2024-01-22 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua

2024-01-22 Emacs news

Jan 22, 2024| emacs, emacs-news

Emacs 29.2:
- Emacs 29.2 released (Reddit, Irreal, Tim Heaney, Mario Jason Braganza)
Upcoming events:
- EmacsSF (in person): Emacs Lisp Hacking Night Kickoff https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/298488691/ Thu Jan 25 1800 America/Los_Angeles
- Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Jan 27 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jan 31 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 1 0130 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs users group Slovenia (in person) https://emacs.si/ Thu Feb 1 1900 Europe/Berlin
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Feb 2 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Feb 3 0000 Asia/Singapore
Emacs configuration:
- Elpaca vs Straight.el - detailed comparison in a comment
- simendsjo/sijo-ctx: Switching between profiles in contexts (@simendsjo@fosstodon.org)
- jcastp/emacs.d: My personal emacs config - Codeberg.org (@jcastp@mastodon.online)
Emacs Lisp:
- Tiny bit of daily emacs joy - calculating a checksum with Emacs Lisp
- Mike Zamansky: Learning Elisp 16 - using a web API (Reddit, Irreal)
- Lección 4: Seleccionables | Curso de UI Emacs Lisp (@andros@hostux.social)
- Peak #emacs: advising advice
Appearance:
- Mario Jason Braganza: I Found Rainbows in Emacs!
- Location Based Day/Night Theme Changer for Emacs
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: customize fonts (generic method and 'fontaine' package) (27:16, YouTube)
- My Emacs Eye Candy (Reddit)
Navigation:
- Essentials of Bookmark Plus (Irreal)
- rahguzar/filechooser: filechooser.el: An xdg-desktop-portal filechooser - Codeberg.org (@rahguzar@emacs.ch)
Dired:
- Hide unwanted files and folders in Emacs (Irreal)
- Charles Choi: Enhancing Dired Sorting With Transient (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
- Best Way to Sort and Play Videos Is with Emacs (12:38)
- James Dyer: Emacs asynchronous copying using dired-async-mode (Irreal)
Writing:
- thinkhuman/writingwithemacs: Tips, Examples, and Resources for Writing with Emacs (@victorhck@mastodon.social)
- Emacs for writers - Fedora Magazine (Reddit, Irreal)
- Writing Accented Characters In Emacs - The Daily Macro (Irreal)
Org Mode:
- Notes on Emacs Org mode [LWN.net] (Reddit, )
- How I Org (@mclare@recurse.social)
- How I org in 2024 ·
- The weekly review Orgmode „template“ | König von Haunstetten
- Tables of files with Org mode (@jcf@mastodon.social)
- 新NISAによる自分年金をEmacs org-modeで計算してみる #Emacs - Qiita
- org-timeblock 0.2 released
- Your first literate C program with Emacs and Org-mode (27:01)
- Sacha Chua: Org Mode custom link: copy to clipboard
- Sacha Chua: Yay Emacs: Using elisp: links in Org Mode to note the time and display messages on stream
- Import, export, and integration:
Denote:
- #denote meets #kagi inside #emacs - summarization :news:
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Denote links to Org headings (20:17 YouTube, Reddit)
Completion:
- WIP: consult-erc – ERC-related buffer candidate sources for consult-buffer, including annotations via marginalia (Reddit)
Coding:
- nodejs workflow on emacs#2 (01:44) - executing code using dap-mode
- nodejs workflow on emacs #3 (02:52) - debugging
- Playwright-emacs
- Two ways of creating ".so"s for Lua, one very fast, both using Emacs and eev (2024) (YouTube)
- bobrowadam/fnm.el: Emacs FNM package (Reddit)
Web:
- Wombag, un cliente de Wallabag para Emacs · el blog de lázaro (@elblogdelazaro@mastodon.social)
Mail, news, and chat:
- p0̷nt1ff's weblog · Using mu4e for reading emails in Emacs, on macOS: a Fastmail setup (@p0nt1ff@emacs.ch)
- Emacs Elfeed Tutorial (05:57)
Doom Emacs:
- (WIP) I got Doom (mostly) running in the android native port of Emacs! Here's how.
AI:
- ellama: added session management and moved to org mode (Reddit)
Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- Emacs Boost Training - March (NL), April (ES), June (FR) (@louis@emacs.ch)
- How do you combat being overwhelmed by choice?
- Sacha Chua: Emacs tweaks: Choosing what to hack on
- Messing around in Emacs (02:19:29) - livestream
Other:
- vallyscode's notes | Emacs tabulated list mode
- ¿Por qué los usuarios de Emacs lo usan para todo? | Programador Web Valencia (Reddit)
- Marcin Borkowski: From the kill ring to a register
- Bringing XDG Desktop Portal support to Emacs (@grtcdr@emacs.ch)
- Install and configure Emacs (modified) for Windows or MacOS in less than 5 minutes (04:20)
- Corwin Brust: Emacs 29.2 Windows Binaries
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
- emacs-gc-stats: Does garbage collection actually slow down Emacs? - v2 of data set and analysis (@yantar92@emacs.ch)
- mwheel.el: Unconditionally use the `wheel-up/down/…` events
- In batc mode, tracing now sends the trace to stdout
- New display action alist entry 'post-command-select-window' (bug#67993)
New packages:
- base32: Base32 support (MELPA)
- bicep-ts-mode: tree-sitter support for Bicep (GNU ELPA)
- clay: Emacs commands Clay - literate in Clojure (MELPA)
- devicetree-ts-mode: Tree-sitter support for DTS (GNU ELPA)
- ebdb-mua-sidecar: EBDB Integration for Universal Sidecar (MELPA)
- ert-results: Filter ERT test results display (MELPA)
- flymake-eldev: Eldev support in Flymake (MELPA)
- totp-auth: RFC6238 TOTP (MELPA)
- universal-sidecar-citeproc: Centralise Citeproc Support for Universal Sidecar (MELPA)
- youdotcom: You.com search package (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, kbin, programming.dev, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!

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