2025-01-27 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2025-01-27 Emacs news

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jan 29 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 30 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Feb 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Feb 8 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: organise your init file (outline-minor-mode or Org literate config) (YouTube 24:53)
  • First Configuration - Emacs Speedrun: Ep 02 (04:40)
  • Simple guide for emacs plugins (07:54)
  • Experimental XDG support · emacscollective/no-littering · Discussion #252 · GitHub (@ross@social.rossabaker.com)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • enhanced-evil-paredit - Prevent Parenthesis Imbalance when Using Emacs Evil with Paredit
  • Release 1.0.5: compile-angel.el - Speed up Emacs by Byte/Native-Compiling all Elisp files (Alternative to: auto-compile) (Reddit)
  • if-let, when-let 等 FOO-LET 宏的变化历史
  • Xah Talk Show 2025-01-23 Ep609 Emacs Lisp Coding, xah-increment-number (54:25)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs / highlight logical block at point · GitHub
  • James Dyer: Creating a small local elisp rainbow-mode solution
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: show-font version 0.2.0
  • brutalist-theme: Brutalist theme
• Navigation:
  • Keeping Emacs Windows Still: Sinister (Reddit) - paywalled, limited to Github sponsors
    • hkjels/mini-ontop.el: Prevent windows from jumping on minibuffer activation (Reddit)
    • stillness-mode: a mode to make your windows stay still! (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: beframe version 1.2.0
  • Emacs - Recursive Edit (22:51)
  • outline-indent: Folding text based on indentation (Alternative to origami and yafolding) - Release 1.1.1 (Reddit)
  • easysession.el - Easily persist and restore your Emacs editing sessions (Release 1.1.2) (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • james-stoup/org-mode-table-tutorial: A simplified guide to mastering Org Mode table functions (Reddit)
  • yibie/org-luhmann: Luhmann's numbering system for org-mode (Reddit)
  • yibie/org-numbering: A flexible and customizable numbering system for Org mode headings, supporting various international numbering schemes. (r/orgmode, r/emacs)
  • Org-Remarkのマニュアル #Emacs - Qiita (@qiita@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com)
  • project-org-todo-capture : utility package to TODO from an Emacs project.
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Exporting Org Mode Tables to LaTeX - Matt's Musings (Irreal)
    • Marcin Borkowski: org-use-sub-superscripts
    • Write, code and publish with Emacs Org Mode (2024) - example of org-tufte
• Denote:
  • Tips for getting Denote and Howm to work together (@jbaty@social.lol)
• Completion:
  • Enhancing icomplete-vertical-mode in Emacs: A Follow-Up (Reddit)
  • consult-dir–zoxide-dirs
• Coding:
  • gavv/transient-compile: Dynamic transient menu for compilation. (Reddit)
  • konrad1977/flycheck-overlay: A beautiful inline flycheck overlay for Emacs (Reddit)
  • DetachHead/basedpyright: pyright fork with various type checking improvements, improved vscode support and pylance features built into the language server (Reddit)
  • Setting up Basedpyright LSP with Emacs Eglot (27:13)
  • Tim Heaney: Roc programming
  • Christian Tietze: Using 2 Editors Because Xcode Is Dumb
  • Setting Up Emacs for Clojure Development
  • Noj v2 - getting started - from raw data to a blog post - YouTube - Clojure for data science (@daslu.bsky.social)
  • JJ-FZF 0.25.0: Major New Features - Emacs hook for auto-snapshots (@timj@social.tchncs.de)
  • 【TDDへの理解とEmacs】エンジニアの楽園 vim-jp ラジオ #28 (34:56)
• Shells:
  • [eshell-smart feature proposal] Preserve previous prompt
  • Thanos Apollo: Emacs As Your Terminal Emulator [Video]​ (YouTube 07:45)
• Web:
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Thinking About Opening URLs in Emacs, and Wayland, and Stuff
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mekeor/citeff: Emacs package for citing format=flowed mails - Codeberg.org (@mekeor@mastodon.catgirl.cloud)
  • How to set up Gnus in Emacs for Gmail in seven minutes #email #gnus #emacs #gmail #emacselements (08:11)
  • Jeremy Friesen: On Elfeed and Backups
• Multimedia:
  • xenodium/ready-player 0.26.1: improved metadata support for flac and ogg (@xenodium@indieweb.social)
  • Edit an open svg file in a separate buffer and update the view after the save
  • YeeTube: Emacs YouTube Front End
• AI:
  • Clojure visual-tools 30 - Workflow Demos 4: LLMs in Emacs for Clojure (01:39:50)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2025-01-22 / week 03
  • Of all Emacs features and possible ways to use, what were some of the hardest things to learn or get used to? (lemmy.ml)
  • Why I use emacs (for now) (06:06)
  • My Journey from IntelliJ IDEA to Minimal Configuration Emacs (Reddit)
  • Of two minds about Emacs (Reddit)
  • Call for volunteers — r/emacs moderation
  • The DIY FOSS cyborg – Dustycloud Brainstorms (lobste.rs)
  • The 7 Best Text Editors I Have Used #coding #emacs #neovim #acme #programming #emacselements (13:10)
  • twtxt, la red social en texto plano, descentralizada y minimalista | Podcast República Web (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Other:
  • A platform that moulds to your needs (Reddit, lobste.rs, Irreal)
  • Made a fun elisp tool to display key-chords and highlight keys of the current command on virtual keyboards
  • An Emacs Wall Clock (Reddit)
  • chenyanming/nov-web: Read epub in web by injecting the _javascript_ and css into the epub file. (Reddit)
  • Yi Tang: Setup ssh-agent Systemd Service for Emacs
  • Emacs 30.0.93 pretest is now available for Android via F-Droid (Reddit, lemmy.ml)
  • Benjamin Slade: Guix, XIM, Emacs, Multi_key, Shft+SPC
  • the-emacs-problem (2005) (Reddit, Irreal)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Improving prefix map names - suggestion for package maintainers: name prefix maps
  • In Elisp manual document new functions for changing window layouts
  • Display separators on tty menus with display table entries
  • Add 'treesit-forward-comment' with 'forward-comment-function'
  • ibuffer: Display column titles in header line
  • ibuffer: New defcustom `ibuffer-human-readable-size'
• New packages:
  • kql-mode: Major mode for highlighting KQL (MELPA)
  • locs-and-refs: Define locations and references for text files and buffers (MELPA)
  • minuet: Code completion using LLM (MELPA)
  • typespec-ts-mode: Major mode for TypeSpec (using tree-sitter) (MELPA)
  • xmltokf: Functional wrappers around xmltok (MELPA)

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