[emacs-tangents] 2024-10-21 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2024-10-21 Emacs news

• Emacs 30:
  • New stuff in Emacs 30 (July 2024)
  • Twitch video on latest Emacs features from master, buffer/file registers, golang ts tests features and more (@pizzatorque@emacs.ch) (video available temporarily)
• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Oct 26 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Oct 30 1030 America/Vancouver - 1230 America/Chicago - 1330 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 31 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Nov 1 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Nov 2 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Exploramos las opciones para instalar paquetes en Emacs con package.el
  • diegs' Emacs Config: nix, Emacs .el, meow
  • BuddhiLW's Emacs Config: Doom Emacs
  • jjba23's Emacs Config: nix, Emacs init.el
  • Developers Have Jobs to Do (Part 2) - someone sharing notes on a product-manager-ish way of approaching making a new distribution focused on Python and React development
  • Instalar paquetes en Emacs (0x0004) - FTV (@barocio@techhub.social)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • TheMKat: Write your own Emacs Lisp macros - a short introduction
  • Marcin Borkowski: substitute-command-keys (Irreal)
  • show-conses.el (2024)
  • Lección 1: Introducción | Curso de UI Emacs Lisp (@csantosb@sigmoid.social)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: remap font size in the minibuffer
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: the Modus themes have a new ‘rotate’ command
  • No more drugs, punch-line is here - mode line
  • Emacs purple theme inspired by Plasma cookies
  • HTML Renderer: CSS Support
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs para ciencias del dato (@Jose_A_Alonso@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Sacha Chua: Thinking about 12 aspects of personal information/knowledge management
  • Sacha Chua: Shuffling my Org Mode unscheduled tasks
  • Sacha Chua: Change Org Mode TODO keyword color based on the state and the current Modus theme
  • Function for calculating all TBLFM lines for the current table in order
  • James Dyer: Transforming Dired File Paths into Org Links
  • rtrppl/website2org: Turn any website into a minimal Orgmode buffer or .org file (@laotang@mastodon.social)
  • Como exportar desde orgmode a pdf en castellano - Cyberiadas (@hispa@emacs.ch)
• Completion:
  • Alex Popescu: An Intro to Emacs packages Vertico, Consult, Marginalia, Orderless, Embark by Protesilaos Stavrou
• Coding:
  • Using Emacs Lisp in a Makefile by setting SHELL=emacs and setting SHELLFLAGS (@mekeor@mastodon.catgirl.cloud)
  • Insert bug ticket cookie in vc-log for the current thread being read in Gnus (@viz@mastinsaan.in)
  • Arne Bahlo: Jujutsu in practice - version control
• Web:
  • Sacha Chua: Yay Emacs 6: Inserting links with consult-omni
• Multimedia:
  • shenshou (subtitle downloader) 0.2.0 is published (Reddit) - support OpenSubtitles.com REST API
  • Irreal: Emacs Drawing Tools
• EXWM:
  • Emacs: edytor jako window manager? Oct 26 2024, Rybnik (@JesienLinuksowa@fosstodon.org)
• AI:
  • Spiffying up automatic smerge insertions + animated regions M-x chatgpt-shell-quick-modify-region, M-x chatgpt-shell-fix-error-at-point (@xenodium@indieweb.social)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread: key combos, repeat, exwm, use-package
  • That Lightbulb Moment with Emacs - novelist/filmmaker who switched from NeoVim
  • Why do you think emacs is so low in popularity?
  • Why you switched to Emacs?
  • Kent Pitman's memories of TECO and the early history of Emacs (@kentpitman@climatejustice.social)
  • Eric MacAdie: 2024-10 Austin Emacs Meetup - new organizers; smex, amx, org-jira, eat, dslide, org-sidebar (lemmy.ml)
  • encontro emacs brasil? - Lemmy
• Other:
  • Making the Most of Terminal Emacs - System Crafters Live! (02:07:05)
  • jh-mustache-csv.el: Convert CSV to Text using Mustache templates - also has decide-with-probabilities
  • The Ultimate Collection of Emacs Resources (2011, Reddit)
  • martianh/nc.el: Work with Nextcloud shares in Emacs - Codeberg.org (@mousebot@todon.nl) - work in progress
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Re: Improving Emacs' iCalendar support - looking for feedback on ical library, esp. from Org/Gnus/diary developers
  • Add ability to crossfade between songs in 'mpc'
  • Hide default-directory absolute file name in dired-hide-details-mode
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Shorten find-function-mode entry back to single line.
  • Add notifications support to 'mpc' (Bug#73538)
  • Add support for chaining conditionals in Eshell
• New packages:
  • just-ts-mode: Justfile editing mode (MELPA)
  • tp: Utilities for transient menu that POST to an API (MELPA, NonGNU ELPA)

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