2024-10-14 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Upcoming events:
- Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, October 26, 2024
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 16 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Oct 26 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Centaur Tabs - The best tab (UI) system for Emacs! (Jan 2024)
- speedrect v0.5: modal tools during rectangle selection, now with column fill (Reddit)
- Emacs tip: Use windmove to navigate open buffer windows (Irreal)
- Re: Add function to rotate/transpose all windows
- Making Killing Nicer in Emacs (04:22, July 2024)
- Hyperbole:
- Writing:
- James Cherti: Emacs: Automating Table of Contents Update for Markdown Documents (e.g., README.md)
- Marcin Borkowski: mrr-replace-mode - multi-replace regexps
- Grammar tools for Emacs [LWN.net] (2016, Reddit)
- Chris Maiorana: Second Brain, Second Nature - build your own system
- Org Mode:
- organize your life, with orgmode (30:12)
- Tip about using org-agenda-include-diary to display the diary
- Referencing Org Table Cells with Text Regions (Reddit)
- Using Org Mode to write and organize a book (@Jose_A_Alonso@mathstodon.xyz, Irreal)
- Building a blog from Org Mode files using only Emacs (@evgandr@mas.to)
- Summary of org and org-roam statistics
- Org development:
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Tip: customize cycle-spacing-actions
- Edit code chunks from multiple files in one buffer (a prototype) (Reddit, HN)
- SamuelVanie/entr-runner.el: An emacs package that will facilitate hot reloading of custom process or command (Reddit)
- pythonic-emacs/djangonaut: Emacs minor mode for Django.
- 33 CL, Add C-c C-j Functionality from Slime to Sly in Emacs (23:42)
- Debugging GameCube applications/games (in Emacs) (2023)
- emacs-bazel-mode: Emacs mode for Bazel
- Shells:
- Web:
- Mail, news, and chat:
- Multimedia:
- Fun:
- AI:
- Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread - write-region, eglot-stay-out-of, C-x in transients, blamer-bindings
- 5 Reasons Why I Love and Use Emacs in Linux - Make Tech Easier (Reddit)
- Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently? (Reddit)
- "Philosophical" question: Is elisp the only language that could've made Emacs what it is? If so, why?
- Irreal: 🥩 Red Meat Friday: Is Lisp Syntax Boring
- Other:
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
- Add foldout command for widening to current fold
- Remove buttons when disabling 'button-mode'
- Add unbuttonize-region
- Add imenu support for ODF files in doc-view
- Make revision completion in vc-diff and vc-root-diff more predictable
- Implement drag-n-drop for w32 with support for files and text
- New command-line options for 'etags'
- Support file creation and deletion in diff-apply-hunk
- Support calling 'project-current' with custom prompt
- New packages:
- copilot-chat: Copilot chat interface (MELPA)
- org-inline-pdfcomment: Export Support for Inline Tasks as PDF Comments (MELPA)
- sml-ts-mode: SML major-mode using tree-sitter (MELPA)
- uniline: Draw lines, boxes, & arrows with the keyboard (MELPA)
- wollok-mode: Major mode for the Wollok programming language (MELPA)
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