2024-07-08 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2024-07-08 Emacs news

• Upcoming events:
  • EmacsConf - 2024 - Call for Participation (Reddit, Irreal, lobste.rs)
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://bbb.emacsverse.org/b/iho-h7r-qg8-led Wed Jul 10 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 11 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jul 12 1800 Europe/Paris
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jul 17 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • I think (GNU) Emacs bankruptcy is inevitable in the longer term (HN)
  • I Rewrote My Emacs Configuration in Lua (Reddit)
  • masuconfigs/.doom.d/config.org at master (@masukomi@connectified.com)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • What is it about lisp that works so well for emacs?
  • Xah Ep560, Emacs Lisp Coding, Get Youtube Video Thumbnail (40:06)
  • multiple-form-version of cl-once-only (@thuna_cing@emacs.ch)
  • Emacs Elisp If Else Construct To Decide Running Mode 2024_07_06_02:57:09 (09:25)
• Appearance:
  • technicolor: Uniformly access your current theme's color palette
  • nerd-icons-archive: a new package that integrated nerd-icons in archive-mode and tar-mode
  • Customizing the Ellipsis (…) in Emacs Outline and Outline Minor Modes (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • TIL Imenu (Reddit, Irreal, Alex Popescu)
  • Emacs: YAML file code folding and outlining to enhance your workflow (Reddit)
  • [ANN] undo-fu-session: 0.7 with customizable destination paths
  • Irreal: Moving To The Beg/End Of Structures
• Dired:
  • Ask for creating missing directories on file move/copy/rename
• Writing:
  • Little function for inserting em dashes
  • Numeronymize - abbreviate words using numerical contraction numeronyms ex: accessibility = a11y (@igb@mastodon.hccp.org)
  • Chris Maiorana: Emacs Micro Lesson 11: Personal ispell dictionary (Irreal)
  • [ANN] tchanges.el: Collaborate with word processor (docx) users using 'track changes'
• Org Mode:
  • lf-araujo/MxNotebook: Single-file Emacs configuration for a powerful scientific Notebook system that works flawlessly over ssh (@lf_araujo@mastodon.social)
  • Alex Popescu: Emacs OrgMode: Reports About Clocked Time
  • Org-mode weather tagger
  • using user defined functions in org-tables (example)
  • La vida en texto plano: Emacs y org-mode
  • Instrucciones Taller de Comandos Emacs (09:16)
  • /home/lucio.albenga.es - Como crear y publicar tu sitio web con Emacs y Org Mode (@lfa@hostux.social)
  • Org development:
    • ox-html: Add an ability to specify :html-head as a string or function
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Mention issues with yank-media on Mac and Windows
• Denote:
  • What's New in Denote 3.0 for Emacs - System Crafters Live! (01:55:36)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: consult-denote version 0.1.0
• Completion:
  • ultyas: Convert Ultisnips (Vim) snippets to YASnippet (Emacs) format
• Coding:
  • martianh/fj.el: A basic Emacs client for Forgejo instances (such as Codeberg) (@mousebot@todon.nl)
  • Modern Emacs Typescript Web (React) Config with lsp-mode, treesitter, tailwind, TSX & more (Reddit, HN)
  • Formatting Snakemake using snakefmt in Emacs using Apheleia
  • Configurando Emacs para trabajar en un proyecto para android (@geekland@mastodon.social)
  • Ejecutando scripts en Elisp con Docker | Programador Web Valencia (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • bram85/elfeed-prune: Emacs package to prune stale or undesired entries from the elfeed database (@bram85@emacs.ch)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Installing Doom Emacs…For Power Noobs (DT LIVE!)
  • Livestreams: Writing elisp for customizing doom emacs | Live (01:48:52), another livestream (02:36:12), lsp-bridge (01:07:13)
• Multimedia:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Ready Player Mode (a lightweight media viewer) (Reddit, lobste.rs, Irreal)
• Fun:
  • Text inside a shape
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread - grow-syntactic-selection using treesit
  • Sharing some my thoughts on Emacs and Learning Emacs after half year of using/learning it.
  • Unpopular opinion! You should learn Vim or Emacs (01:36)
  • The Only Debate That Matters: Vim VS Emacs (19:47)
  • Modern IDEs are magic. Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs? (2020, HN)
• Other:
  • pdf-tools memory reduction
  • Your Text Editor (Probably) Isn’t Malware Any More
  • emacs-memento-mori: Reminder of mortality (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Markers in a gap array - ordered array (with gap) of markers
    • MPS: weak hash tables; figuring out what is still missing
    • new default bindings for winner and windmove - completion vs cycling
  • Make `checkdoc-verb-check-experimental-flag` default to nil
  • checkdoc: Flag formatting mistakes in warnings
  • checkdoc: Relax footer line check for recent Emacs
  • Allow using multiple buffers in 'eshell-command'
  • Fix the different image zoom levels in SHR to work as expected
  • Slice images based on their height in SHR, not their zoom level
  • Port seccomp acceleration to Linux 3.5.0
• New packages:
  • casual-ibuffer: Transient UI for IBuffer (MELPA)
  • chyla-dark-theme: Chyla.org - dark green color theme (MELPA)
  • clang-format-lite: Format code on-save with clang-format, supports remote files (MELPA)
  • elcute: Commands for marking and killing lines electrically (MELPA)
  • eshell-command-not-found: Integrate command-not-found in eshell (MELPA)
  • opencl-c-mode: Syntax coloring for opencl kernels (MELPA)
  • sdml-mode: Major mode for SDML (MELPA)
  • shortcuts-mode: Minor mode providing a buffer shortcut bar (MELPA)
  • vterm-hotkey: Control vterm buffers with hotkeys (MELPA)

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