2025-01-20 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
- Beginner:
- Emacs configuration:
- I wrote a simple "profile" switcher/manager for emacs. - symlink script as an alternative to
--init-directory
- Configuring emacs is actually easy (12:07)
- redguardtoo/elpa-mirror: Create local emacs package repository (Reddit)
- Emacs and XDG sitting on a tree (Reddit, Irreal)
- csh/dotfiles: My public configuration files. - Codeberg.org (@kolev@babka.social)
- Mi configuración personal en Emacs | Hanabi Factory (@indymnv@fosstodon.org)
- I wrote a simple "profile" switcher/manager for emacs. - symlink script as an alternative to
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Dired:
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Org todo and agenda basics (YouTube 45:28)
- View Only the Day, With Org Agenda | Janusworx (@jason@toots.dgplug.org)
- Forking from a Step in a Stacked Habit // Take on Rules (@takeonrules@dice.camp) - considering structure for managed business objectives
- More problems with my projects and meetings in org-mode | The Art Of Not Asking Why (@jtr@fosstodon.org)
- mastering emacs note-taking in a week (as an engineering student) (15:10)
- Taking org-agenda documentation to the next level - saving copies of org-agenda
- Annoncing LTE - Large Table Edition in Org and Markdown buffers
- Happy to release: Org-supertag 2.0.0 (Reddit)
- Marcin Borkowski: A minor Org Clive improvement - going up the headings to find the one to export to the blog
- Triggering Orgzly sync on Android when Org file changes (Reddit)
- Org development:
- Denote:
- Completion:
- Coding:
- A Modern and Extensible IDE for Guile Scheme - YouTube (@danielsz.bsky.social) - nREPL
- tarides/ocaml-eglot: An overlay on Eglot for editing OCaml code using LSP (@xvw@merveilles.town)
- A Simpler Way to Deal with Java Sources in CIDER | Meta Redux (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
- creates missing test file with skeleton namespace declaration · 7de1c210f4 - jasalt/.emacs.d - Codeberg.org (@jasalt.bsky.social) - for phel
- Yet one more trick to speed up xcodebuild from Emacs (factor 10x) (Reddit) - block developerservices2.apple.com
- Emacsair! A walk through the Magit interface (@bignose@fosstodon.org) (2017)
- Tip on setting magit-diff-refine-hunk to t or all to make reading diffs better
- Reviewing GitHub PRs in Emacs (Reddit)
- Shells:
- Emacs is the best text editor | abarry.us - vterm recommendation
- Mail, news, and chat:
- Doom Emacs:
- Hyprland + DOOM Emacs workflow (10:58)
- Multimedia:
- Fun:
- AI:
- Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2025-01-15 / week 02 - do not edit; smart-dash; beginning of line; compile; find-sibling-file-search
- your reason to switch to emacs/ or was it your first editor??
- What are your favourite Emacs lectures?
- Why is there so little video content online from competitive programmers using Emacs?
- How does the Emacs community protects itself against supply chain attacks ?
- Sacha Chua: Changing planet.emacslife.com
- Other:
- Much Ado about Emacs 006 - Bicycle For Your Mind (Reddit) - minibuffer, ^M, outline, reveal-in-osx-finder, cycle-spacing, transients
- Creating a New Website for Emacs Packages in Guile | Real World Scheme Programming (18:07)
- Scraping Emacs Package Repositories - Crafter Hours (02:32:11) - in Scheme
- Arranging Elementary Objects in GNU Emacs: Dynamic Knowledge Structuring in RCD Notes and Hyperscope (00:22)
- Going Back to Graphical Emacs? - System Crafters Live! (01:54:56)
- Srijan Choudhary: 2025-01-15-001 - C-tab, C-S-tab, C-iso-lefttab
- Tools to Focus (@howard@pdx.sh)
- Is there a market for a emacs handheld (PDA)
- Lars Ingebrigtsen: WordPress Statistics for Emacs
- Nix Overlay for Emacs builds with new experimental concurrent GC on branch 'feature/igc'
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
- Make NSM warn for RSA key exchange on medium severity
- Make NSM warn for TLS 1.1
- Make NSM warn for DH key exchange on medium severity
- Property definition-type becomes find-function-type-alist
- (cl-block, cl-return-from): Fix bug#75498
- (asm-mode): Fix bug#75542
- Improve usability and documentation of Iroquoian input methods
- New packages:
- avy-act: Commands that let avy act from a distance (MELPA)
- motion-selection-mode: A minor mode to add a text editing grammar (MELPA)
- trope-mode: Major mode to edit TV Tropes format ".trp" files (MELPA)
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