RE: How to poll the users

[Drew Adams]

> > Plus an announcement by Sasha on her blog and
> > her Emacs-news mail to address@hidden.
> 
> All that sounds good.  The more, the merrier.
> (But who is Sasha?)

Sacha Chua (cc'd - I spelled her first name wrong).

She regularly (e.g. weekly) posts an informal Emacs
News message to address@hidden (see attached).  
Those messages are also on her friendly blog page:

https://sachachua.com/blog/

--- Begin Message --- Subject: 2020-04-20 Emacs news Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 04:57:12 -0700 (PDT)

2020-04-20 Emacs news

• Emacs configuration:
  • Sample Spacemacs Config File for Non-Programmers (Reddit)
  • A simple mode-line configuration for Emacs (Reddit)
  • What is your three must-have packages that you can not live without ?
  • self-contained-emacs (Reddit)
  • GitHub - wandersoncferreira/dotfiles: Literate Emacs configuration with EXWM
• Emacs Lisp:
  • {ANN} elisp-depmap - a library to generate a dependency map for elisp projects.
  • {ANN} New package orderless: a completion style that matches multiple regexps in any order
  • Tory Anderson: Simulating `C-u` args to lambda-wrapped functions
• Emacs development:
  • Bind 'n' and 'p' to move between symbols in apropos
  • Fix small glitches in documenting the native image API feature
  • Make use of MS-Windows native image API be selectable at run time
  • Initial version of native image API support for MS-Windows
  • Document the new 'w32-get/set-ime-open-status' functions
• Appearance:
  • {New Package} shrface+: extensions to library `shrface.el', apply shrface to non-org buffers, like w3m, info and helpful
  • Leuven-theme
  • Why Emacs is so square (Reddit)
  • {Update} Shrface 1.5 was released. This time, you can use org-cycle iny eww and nov! One more night can not sleep…
• Navigation:
  • Winds.el - 2-dimensional workspace switcher
  • Manuel Uberti: Lockdown Beam: mark-thing-at
  • Watch "Improve project workflow with GNU Global! (Emacs)" on YouTube
• Org Mode:
  • Literate programming setup of Docker programming environment with org-mode in Emacs
  • {ANN} org-treeusage - Peek at the usage of your org headings
• Coding:
  • Using @prettier/plugin-ruby in spacemacs (Reddit)
  • Python debugger (pdb) completion-at-point function
  • Chen Bin (redguardtoo): Use Magit API to rebase to closest branch
  • Norm: Dash docset updates
• Mail:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: mu/mu4e 1.4 released
• Community:
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
  • The most successful malleable system in history | Malleable Systems Collective (Reddit, HN - long discussion)
  • Talking to the doctor in Emacs (Reddit)
  • a roundabout path to emacs - distinctly.pink
• Other:
  • Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well? | Hacker News
  • Watch "Emacs Through Macros - 01 - Introduction" on YouTube
  • Some statistics about MELPA (Reddit)
  • Using gpg-agent with Emacs flatpak
  • Adrien Brochard: Quick Introduction to Emacs Hyperbole
  • A tiny tip for those using elfeed for youtube subs
  • codingquark: Elfeed with Tiny Tiny RSS (HN)
  • Manuel Uberti: Lockdown Beam: native-complete
  • I like the retro vibe of the Keychron K4 paired with Emacs running in terminal :) (Reddit)
  • (setq handheld-mode nil) (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • basic-ide: BASIC IDE c64
  • bibtex-completion: A BibTeX backend for completion frameworks
  • brutal-theme: Brutalist theme
  • completions-frame: Show completions in child frame
  • elisp-depmap: Generate an elisp dependency map in graphviz
  • flatfluc-theme: Custom merge of flucui and flatui themes
  • flymake-phpstan: Flymake backend for PHP using PHPStan
  • friendly-tramp-path: Human-friendly TRAMP path construction
  • helm-org-multi-wiki: Helm interface to org-multi-wiki
  • lambdapi-mode: A major mode for editing Lambdapi source code
  • leaf-manager: Configuration manager for leaf based init.el
  • mc-calc: Combine multiple-cursors and calc
  • meow: Modal Editing On Wheel
  • org-multi-wiki: Multiple wikis based on Org mode
  • org-noter-pdftools: Integration between org-pdftools and org-noter
  • org-treeusage: Examine the usage of org headings in a tree-like manner
  • owcmd: Run a single command in the other window
  • rego-mode: A major mode for rego language
  • simple-modeline: A simple mode-line configuration for Emacs
  • sm-c-mode: C major mode based on SMIE
  • smart-input-source: Switch OS native input source smartly
  • space-theming: Easilly override theme faces

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file and emacs-devel.

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