2024-11-11 Emacs news

Upcoming events:
- EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/304301988/ Sat Nov 16 1100 America/Los_Angeles
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Nov 20 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 21 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Nov 23 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
Beginner:
- Emacs Tutorial – Tristan's Zettelkasten (Midirus)
Emacs configuration:
- Displaying just the package names when prompting for updates
- Demonstration of `package-autosuggest-mode` in Emacs - Spectra Video (@pkal@commenting.onthe.incoherenceofthe.net)
- Emacs: control where buffers are displayed (the 'display-buffer-alist')
- Emacs minimalism revisited (Reddit)
- Building Your First Emacs Config (Reddit)
- nehrbash's Emacs Config
- swhalemwo's Emacs Config (Reddit)
- jvillasante's Emacs Config
Emacs Lisp:
- package-docgen: A documentation generator for Emacs simple packages (Reddit)
- James Cherti: The compile-angel Emacs package: Byte-compile and Native-compile Emacs Lisp libraries Automatically (Github, Reddit)
Navigation:
- Emacs Shortcuts To Show Nitty Gritty Details Of Selected Buffer Section 2024_11_09_16:22:27 - YouTube (@unixbhaskar@mastodon.social)
- pokemacs-layout: A window layout utility package (Reddit)
Dired:
- Replace spaces in dired
Org Mode:
- org-music: Play music from your music library in org-mode (Reddit)
- Thrilled to announce: org-zettel-ref-mode 0.4 release
- Excerpts from a conversation with John Wiegley (johnw) and Adam Porter (alphapapa) about personal information management - Sacha Chua (Reddit)
- Programación literaria en Emacs. 1ª Parte.
Denote:
- Tomando Notas con Emacs - FTV
Completion:
- completion.tap/after-init.el at main · steve-downey/completion.tap · GitHub - vertico, consult, cape, etc.
Coding:
- Tip about setting up etags languages
- Getting Emacs Treesiter to parse multiple languages
- pizzatorque/uv-menu: Emacs Transient menu for Python UV (@pizzatorque@mastodon.social)
- Kaka Farm: Adding Extra Syntax Indentation To GNU Emacs Scheme Mode.
- Emacs set up for C
- Using Emacs for Container Development: Configuring Emacs for Podman and Docker Support (Reddit)
- Tip: you can use magit-find-file to find any version of a file quickly
- Thanos Apollo: Why I Prefer VC Over Magit [Video]
Mail, news, and chat:
- Aimé Bertrand: Mu4e - save attachments faster - an update
- Thanos Apollo: RSS Mastery with RSS-Bridge & Elfeed [Video]
- rcirc-sqlite 1.0.4: browse URL in selected message with b (@mattof@functional.cafe)
- Insert Mastodon emojis (@mekeor@mastodon.catgirl.cloud)
Evil mode:
- Emacs/Evil, snake case and camel case (@bbbscarter@mastodon.gamedev.place)
Doom Emacs:
- Jack Baty: A Doom Emacs status update after several days
Multimedia:
- Crop images with uniquely-generated filenames (@xenodium@indieweb.social)
- Sacha Chua: Emacs: Extract part of an image to another file
- Sacha Chua: Interactively recolor a sketch
Fun:
- Displaying time as Emoji - Org file (Reddit)
AI:
- Using emacs as an interface to llm's: ellama and gptel
- llm version 0.18, with image & media handling, batch embeddings, Azure, and more! (Reddit)
Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2024-11-06 / week 45
- What are your bad habits?
- "Emacs is not a text editor…"
- Irreal: Why Isn’t There An Emacs 2?
- Ryan Rix: Two Updates: Org+Nix dev streams, and my new DNS resolver
Other:
- GPG pinentry configuration
- ~leon_plickat/iwd-el - emacs major mode for interfacing with iwd - wireless networks (@lhp@mastodon.social)
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
  - Discussion about the pros and cons of lexical binding
  - yank-media - issues to ponder
- Add color-blend to blend two RGB lists
- Update vtable documentation
- Tramp: Support different proxies for the same destination
- Always print the expanded directory name for Eshell's "pwd" command
- New input methods for Northern Iroquoian languages
- Support :transform-smoothing on images (MS-Windows) (bug#57166)
- Make 'yank-media' on MS-Windows require native image APIs
New packages:
- el-job: Call a function using all CPU cores (MELPA)
- inhibit-mouse: Deactivate mouse input during editing (MELPA)
- recall: Recall Emacs subprocess (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, communick.news, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!

From:	Sacha Chua
Subject:	2024-11-11 Emacs news
Date:	Mon, 11 Nov 2024 10:19:37 -0500