2022-09-05 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- EmacsConf 2022 Call for Participation (Reddit) by Sept 18 - all levels welcome
- Upcoming events:
- 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
- Beginner:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Learn how to ask for Help while writing Elisp (50:36, Jan 2022)
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- Completion:
- Coding:
- From vanilla Emacs to Bash IDE in 17 minutes (18:15, Reddit, Irreal)
- Build a Basic TypeScript IDE with Emacs | The Astute Developer (Reddit)
- _P_ython _E_xecutable _T_racker is now available on Melpa (Reddit)
- Demo of LanguageTool Integration in Emacs
- Improvements to Terraform support for lsp-mode (Reddit)
- Bring Zuul into Emacs | λ (Reddit)
- Integrando #emacs con #elixir usando #websockets (02:06:23)
- Shells:
- Doom Emacs:
- Multimedia:
- Fun:
- Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- Your dependency on external packages reduce with experience
- Can't learn emacs, can't use anything else (rant)
- Switching From VSCode to DOOM Emacs Recently. Here's My Experience
- Anyone sticking with "outdated" Emacs versions?
- GitHub - ag91/emacs-buddy: Emacs Buddy initiative to help new Emacs users with their struggles (repost)
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: showing my award from the Free Software Foundation (YouTube, 18:08)
- Other:
- Demystifying Emacs's Window Manager (Reddit)
- New Package: units-mode (is on melpa), convert between units interactively and in lisp code. [uses gnu units for conversion] (Reddit)
- Emacs Tricks To Boost Productivity 2022_09_01_16:25:26 (15:39) Commands in other buffer, search tips, query replace, registers
- Fix annoying max open files for Emacs (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
- Start Emacs And Vim In Vanilla Mode 2022_09_02_08:12:30 (05:36)
- which parts of emacs are old exactly?
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel: suggestions for a "New user" customize group
- emacs-devel: Continued discussion of unprintable characters (also note about function-key-map work needed
- emacs-devel: note about set-frame-position and desktop.el Re: Abysmal state of GTK build
- emacs-devel: request for comparison of various GUI toolkits
- Add support for more kinds of redirect operators in Eshell
- Add new function `seq-positions'
- Python shells dedicated to a project
- Add new function `seq-remove-at-position'
- New command to facilitate text-mode display of unsupported chars
- Teach 'max-char' about the Unicode code range
- Increase image-dired-show-all-from-dir-max-files to 1000
- image-dired: Make HTML gallery generation obsolete
- image-dired+.el: Non blocking thumbnail creation and adjust image to window
- Make "rlogin" method obsolete in url*.el
- Make minibuffer-eldef-shorten-default obsolete
- Default show-paren-mode to off in special-mode buffers
- * lisp/char-fold.el (describe-char-fold-equivalences): New command.
- New packages:
- for: Iteration and sequence (MELPA)
- ini: Converting between INI files and association lists (MELPA)
- jit-lock-stealth-progress: JIT lock stealth mode-line progress (MELPA)
- mos-mode: MOS toolkit usage (MELPA)
- org-unique-id: Create unique IDs for org headers (MELPA)
- pet: Executable and virtualenv tracker for python-mode (MELPA)
- units-mode: Mode for conversion between different units (MELPA)
- zuul: Interface to Zuul (GNU ELPA)
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