2024-09-09 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2024-09-09 Emacs news

• EmacsConf 2024 call for participation - submit by Sept 20, 2024 (coming soon!)
• Upcoming events:
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://bbb.emacsverse.org/b/iho-h7r-qg8-led Wed Sep 11 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Sep 13 1800 Europe/Paris
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Sep 18 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Testing Transient Menus - Charles Y. Choi
  • How I achieved my buffer local dynamic keybindings setup
  • Irreal: More On Upgrading Builtins
  • Using the guix package manager for a cross-distro, reproducible emacs environment (Reddit)
  • strawhatguy's el-get based Emacs Config
  • ~abcdw/rde: rde: keyboard: Add feature-emacs-cua - sourcehut git (@abcdw@fosstodon.org)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Quick tip on using profiler-start and profiler-report to analyze runtime behavior
• Appearance:
  • hbdh-mode – highlight region by de-highlighting other texts
  • Tomorrow Night Deepblue Emacs theme (Release 1.2.0) (Reddit)
  • Rocking a new Emacs icon courtesy of Emacs Plus –with-savchenkovaleriy-big-sur-curvy-3d-icon
• Dired:
  • my-dired-goto-first-file
• Org Mode:
  • Charles Choi: Announcing Casual Agenda (Irreal, r/orgmode, r/emacs)
  • org-edna - keeping regular repeated tasks from going to NEXT state when marked done (@srijan@indieweb.social)
  • Release v0.8.9 · org-ql (Reddit)
  • Setting up a static site with emacs org-mode
  • orgrr 0.9.2 adds orgrr-compile-sequence (@laotang@mastodon.social)
  • org-zettel-ref-mode 0.3
  • Using text-to-speech in emacs-reveal
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Anki bookmarks - Anki and Org
  • Sich und seine Daten (mit Org-mode) organisieren
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Denote version 3.1.0
• Coding:
  • Andrea: How to setup python-lsp-server with lsp-mode using pipx
  • pivaldi/php-fh: Emacs package that provides highlighting of PHP functions in php-mode (@pi@emacs.ch)
  • emsg-blame: A simple, fast, asynchronous, customizable display, view of git blame commit in Emacs. (Reddit)
  • New project danderzei/emacs-data-studio: Emacs configuration for data analysis (@danderzei@aus.social)
• Shells:
  • Using vterm with emacs project.el
• Web:
  • Spookfox v 0.5.0 - inject JS into any open browser tab from Emacs
• Multimedia:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Seek and you shall find - ready-player-mode (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Rounding all timestamps in an srt file
• Fun:
  • LuminousMyrrh/Letters: Simple ASCII Emacs banner which creates on startup (Reddit)
• AI:
  • Announcing elysium - Automatically apply AI-generated code-changes in Emacs! (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Interview With Prot - Philosopher, Writer and Emacs Contributor (Reddit)
    • Protesilaos Stavrou: I talked with Gavin Freeborn about Emacs, philosophy, life, and politics
  • Emacs.ch (Mastodon instance) will shut down on December 9, 2024 (Reddit, communick.news)
  • Irreal: 🥩 Red Meat Friday: Should You Replace Emacs With An “AI Editor”?
  • Dan Weinreb’s Rebuttal to Stallman’s Story About The Formation of Symbolics and LMI (2007)
• Other:
  • Extending ekg with structured data - YouTube (Reddit)
  • Portals in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Emacs as your ultimate reading environment: Is it possible?
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: logos version 1.2.0
  • James Dyer: New Package arscript-mode - ArtRage scripts
  • Protecting against malicious dependencies with Flatpak - some notes on controlling Emacs's access
  • smilefjes.el: Emacs package to check the Norwegian Mattilsynets report on restaurant cleanliness, hygienic factors etc.
  • HOWM manual (HN)
  • Use Emacs in GUI mode on Android (using Termux and Termux X11)
• Emacs development:
  • some notes on Gnulib and MinGW Re: MinGW build on master broken by Gnulib update
  • php-ts-mode-run-php-webserver can now accept a custom php.ini file
  • New command `project-find-file-in-root'
• New packages:
  • casual-symbol-overlay: Transient UI for Symbol Overlay (MELPA)
  • haskell-ts-mode: A treesit based major mode for haskell (NonGNU ELPA)

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