2021-04-05 Emacs news
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- Emacs Paris (virtual) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Tue Apr 6 0830 Vancouver / 1030 Chicago / 1130 Toronto / 1530 GMT / 1730 Berlin / 2100 Kolkata / 2330 Singapore
- EmacsATX: Emacs as a Spreadsheet and Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/EmacsATX/events/277079765/ Wed Apr 7 1630 Vancouver / 1830 Chicago / 1930 Toronto / 2330 GMT – Thu Apr 8 0130 Berlin / 0500 Kolkata / 0730 Singapore
- Emacs Org mode features you may not know https://pretalx.linuxtage.at/glt21/talk/ZKEXNW/ Sat Apr 10 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
- M-x Research (virtual, contact them for passcode) https://m-x-research.github.io/ Thu Apr 15 0700 Vancouver / 0900 Chicago / 1000 Toronto / 1400 GMT / 1600 Berlin / 1930 Kolkata / 2200 Singapore
- EmacsSF: Some early Emacs history, Lightning talks, and General Discussion https://www.meetup.com/Emacs-SF/events/277309406/ Thu Apr 15 1000 Vancouver / 1200 Chicago / 1300 Toronto / 1700 GMT / 1900 Berlin / 2230 Kolkata – Fri Apr 16 0100 Singapore
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Elisp Tutorial Part 8 – Backquote and Splice Operator (08:05)
- I Wrote My First ELisp Function and Am Looking for Critique. (open-current-file-with-associated-program)
- A quick introduction to editing with smartparens
- Demonstration movie of eval-last-sexp of Emacs Lisp mode in GNU Emacs (49)
- Managing Files and Directories in Practice – Learning Emacs Lisp #6 (01:22:52)
- Emacs development:
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Dired:
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- My simple org mode system
- OrgMode – A third approach to goal setting & tracking
- Introduction to Org Capture (Reddit)
- Make M-RET better in Org Mode | Irreal
- Auto build and publish emacs org configuration as a website
- Org-roam (with Md-roam) demo with 10,000 markdown files
- Sacha Chua: Org Mode: Insert YouTube video with separate captions
- A formal grammar for Org
- Computer Stuff – emacs, lisp, & org mode (01:12:42)
- Appunti di Machine Learning con Emacs, Org-Mode e LaTeX (01:11:57)
- Completion:
- Coding:
- GNU Emacs as a lightweight IDE (Basics)
- Using compilation mode to run all the things (Reddit)
- Webmacs – New Emacs configuration for web development
- lldb debugging in Emacs (0:52)
- jsdoc.el: Inserts JSDoc function comments/typedefs easily
- Outline view for Java using speedbar (Reddit)
- Emacs as SQL client with LSP
- Irreal: Deleting Git Branches
- Mail and news:
- Web:
- Music:
- Community:
- Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
- [blog post] My Emacs Journey
- Emacs APAC: Notes from Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, March 2021
- What enlighten your path to Emacs?
- Are there extensible environments in the manner of Emacs outside of text editors and developer tools generally?
- Good places to discuss creating new packages?
- What are the most useful VSCode extensions you know which could be reimplemented in Emacs?
- Other:
- Use visual-replace-regexp + lisp functions to do complicated text manipulation 5x faster and more reliably (Reddit)
- Handling PDF files in Emacs with DocView Mode (17:51)
- Apply number-register to record scores when succeed to delay gratifications
- [NonGNU ELPA] submission of new package: dw.el – diceware, generates passphrases
- System Crafters Live! – Dotfile Detective: tecosaur • Emacs News • Q&A (02:06:57)
- Xah Talk Show 2021-03-27 Emacs Undo Drama, Emacs Lore, Lisp Warr, rms, and Who's Who in Gnu Emacs (01:19:26)
- Yes, Emacs can be ran purely in Wayland.
- macOS Emacs with Metal Support
- emacs-ng auto-generated release deb package
- New packages:
- aggressive-completion: Automatic minibuffer completion
- bibtex-actions: Description
- flymake-flycheck: Use flycheck checkers as flymake backends
- geiser-chez: Chez Scheme's implementation of the geiser protocols
- geiser-chibi: Chibi Scheme's implementation of the geiser protocols
- geiser-chicken: Chicken's implementation of the geiser protocols
- geiser-gambit: Gambit's implementation of the geiser protocols
- geiser-guile: Guile's implementation of the geiser protocols
- smudge: Control the Spotify app
- sniem: Simple united editing method
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