2022-10-31 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2022-10-31 Emacs news

• Emacs User Survey (emacs-devel, Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
• Upcoming events:
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Nov 1 0900 Vancouver / 1100 Chicago / 1200 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata – Wed Nov 2 0000 Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Mastering Emacs | Crafted Emacs https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/289100501/ Wed Nov 2 1630 Vancouver / 1830 Chicago / 1930 Toronto / 2330 GMT – Thu Nov 3 0030 Berlin / 0500 Kolkata / 0730 Singapore
  • Emacs Paris (virtual, in French) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Thu Nov 3 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1630 GMT / 1730 Berlin / 2200 Kolkata – Fri Nov 4 0030 Singapore
  • Emacs users group Slovenia https://emacs.si/ Thu Nov 3 1200 Vancouver / 1400 Chicago / 1500 Toronto / 1900 GMT / 2000 Berlin – Fri Nov 4 0030 Kolkata / 0300 Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Nov 11 0900 Vancouver / 1100 Chicago / 1200 Toronto / 1700 GMT / 1800 Berlin / 2230 Kolkata – Sat Nov 12 0100 Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • A "new" approach (for me) for project wide variables
  • Question about the state of package managers
  • melpulls: An Elpaca menu for outstanding MELPA pull requests
  • Crafted Emacs Update
  • Where Did Emacs Go? | Setting Up a New Workstation (14:09)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • A little function to merge plists in Elisp (Reddit)
  • Emulate keyboard input from elisp
• Appearance:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs: A welcoming experiment (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: introduction to the ef-themes "cyprus" theme
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: introduction to the ef-themes "cherie" theme
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 0.9.0
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: modus-themes version 3.0.0
• Navigation:
  • Nicolas Martyanoff: Eye level window centering in Emacs
  • Irreal: Undo In Region
  • What killer feature(s) make you prefer projectile over project.el?
  • Projectile 2.6 released! (Reddit)
  • doc-tools-toc: Create, cleanup, add and manage Table Of Contents (TOC) of pdf and djvu documents with Emacs (Reddit)
  • jarchive: Navigate to files inside jars. (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • What are your favorite packages for improving vanilla emacs text editing?
  • Arabic Input Setup (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: use custom file type with Denote
  • languagetool.el: LanguageTool suggestions integrated within Emacs
  • Using Grammarly With Emacs
  • TAONAW - Emacs: Of TiddlyWiki, Emacs, and Digital Gardens
  • xah talk show 2022-10-30 emacs, best way to insert unicode, emoji, math symbols (01:06:36)
• Org Mode:
  • Jeremy Friesen: Adding a Function to Carry Forward an Org-Mode Agenda Item
  • Minimal Emacs config to work with Bibliographies and references
  • An Org-mode to DOCX Pipeline | Erik L. Arneson — Writer and Software Developer (Irreal)
  • Andrea: Find Org Roam notes via their relations
  • Org-Orgzly RELEASE: v0.0.4.1- Originally planned features implemented…and it works too…
  • Org development:
    • org.el: Support auto display inline images when cycling
    • org-refile.el: Show refile targets with a title
    • org-agenda.el: Show document title in outline path
    • org-clock.el: Rename org-clock-get-file-title
• Coding:
  • Using emacs as a MySQL Client
  • Manuel Uberti: Automatically format Clojure buffers
• Multimedia:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Playing videos from the last position in mpv (Irreal, Reddit)
  • find-yttranscript-links: downloading transcripts of Youtube videos, in eev style - YouTube
  • Sacha Chua: subed.el: Word-level timing improvements, TSV support
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture - I am very happy that I will be able to use emacs forever (Reddit)
  • Adventures with Emacs - high12noon blog - why high12noon switched to Emacs
  • two weeks with emacs as a vimmer
  • Sacha Chua: Learning a lot on the way to EmacsConf
• Other:
  • Significant Garbage Collection Improvement For Emacs: Reducing Wall Clock Latency For sweep_conses By 50%. (Reddit, Irreal, emacs-devel)
    • emacs-devel: original rationale for block sizes
  • hammy.el: Programmable, interactive interval timers (e.g. for working/resting)
  • twlz0ne/separedit.el: Edit comment or string/docstring or code block inside them in separate buffer with your favorite mode
  • mmm-mode: New official home for mmm-mode, fixed for Emacs >= 23
  • Take Charge of PDF in GNU Emacs (Reddit)
  • Mickey Petersen: Keyboard Shortcuts every Command Line Hacker should know about GNU Readline (Reddit, Irreal, lobste.rs)
  • Using emacs artist-mode (Reddit)
  • Emacs Notes: Use xkb to setup full-spectrum of modifiers (Meta, Alt, Super, and Hyper) for use with Emacs
  • Crafting a Configuration Site Generator in Emacs - System Crafters Live! (56:16)
  • Emacs: adattamento nella Storia del software @ Linux Day 2022 Roma (01:50:42)
• Emacs development:
  • The "noverlay" branch was merged to master. This should speed up overlays in emacs (Reddit)
  • emacs-devel: challenge with shorthands Re: Help sought understanding shorthands wrt modules/packages (context of shorthands)
  • emacs-devel: CL packages landed (goal, versus shorthands)
  • emacs-devel: explanation of feature/ and scratch/ branches Re: CL packages landed
  • emacs-devel: libgccjit leaking memory Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)
  • emacs-devel: tip for building on macOS - com.apple.security.get-task-allow Re: Volunteering to help on etc/TODO item: Improved xwidgets support
  • emacs-devel discussion about whitespace in commits
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Add entry about more performant overlays.
  • Allow Hierarchy to delay computation of children
  • Allow applying Rmail summary filters consecutively
  • (Ffunction): Make interpreted closures safe for space
  • Handle context changes in Tramp kubernetes method
• New packages:
  • ddate: Manage Discordian dates with ddate (MELPA)
  • farmhouse-themes: Farmhouse Themes, dark and light versions (MELPA)
  • guake: Interact with Guake via DBus (MELPA)
  • nameframe-project: Nameframe integration with project.el (MELPA)
  • ox-linuxmag-fr: Org-mode exporter for the French GNU/Linux Magazine (MELPA)
  • url-scgi: SCGI support for url.el (GNU ELPA)

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 emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!

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