2024-05-27 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2024-05-27 Emacs news

• Upcoming events:
  • 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 Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Jun 4 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/299015533/ Wed Jun 5 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Jun 6 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #10 2024 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/13b81251-eb27-45c5-a1d8-ad8b6820f0de Thu Jun 6 2000 CET
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jun 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgMeetup June 12 19:00 UTC+3 (@yantar92@emacs.ch)
• Beginner:
  • Emacs in fifty keystrokes (and why some of you should just use Vim) | by enzu.ru | Medium (HN)
  • graphical emacs commands (04:03) - beginner tutorial
  • WindowsへのEmacsの導入（Windows PC上のプログラミング環境整備 第７回） (17:05)
  • Usando o emacs (08:41)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Configuración de Emacs Vanilla - Hardlimit (@salvari@mastodon.gal)
  • Enabling Emacs native compilation and dynamically adjusting the number of parallel compilation of Elisp files (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs Lisp 101 - Write a useful function Today!! (24:40)
  • borkdude/clj2el: Transpile Clojure to Emacs Lisp (@deadblackclover@functional.cafe)
  • Building and Training Neural Networks in Emacs Lisp
  • Emacs Lisp List ..just for the reference - old index of Emacs Lisp libraries
• Appearance:
  • Complex layouts in enlight via grid.el (Reddit)
  • Irreal: Time And Date On A Full Screen Emacs and Update - display-time-and-date
  • acme-theme is just so pleasant to look at (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • etags-regen-mode recently merged into Emacs 30 - generates the tags table automatically
  • "It bears repeating." - Two Emacs Repeat Commands (02:37) (Irreal)
  • Multiple Cursors and iedit in GNU Emacs (01:16:55)
  • Emacs as code navigation tool (Reddit)
  • toggle-term.el - Now in the MELPA (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Casual Dired 1.2.0 adds Goto File, other things (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Agenda Fundamentals Volume 3: TAGS (10:20)
  • Aimé Bertrand: A Personal Touch in my Org Agenda
  • Mario Jason Braganza: Ignoring Syncthing Conflict Files in the Org Agenda Folder
  • Mario Jason Braganza: Org Mode Clocking in and Out of Tasks on Task State Changes
  • Automatically clocking in in Emacs Org Mode (@al3x@hachyderm.io)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Org-clockify
  • org-mode IDs and links
  • om-dash: Building blocks for org-based dashboards (Reddit, @gavv@fosstodon.org)
  • Three-year journal/diary for org-roam dailies (@emacsomancer@types.pl)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • org-mode links that open a directory in Windows Terminal (Reddit)
    • Preview Typst code blocks in org-mode (Reddit)
    • Using Org Mode noweb expansion to insert rx results in places where it's not supported, such as Lisp data files (@bram85@emacs.ch)
    • Programmer Power Point: Dslide 0.5.1 EMACS LISP (03:51)
    • master-of-ceremonies: Display & presentation utilities to make presentation packages more effective
    • How I Made This Site using Nikola and Org mode
    • org-readwise
  • Org development:
    • Fix test failures for thingatpt support on Emacs 27
    • Add support for 'thing-at-point' to get URL at point
• Completion:
  • Jürgen Hötzel: Gnome Search Provider: Emacs Integration
  • consult-grep - pass additional grep flags with the – separator
• Coding:
  • Emacs as a F# IDE (Reddit)
  • Basilisp support is coming to CIDER soon (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • Programando em java no emacs pt3 (06:15)
  • mugur: configurator for QMK compatible keyboards (Reddit)
  • mise: uses the mise tool to determine per-directory/project environment variables and then set those on a per-buffer basis
  • James Dyer: New Package, xkb-mode, to edit X Keyboard Extension Files
  • Emacs Magit Visit Underlying File Of A Commit And Blaming 2024_05_27_04:01:10 (08:56)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mastodon.el in MELPA updated to latest version, added other views
• AI:
  • Setting up GitHub Copilot in Emacs (2022)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • I'm stopping contributing to reddit and this is why (Reddit, HN) - Karl Voit (publicvoit)
  • Emacs used as a message router in Germany's ATC systems in the 1990s (2021) (HN)
• Other:
  • Mario Jason Braganza: Search for Something! Kill the Line! In Emacs - flush-lines
  • surround-region.el improvement to keep nesting (@ddrake@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Emacs Easy Draw v1.2.0 - preset, import SVG, include LaTeX, improved multi-line text… (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • create diary entries in Emacs using a specific folder structure
  • Irreal: If Only
  • Touchscreen events on Emacs 29 (Reddit)
  • Call Alfred workflows from Emacs using the external trigger (@goofansu@hachyderm.io)
• Emacs development:
  • Make `idle-update-delay` obsolete
  • * lisp/dired.el (dired-mode-map): Bind "E" to 'dired-do-open' (bug#18132).
  • New variable shell-command-guess-dired-optional (bug#18132)
  • Documentation followup for last change
  • Support text overlays for thingatpt provider helpers
• New packages:
  • casual-avy: Casual Avy (MELPA)
  • firebase-rules-mode: Editing support for firebase.rules (MELPA)
  • idlwave: IDL editing mode for GNU Emacs (GNU ELPA)
  • noman: Read command line help without a man page (MELPA)
  • puppet-ts-mode: Major mode for Puppet using Tree-sitter (MELPA)
  • sink: Receive messages from the plan9 plumber (MELPA)
  • toggle-term: Quickly toggle persistent term and shell buffers (MELPA)

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