2021-09-06 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals (Reddit, HN) until Sept 30
- Upcoming events:
- EmacsConf Office Hour https://emacsconf.org/2021/office-hours/
- Tue Sep 7 1800 Vancouver / 2000 Chicago / 2100 Toronto – Wed Sep 8 0100 GMT / 0300 Berlin / 0630 Kolkata / 0900 Singapore
- Fri Sep 10 2100 Vancouver / 2300 Chicago – Sat Sep 11 0000 Toronto / 0400 GMT / 0600 Berlin / 0930 Kolkata / 1200 Singapore
- Sat Sep 11 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
- Tue Sep 14 1800 Vancouver / 2000 Chicago / 2100 Toronto – Wed Sep 15 0100 GMT / 0300 Berlin / 0630 Kolkata / 0900 Singapore
- Fri Sep 17 2100 Vancouver / 2300 Chicago – Sat Sep 18 0000 Toronto / 0400 GMT / 0600 Berlin / 0930 Kolkata / 1200 Singapore
- Sat Sep 18 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
- EmacsSF: Emacs Lisp: Org-mode Hacks https://www.meetup.com/Emacs-SF/events/280469304/ Thu Sep 16 1000 Vancouver / 1200 Chicago / 1300 Toronto / 1700 GMT / 1900 Berlin / 2230 Kolkata – Fri Sep 17 0100 Singapore
- New package: Eldoc-on-hold, delay the display of eldoc messages. (Reddit)
- Tory Anderson: My emacs godmode indicators and Elisp equivalent of defonce
- M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Sep 17 0700 Vancouver / 0900 Chicago / 1000 Toronto / 1400 GMT / 1600 Berlin / 1930 Kolkata / 2200 Singapore
- EmacsConf Office Hour https://emacsconf.org/2021/office-hours/
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs development:
- Lots of discussions on emacs-devel!
- Emacs discusses web-based development workflows (Reddit, ) - LWN commentary
- Discussion about representation of the Emacs userbase on emacs-devel
- Discussion re: indent-tabs-mode default
- Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have
- Could Emacs Have a Set-up Wizard?
- Want suggestion on implementing collaborative repls and alikes
- Emacs default bindings and the idea of profiles
- Is it a pipe dream for Emacs to be as fast as Neovim?
- NEWS updates:
- Clarify completion-list-mode NEWS entry
- New user options to automatically show the first Xref match: xref-auto-jump-to-first-definition, xref-auto-jump-to-first-xref, etags-xref-prefer-current-file
- Allow killing the diff buffer after `C-x v u'
- Add support for customization group hyperlinks in doc strings
- Add diary-offset to diary-lib.el
- Allow not putting pasted text onto the kill ring under xterm
- * etc/NEWS: Announce recent change in 'toggle-truncate-lines'.
- Add new macro `with-existing-directory'
- Add new command `clone-frame'
- Make run-at-time try harder to run at integral multiples
- Lots of discussions on emacs-devel!
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Writing:
- Emacs for Distraction-Free Writing (May 2021)
- Org Mode:
- UOMF: The Right Way to Use Org Mode (Reddit)
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs as a ‘second brain’ and mindfulness (Reddit)
- Andrea: Moldable Emacs: taking lispy notes that are easier to search!
- Coming soonish: taxy-org-ql-search (sort of like an org-super-agenda 2.0) (Reddit)
- org-real: Keep track of real things as org links (preview, Reddit)
- Import, export, and integration:
- Classy Slideshows From Emacs Org Mode + org-reveal (8:46, Reddit)
- ox-activity-streams: Publish org files as fediverse posts by serving only static file
- ob-grpc - Grpc evaluation functions for org-babel
- Plotting graphs with emacs (Reddit)
- Flytte dag - og hvorfor org-mode egentlig bare er sejere end alt andet
- Org Roam:
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Mail and news:
- Fun:
- Scribble notes in GNU Emacs (Reddit)
- Do Stuff with Books in Emacs (finito.el)
- 【ゲーム実況】emacs内蔵ゲームdunnetをやってみた (24:15)
- Community:
- Other:
- New packages:
- engrave-faces: Convert font-lock faces to other formats
- earthfile-mode: Major mode for editing Earthly file
- evil-textobj-tree-sitter: Provides evil textobjects using tree-sitter
- message-view-patch: Colorize patch-like emails in mu4e
- org-zettelkasten: Helper functions to use Zettelkasten in org-mode
- polybar-sesman: Display active sesman connections in polybar
- streak: Track a daily streak in your Mode Line
- topsy: Simple sticky header
- zettelkasten: Helper functions to organise notes in a Zettelkasten style
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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