2022-08-01 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- EmacsConf 2022 Call for Participation (Reddit)
- Upcoming events:
- M-x Research (contact them for password): Show and tell https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Aug 2 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/287197567/ Wed Aug 3 1630 Vancouver / 1830 Chicago / 1930 Toronto / 2330 GMT – Thu Aug 4 0130 Berlin / 0500 Kolkata / 0730 Singapore
- Emacs users group Slovenia https://emacs.si/ Thu Aug 4 1100 Vancouver / 1300 Chicago / 1400 Toronto / 1800 GMT / 2000 Berlin / 2330 Kolkata – Fri Aug 5 0200 Singapore
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Aug 12 0900 Vancouver / 1100 Chicago / 1200 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1800 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata – Sat Aug 13 0000 Singapore
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Dired:
- Writing:
- An accentuated Emacs experiment (à la macOS) (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
- Writing In Emacs Checking Spelling Style And Grammar | Simple IT 🤘 Rocks (2017)
- Lookup word under cursor, browse synonyms, and insert selection (works with Embark actions)
- Christian Tietze: Emacs Blogging: Insert Tag from YAML Frontmatter Posts
- GitHub - licht1stein/obsidian.el: Obsidian Notes for Emacs (Reddit)
- Peter Prevos: Simulating Text Files with R to Test the Emacs Denote Package
- Org Mode:
- Is there some escape sequence that can used to create line breaks when org tables are converted to HTML? - tip to use a macro
- Org-mode - Make REST calls using restclient in Emacs (09:52)
- Note-taking with Org-Roam on PinePhone (Emacs 28.1 GUI) (3:34, Reddit)
- Org development:
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Shells:
- dwim-shell-command counters and other improvements (link in comments) (Reddit)
- dwim-shell-command gives ya a reusable command history (Reddit)
- Alvaro Ramirez: dwim-shell-command improvements (Irreal)
- Cameron Desautels: Emacs: Running Shell Commands on the Current File
- Terminal Emacs Key-inputs Success story! - term-keys
- Multimedia:
- Fun:
- Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- emacs without packages?
- Why I use Emacs in 2022 (4:42, Reddit, Irreal)
- Eric MacAdie: 2022-07 Austin Emacs Meetup - includes stories about how people got started
- Notmuch Ado About Nothing | Karthinks - Don't like how it works? You can change Emacs. (YouTube 29:45, Reddit, Irreal)
- Emacs as 21stC interdisciplinary tool | gretzuni
- EmacsConf 2022 (poster mockup) (Reddit)
- Other:
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel: How to search emacs-devel and bug-gnu-emacs
- emacs-devel: Update/help wanted on ebrowse, ecb
- emacs-devel: transient vs repeat
- Wrap around the search on typing a letter (bug#56535)
- Fix the bytecode incompatibility due to the change to 'narrow-to-region'.
- Make frame synchronization a frame parameter
- Delete additional items obsolete since 20, 21 and 22
- Delete aliases obsolete since 21.1 and 22.1
- Delete redisplay-end-trigger-functions and related defuns
- Fix namespace use in bib-mode.el
- On X, Emacs can optionally synchronize display with the graphics hardware.
- Merge branch 'feature/long-lines-and-font-locking' (emacs-devel, Reddit)
- Add an optional 'lock' parameter to 'narrow-to-region'
- Delete fast-lock.el and lazy-lock.el
- Use icons in outline
- Add support for user-customizable icons
- Make quickurl.el obsolete (part 2/2)
- Improve 'diff-whitespace-style' user option declaration
- string-equal-ignore-case: new function
- Add duplicate-dwim (bug#56418)
- Teach 'network-lookup-address-info' to validate numeric addresses
- New packages:
- cardano-wallet: Interact with cardano wallet (MELPA)
- encrypt-region: Encrypts and decrypts regions (MELPA)
- org-notify: Notifications for Org-mode (GNU ELPA)
- sideline-flymake: Show flymake errors with sideline (MELPA)
Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, emacs-devel, and lemmy/c/emacs. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for links!
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