2021-02-22 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Upcoming events:
- Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Feb 24 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1730 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2300 Kolkata // Thu Feb 25 0130 Singapore
 - Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Feb 27 0030 Vancouver / 0230 Chicago / 0330 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 0930 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore
 - EmacsNYC: Mail Month https://emacsnyc.org/2021/02/03/monthly-online-meetup-mail-month.html Mon Mar 1 1600 Vancouver / 1800 Chicago / 1900 Toronto // Tue Mar 2 0000 GMT / 0100 Berlin / 0530 Kolkata / 0800 Singapore
 - M-x Research (virtual) – Avoiding Emacs Pinky https://m-x-research.github.io/ Thu Mar 4 0700 Vancouver / 0900 Chicago / 1000 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1600 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
 - Emacs Paris (virtual) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Thu Mar 4 0830 Vancouver / 1030 Chicago / 1130 Toronto / 1630 GMT / 1730 Berlin / 2200 Kolkata // Fri Mar 5 0030 Singapore
 
 - Emacs configuration:
- Self-compiling .emacs (Reddit)
 - radian: 🍉 Dotfiles that marry elegance and practicality.
 - Tip: Menu and functions to open shell (remote or local) with automatic login
 - How to Cut Emacs Start Up Time in Half! – Emacs From Scratch #12 (Reddit)
 - Toby ‘qubit' Cubitt: Evil cursor model
 - Luca's literate Emacs config (Reddit)
 - rjray”s emacs configuration
 - Spartan Emacs (A New Minimal Emacs Configuration Framework)
 - Share your font-related config
 - Irreal: Configuring Mbsync to Work with Gmail
 
 - Emacs Lisp:
 - Emacs development:
- The ‘interactive' syntax has been extended to allow listing applicable modes (Reddit)
 - A different way to pass options to commands – discussion on emacs-devel (Reddit)
 - Proposal for an improved `help-for-help'
 - * lisp/tab-bar.el: ‘C-x t N' bound to tab-new-to supports a negative argument
 - * lisp/tab-bar.el: ‘C-x t M' bound to tab-move-to supports a negative argument
 - ‘Mod-9' bound to ‘tab-last' now switches to the last tab like in web browsers
 - Add a new command for mode-specific commands
 - Add the `always' function
 - Make goto-line-history buffer local only when so customized
 - New transient mode ‘repeat-mode' to allow shorter key sequences (bug#46515)
 - New command ‘tab-duplicate' like in web browsers
 - Disable filtering of commands in M-x completion
 - * lisp/emacs-lisp/bindat.el: Add 64bit int support
 - * lisp/emacs-lisp/bindat.el (bindat-spec): New macro.
 
 - Appearance:
 - Org Mode:
- Org Mode Basics In Doom Emacs
 - Emacs Org Mode Demo 2021
 - Getting started with Emacs and Org Mode
 - How I Tackle Projects With org-mode
 - How do you backup your org directory?
 - A little org-mode links demonstration
 - Emacs org-attach basics
 - Automatic TODO/DOING/DONE State Transitions on Checkbox Changes (Reddit)
 - Task management with org-roam Vol. 5: Dynamic and fast agenda (Reddit)
 - org-ir: Introspection reports for org-mode – clock table, closed tasks, worked items
 - org-autolist: Making it even easier to edit lists in org-mode!
 - Appearance:
 - Exporting and tangling:
- Export Emacs Org Mode to HTML – Straightforward Emacs
 - Org HTML theme collection
 - Latex export with Inkscape Images and Draw.io Graphs in org mode
 - ox-time (Reddit)
 - Automatically tangle org files on save.
 - Github Action Org knit: Let someone else take care of keeping up to date tangled/woven versions of your Org files for public consumption
 
 - Interacting with other things:
- [ANN] superstar-kit: A Template to bring Org Superstar to Other Outline Modes
 - [ANN] reddigg: browse reddit in emacs org-mode. (Reddit)
 - Org habits iOS app follow-up (two-way edit) (Reddit)
 - Emacs, imágenes y portapapeles – Emacs, images, and clipboards in Org Mode
 - bug-reference-mode: How I manage support tickets at work with Org mode
 - org-link-archive: Replace org-mode link at point with archivised link produced by archive.org
 
 
 - Coding:
 - Mail and news:
 - Doom Emacs:
 - Completion:
 - Community:
 - Other:
 - New packages:
- blox: Interaction with Roblox tooling
 - consult-spotify: Spotify queries using consult
 - docstr: A document string minor mode
 - emacs-everywhere: System-wide popup windows for quick edits
 - enlightened-theme: A theme based on enlightened
 - erc-yank: Automagically create a Gist if pasting more than 5 lines
 - espotify: Spotify access library
 - macrostep-geiser: Macrostep for `geiser'
 - ob-reticulate: Babel Functions for reticulate
 - ox-bb: BBCode Back-End for Org Export Engine
 - reddigg: A reader for redditt
 - sketch-themes: Sketch color themes
 - tab-bar-lost-commands: The “lost commands” of the tab bar
 
 
Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file and emacs-devel.
You can e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com.