2024-04-01 Emacs news

Important updates:
- Update: MSI Installer for GNU Emacs 29.3 for Windows
- Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs 29.3 emergency release
- Irreal: Emacs 29.3 Is Available
- Emergency bugfix release: Org mode 9.6.23 (Reddit)
Help wanted:
- Test readers might be needed for Emacs book - @danderzei@aus.social
Upcoming events:
- Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Apr 2 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/299015525/ Wed Apr 3 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Apr 4 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #6 2024 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/db14a364-8a55-41d5-a1a4-189ac7c33772 Thu Apr 4 1900 CET
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Apr 5 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Apr 12 1800 Europe/Paris
Beginner:
- 3. Basic Editing Commands - Part II (29:26)
Emacs configuration:
- pkw/emacs.d (@pkw@mastodon.sdf.org)
- facundoolano's Emacs Config based on Prelude
- emacs initial setup (01:23:16)
- acdw's Emacs Config
- sebasmonia's keyboard and Emacs configuration (Reddit)
- Emacs備忘録（２０２４年版
- [pdf] Intelligently Recommending Key Bindings on Physical Keyboards with Demonstrations in Emacs
- Designing keybindings to be easy to learn and resistant to forgetting even when the set of commands is large
Evil mode:
- Status update on my move away from Evil mode (@jbaty@social.lol)
- Is It "WRONG" To Learn Emacs With The Evil Bindings
- Evil No More: Kicking the Habit - System Crafters Live! (02:01:11)
Appearance:
- Emacs Badges inspired by Common Lisp logos
Navigation:
- Release v0.7 · activities.el (Reddit)
- Custom Tabline next/prev
- Current progress on tabline customization (07:24)
Hyperbole:
- Hyperbole, howm, and 0000-00-00-000000.txt (@jbaty@social.lol)
Writing:
- Grabbing Papers from Pubmed in Emacs (05:32)
- [mp4] olp-auto-mode-tikz-circle
- cc-isearch-menu 1.4.0: toggling a search mode will enter you into editing mode and keep the menu (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
Org Mode:
- Org Mode Fundamentals Volume 2: Headlines, Cycling, Visibility (07:27)
- Org Tables - From Zero to Hero (19:11, Reddit)
- org-yaap - get notifications of scheduled tasks and deadlines (@grinn@emacs.ch)
- RSS Feed Generation with Emacs-Lisp - parsing Org entries
- Hugo Cisneros Org mode Config
- Smooth animations for Org Tree Slide (currently in near full re-write)
- Literate programming using LSP and org-mode(alpha)
- CFEngine: The agent is in 35 - Automatic grouping of hosts using select_class (@nickanderson@fosstodon.org) - demonstrating literate programming in Org Mode
- Creating BPMN models from pseudocode (1/4): first model (16:05), part 2 (10:28), part 3 (08:56), part 4 (10:12)
- My Org+Pandoc Workflow (Reddit)
- Org development:
Denote:
- Jiewawa: Blogging with Denote and Hugo
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: consult-denote developer preview
Completion:
- Embark/Vertico tip: switch to multiform/grid display - @ctietze@mastodon.social
- yasnippet-treesitter-shim
Coding:
- How do you all use emacs to investigate a codebase these days?
- Prebuilt #treesitter grammars for Emacs and Neovim in #openSUSE
- Python Practice with Emacs - notes and config
Math:
- Interface between httpgd and Emacs/ESS version 2 (04:27)
- Calc Cheat Sheet · Sundaram Ramaswamy (Reddit)
- Announcing Casual - An opinionated porcelain for Emacs Calc (Reddit, Irreal)
- [mp4] calc-preview
- [mp4] prog-preview-3 - LaTeX preview in comments
- Charting Hope: Exploring Child Mortality Rates [part 1]( with gnuplot, Emacs, and gawk) (55:00)
- Plastic Recycling Data Analysis (with Gnuplot, Emacs & Arch Linux) (31:08)
- Analyzing Plastic Waste Recycling with Emacs, Gnuplot, and GAWK (http://ourworldindata.org) (44:31)
Shells:
- M. Rincón: Eat Evil
Mail, news, and chat:
- Gijs Hillenius: znc and rcirc and authinfo.pgp
Multimedia:
- Release v0.9 · listen.el (audio/music player for Emacs) (Reddit)
AI:
- ob-dall-e-shell.el: Org babel functions for DALL-E evaluation
Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- Irreal: Red Meat Friday: Multiple Editors
- Why use Emacs
- Coming back to Emacs after a year or so, loving it - includes a script for creating journal entries from Emacs and putting them in Obsidian
- Emacs (Slovenia) Zapisnik sestanka čet 7. 3. 2024
Other:
- emacs-communinfo/communinfo.el - community-maintained Info-url-alist (@mekeor@mastodon.catgirl.cloud)
- Taking notes in Emacs (@p0nt1ff@emacs.ch)
- Ben Simon: out-of-band is officially out-of-bounds | Reviving emacs oauth2 with Google APIs
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel and other discussions:
  - Re: Hundreds of ELPA packages updated today? - possible explanation: Atom feed
  - Note about different types of overlays - cursor face highlights, rectangle overlays
  - pkal's autoblog: JSON parsing update (also emacs-devel
  - Windows installer bug when uninstalling - removes all versions
  - Coordinating how Tramp releases can be integrated into Emacs
- Update JSON parser test and docs
- * etc/NEWS: Mention a JSON codec improvement.
- Faster JSON parsing
- (scheme-syntax-propertize-sexp-comment): Handle nested sexp-comments
- scheme.el: Enable dealing with regular _expression_ literal
- Add global minor mode 'global-completion-preview-mode'
- Fix the new PEG library
- Add peg.el as a built-in library
- Always enable native JSON support and remove Jansson references
- Add use-package-vc-prefer-newest user option
- Remove `sort-on` (bug#69709)
- New `sort` keyword arguments (bug#69709)
- Add `value<` (bug#69709)
- ; * etc/NEWS: Announce new feature of Proced. (Bug#69784)
- cl-preloaded.el: Fix the type lattice
New packages:
- claude-shell: Integration with Anthropic's Claude LLM (MELPA)
- eglot-luau: Luau language server integration for eglot (MELPA)
- eshell-atuin: Integrate eshell with atuin, a shell history tool (MELPA)
- lazy-ruff: Integration with the Ruff Python linter/formatter (MELPA)
- oauth2-auto: Automatically refreshing OAuth 2.0 tokens (MELPA)
- org-linenote: A package inspired by VSCode Linenote (MELPA)
- projection-dape: Projection integration for `dape' (MELPA)
- wordcount-section: Universal Sidecar Section to show Word Counts (MELPA)

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From:	Sacha Chua
Subject:	2024-04-01 Emacs news
Date:	Mon, 01 Apr 2024 20:01:06 -0400