2021-09-27 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Ending soon: EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals (Reddit, HN) until Sept 30
- Upcoming events:
- 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
- EmacsNYC: Discussion: Remote Collaboration Software and crdt.el https://www.meetup.com/New-York-Emacs-Meetup/events/280981454/ Mon Oct 4 1600 Vancouver / 1800 Chicago / 1900 Toronto / 2300 GMT – Tue Oct 5 0100 Berlin / 0430 Kolkata / 0700 Singapore (Emacs NYC)
- EmacsATX: TBD https://www.meetup.com/EmacsATX/events/hkckgsyccnbjb/ Wed Oct 6 1630 Vancouver / 1830 Chicago / 1930 Toronto / 2330 GMT – Thu Oct 7 0130 Berlin / 0500 Kolkata / 0730 Singapore
- Emacs configuration:
- Tory Anderson: Swapping chords in Dvorak, or Why does emacs keyboard-translate fail with (wrong-type-argument characterp 134217845)
- Tory Anderson: Fail-fast Transients like Hydra
- System Crafters Live! - Investigating use-package Alternatives (02:08:23)
- Just out of curiosity, how many bytes/kilobytes/megabytes does your dot file weight?
- ap.el: A simple, Emacs Lisp-focused Emacs config (Reddit)
- with-emacs.sh: Script to easily run Emacs with specified configurations (Reddit)
- My Current Emacs Configuration (34:33) - web dev, software dev - Timothy Unkert
- Crandel's .emacs
- Emacs Lisp:
- Sid Kasivajhula: Symex.el: Edit Lisp Code in a Vim-like Way
- Sid Kasivajhula: The Animated Guide to Symex (Reddit)
- scimax - formatting strings in elisp (22:35, Irreal)
- scimax - functions in emacs-lisp (26:02, Irreal)
- Little Experiment - Source Code View in Built-in Help, a lá Helpful (Reddit)
- Mattias Engdegård makes an interesting discovery about the Emacs Lisp bytecode interpreter, and ERT tests (Reddit)
- Appearance:
- [ANN] idle-highlight-mode (fast symbol-at-point highlighting) updated
- Tory Anderson: Replacing beacon.el with hl-line-flash
- yuri tricys: How to Configure Emacs Themes in var_year
- an-old-hope-emacs: a syntax theme from a galaxy far far away…
- Emacs Beautification Using Mode-Line Dashboard And Themes (12:14)
- Navigation:
- Grant Rettke: Automatically open read-only files in View mode
- Gumshoe 2.0, my first package in Melpa - fancy point logger to help you remember where you've been
- Swiper Search & Centaur-Tabs in Emacs (03:56)
- Emacs filetree package demo (Reddit)
- Tory Anderson: The lost art of page breaks in text documents
- Dired:
- Org Mode:
- Emacs Org-Mode Intro (13:14)
- O que é, e como utilizar: Org em Emacs (22:48)
- [ANN] org-ql 0.6 released (Reddit)
- TAONAW: Refreshing my Capture Templates (Reddit)
- Images:
- Now you can real-ly view your org files (Reddit)
- Use Emacs for Systems Thinking (Irreal)
- Emacs Drawing Tool (Reddit) - for drawing diagrams in Org, includes color picker
- Org Roam:
- I split my brain (Reddit) - org-roam contexts
- 5 Org Roam Hacks for Better Productivity in Emacs (29:44)
- Import, export, and integration:
- 😎😎 Emacs exportar .org a .pdf (video random)😜😜 (14:05)
- Tim Heaney: blogpost - Rust script to create an ox-hugo blog post
- weblorg - v0.1.2 - Slowly but Surely-weblorg, the modern Static HTML Generator for Emacs and Org-Mode
- Managing calendar events in Emacs
- Coding:
- comint-mime: Display graphics and other MIME attachments in Emacs shells
- Announcing experimental support for Janet programming language in PEL (Pragmatic Emacs Library, configuration)
- theme-check on Emacs. Theme Check is a command line tool that helps you follow Shopify Themes & Liquid best practices by analyzing the Liquid & JSON inside your theme
- Tim Heaney: Zig
- EmacsでのISLispモードが公開されています。 (06:21)
- Mail and news:
- Chat:
- Community:
- Other:
- Como utilizar o Emacs (com evil mode) (27:59)
- Emacs Macros (07:43) - keyboard macros
- System Crafters Live! - The Many Varieties of Emacs (48:26)
- System Crafters Live! - The Many Varieties of Emacs (Part 2) (1:07:41)
- I love that you can do this (A few of them got a little destroyed) (Reddit) - running various text editors inside Emacs
- qrencode-el: QRCode encoder for Emacs in pure elisp
- Emacs Typing Tutor | Actually (HN)
- Emacs development:
- 'glyphless-char-display-control' now applies to Variation Selectors.
- Enhance font_range to check for emoji composition triggers
- Document shorthands in the Elisp manual section on Symbols (Reddit, emacs-devel) - namespacing
- Add new macro with-environment-variables
- * lisp/tab-line.el: Add modified-buffer face
- Renege on anonymous &rest (bug#50268, bug#50720)
- Add new user option ispell-help-timeout
- New :type natnum for defcustom
- Add support for man page hyperlinks in doc strings
- Indent bodies of local function definitions properly in elisp-mode
- New thing-at-point target 'string' used in context-menu-region
- Add support for "bright" ANSI colors in term-mode and ansi-color
- Add aggregate project discovery and maintenance functions: project-remember-projects-under, project-forget-project, project-forget-projects-under, project-forget-zombie-projects
- Move 'kdb-macro-redisplay' key binding (old: C-x C-k Q, new: C-x C-k d)
- Fix build with native compilation but without zlib
- New major mode with font-locking for etc/AUTHORS
- Add new function `ensure-list': makes a list of its object if it's not a list already
- Add new command 'checkdoc-dired'
- Consistently test alist keys with equal in map.el
- Avoid double argument evaluation in vc-call macro
- Make dired-compress-file query for a directory to uncompress to
- New command 'project-find-dir' runs Dired in a directory inside project
- Support for Unicode emoji sequences
- New packages:
- lacquer: Switch theme/font by selecting from a cache
- org-movies: Manage watchlist with Org mode
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