2023-10-09 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2023-10-09 Emacs news

• ELPA and Emacs Zine: ELPA and Emacs Zine (September 2023) - tree-sitter progress report, emacs-devel thread summary
• Upcoming events:
  • EmacsConf - 2023 Talks (Reddit, Irreal)
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://list.orgmode.org/87mswxi7mk.fsf@localhost/T/#u Wed Oct 11 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Oct 13 1800 Europe/Paris
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Oct 13 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Oct 14 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Oct 14 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 Oct 15 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 18 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Speed up Emacs with features, requires, and autoloads (Irreal)
  • The Emacs "selected" package by Erik Sjöstrand (05:25)
  • site-lisp: Manage site-lisp directories
  • sniem: Hands-eased united editing method for emacs. (Reddit)
  • x4d6165's Emacs Config
  • Every Line of My Emacs Config | Part 3 (01:03:07)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • suggest.el: Use enumerative program synthesis to discover elisp functions that do what you want based on examples
  • How to write tests in Emacs Lisp? | ert-deftest, should (02:15, Reddit)
  • How to convert a filename into an absolute filename in Emacs Lisp? | expand-file-name (02:18)
  • Do you know about default-directory variable in Emacs Lisp? (02:18)
  • How to copy the content of a directory in Emacs Lisp? | copy-directory (02:19)
  • How to change values in Emacs Lisp property lists? | plist-put (02:11)
  • How to manipulate property lists in Emacs Lisp? plist-member, plist-get (02:12)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: introduction to the ef-themes “Melissa” variants (lemmy)
  • auto-dark-emacs - Updates on Linux: Gnome / Android (Termux) (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • wrap-search.el: Wrapped, non-incremental search
  • Adjusting Emacs to Shift with a New Project Organization Strategy // Take on Rules
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Beframe has its own menu-bar-mode entry
  • project-emacs–folding-mode: A folding-editor-like minor mode
  • Emacs Goodies - #19 Scroll All Mode (03:03)
  • Emacs package phi-search by zk-phi (07:23)
• Org Mode:
  • My first post sharing my org agenda setup (Reddit)
  • How I Wrote my Book in Emacs + Org (08:52)
  • James Dyer: More Improvements To My Weight Loss Org Table
  • Emacs | Giving Org Mode Some Character(s) 😈 (11:02)
  • org-ol-tree: An Org mode outline window that does not use indirect buffers
  • Org-capture via completing read instead of read-key (Reddit)
  • org-clive: A simple and minimalistic Org-based static weblog generator
  • Showcase of my org-agenda /break-mode integrated into my system bar. (communick.news)
  • Sacha Chua: #EmacsConf backstage: looking at EmacsConf's growth over 5 years, and how to do pivot tables and graphs with Org Mode and the Python pandas library
  • Org development:
    • * lisp/ob-maxima.el: enable use of `batch' loader and `draw'
• Denote:
  • Exploring Denote 2.0 for Emacs - System Crafters Live! (01:41:49)
  • denote-create-note-url.el
• Completion:
  • Company 0.10.0 is out (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Amit Patel: Emacs and shellcheck (HN)
  • nick4f42/hexl-note: Emacs library for annotations in hexl-mode. (kbin)
  • Exporting Sqlite Query Results to CSV in Emacs
  • junos-mode: Emacs major mode for JunOS configuration file
  • inf-ruby: Create a REPL buffer connected to a Ruby subprocess
  • fpga.el - FPGA & ASIC Utils for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Andrey Listopadov: Compiling Clojure projects in Emacs - Jumping into dependencies
  • Emacs stgit-mode Guide
  • delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output
  • New package: git-cliff.el to generate and update changelog with git-cliff (Reddit)
  • Emacs Magit Log Segregation 2023_10_08_04:15:55 (12:10)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Introducing elfeed-curate | Bob on Medical Device Software (Reddit, communick.news, Irreal)
  • Ryan Rix: A toolkit for Literate Programming roam:imapfilter configurations | Emacs noweb
  • Release v0.13 · alphapapa/ement.el (Matrix client for Emacs) (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: #EmacsConf backstage: reviewing the last message from a speaker
• Multimedia:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Displaying image details in mode line (Reddit, communick.news)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Trimming video screenshots (Reddit)
• EXWM:
  • EXWM is rewiring my brain and I love it
• Fun:
  • zone-pgm-spoopy: A spoopy Halloween zone mode for Emacs
  • Alex Schroeder: 2022-03-20 Torchbearers and bodyguards
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Is switching to Emacs really worth it?
  • [Emacs] I'm a turncoat
  • Sacha Chua: Summarizing #EmacsConf's growth over 5 years by year, and making an animated GIF
• Other:
  • Renaming files using dired, registers, regex, and macros
  • Emacs Tip: How to rename a file while working on it in a buffer #coding #emacs (00:55)
  • Release 0.4 of ekg: drafts, "magic tags", llms and file notes!
  • Charles Choi: ICYMI: Emacs World Clock (Irreal)
  • New package: cdsync - CalDAV support for Diary/Calendar (Reddit)
  • package-build: Tools for assembling a package archive
  • Alex Schroeder: Mysterious empty Copyright files appearing
  • youdao-dictionary.el: Youdao Dictionary(有道词典) interface for Emacs
  • How much support for old versions of Emacs should I provide?
  • New package: vzi.el - Pipe data from emacs to the browser (and visualize it) (Reddit)
  • The role of keyboard design in advanced shell programs
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • explanation of SVAR and CL argument lists
    • explanation of face-remapping-alist
    • possible performance boost on macOS in feature/more-fds branch
    • man integration with tramp? (also continued discussion about man completion)
    • not yet fully reproducible builds
  • Rename 'vc-switch-backend' to 'vc-change-backend'
  • Omit the `omake` compilation-mode rule by default
• New packages:
  • aangit: Quickly scaffold new Angular apps with Aangit (MELPA)
  • agenix: Decrypt and encrypt agenix secrets (MELPA)
  • company-eask: Company backend for Eask-file (MELPA)
  • derl: Erlang distribution protocol implementation (MELPA)
  • form-feed-st: Display ^L glyphs as full-width horizontal lines (MELPA)
  • git-cliff: Generate and update changelog using git-cliff (MELPA)
  • halloweenie-theme: Dark and spooky Halloween color theme (MELPA)
  • hush: Pluggable secret manager (auth-source alternative) (MELPA)
  • latex-labeler: Simplify equation labeling in LaTeX (MELPA)
  • nerd-icons-corfu: Icons for Corfu via nerd-icons (MELPA)
  • prisma-ts-mode: Major mode for prisma using tree-sitter (MELPA)
  • projection-multi-embark: Integration for `projection-multi' and `embark' (MELPA)
  • pumpkin-spice-theme: Spice up your day with a delightful pumpkin colored theme (MELPA)
  • test-cockpit: A command center to run tests of a software project (MELPA)
  • wrap-search: wrapped, non-incremental search (GNU ELPA)

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