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.
You can e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com.