2022-08-01 Emacs news

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2022-08-01 Emacs news

• EmacsConf 2022 Call for Participation (Reddit)
• Upcoming events:
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): Show and tell https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Aug 2 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/287197567/ Wed Aug 3 1630 Vancouver / 1830 Chicago / 1930 Toronto / 2330 GMT – Thu Aug 4 0130 Berlin / 0500 Kolkata / 0730 Singapore
  • Emacs users group Slovenia https://emacs.si/ Thu Aug 4 1100 Vancouver / 1300 Chicago / 1400 Toronto / 1800 GMT / 2000 Berlin / 2330 Kolkata – Fri Aug 5 0200 Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Aug 12 0900 Vancouver / 1100 Chicago / 1200 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1800 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata – Sat Aug 13 0000 Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Let's share your top 3 packages that you can't live without.
  • Emacs Kick Off Server From Your Initialization File 2022_07_30_02:56:05 (03:50)
  • emacs-groundup, first tagged release!
• Emacs Lisp:
  • How to build an editor with Emacs Lisp - 09 Introduction to macros (25:26)
  • emacs lisp, command to insert-random-string, hexadecimal, uuid, base64, WolframLang base36 (01:04:10)
• Appearance:
  • Mood Line
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: the Modus themes "Summertime" re-spin
• Navigation:
  • Christian Tietze: Key Binding to Select Paragraph or Org Element
• Dired:
  • Yi Tang: Machine Learning in Emacs - Copy Files from Remote Server to Local Machine - dired-rsync
• Writing:
  • An accentuated Emacs experiment (à la macOS) (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • Writing In Emacs Checking Spelling Style And Grammar | Simple IT 🤘 Rocks (2017)
  • Lookup word under cursor, browse synonyms, and insert selection (works with Embark actions)
  • Christian Tietze: Emacs Blogging: Insert Tag from YAML Frontmatter Posts
  • GitHub - licht1stein/obsidian.el: Obsidian Notes for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Peter Prevos: Simulating Text Files with R to Test the Emacs Denote Package
• Org Mode:
  • Is there some escape sequence that can used to create line breaks when org tables are converted to HTML? - tip to use a macro
  • Org-mode - Make REST calls using restclient in Emacs (09:52)
  • Note-taking with Org-Roam on PinePhone (Emacs 28.1 GUI) (3:34, Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • * etc/ORG-NEWS: Document `org-icalendar-force-alarm'
    • * etc/ORG-NEWS (New options): Add new section
    • oc-csl.el: Add support for sub-bibliographies
    • org-fold-show-entry: Do not fold drawers unless requested
• Completion:
  • GitHub - yilkalargaw/emacs-native-snippets: a collection for snippets that use emacs's built in templating utilities (Reddit)
  • Fuzzy Finding with Emacs Instead of fzf (Reddit, HN)
• Coding:
  • Andrea: A YASnippet to make it easy debugging clojure code with atoms
  • Tassilo Horn: Difftastic diffing with Magit
  • Philip K.: Using Guix Environments in Emacs using buffer-env
• Shells:
  • dwim-shell-command counters and other improvements (link in comments) (Reddit)
  • dwim-shell-command gives ya a reusable command history (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: dwim-shell-command improvements (Irreal)
  • Cameron Desautels: Emacs: Running Shell Commands on the Current File
  • Terminal Emacs Key-inputs Success story! - term-keys
• Multimedia:
  • shenshou (subtitle downloader) 0.0.6 is published
  • Alvaro Ramirez: dwim-shell-command video streams
• Fun:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Making secrets with Emacs
  • GNU Emacs for Kids: Matching game
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • emacs without packages?
  • Why I use Emacs in 2022 (4:42, Reddit, Irreal)
  • Eric MacAdie: 2022-07 Austin Emacs Meetup - includes stories about how people got started
  • Notmuch Ado About Nothing | Karthinks - Don't like how it works? You can change Emacs. (YouTube 29:45, Reddit, Irreal)
  • Emacs as 21stC interdisciplinary tool | gretzuni
  • EmacsConf 2022 (poster mockup) (Reddit)
• Other:
  • GitHub - santifa/clockodo-el: A simple emacs integration of the clockodo api
  • Automating Tasks with Emacs Lisp - System Crafters Live! (02:08:31)
  • Note-taking with Emacs on PinePhone (linux-based smartphone) (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: How to search emacs-devel and bug-gnu-emacs
  • emacs-devel: Update/help wanted on ebrowse, ecb
  • emacs-devel: transient vs repeat
  • Wrap around the search on typing a letter (bug#56535)
  • Fix the bytecode incompatibility due to the change to 'narrow-to-region'.
  • Make frame synchronization a frame parameter
  • Delete additional items obsolete since 20, 21 and 22
  • Delete aliases obsolete since 21.1 and 22.1
  • Delete redisplay-end-trigger-functions and related defuns
  • Fix namespace use in bib-mode.el
  • On X, Emacs can optionally synchronize display with the graphics hardware.
  • Merge branch 'feature/long-lines-and-font-locking' (emacs-devel, Reddit)
  • Add an optional 'lock' parameter to 'narrow-to-region'
  • Delete fast-lock.el and lazy-lock.el
  • Use icons in outline
  • Add support for user-customizable icons
  • Make quickurl.el obsolete (part 2/2)
  • Improve 'diff-whitespace-style' user option declaration
  • string-equal-ignore-case: new function
  • Add duplicate-dwim (bug#56418)
  • Teach 'network-lookup-address-info' to validate numeric addresses
• New packages:
  • cardano-wallet: Interact with cardano wallet (MELPA)
  • encrypt-region: Encrypts and decrypts regions (MELPA)
  • org-notify: Notifications for Org-mode (GNU ELPA)
  • sideline-flymake: Show flymake errors with sideline (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, emacs-devel, and lemmy/c/emacs. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for links!

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