2024-01-29 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2024-01-29 Emacs news

• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jan 31 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 1 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs users group Slovenia (in person) https://emacs.si/ Thu Feb 1 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Feb 2 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Feb 3 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (IRL - Octo) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Feb 6 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/298320311/ Wed Feb 7 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto – Thu Feb 8 0030 Etc/GMT - 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0600 Asia/Kolkata - 0830 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Feb 9 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • A quick guide to directory-local (or project-specific) variables in Emacs
  • Reinstalling Emacs Packages | Emacs Redux (2020, Irreal)
  • Switching to the meow modal editing system from evil (2021, lobste.rs)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: define prefix/leader key (nested key maps) (23:18 YouTube)
  • Why is my Emacs Slow? (Reddit)
  • Debugging Emacs
  • mms/mms-emacs - Codeberg.org (@mms@emacs.ch)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Mike Zamansky: Learning Elisp 17 - a thesaurus mode (16:36 YouTube, Reddit, Irreal)
  • Customizing 'ebib' (and 'citar') behaviour by locally overriding a function throughout a dynamic extent - cl-flet
  • ANNOUNCE: ert-results.el - Rapidly manipulate views in Emacs Regression Test results and source buffers
  • emacs-datetime
  • Xah Talk Show Ep533 Emacs Lisp Normalize YouTube Url, Open All File Paths, How to Choose a Mouse (50:05)
  • efetch.el - an emacs fetch tool (02:12) - display system information
  • Lección 6: Imagenes | Curso de UI Emacs Lisp
  • Lección 7: Arquitectura | Curso de UI Emacs Lisp
• Appearance:
  • I Just Wanted Emacs to Look Nice — Using 24-Bit Color in Terminals | Chad Austin (HN, lobste.rs)
  • Emacs Notes: How I used ct (= color tools) APIs to choose background highlighting colors for use with hi-lock library OR Pick colors in a quantitative way using ct (= color tools) APIs
  • Show off you org-mode eye candies (also non-Org)
  • Background transparency for MacOS (Cocoa) emacs (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Temporarily Make Single Buffer Fullscreen
  • Searching in other visible buffer without losing focus on the primary?
• Hyperbole:
  • Demo of HYROLO - HyRolo is a (kind of) contact book that is part of Hyperbole package
• Dired:
  • Essentials of Dired Plus
• Writing:
  • Writing Manuals with Texinfo in Emacs - System Crafters Live! (01:59:36)
  • Emacs function that yanks a bibtex entry given a doi. (00:29)
• Org Mode:
  • How I Wrote my Book in Emacs + Org - YouTube (@mms@emacs.ch)
  • org-mode Ui changes · GitHub (screenshots, Reddit)
  • Yi Tang: Learn in Emacs - Building Up Vocabulary
  • 2023年のorg-mode活用と今後の抱負 - takeokunn's blog (@kaneuchi@mstdn.jp)
  • Screenshot of the day: Shopping with Emacs + Org mode + Orgzly
  • Note-taking on the go: Capturing messages and images sent via Jami in Org mode
  • Webmention Comments - Nothing Is Simple (@AblatedSprocket@emacs.ch)
  • William Denton: Basic citations in Org (Part 5)
  • Evolution calendars in Org Mode's agenda
  • Fast, Async LaTeX Previews in Org Mode (Reddit)
  • OrgMeetup notes (@yantar92@emacs.ch)
  • Logseq from an Emacs Org-mode perspective
  • Org development:
    • ob-python: Set Python shell in Org edit buffer
    • lisp/ox-icalendar.el: Add time-to-live functionality to ox-icalendar
    • ob-R, ob-julia: Do not force-start session in Org Src buffers
    • org-babel-tangle: Do not allow tangling into self
    • ox-icalendar: Add support for multi-line SUMMARY, LOCATION, and DESCRIPTION
    • org-attach-store-link-p: Change default value to 'attached
    • Obsolete org-switch-to-buffer-other-window and org-no-popups
    • org-fold: Honor :extend face property in folded headings/blocks/drawers
• Denote:
  • Jeremy Friesen: Creating an Emacs Command to Rename Files per Denote File Naming Schema
• Completion:
  • Improving my Emacs experience with completion
  • James Dyer: Opening Frequently Used Files More Efficiently using consult
  • Emoji Insertion in Emacs With Helm (04:38)
• Coding:
  • sky blue trades | Effortless Emacs Multiple Major Modes with Polymode
  • Compile with Confidence: A Deep Dive into Compiling Code with Emacs (15:46, Reddit)
  • LSP in Emacs setup (@xgqt@emacs.ch)
  • editing rust in emacs with LSP (07:59)
  • Estandarizar commits en Magit con commitizen
  • How Jane Street Does Code Review - Jane Street (2017, lobste.rs)
• Web:
  • Sacha Chua: Patching elfeed and shr to handle SVG images with viewBox attributes
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Christian Tietze: Have You Ever Sent an Email with a File Attachment that is Located on a Server?
  • Release v0.14 · alphapapa/ement.el (Matrix client for Emacs) (Reddit)
• AI:
  • New kagi.el command kagi-translate (@bram85@emacs.ch)
• Fun:
  • Anand Tamariya: GNU Emacs as a Comic Book Reader (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Anyone going to FOSDEM?
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: I no longer maintain my Emacs projects on SourceHut
  • Avoiding the Ovsiankina effect: Tweakomania in Emacs (03:23)
  • Sacha Chua: My Evil Plan for Yay Emacs!
• Other:
  • Appreciation for flush-lines and keep-lines (@choanmusic@mstdn.social)
  • Zachary Kanfer: Auto-revert PDFs in Emacs
  • Quickly open SSH sessions in Emacs
  • Michael Fogleman: Emacs can keep in touch (2015)
  • streak: A minor mode for Emacs to track a streak.
  • emacs-tmux-pane: Fuse emacs windows with tmux panes.
  • Sacha Chua: 2024-01-21 Yay Emacs: copy link, Spookfox + Org Babel, choosing what to hack on, SVG highlighting, ical
  • Curious about Emacs? Sightseeing twisted wonders (08:59)
  • Пробую Emacs после Vim (почти пианист) (27:01)
  • Emacs local meetup discussion playlist in Tamil (@goldayan@clj.social)
  • Full Linux implementation with proper support for EXWM and Emacs on mobile phones (see 12:55 in video for Org mode) (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Code snippets/template consolidation and potential improvements
    • Re: Possible minibuffer completion enhancements
      • possible series of patches
      • ideas for using properties
    • Installing cond* in core
      • More details on pcase design, reference to Racket's match
      • pcase insight - imagine running list interpolation backwards
      • where to put cond*: master? branch? or GNU ELPA?
      • cond* feedback
    • help-gnu-emacs: Idea for `other-window-prefix' command, running anything in the other window (there's already an other-window-prefix, but maybe it needs extending?)
  • xt-mouse.el: Obey `mouse-wheel-*-event` variables (bug#68698)
  • Support setting umask symbolically in Eshell
  • Support a local repo as URL in 'treesit-language-source-alist'
  • Allow users to opt out of following Windows Dark mode
  • Calc parses fractions written using U+2044 FRACTION SLASH
  • Add new option to 'register-use-preview'
  • Add option Info-url-alist
  • Optionally avoid extending 'completion-at-point-functions'
  • ; Minor improvements in 'visual-wrap-prefix-mode'
  • Import ELPA package adaptive-wrap as visual-wrap
  • Add support for running commands via Eshell's "env" command

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