2021-08-23 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals (Reddit, HN) until Sept 30
- Upcoming events:
- For upcoming EmacsConf office hours, see https://emacsconf.org/2021/office-hours/
- Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 25 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1630 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2200 Kolkata – Thu Aug 26 0030 Singapore
- Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Aug 28 0130 Vancouver / 0330 Chicago / 0430 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 1030 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore
- EmacsATX: Initialization Social https://www.meetup.com/EmacsATX/events/279983164/ Wed Sep 1 1630 Vancouver / 1830 Chicago / 1930 Toronto / 2330 GMT – Thu Sep 2 0130 Berlin / 0500 Kolkata / 0730 Singapore
- M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Sep 3 0700 Vancouver / 0900 Chicago / 1000 Toronto / 1400 GMT / 1600 Berlin / 1930 Kolkata / 2200 Singapore
- Beginner:
- Emacs configuration:
- Marcin Borkowski: Remapping commands
- Repeaters.el: Easily define groups of repeat-maps, and associate them with commands. (Reddit)
- emacs-sidecar-locals: A flexible alternative to Emacs built-in dir-locals functionality
- lm-dashboard: Lisp Machine Inspired Dashboard. This is a package for learning how to use Emacs Widgets.
- yuri tricys: Emacs Buffers Revisited (and other config snippets)
- oantolin's emacs config (Reddit)
- Emacs Lisp:
- Emacs development:
- Blog: How to Contribute to Emacs (Reddit)
- System Crafters Live! - Can We Fix a Bug in Emacs? (02:09:11)
- emacs-devel discussion on Emacs development has lots of tips on figuring things out
- Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove
- Update NEWS tagging for modules and parse-time-string
- Document `dlet'
- Improve byte-compile-warnings doc string
- Do command mode markup in xwidget.el
- Make xwidget-webkit-enable-plugins a defcustom
- Make parse-partial-sexp signal an error if TO is smaller than FROM
- Improve documentation of 'file-preserve-symlinks-on-save'
- Allow preserving symlinks with file-precious-flag set
- Allow copy-directory to copy the source as a symlink
- auto-composition-mode can now be selectively disabled on some TTYs.
- Add menu bindings to new functions in image-dired.el
- New mode 'context-menu-mode' for a context menu bound to 'mouse-3'.
- Make icomplete-vertical-mode take immediate effect (bug#49075)
- Make overlays-in treat zero-length overlays at point-max consistently
- Add new functions to replace strings/regexp in a region
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Evil Mode:
- Org Mode:
- Ever Further Refinements of Org Roam Usage // Take on Rules (Reddit)
- org-static-gemlog.el; This is a static gemlog generator that focuses on being simple
- New package: Eva, the Emacs-based Virtual Assistant (Reddit) - tracking your time semi-automatically
- Programacion literaria para sysadminsdevops
- LeanPub Weekly Sale: Publishing with Emacs, Org-mode, and Leanpub by Diego Zamboni [PDF/iPad/Kindle]
- Alvaro Ramirez: Org habits on iOS? Check! Tasks, youre next
- Completion:
- 30 days of Emacs - Day 3 & 4 — kevinsjoberg - fido-mode
- Coding:
- Mail and news:
- Web:
- Community:
- Other:
- Sudo power in Emacs (04:20)
- tamil-phonetic: Tamil Phonetic Input for Emacs
- emacs battlecruiser: Repurpose vintage IBM M 122 (a.k.a. "battlecruiser") keyboards for modern usage, specifically Emacs
- Jean-Christophe Helary: Finder selected files, or a scratchpad, in Emacs
- Sacha Chua: Using the wgrep package in Emacs to rewrite grep results from lots of files
- Andrea: Moldable Emacs: Vega-Lite, Nyxt and Emacs towards sustainable development (also, visualizing org-roam backlinks; HN)
- New packages:
- consult-eglot: A consulting-read interface for eglot
- dogears: Never lose your place again
- helm-dogears: Helm source for Dogears
- help-find: Additional help functions for working with keymaps
- librera-sync: Sync document's position with Librera Reader for Android
- lister: Yet another list printer
- loophole: Manage temporary key bindings
Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar and emacs-devel.
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