2025-02-17 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2025-02-17 Emacs news

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Feb 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 20 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Feb 22 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Feb 26 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 27 0130 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Lesson on Controlling Emacs Windows (Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Etenil/emacs-substrate: Bare-bones emacs configuration starter (@etenil@toot.cat)
  • viglioni/lauremacs at new-lauremacs (@laura.viglioni.com)
  • orzechowskid/duomacs at next (@danorz.com)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Irreal: Elisp Abstraction
  • Xah Talk Show 2025-02-16 Ep614 emacs lisp coding, keyword parameters (01:01:10)
• Appearance:
  • Mark Tomczak: Unstick Terminals in Emacs
  • Emacs Redux: Customizing Color Themes
  • Anand Tamariya: Emacs Font is wider
  • I have created some Emacs themes and would love your feedback to finalize and submit them. Your critique on which looks good would be highly appreciated.
• Navigation:
  • Marcin Borkowski: isearch-forward-thing-at-point
  • Composiphrase: Composable editing language like Vim, but moreso (@willghatch@mastodon.social)
  • An emacs macro to transform DTOs (@chamook@hachyderm.io)
  • Projectile 2.9 released! (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Introduction to Emacs Writing Studio - YouTube (@danderzei@aus.social)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] org-read-date-style
  • Recurring checklists using org mode in emacs (Reddit, HN)
  • Irreal: Using Emacs For Research Notes
  • New literature notes package (Reddit) - citar-org-mode
  • Org dynamic block for calculating sprint points (@trevdev@fosstodon.org)
  • Organizing my Emacs config with Org-Babel
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • (Released) Org-headline-card, convert org-mode headlines and their contents into beautiful visual cards. (Reddit)
    • (Update) org-supertag: Enhanced the org-supertag-node-add-reference Command
    • A Few More Thoughts on Literate Programming (2022, Reddit)
    • Fizzbuzz battle: Orgmode versus THE REPL for lazy lisp series, an emacs story | by screwlisp | Feb, 2025 | Medium (@screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)
    • how to blogpost directly from emacs | visd0m.dev (@screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org) - ox-hugo, GitHub actions
    • Maintaining a youtube list as an org-table: yt-playlist
    • org-reminders : An Emacs plugin for interacting between macOS Reminders and org mode.
    • Show Emacs org-timer countdown in macOS menubar (@charlbotha.com)
    • Comments via Mastodon (@noctuaminervae@toot.si) - and moderation in Org Mode
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: I am in the process of splitting Denote into many packages
• Coding:
  • My personal emacs slime useage examples | by screwlisp | Feb, 2025 | Medium (@screwlisp@me.dm)
  • VHDL-LS toml generator (Reddit)
  • Demo of how to set up Emacs dap-mode for Swift debugging
  • Emacs Major Modes for Power BI · A #dataOp ramblings
  • Norm: XPath server
  • Magit now natively supports adding icons in the status buffer
  • On Jujutsu and Magit · Antoine Martin (lobste.rs)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • twtxt.el update: viewing profiles
• Spacemacs:
  • Is spacemacs the best emacs distro? (25:57)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Installing Doom Emacs on Windows #emacs #doomemacs #keybinds (10:29)
• AI:
  • writing elisp with ellama (Reddit)
  • Ollama Buddy Updates! - Individual models can be assigned to individual commands + more!
  • Aidermacs: Aider AI Pair Programming in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Copilot-chat v2 is here
  • gptel-fn-complete.el (formerly gptel-manual-complete) updates
  • Using ChatGPT via gptel to make my Emacs nutrition tracker smarter (05:58)
  • Emacs Lisp Live Code | quick gemini API integrration (35:58)
• Community:
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: More Emacs would be nice, but… (Irreal, follow-up)
  • A veces todo nos lleva a Emacs y por qué adoro el blog de Irreal (@maxxcan@mastodon.social)
  • Live Interview With Kent Pitman Recorded! - screwlisp - Medium (@screwlisp@me.dm) - Emacs history
  • Глупая война между Vim и GNU Emacs (22:46)
• Other:
  • Arthur A. Gleckler: LLM Unlock - using pass to store secrets
  • calibredb.el new update: support folder metadata
  • Inferior lisp emacs unicode lookup. EDIT: I GOT LEARNED SOME EMACS | by screwlisp | Feb, 2025 | Medium (@screwlisp@me.dm)
  • guile on emacs+termux fails to run. this was my solution - Brasil
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • #76120 - [PATCH] Expose the native sharing dialog (macOS) - GNU bug report logs - Philosophical considerations regarding proprietary OS features
    • Notes on process for getting FTP access to upload Emacs binaries
    • Re: igc: Info manual for MemoryPoolSystem - kludge for easy access to local info
  • Make the rx `eval` form use lexical binding when active
  • vc-revert-file: Support reverting directories
  • Add mhtml-ts-mode.
  • New functions oddp and evenp
  • completing-read-multiple: CRM indication and prompt customization
  • (smerge-refine-exchange-point): New command
  • Teach gnus/message about international Re: variants
  • Bind sieve-refresh-scriptlist to 'g' in sieve-mode
  • Add optional PREDICATE argument to read-directory-name
  • Change the project-switch-project prompt to include the dir name
  • New command project-find-matching-file
  • Mark package-x.el as obsolete
  • Add go-work-ts-mode for Go workspace files
  • image-dired: Add extra keybinds for navigation
  • Eliminate bookmark-maybe-historicize-string duplicates
  • Don't warn for packages without a footer line
  • Set process-adaptive-read-buffering to nil by default
• New packages:
  • hatty: Query positions through hats (MELPA)
  • ob-pic: Org babel functions for pic language (MELPA)
  • org-gnosis: Roam-like Knowledge Management System (GNU ELPA)
  • package-x: Package extras (GNU ELPA)
  • perl-ts-mode: Another Major mode for Perl (MELPA)
  • radio: Listen to Internet radio (NonGNU ELPA)
  • sideline-eglot: Show eglot information with sideline (MELPA)
  • treesit-fold: Code folding using treesit (NonGNU ELPA)
  • typst-ts-mode: Tree Sitter support for Typst (NonGNU ELPA)

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