2023-01-09 Emacs news

Emacs 29:
- Feature freeze on the emacs-29 release branch (Reddit, Irreal)
Upcoming events:
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jan 13 1800 Europe/Paris
  - Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Jan 13 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 2000 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Jan 14 0130 Asia/Kolkata - 0400 Asia/Singapore
  - Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Jan 14 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 1000 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1530 Asia/Kolkata - 1800 Asia/Singapore
  - The First Congress for Attribution-Based Economics https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/zrgtu5/you_are_invited_to_the_first_congress_for/ Sat Jan 14 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Sun Jan 15 0200 Asia/Singapore
  - Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Jan 15 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 1000 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1530 Asia/Kolkata - 1800 Asia/Singapore
  - M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Jan 17 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Wed Jan 18 0000 Asia/Singapore
Beginner:
- Using Emacs for R (Reddit)
Emacs configuration:
- nfdn: Customizing the Emacs Context Menu (Reddit)
- meow-setup function for Dvorak Simplified layout
- twist.nix: A Nix library for building a set of locally-freezed elisp packages
- emacs-bedrock: Stepping stones to a better Emacs experience (Reddit)
- unmonoqueteclea's public dotfiles
- Emacs punchcard - code commentary - YouTube (Mastodon)
- Emacs Configuration Walkthrough (01:10:24)
- Mastering customisation in Emacs (12:39)
Emacs Lisp:
- What packages do I need to for the best elisp editing environment?
- Lazy sequences in Emacs with stream.el (2015)
- Mi primer Script en Emacs Lisp y cómo comencé (06:26)
Appearance:
- Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs: insert and render SF symbols
- Christian Tietze: Use San Francisco Font for SF Symbols Everywhere in Emacs
- Christian Tietze: woolsweater's SF Symbols Modeline
- Inserting + rendering SF symbols in Emacs (follow-up) (Reddit)
- [auto-dark-emacs] Now working with Linux using D-Bus (Reddit)
- Playing with layout (again) (Reddit)
- rose-pine-emacs: Soho vibes for Emacs
- Christian Tietze: Migrating to modus-themes v4 and Going Through the Changes
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Re: Questions around suitability of modus-themes for those that don't have reading disabilities
Navigation:
- Emacs package Bookmark+ by Drew Adams (13:00)
TRAMP:
- Sacha Chua: EmacsConf backstage: Using TRAMP and timers to run two tracks semi-automatically
Dired:
- The dired+ (dired-plus) package for Emacs (by Drew Adams)
Writing:
- Persistent identifier library (Reddit)
Org Mode:
- Ask HN: Why Do You Like Emacs' Org Mode (Or Derivatives)? | Hacker News
- Nicolas Martyanoff: Org-mode headline tips (Irreal)
- Org Agenda Is A Powerful Scheduling App (Let's Configure It!) (25:59)
- Org Mode Time and Task Tools
- Norm: On meetings - Org Mode template (2019)
- Marcin Borkowski: TODO stats table
- Marcin Borkowski: Computing Org mode TODO stats
- Norm: Reproducible research (2019)
- Import, export, and integration:
Completion:
- The Completions Buffer Gets a Big Upgrade in Emacs 29 (Reddit, Irreal)
- Emacs Consult Package – Key features and some tweaks (11:39)
- Emacs Selectrum Package: Key features and tweaks (09:28)
- Emacs Abbrev-Mode: A deal-breaker (15:59)
Coding:
- How do you use the terminal during a coding session?
- Writing C# in emacs
- Send emacs buffer to arbitrary Python process (03:32)
- how to install emacs and gcc on ubuntu for c programming (01:44)
- Searching for Prolog terms in Emacs with Sweep - Diode Zone (Mastodon)
- Nicolas Martyanoff: Improving Git diffs for Lisp
- Where are my Git UI features from the future?
Shells:
- Nicolas Martyanoff: Eshell key bindings and completion
Mail, news, and chat:
- 200ok: Inbox Zero Hack: Achieving productivity bliss in the New Year with mu4e
- Safer async email sending (e.g., mu4e)
Doom Emacs:
- Stream 0: Setting up Guix, Racket, and Doom Emacs (01:03:11)
Fun:
- emacs-ironsworn: Playing Ironsworn in a solo mode, using Emacs and org files.
- ~zck/sand.el - an unrealistic physics simulator where you can play with low-fidelity falling sand, rocks, antimatter, and more (lobste.rs)
AI:
- "𝑖λ, a family of imaginary programming libraries" (Elisp which can call out to GPT when trying to interpret functions) (Reddit)
Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- My thoughts about editors in 2022 Neovim, Emacs, Helix (Mastodon)
- A little elisp to kill lines in the agenda (like you can in dired)
- Eric MacAdie: I Got an Account On Mastodon
- Hand-made Code - Diode Zone Peertube channel for Emacs tutorials and videos (Mastodon)
- Guido van Rossum on using Emacs vs IDE (1:45) (Reddit)
Other:
- Read the Emacs Manual on the go, with ePub
- Christian Tietze: Display a Random Inspiring Quote for Journaling or Shell Prompts
- hashit: Hash it! implementation for Emacs. HashIt is a password hasher/generator for your logins
- passage: A fork of password-store (https://www.passwordstore.org) that uses age (https://age-encryption.org) as backend.
- with-wireguard.el: wireguard network namespace management for Emacs
- Sacha Chua: Using the calendar-date-echo-text variable to help plot a heatmap on a year-long calendar in Emacs
- Emacs Webrender updates
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel: note on Emacs 29 and CC mode misidentifying typos as types
- emacs-devel: mention of a work-in-progress library of promises/futures
- Add remote-file-name-inhibit-delete-by-moving-to-trash
- Add new Tramp method "toolbox"
- Remove obsolete Tramp items
- Improve interactive file-saving performance
New packages:
- age: The Age Encryption Library (MELPA)
- diffed: Diffed is for recursive diff like Dired is for ls (MELPA)
- elixir-ts-mode: Major mode for Elixir with tree-sitter support (MELPA)
- heex-ts-mode: Major mode for Heex with tree-sitter support (MELPA)
- kele: Interface with Kubernetes (MELPA)
- mpdel-embark: Integrate MPDel with Embark (MELPA)
- ob-p5js: Support for p5js in org-babel (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 emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!

From:	Sacha Chua
Subject:	2023-01-09 Emacs news
Date:	Mon, 09 Jan 2023 13:18:28 -0500
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