2024-06-24 Emacs news
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- Emacs 29.4 released (Reddit) - emergency bugfix
- [ANN] Emergency bugfix release: Org mode 9.7.5 (r/emacs, r/orgmode, Irreal)
- oss-sec: Arbitrary shell command evaluation in Org mode (GNU Emacs) (HN, lobste.rs) - details
- Upcoming events:
- Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jun 26 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jun 27 0030 Asia/Singapore
- EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/301493664/ Sat Jun 29 1100 America/Los_Angeles
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/301106856/ Wed Jul 3 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Jul 4 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #11 2024 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/9fa1f342-0447-49f4-881c-42e0689ea80e Thu Jul 4 1900 CET
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jul 5 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs configuration:
- nfdn: Announcing Casual Suite - one-step install for Casual porcelains (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
- Avoiding Emacs Bankruptcy (May 2024, HN)
- emacsconfig - RepublicWorried
- A tour of my Emacs init files (28:09)
- I Install my Emacs configuration (06:02)
- Appearance:
- Chris Maiorana: Relative Line Numbers in Emacs (Irreal)
- Release 1.0.1: vim-tab-bar.el (Make the Emacs tab-bar Look Like Vim’s Tab Bar) (Reddit)
- ibakepunk/helix-theme: An Emacs color theme inspired by the helix-editor/helix default color scheme. (@emocoder@hachyderm.io)
- New GitHub Theme for Emacs (Reddit)
- Release 1.1.1: Tomorrow Night Deepblue Theme
- Navigation:
- Writing:
- Chris Maiorana: Text Editor Judo: One Sentence Per Line - shuffling lines around with Org Mode (Irreal)
- Emacs for writing, coming from Vim - also a long discussion (Irreal)
- Org Mode:
- Basic keyboard shortcuts for Emacs Org Mode (35:17)
- Rethinking & Organizing my life with org-mode (part 4) | The Art Of Not Asking Why (@jtr@fosstodon.org)
- My Emacs org-agenda and capture setup (26:28)
- Tracking work time
- Mario Jason Braganza: Need Day of Month Reminders in Org Mode? Emacs Sexp Diary Entries to the Rescue
- Dslide 0.5.2 release published. Easier hiding of markup, comment, babel blocks. Multi-frame presentation following with re-centering.
- [SUMMARY] #8 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]] on Wed, June 12, 19:00 UTC+3 Ihor writes such detailed notes
- Org development:
- Denote:
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Jeremy Friesen: Using the Link Hint Package to Extend Eldoc Functionality
- Eglot configuration templates for Go, Python, Typescript, C++ (@mekeor@mastodon.catgirl.cloud)
- Smarter indentation with tree-sitter
- Red Nose Hacker: Gunit64 - Dev Log
- stumbled across this code audit package which looks useful (Reddit) - mark code as reviewed
- Math:
- Calc Algebraic Entry (Reddit) - calc-grab-region mentioned at the bottom of this post
- Mail, news, and chat:
- Doom Emacs:
- Fun:
- Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- Do I need emacs in my life ? - long discussion
- Vim convert part 2
- Other:
- Lars Ingebrigtsen: A Super Simple Todo Package For Emacs
- Electronic lab notebook with scimax for molecular simulation tasks - YouTube (@papachan@fosstodon.org)
- Tip about pdf-view-themed-minor-mode to get pdf-tools to blend with your color theme
- Irreal: 🥩 Red Meat Friday: Is Emacs Slow For You
- 2015 wk.45: Emacs talk at sudoers bcn - Coders at Work (@itorres@social.xin.cat)
- Emacs development:
- New packages:
- auctex-cont-latexmk: run latexmk continuously, report errors via Flymake (GNU ELPA)
- auctex-label-numbers: Numbering for LaTeX previews and folds (GNU ELPA)
- beancount: A major mode to edit Beancount input files. (NonGNU ELPA)
- casual-suite: A suite of opinionated Transient UIs (MELPA)
- dslide: Domain Specific sLIDEs. A presentation framework (MELPA)
- evenok: Themes with perceptively evenly distributed colors (MELPA)
- gdb-x: Improve GDB-MI user interface (MELPA)
- iosevka-theme: Theme using various stylistic sets of Iosevka font (MELPA)
- literate-scratch: Lisp Interaction w/ text paragraphs (GNU ELPA)
- magit-gitlab: Magit plugin for manipulating GitLab merge requests (MELPA)
- meow-tree-sitter: Tree-sitter powered motions for Meow (MELPA)
- preview-auto: Automatic previews in AUCTeX (GNU ELPA)
- preview-tailor: Tailor AUCTeX preview scale to monitor/text scale (GNU ELPA)
- tex-item: Commands for working with tex items (GNU ELPA)
- tex-parens: like lisp.el but for tex (GNU ELPA)
- timeout: Throttle or debounce elisp functions (MELPA)
- tomorrow-night-deepblue-theme: The Tomorrow Night Deepblue color theme (MELPA)
- trimspace-mode: A minor mode to trim trailing whitespace and newlines (MELPA)
- unspecified-theme: Theme that unspecifies all attributes of all faces (MELPA)
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