2021-09-20 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 21 1800 Vancouver / 2000 Chicago / 2100 Toronto – Wed Sep 22 0100 GMT / 0300 Berlin / 0630 Kolkata / 0900 Singapore
- Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Sep 25 0130 Vancouver / 0330 Chicago / 0430 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 1030 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore
- EmacsConf Office Hour https://emacsconf.org/2021/office-hours/ Tue Sep 28 1800 Vancouver / 2000 Chicago / 2100 Toronto – Wed Sep 29 0100 GMT / 0300 Berlin / 0630 Kolkata / 0900 Singapore
- Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Sep 29 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1630 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2200 Kolkata – Thu Sep 30 0030 Singapore
- M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Oct 1 0700 Vancouver / 0900 Chicago / 1000 Toronto / 1400 GMT / 1600 Berlin / 1930 Kolkata / 2200 Singapore
- Emacs configuration:
- Bikeshedding Friday: How do you organize your init file?
- My Current Emacs Configuration (34:34)
- Since 1992, an 8,000 lines long, old-style .emacs, still currently updated [Karl Fogel] (Reddit)
- chriztheanvill's config for C++, Markdown, Org and later for lua
- pascalfleury's personal Emacs configs, consisting mostly of configuration of free tools.
- Emacs Lisp:
- deffy.el: Show definitions and top-level forms in an Elisp project or file (Reddit)
- T. V. Raman: Snarfing String Within Delimiters With One Defun
- T. V. Raman: Generalize Snarf Tool: How The General Can Be Simpler Than The Specific
- Transient API Example (Part 2: transient-do-stay)
- eltr : ELTR is an Emacs Lisp Terminal REPL.
- Andrea: Moldable Emacs: making molds a little easier to write
- Emacs development:
- Add support for url-retrieve-synchronously to eww-retrieve-command (bug#50680)
- * etc/NEWS: Add section on recent checkdoc changes.
- Add new '/opme' and '/deopme' convenience ERC commands
- Add new help-enable-symbol-autoload user option
- Mention xref-quit-and-pop-marker-stack in the manual
- Do some xwidget NEWS markup (and adjust doc string)
- Check for null bytes in filenames in 'expand-file-name' (bug#49723)
- * etc/NEWS: Announce update of IRC-related references to point to Libera.Chat.
- Stop imenu indexing after a certain number of seconds
- Split Unicode emoji into their own script
- Add new sequence function 'seq-union'
- ERC: NickServ: Prompt for password last, overall simplifications (bug#46777)
- Doc fix for y-or-n-p; trailing space is no longer needed
- Merge branch 'feature/rcirc-update'
- Update Unicode support to Unicode version 14.0.0
- Mention `lisp-data-mode' in `emacs-lisp-mode' doc string
- Allow for multiple attempts when reconnecting
- Make `find-function-source-path' into obsolete alias
- Add support for project-wide diagnostics in Flymake (bug#50244)
- Project File Commands manual clarification
- Add user option to avoid checkdoc warning for unescaped left paren
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Emacs: introduction to bookmarks (24:21)
- Org Mode:
- Emacs Org-Mode Intro (13:15)
- Emacs as a Time Tracker (Reddit)
- Simple Gantt chart from an Org todo list with SVG lib (Reddit)
- Weblorg Static HTML Generator: New Release 0.1.2
- [feature proposal] Headline caching via org-element-cache = up to 2.5x p
- Org Roam:
- Alvaro Ramirez: Plain Org for iOS (a month later)
- Plain Org for iOS: latest render + inline edit experience (Reddit)
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Shells:
- Community:
- Other:
- New packages:
- justl: Major mode for driving just files
- khalel: Import, edit and create calendar events throuh khal
- newspeak-mode: Major mode for the Newspeak programming language
- qrencode: QRCode encoder
- ue: Minor mode for Unreal Engine projects
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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