2023-08-28 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2023-08-28 Emacs news

• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 30 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 31 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Sep 1 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Sep 1 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Sep 2 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Sep 2 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Sep 3 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/295467656/ Wed Sep 6 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Sep 7 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Paris (virtual, in French) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Thu Sep 7 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Sep 8 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • Tory Anderson: emacs tip: selected-mode - keymap when selection is active
  • Electric M-m
  • A New Beginning With GNU Emacs - Configuring Emacs 01
  • jeremacs: My general purpose, web-dev-centric, emacs configuration
  • A Tour of my Emacs Configuration
  • algernon/telchar.org: algernon's literate configuration for his main workstation - telchar.org - MadHouse Git Repositories
  • SophieBosio's Emacs config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Learning Emacs 8 - more on regular expressions - rx (Irreal)
  • eval-uncommented-region.el · GitHub - copy current region to temp buffer, uncomment, and eval
  • How to check for a regexp match after point with Emacs Lisp? | looking-at (01:55)
  • string-match | Emacs Lisp (Reddit)
  • Do you know how to generate html strings with Emacs Lisp? (02:11, Reddit) and HTML attributes (02:16)
    • Recursive vs. iterative implementation of jack-html in Elisp (2022)
  • subp: small elisp library for working with Emacs sub-processes
  • Release v0.6 · alphapapa/makem.sh (test and lint Elisp packages)
• Appearance:
  • Another minimal Emacs mode line
  • Using whitespace mode - Vernon Grant (March 2023, lemmy)
• Navigation:
  • 2-Column Emacs Tutorial (F2+) (Reddit)
  • Symbols-outline: display symbols (functions, variables, etc) in a side window
  • Emacs built-in subword mode (02:26, Irreal)
  • mac-tab-desktop: enable save and restore of native Mac tabs using desktop.el
• TRAMP:
  • Jeremy Friesen: Using Emacs's Tramp to Edit Files on a Rancher-backed Kubernetes
• Writing:
  • Getting spelling to work in Emacs on Windows (works for Linux too!) (1:35)
  • latex-extra: A series of usability improvements for Emacs latex-mode.
• Org Mode:
  • nfdn: Defining Org Agenda Tasks (or, I've Been Using Org Agenda Wrong)
  • Ryan Rix: Archiving Old Org-Mode Tasks
  • org-dog: Manage dozens or hundreds of Org files
  • Learning toki pona with org-fc flashcards
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Org-mode - Create not so simple website (10:01)
    • Marcus: "Here is my custom default latex class for ox-latex" - Emacs.ch
    • Perfect Emacs Org Mode Exports to LaTeX
    • towards minimalism - org-static-blog
    • org-latex-preview-check-health.el: Check system health
    • Made with Org-Mode
  • Org development:
    • ob-python: Results handling for dicts, dataframes, arrays, plots
• Completion:
  • liuyinz/consult-todo - search, filter, and jump hl-todo keywords (Reddit)
  • Tailoring Emacs completions with hippie-expand (15:04)
• Coding:
  • Announcing caser.el – a package to camelCase, dash-case, and snake_case text (Reddit)
  • Change the Insides of an S-_expression_ in Emacs (Reddit)
  • How to stop clang-format from messing around with your code
  • libo-basic-mode: A major mode for editing LibreOffice Basic programs
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Further sqlite-mode extensions (lobste.rs)
  • James Dyer: ahk-mode and Updating To AutoHotKey Version 2
  • Tree-sitter:
    • Manuel Uberti: Clojure and Tree-sitter
    • Setup Emacs for Python with Treesitter and Eglot
    • terraform-ts-mode.el - Terraform Treesitter Mode for emacs 29
  • Release v1.7 · alphapapa/magit-todos - bugfixes, updates
• Shells:
  • Now Eat supports Sixel! (Still experimental)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • More personalized rss/atom/json feeds with elfeed and rssc
  • Release v0.11 · alphapapa/ement.el (Matrix client for Emacs) (Reddit)
  • piem - Emacs tools and glue for working with public-inbox archives
• Multimedia:
  • Natively parsing m4a files for metadata for EMMS (@thuna_cing)
  • Control OBS Studio with an Emacs org file and noweb syntax (26:42)
  • Emacs control OBS Studio with obs-cmd (18:16)
• Fun:
  • Jeremy Friesen: Extracted the Random Table to an Independent Package
• AI:
  • General-Pure-Emacs: This is a platform with AI based on Emacs to facilitate learning, teaching, research and project management.
• Community:
  • Hacker News discussion of Mastering Emacs
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • #13 C/C++, Emacs, Haskell, and Coq. The Journey - John Wiegley (01:39:31)
  • Dvorak vs Qwerty, Vim/Emacs vs VSCode, Rust, and Design-By-Contract (01:09:53)
• Other:
  • TIL evil supports elisp _expression_ in substitution replacement (general feature of query-replace-regexp)
  • James Dyer: Reverting Buffers (Irreal)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Stefan Kangas is now an Emacs maintainer (Reddit)
    • improving Org Mode format and texi export (and progress on index entries)
    • some notes on the native compiler and type hinting
    • note about notifications-notify not working on MS Windows
    • continued discussion about Emacs and multithreading
  • Install rcs2log within Emacs packages for Android
  • project-key-prompt-style: New option.
  • Support adjusting file-name-history to the current project
  • Allow splicing Eshell globs in-place
• New packages:
  • async-status: A package for indicator support (MELPA)
  • caser: Change text casing from camelCase to dash-case to snake_case (MELPA)
  • deno-ts-mode: Major mode for Deno (MELPA)
  • do-at-point: Generic context-sensitive action dispatcher. (GNU ELPA, @pkal)
  • immersive-translate: Translate the current buffer immersively (MELPA)
  • jq-ts-mode: Tree-sitter support for jq buffers (MELPA)
  • nix-ts-mode: Major mode for Nix expressions, powered by tree-sitter (MELPA)
  • ocaml-ts-mode: Major mode for OCaml using tree-sitter (MELPA)
  • org-roam-ql-ql: Intgrating org-roam and org-ql (MELPA)
  • org-xlatex: Instant LaTeX preview in an xwidget (MELPA)
  • smart-delete: IntelliJ-like backspace/delete (MELPA)
  • vhdl-ts-mode: VHDL Tree-sitter major mode (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, kbin, programming.dev, communick.news, lemmy, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. 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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