2025-01-27 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jan 29 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 30 0130 Asia/Singapore
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Feb 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Feb 8 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs configuration:
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: organise your init file (outline-minor-mode or Org literate config) (YouTube 24:53)
- First Configuration - Emacs Speedrun: Ep 02 (04:40)
- Simple guide for emacs plugins (07:54)
- Experimental XDG support · emacscollective/no-littering · Discussion #252 · GitHub (@ross@social.rossabaker.com)
- Emacs Lisp:
- enhanced-evil-paredit - Prevent Parenthesis Imbalance when Using Emacs Evil with Paredit
- Release 1.0.5: compile-angel.el - Speed up Emacs by Byte/Native-Compiling all Elisp files (Alternative to: auto-compile) (Reddit)
- if-let, when-let 等 FOO-LET 宏的变化历史
- Xah Talk Show 2025-01-23 Ep609 Emacs Lisp Coding, xah-increment-number (54:25)
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Keeping Emacs Windows Still: Sinister (Reddit) - paywalled, limited to Github sponsors
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: beframe version 1.2.0
- Emacs - Recursive Edit (22:51)
- outline-indent: Folding text based on indentation (Alternative to origami and yafolding) - Release 1.1.1 (Reddit)
- easysession.el - Easily persist and restore your Emacs editing sessions (Release 1.1.2) (Reddit)
- Org Mode:
- james-stoup/org-mode-table-tutorial: A simplified guide to mastering Org Mode table functions (Reddit)
- yibie/org-luhmann: Luhmann's numbering system for org-mode (Reddit)
- yibie/org-numbering: A flexible and customizable numbering system for Org mode headings, supporting various international numbering schemes. (r/orgmode, r/emacs)
- Org-Remarkのマニュアル #Emacs - Qiita (@qiita@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com)
- project-org-todo-capture : utility package to TODO from an Emacs project.
- Import, export, and integration:
- Denote:
- Completion:
- Coding:
- gavv/transient-compile: Dynamic transient menu for compilation. (Reddit)
- konrad1977/flycheck-overlay: A beautiful inline flycheck overlay for Emacs (Reddit)
- DetachHead/basedpyright: pyright fork with various type checking improvements, improved vscode support and pylance features built into the language server (Reddit)
- Setting up Basedpyright LSP with Emacs Eglot (27:13)
- Tim Heaney: Roc programming
- Christian Tietze: Using 2 Editors Because Xcode Is Dumb
- Setting Up Emacs for Clojure Development
- Noj v2 - getting started - from raw data to a blog post - YouTube - Clojure for data science (@daslu.bsky.social)
- JJ-FZF 0.25.0: Major New Features - Emacs hook for auto-snapshots (@timj@social.tchncs.de)
- 【TDDへの理解とEmacs】エンジニアの楽園 vim-jp ラジオ #28 (34:56)
- Shells:
- Web:
- Mail, news, and chat:
- Multimedia:
- AI:
- Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2025-01-22 / week 03
- Of all Emacs features and possible ways to use, what were some of the hardest things to learn or get used to? (lemmy.ml)
- Why I use emacs (for now) (06:06)
- My Journey from IntelliJ IDEA to Minimal Configuration Emacs (Reddit)
- Of two minds about Emacs (Reddit)
- Call for volunteers — r/emacs moderation
- The DIY FOSS cyborg – Dustycloud Brainstorms (lobste.rs)
- The 7 Best Text Editors I Have Used #coding #emacs #neovim #acme #programming #emacselements (13:10)
- twtxt, la red social en texto plano, descentralizada y minimalista | Podcast República Web (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
- Other:
- A platform that moulds to your needs (Reddit, lobste.rs, Irreal)
- Made a fun elisp tool to display key-chords and highlight keys of the current command on virtual keyboards
- An Emacs Wall Clock (Reddit)
- chenyanming/nov-web: Read epub in web by injecting the javascript and css into the epub file. (Reddit)
- Yi Tang: Setup ssh-agent Systemd Service for Emacs
- Emacs 30.0.93 pretest is now available for Android via F-Droid (Reddit, lemmy.ml)
- Benjamin Slade: Guix, XIM, Emacs, Multi_key, Shft+SPC
- the-emacs-problem (2005) (Reddit, Irreal)
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
- Improving prefix map names - suggestion for package maintainers: name prefix maps
- In Elisp manual document new functions for changing window layouts
- Display separators on tty menus with display table entries
- Add 'treesit-forward-comment' with 'forward-comment-function'
- ibuffer: Display column titles in header line
- ibuffer: New defcustom `ibuffer-human-readable-size'
- emacs-devel:
- New packages:
- kql-mode: Major mode for highlighting KQL (MELPA)
- locs-and-refs: Define locations and references for text files and buffers (MELPA)
- minuet: Code completion using LLM (MELPA)
- typespec-ts-mode: Major mode for TypeSpec (using tree-sitter) (MELPA)
- xmltokf: Functional wrappers around xmltok (MELPA)
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