2025-01-13 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2025-01-13 Emacs news

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #1 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/cb726f44-8b7f-44f7-91a5-fc9d3f9ad7a9 Tue Jan 14 1900 CET
  • Talk by Andrew Tropin - Arei/Ares: A modern, extensible IDE for Guile Scheme https://www.meetup.com/guix-social/events/304634420/ Thu Jan 16 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Jan 17 0200 Asia/Singapore (@futurile@mastodon.social)
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jan 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 16 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • HispaEmacs Día 1 https://hispa-emacs.org/ Fri Jan 17 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Jan 18 0100 Asia/Singapore (@hispaemacs@fosstodon.org)
  • HispaEmacs Día 2 https://hispa-emacs.org/ Sat Jan 18 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Sun Jan 19 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Jan 25 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs Redux: Ensure all packages are installed by default with use-package
  • Emacs Redux: Emacs and XDG sitting on a tree (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • How's Casual working for you? · kickingvegas/casual · Discussion #139 · GitHub (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • #YayEmacs 8: which-key-replacement-alist (01:00)
  • Split Window Right Quality of Life Enhancements
  • My Emacs Configuration System. (Reddit)
  • otfrom/pembrokensis - Emacs config (@otfrom@functional.cafe)
  • A new year a new rewrite of my emacs config (01:14:38)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Macro to expand and run a macro (@HaraldKi@nrw.social)
  • Listful Andrew: Sparkly — Create multiline sparks ▁▂▆▄▃▇▅ (Emacs package)
  • Listful Andrew: Sparkly Stats — Stats and sparks from daily data (Emacs package)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: custom Oxford University calendar weeks
• Appearance:
  • ultra-scroll v0.2: scroll emacs like lightning ⚡🖱️⚡
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: the next Fontaine version will use a custom theme
• Navigation:
  • Recursive project search in Emacs (17:57)
• Org Mode:
  • Taking control of your life with org mode | Alberto Raimondi (2021, @bignose@fosstodon.org)
  • Pomodoros with org-timer · Stéfan's blog (@stefanv@fosstodon.org)
  • Treemap visualization of an Org Mode file (Reddit)
  • My Literate System Configuration Using Org + Nixos (Reddit)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Orgmunge v0.30 released
    • Using Emacs Lisp in Org-mode (@metalisp@fosstodon.org)
    • How to utilize org publish for a modern Website layout, including template and integrated css production; with a helping hand from R.
    • Charles Choi: Converting a Markdown Region to Org Revisited (Irreal)
    • The NEW (and only) org-protocol chrome extension you need - paw lets you highlight text and send to Org
    • Org Latex: standalone (@cnngimenez@mastodon.social)
    • Org Babel, Mermaid JS, and fixing "Failed to launch the browser process" on Ubuntu 24
  • Org development:
    • org-timer-done-hook: Run before the timer is stopped
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: denote-sequence.el will also support alphanumeric sequences
• Coding:
  • One Emacs Buffer, Many Major Modes (01:50)
  • eglot-selran gives you access to the language server's textDocument/selectionRange API (@HaraldKi@nrw.social)
  • mkdevenv: how I manage/use isolated development environments with TRAMP, GNU Make, and Containerfiles (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • transient for ncspot control in the eat terminal (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • #YayEmacs 9: Trimming/adding silences to get to a target; subed-record-sum-time (YouTube)
  • Automatically correcting phrasing and misrecognized words in speech-to-text captions by using a script
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2025-01-08 / week 01 - electric-parens, helpful, finding files,
  • Corwin Brust - Emacs, Pedagogy, Sysops, Game dev - interview - Community Video (@screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)
  • Trying emacs and a life lesson (08:41)
  • Devtherapy Episode #6 - NIka Otiashvili | დაზეპირებული OOP ცუდია, SDL, Emacs, Neovim, Indie თამაშები (01:49:38)
• Other:
  • James Dyer: Ediff Comparing Regions (Irreal)
  • emacs & passwords - how are people managing their passwords these days?
  • Mike Zamansky: Extracting Emails (with Emacs) (YouTube, 17:57, Reddit, Irreal)
  • Bozhidar Batsov: macOS No Longer Ships with Emacs (HN)
  • Native graphical Emacs on Android | Martin's Blog (@mstempl@mastodon.social)
  • Hacky way to launch a new Emacs client frame as a virtual terminal, using a DE/WM shortcut
  • zsh function for launching a function in Emacs and focusing on it - @chmouel@fosstodon.org
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: scratch/igc: Keeping a TODO list?
  • New symbol property 'definition-type' used by 'find-function'.
  • bibtex-string-file-path and bibtex-file-path are lists of directories
  • ibuffer: Add the "Recency" column
  • Add new file window-x.el
  • Have 'split-window' optionally resurrect deleted windows
  • Use the treesit thing 'list' with symbol property 'treesit-thing-symbol'
  • Fix documentation of Iroquoian input methods
  • Improve docstring of image-dired-show-all-from-dir
• New packages:
  • acton-mode: Major mode for editing Acton source code (MELPA)
  • comint-histories: Many comint histories (MELPA)
  • hl-printf: Minor mode for highlighting "printf" format specifiers (MELPA)
  • lte: Large Table Edition in Org and Markdown buffers (MELPA)
  • pdf-meta-edit: Edit PDF metadata (MELPA)
  • turtles: Screen-grabbing test utility (MELPA)

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