2022-08-29 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Upcoming events:
- Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, August 27, 2022
- Upcoming Talk, Featuring Uses of Hyperbole's Koutliner in the Context of Knowledge Management
- Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 31 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1630 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2200 Kolkata – Thu Sep 1 0030 Singapore
- Emacs Paris (virtual, in French) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Thu Sep 1 0830 Vancouver / 1030 Chicago / 1130 Toronto / 1530 GMT / 1730 Berlin / 2100 Kolkata / 2330 Singapore
- Emacs users group Slovenia https://emacs.si/ Thu Sep 1 1100 Vancouver / 1300 Chicago / 1400 Toronto / 1800 GMT / 2000 Berlin / 2330 Kolkata – Fri Sep 2 0200 Singapore
- EmacsSF: coffee.el, Playa Edition https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/287871307/ Sat Sep 3 1100 Vancouver / 1300 Chicago / 1400 Toronto / 1800 GMT / 2000 Berlin / 2330 Kolkata – Sun Sep 4 0200 Singapore
- M-x Research (contact them for password): Show & Tell - For non RSECon attendees https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Sep 6 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/287915164/ Wed Sep 7 1630 Vancouver / 1830 Chicago / 1930 Toronto / 2330 GMT – Thu Sep 8 0130 Berlin / 0500 Kolkata / 0730 Singapore
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Sep 9 0900 Vancouver / 1100 Chicago / 1200 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1800 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata – Sat Sep 10 0000 Singapore
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Emacs Lisp Basics
- Marcin Borkowski: The Emacs range package
- Let's code Emacs Lisp: creating the beginnings of a package (01:21:43)
- Object-Oriented Emacs Lisp with EIEIO - System Crafters Live! (01:45:19)
- Compiler from scratch, for fun :p | Emacs Major Mode and Breaking Function Parsing | 019 (04:57:48)
- Appearance:
- Straightforward Emacs: Automatically Highlight Buffer Text
- [ANN] jit-lock-stealth-progress (show font locking progress while idle in the mode-line)
- Autothemer version 0.2.8
- Sakura - a cherry blossom (or cherry cola? flavoured theme) (Reddit)
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Ef themes 0.4.0 for GNU Emacs
- The ef-themes now include two deuteranopia-friendly themes | Protesilaos Stavrou
- Modus themes 2.6.0 for GNU Emacs | Protesilaos Stavrou
- Emacs: pulsar version 0.5.0 | Protesilaos Stavrou
- Navigation:
- Amit Patel: Emacs: marking text - update after a 5-year experiment
- Writing:
- [ANN] spell-fu now supports buffer-local word lists
- Ben Simon: Emacs for Project Notes: Quick Capture, Automatic Organization (Irreal)
- reverso.el: Emacs client for reverso.net; translation, grammar check, context and synonyms search (Reddit)
- Tamil Phonetic Input Method in Emacs / Emacs-இல் தமிழ் ஃபொனெடிக் முறையில் type செய்வது எப்படி? – Emacs Notes
- El mundo de las notas - zetteldeft
- Org Mode:
- P0 beats #A. Using Programmer-style Priorities in Org (Reddit)
- Thoughts on Writing Technical Documentations using Org mode (April 2022)
- Sam Wallace's workflow for math research notes (spoiler: lots of org-mode).
- Moving Tasks Between Org Files in Emacs | Janusworx (Irreal) org-refile
- Demo of how to embed source code/text, link, and picture in ORG buffer/file.
- Copy Slack behavior of automatically creating link when pasting url with text selected
- org-project: Capture TODOs in project.el using org-mode (Reddit)
- org-bib-mode redesign (Reddit)
- ob-elixir: org-babel functions for elixir evaluation
- Latest Org2Blog maybe just broke some of your keybindings 2022-08-22
- Org development: lisp/ox-md.el: Add top level header setting
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Bozhidar Batsov: Setting up Emacs for OCaml Development
- codespaces.el — a completing-read interface to select and connect to GitHub Codespaces over TRAMP (Reddit)
- what is your config for java programming? (some tips in the comments)
- c++ programming screenshot - variable font, symbols
- Automatic Code Formatting: JavaScript, Python, PowerShell, Golang, Emacs Lisp, WolframLang (01:04:11)
- Mail and news:
- Evil mode:
- Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread - change bg color on compile failure, org-roam capture to link, etc.
- Lesser known built-in Emacs gems? - Lemmy
- This is how computing should feel
- The email that made me convert to emacs
- 19×10% – Random Thoughts
- Distilling the Essence of Emacs (1:34:02)
- Other:
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel: work needed to prepare for no-toolkit build for more control of Emacs behavior
- emacs-devel: long discussion re: display of undisplayable characters in the terminal - recently changed to \U01F3A8 instead of diamond and discussion of different consoles' capabilities
- emacs-devel: challenges of working with the display engine (Re: locked narrowing in ELisp)
- emacs-devel: cedet/semantic may still be able to work with other parser/taggers
- 'C-x v v' on a diff buffer commits it as a patch (bug#52349)
- Use a list of text properties to search in symlink filenames in Wdired
- Support "replacement characters" on TTY frames
- Mention C-x C-q + revert change in NEWS
- Make frame-width obsolete as a generalized variable
- Add NEWS entry about obsoleted generalized variables and update
- New packages:
- cern-ldap: Library to interact with CERN's LDAP servers (MELPA)
- ipp: Implementation of the Internet Printing Protocol (MELPA)
- media-thumbnail: Utility package to provide media icons (MELPA)
- org-bookmarks-extractor: Extract bookmarks from Org mode (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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