilation parameter): Add entry.
• New packages:
  • girly-notebook-theme: A light theme with vivid colours and cursive text (MELPA)
  • gpx: Major mode for GPX files (MELPA)
  • hide-secrets: A package for hiding secrets in buffers (MELPA)
  • magit-file-icons: Icons for file entries in Magit buffers (MELPA)
  • ride-mode: A major-mode for editing RIDE language (MELPA)
  • window-tool-bar: Add tool bars inside windows (GNU ELPA)

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