2022-12-05 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua

2022-12-05 Emacs news

Dec 5, 2022| emacs, emacs-news

Update: Fix time for Emacs Paris

Emacs 29:
- Release branch emacs-29
- The emacs-29 release branch was just cut by the amazing Eli Zaretskii! (Reddit)
- Trying Out Emacs 29, Part 2 - System Crafters Live! (23:47)
- Trying New Emacs 29 Features - System Crafters Live! (01:35:44)
- Emacs 29 is nigh! What can we expect? (HN, Reddit, lobste.rs)
- Irreal: Emacs-29 Release Branch and Org Mode 9.6
- Irreal: Emacs 29 Changes
Upcoming events:
- M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Dec 6 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata – Wed Dec 7 0000 Singapore
- Emacs Paris (physical & virtual, in French) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Tue Dec 6 0900 Vancouver / 1100 Chicago / 1200 Toronto / 1700 GMT / 1800 Berlin / 2230 Kolkata – Wed Dec 7 0100 Singapore
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/289755647/ Wed Dec 7 1630 Vancouver / 1830 Chicago / 1930 Toronto – Thu Dec 8 0030 GMT / 0130 Berlin / 0600 Kolkata / 0830 Singapore
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Dec 9 0900 Vancouver / 1100 Chicago / 1200 Toronto / 1700 GMT / 1800 Berlin / 2230 Kolkata – Sat Dec 10 0100 Singapore
- Hispa Emacs (virtual) https://hispa-emacs.org/ Wed Dec 14 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata – Thu Dec 15 0000 Singapore
Beginner:
- emacs29's C-h q (help-quit-or-quick) is pretty neat (Reddit)
Emacs configuration:
- Exploring package-vc-install as an alternative to Quelpa (Reddit)
- Skempo templates to commit new/updated #guix package using #emacs built-in vc. (Mastodon)
- Advent of emacs #1: How I do package management in emacs
Emacs Lisp:
- Breaking through the intermediate wall in elisp / lisps in general
- Emacs Lisp is everywhere, this is not a joke! Look at query-replace-regexp command (5:52, Reddit)
- Using packages to learn elisp in emacs (03:31)
- gists/xr-for-readable-regular-expressions (Mastodon)
Appearance:
- Grant Rettke: Configuring A Simple-Modeline
- Emacs-mini-frame + window-rules + Hyprland = GUI GOODNESS
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Introduction to the standard-themes for Emacs
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 0.10.0
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: breaking changes coming to modus-themes version 4
Navigation:
- Get the most of the command query-replace
Writing:
- A tiny Elisp library to gather synonyms with Wordnet (and how to use it so Emacs can help searching my notes) (Reddit)
- Emacs For Writers | How To Wrap Text (12:29)
Org Mode:
- Org 9.6 is out :)
- Learn how to write a command that limits searches to org-mode headlines (16:35, Reddit)
- My hipster org-mode blog setup! (link handling, server side rendering with next.js, and more) (Reddit)
- Using p5js with org-mode in emacs | Ale's Ecke (Mastodon)
- Emacs | Standard Manuscript Format Export From Org Mode | Just Imagine! (09:48)
- Keeping my Org Agenda updated based on Denote keywords · Baty.net (Mastodon)
- A web frontend for your org-files (100% faithful to GNU+Emacs!) (HN, Irreal)
- Org development:
  - Update version numbers for the 9.6 release
Completion:
- GitHub - Crandel/tempel-collection: Collection tempel templates (Reddit)
- Selectrum now deprecated in favor of Vertico
Coding:
- How to refactor in the current buffer with iedit-mode (Irreal)
- Using Emacs for your Typescript/Node project
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: introduction to Clojure (CIDER and clojure-mode)
- The Emacs Cat: A Simple tree-sitter Config That Works
Shells:
- Why use EShell? (expanded)
Math:
- New Package: ess-breakerofchains
Web:
- GitHub - agzam/browser-hist.el: Search through browser history, in Emacs (Reddit)
Multimedia:
- Marcin Borkowski: Extracting Youtube subtitles in Emacs
Fun:
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: aLtCaPs version 1.1.0
Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- Christian Tietze: Dec 3 and Dec 4: EmacsConf 2022 Live
- Show Me Your REPL #2: Andrey Orst @andreyorst (01:26:23)
- Why do we hack? · Curious Musings
- Christine Lemmer-Webber: "emacs, lisp, guix, guile, scheme excitement thread" - the Octodon
Other:
- Philip K.: More things I'd like to see done in Emacs
- My "age-mode" for working with age encrypted files
- Is there a chance TRAMP will be rearchitected at some point?
- Sanel Zukan: Faster man pages rendering
- Christian Tietze: Use System File Open Dialog for File Actions in Emacs (Just Once!)
- Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel (HN, HN again)
- GitHub - natrys/diagram-preview: Emacs minor mode to show preview for graphviz, plantuml, mermaid.js (uses kroki - 3rd party service but can be self-hosted) (Mastodon)
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
- Improve passing user switches to Git log commands (bug#59414)
- Speed up handling X selection requests
- Bump master Emacs version to 30.0.50
New packages:
- eat: Emulate A Terminal, in a region, in a buffer and in Eshell (NonGNU ELPA)
- latex-table-wizard: Magic editing of LaTeX tables (MELPA)
- ligature-pragmatapro: PragmataPro support for ligature.el (MELPA)
- org-calibre-notes: Extract highlights and notes from Calibre EPUB reader (MELPA)
- standard-themes: Like the default theme but more consistent (GNU ELPA)
- tempel-collection: Collection of templates for Tempel (MELPA)
- wgsl-mode: Syntax highlighting for the WebGPU Shading Language (MELPA)

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