2022-07-11 Emacs news
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- Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, July 23, 2022
- M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Jul 19 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
- Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Jul 23 0130 Vancouver / 0330 Chicago / 0430 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 1030 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Learn Emacs Lisp - Mostly The Strange Parts (29:22, Reddit)
- Emacs's Builtin Elisp Cheat Sheet - Mastering Emacs (HN)
- rejeep/f.el: Modern API for working with files and directories in Emacs (old, but recently discussed on HN)
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Shells:
- Mail and news:
- Fun:
- Chronicles of Emacs : The Editor and the T-shirt (Reddit) - generating a parametric SVG pattern for a T-shirt using Emacs Lisp
- Community:
- Other:
- I keep getting stuck in Emacs. Shoot my troubles. (17:52) - troubleshooting tips
- Pros and cons of contributing to elpa, nongnu elpa, or melpa
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: tmr version 0.4.0 - setting timers
- CSV mode is not bad (08:58)
- Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs: Password-protect current pdf (revisited) (Reddit)
- Alvaro Ramirez: png to icns (Emacs DWIM style) (Reddit, Irreal)
- Andrea: Moldable Emacs: from a picture to a ClojureScript React-Native SVG
- Protesilaos Stavrou: How I build Emacs on Arch Linux
- Emacs development:
- Improve behavior of `lost-selection-mode' with multiple buffers
- Rename 'longlines-breakpoint-chars' to 'longlines-break-chars'
- Rename new option to browse-url-default-scheme
- Make browse-url.el support for plain "mozilla" obsolete
- Bind M-G unconditionally in Dired
- Add new minor mode to deactivate the region once PRIMARY is lost
- Move dired-do-relsymlink from dired-x.el to dired.el
- Stop ffap-machine-at-point from pinging random hosts
- Add new args MESSAGE and TIMEOUT to set-transient-map (bug#21634)
- Rename new option to remote-file-name-inhibit-auto-save-visited
- New user option auto-save-visited-remote-files and auto-save-visited-mode-predicate
- Obsolete:
- New packages:
- bech32: Bech32 library (MELPA)
- cbor: CBOR utilities (MELPA)
- citar-embark: Citar/Embark integration (MELPA)
- cljstyle-format: Reformat Clojure code using cljstyle (MELPA)
- consult-dash: Consult front-end for dash-docs (MELPA)
- denote: Simple notes with an efficient file-naming scheme (GNU ELPA)
- elfeed-tube-mpv: Control mpv from Elfeed (MELPA)
- lsp-cfn: LSP integration for cfn-lsp-extra (MELPA)
- mindre-theme: Minimal, light theme (MELPA)
- my-repo-pins: Keep your git repositories organized (MELPA)
- org-hyperscheduler: UI (web) representation of org-agenda (MELPA)
- pip-frame: Display and manage a PIP frame (MELPA)
- repeat-help: Display keybindings for repeat-mode (MELPA)
- sideline-flycheck: Show flycheck errors with sideline (MELPA)
- sideline: Show information on the side (MELPA)
- tree-sitter-ess-r: R with tree-sitter (MELPA)
- zk-luhmann: Support for Luhmann-style IDs in zk (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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