2022-03-28 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Upcoming events:
- Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Mar 30 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1630 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2200 Kolkata – Thu Mar 31 0030 Singapore
- M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Apr 5 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
- Emacs Paris (virtual, in French) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Tue Apr 5 0830 Vancouver / 1030 Chicago / 1130 Toronto / 1530 GMT / 1730 Berlin / 2100 Kolkata / 2330 Singapore
- EmacsATX: Functional Programming in Elisp & Rational Emacs https://www.meetup.com/EmacsATX/events/283668029/ Wed Apr 6 1630 Vancouver / 1830 Chicago / 1930 Toronto / 2330 GMT – Thu Apr 7 0130 Berlin / 0500 Kolkata / 0730 Singapore
- Emacs configuration:
- Emergency Emacs (Stevey’s Tech Talk Emacs Part 2) (Reddit, Irreal, Reddit again) - undo, keybindings
- Expert emacs configuration, amateur skills (28:18) - adding hooks
- rational-emacs: A sensible base Emacs configuration.
- jake-emacs: My personal Emacs configuation. (Reddit) - evil-based
- Keneth Sandoval's .emacs.d (Reddit)
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- I created an in depth guide for new org mode users, please check it out
- [OSBEv4] HTML Themes as Org Links! (Reddit)
- org-project-manager: A plugin to manage projects with org-roam
- Org Speed Keys! BOOM! Great org-mode's feature! And a good OPPORTUNITY to talk about self-insert-command (Irreal)
- Plain Org v1.2.1 released (link to notes in comments) (Reddit) - iOS app
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Configuring Emacs for C++
- GitHub - zerolfx/copilot.el: An unofficial Copilot plugin for Emacs. (Reddit)
- flymake-swi-prolog.el - A Flymake backend for SWI-Prolog
- tl1-mode: Major mode for editing Fluke TL/1 source code
- Andrea: Moldable Emacs: how many namespaces are covered by my ClojureScript tests?
- Inline refined git diff with live update (video demo included)
- Nix expression for running Emacs Magit without installing it on your system (Reddit)
- GitHub - edrx/emlua: Emlua: run Lua in Emacs as a module (emacs-devel announcement)
- Shells:
- Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- Emacs should have a webpage demonstrating useful features and packages
- emacs-can-do-that: Yep, emacs can do that !
- Being forced to give up Emacs at work
- Protesilaos Stavrou: LibrePlanet 2022: Living in freedom with GNU Emacs (Reddit, Irreal, YouTube 37:25)
- Protesilaos Stavrou: I won an award from the FSF for my contributions to Emacs (HN)
- Gunnar Wolf• Long, long, long live Emacs after 39 years
- Other:
- Göktuğ's Emacs Lisp programs - forecast, paper-theme, pass-listing, bsdpkg, bibliothek, gk-greek, org-variable-pitch, dollar
- Andrea: An Elisp snippet to download YouTube videos transcripts (Reddit)
- Atom feeds for new Emacs packages
- Why we need lisp machines (Reddit)
- Emacs development:
- Add OClosures, a cross between functions and structs
- Use native image APIs on MS-Windows by default
- Support display of BMP images on MS-Windows
- Add documentation entries for completion-auto-select user option.
- Load desktop without prompting if process is dead
- Mention highlight-confusing-reorderings in doc string
- Mention the other-window-scroll-default user option
- Document outline-default-state
- Document sqlite-mode-open-file and do some NEWS tagging
- Enable Better Alignment of EUDC Inline Expansion With RFC5322
- Fix grep-like functions when running on a remote host
- New values for completion-auto-help, new options for completions
- New packages:
- catppuccin-theme: Catppuccin Theme (MELPA)
- elfeed-summary: Feed summary interface for elfeed (MELPA)
- eslint-disable-rule: Commands to add JS comments disabling eslint rules (MELPA)
- flymake-hadolint: Flymake backend for hadolint, a Dockerfile linter (MELPA)
- gnu-indent: Indent your code with GNU Indent (MELPA)
- ob-ada-spark: Babel functions for Ada & SPARK (MELPA)
- ob-bitfield: Babel Functions for bitfield (MELPA)
- ob-dsq: Babel functions for the `dsq` CLI tool by Multiprocess Labs (MELPA)
- oblivion-theme: A port of GEdit oblivion theme (MELPA)
- pulsar: Pulse highlight on demand or after select functions (GNU ELPA)
- textsize: Configure frame text size automatically (MELPA)
- translate-mode: Paragraph-oriented side-by-side doc translation workflow (MELPA)
Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, emacs-devel, and lemmy/c/emacs.
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