2024-11-18 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2024-11-18 Emacs news

• Emacs 30:
  • What are your favorite changes in emacs 30?
• Upcoming events:
  • 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
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Nov 27 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 28 0130 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: Basics of Emacs manual documentation
• Emacs configuration:
  • JD Codes: Transient Menus in Emacs pt. 1
  • bcardoso/knitter: A declarative dotfiles manager in Emacs Lisp (@cryptk@mastodon.social)
  • https://github.com/chrislo/emacs
  • genehack's Emacs Config
  • spwhitton's Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Discovering functions and variables in Elisp files
  • Paredit, a Visual Guide - Calva User Guide
  • timeblock.el - Emacs library for visualizing time data via interactive blocks (Reddit, communick.news)
  • Emacs creando un widget para controlar mi enchufe inteligente | Programador Web Valencia (@maxxcan@mastodon.social)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: the Modus themes palette previews are tabulated
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 1.9.0
  • 🌲 Emacs color theme inspired by the woods
  • Why I like using bitmap fonts in Emacs – Rodrigo Morales
• Navigation:
  • Neat behavior of M-x occur (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Getting Comfortable with Emacs Registers - System Crafters Live! (02:06:11)
  • easysession.el: Easily persist and restore your Emacs editing sessions (Release 1.1.1) (r/emacs, r/planetemacs)
• Writing:
  • Emacs Shortcuts To Show Nitty Gritty Details Of Selected Buffer Section 2024_11_09_16:22:27 count-words-region
  • Irreal: Writing A Book
• Org Mode:
  • Organizing My Life with org-mode
  • Prikaz98/foreign: Simple vocabulary trainer app for Emacs (Reddit) - Org
  • My configuration for org-roam-capture-templates – Rodrigo Morales
  • Styling Text via Keyboard in Org and Markdown (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Changing Org Mode underlines to the HTML mark element
  • punchagan: Responsive Auto Export for Org Hugo
  • James Dyer: Org Table From Org Headings using a Babel Block
  • Annouce: Org-zettel-ref-mode 0.5 Release
  • Org development: Add options to skip extra processing in org-babel-comint-with-output
• Denote:
  • Package for those who use Denote as a Zettelkasten: denote-zettel-interface
• Completion:
  • Exploring Emacs Completion Styles - System Crafters Live! (02:03:03)
• Coding:
  • Jupyter notebooks update: drafting a package
  • ansible-doc.el: read ansible plugin documentation in a buffer (Reddit)
  • Opening any CLI in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Integrar ruff, linter de python, en emacs
  • ahg: Alberto's Emacs interface for Mercurial (Hg)
  • t0yv0/gh-autolinks.el: Support GitHub autolinked references and URLs in Emacs - updated to use overlays for issue titles (@t0yv0@vmst.io)
• Web:
  • Emacs: A non-intrusive browser (Reddit, YouTube) - based on EWW, SVG rendering
• Multimedia:
  • My subed customizations for editing captions of Emacsconf 2024 – Rodrigo Morales
  • Sacha Chua: Yay Emacs 7: Using word timing in caption editing with subed-word-data
  • Sacha Chua: Checking caption timing by skimming with Emacs Lisp or JS
• AI:
  • Emacs is well positioned in the LLM era
  • GitHub - karthink/gptel: A simple LLM client for Emacs (03:45)
  • Extract vocab from your screen - chatgpt-shell-japanese-lookup
  • PSA: chatgpt-shell splits into multiple repositories (preparing for multi-model support) (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2024-11-13 / week 46
  • How is emacs useful in practical life? (Irreal)
• Other:
  • TIL: auth-sources integrates password-store
  • [ANN] Uniline minor mode
  • About Blee (ByStar Libre-Halaal Emacs Environment) — Emacs Conf 2024 (45:30)
  • Linux Space Cadet Style Remapping for Emacs
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Proposal to unify make-closure, make-interpreted-closure, and make-byte-code
    • Removing redisplay-dont-pause - background info
  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'refs/remotes/origin/master'
  • * cus-face.el: Provide completion for font families (bug#74362)
  • Add new `header-line-active' and `header-line-inactive' faces
  • New user option bibtex-entry-ask-for-key
  • Preserve selected candidate across Completions update
  • Add song viewer to 'mpc' (Bug#74200)
  • (cl-labels): Add support for (FUNC EXP) bindings (bug#59786)
• New packages:
  • compile-angel: Compile Emacs Lisp libraries automatically (MELPA)
  • crc: Cyclic Redundancy Check (MELPA)
  • disproject: Dispatch project commands with Transient (MELPA)
  • edts-mode: EDTS setup and configuration (MELPA)
  • evedel: Instructed LLM programmer/assistant (MELPA)
  • mathjax: Render formulas using MathJax (GNU ELPA)
  • miasma-theme: Miasma: color theme inspired by the woods (MELPA)
  • plumber: Run different commands depending on the text format (MELPA)
  • quick-sdcv: Interface for the sdcv command (StartDict cli dictionary) (MELPA)

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