2022-10-10 Emacs news
=====================

  - Help wanted:
    - [Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-10/msg00707.html>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/xzhnit/call_for_volunteers_add_treesitter_support_to/>))
  - Upcoming events:
    - [live: Building minimal Emacs config.] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imHqUiqyDYg>) - Oct 11 at 12PM EDT (5 PM UTC)
    - [Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, October 22, 2022] (<https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/october-2022/>)
    - Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) <https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs> Fri Oct 14 0900 Vancouver / 1100 Chicago / 1200 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1800 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata -- Sat Oct 15 0000 Singapore
    - EmacsSF: pumpkin-spice.el <https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/288895026/> Sat Oct 15 1100 Vancouver / 1300 Chicago / 1400 Toronto / 1800 GMT / 2000 Berlin / 2330 Kolkata -- Sun Oct 16 0200 Singapore
    - M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA <https://m-x-research.github.io/> Tue Oct 18 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
    - Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) <https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/> Sat Oct 22 0130 Vancouver / 0330 Chicago / 0430 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 1030 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore
  - Beginner:
    - [Emacs Debugging Basics] (<https://whatacold.io/blog/2022-07-17-emacs-elisp-debug/>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/xv8eu5/emacs_debugging_basics/>), [Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=10857>))
  - Emacs configuration:
    - [kavulox's Emacs Config] (<https://github.com/kavulox/emacs>)
  - Emacs Lisp:
    - [Marcin Borkowski: Converting words and sentences to identifiers] (<http://mbork.pl/2022-10-03_Converting_words_and_sentences_to_identifiers>)
    - [Oauth2 sample flow in Elisp] (<https://lifeofpenguin.blogspot.com/2022/10/oauth2-sample-flow.html>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/xwvhjt/rest_api_testing/>))
    - [Custom Functionality in Emacs vs Neovim] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acvsSXrTlLM>) (04:15)
  - Appearance:
    - [Emacs Font Lock How to highlight multiline text] (<http://makble.com/emacs-font-lock-how-to-highlight-multiline-text>)
    - [Protesilaos Stavrou: Ef themes 0.7.0 for GNU Emacs] (<https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2022-10-08-ef-themes-0-7-0/>)
  - Navigation:
    - [Reveal in macOS Finder (DWIM style)] (<http://xenodium.com/emacs-reveal-in-finder-dwim-style>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/xzt3gx/reveal_in_macos_finder_dwim_style/>))
    - [Comparison of tools to search for related files] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-09/msg00300.html>)
  - Writing:
    - [Mickey Petersen: Wordsmithing in Emacs] (<http://www.masteringemacs.org/article/wordsmithing-in-emacs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rss>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/xwia9c/wordsmithing_in_emacs/>), [Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=10867>), [Janusworx] (<https://janusworx.com/blog/noahs-in-emacs/>))
    - [GitHub - fpiper/hl-sentence-length] (<https://github.com/fpiper/hl-sentence-length>) (inspired by [The art of sentence length by Gary Provost] (<https://i.redd.it/pnhmjtstu8s91.jpg>), [Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/xxxw6h/the_art_of_sentence_length_by_gary_provost/>))
  - Org Mode:
    - [You Should Really Learn Org Mode] (<https://youtu.be/0-brF21ShRk>) (19:32, [Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/xzoppn/you_should_really_learn_org_mode/>))
    - [How do you take book notes?] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/OrgRoam/comments/xur230/how_do_you_take_book_notes/>)
    - [book-mode: A clean interface for org files (Emacs)] (<https://github.com/rougier/book-mode>)
    - [Mario Jason Braganza: Ticking Off Checkboxes With the Mouse in Org Mode] (<https://janusworx.com/blog/ticking-off-checkboxes-with-the-mouse-in-org-mode/>)
    - [Serie - Strukturierte Notizen: Zetteldeft] (<https://gnulinux.ch/serie-strukturierte-notizen-zetteldeft>)
    - [Andrea: Self reflection: a favour I own myself (with a bit of org-ql to make it easier!)] (<http://ag91.github.io/blog/2022/10/09/self-reflection-a-favour-i-own-myself-with-a-bit-of-org-ql-to-make-it-easier>) - finding out which tasks have taken a long time to complete
    - Import, export, and integration:
      - [Org-mode, exportation LaTeX et Minted] (<https://k-7.ch/posts/org-mode-exportation-latex-et-minted.html>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/planetemacs/comments/xwrt9h/orgmode_exportation_latex_et_minted/>))
      - [Org-mode - Generate contracts with only few lines] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxVsSnxD-Cs>) (12:03)
      - [Tracking blog post changes by leveraging git and ox-html.el] (<https://grtcdr.tn/posts/2022-10-08.html>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/xyyfr7/tracking_blog_post_changes_by_leveraging_git_and/>))
      - [Migrate Tiddlywiki to org-roam - Part 2: org-roam and hugo] (<https://blog.dornea.nu/2022/10/04/migrate-tiddlywiki-to-org-roam-part-2-org-roam-and-hugo/>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/xw1eve/migrate_tiddlywiki_to_orgroam_part_2_orgroam_and/>))
      - [org-mode + vterm + tmux == ❤️❤️❤️] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/xyo2fo/orgmode_vterm_tmux/>)
      - [Jeremy Friesen: Denote Emacs Configuration] (<https://takeonrules.com/2022/10/09/denote-emacs-configuration/>)
    - Org development:
      - [org-capture: Add template hook properties] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=7f3a6cf6e72fe9968c6ef32211c754b7fe0172b6>)
      - [Allow returning empty list from post-processing block] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=9b690462a319e4268f15949bba0fe024dca77182>)
  - Completion:
    - [(Me) Default emacs completions are good, I swear!] (<https://www.scss.tcd.ie/~sulimanm/posts/default-emacs-completion.html>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/xz6oq8/me_default_emacs_completions_are_good_i_swear/>))
  - Coding:
    - [Followup to "Newline behavior like other editors"] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/xxkn2r/followup_to_newline_behavior_like_other_editors/>)
    - [Kisaragi Hiu: Trying to set up Emacs for C++] (<https://kisaragi-hiu.com/emacs-cpp-notes.html>)
    - [hc.el.git - An emacs package for exploring haskell code.] (<https://g.ypei.me/hc.el.git>)
    - [Emacs as a Kotlin IDE | It's awesome!] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4s3T0dd5CY>) (18:03)
    - [eglot + tree-sitter in core emacs will be awesome] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/xuebd9/eglot_treesitter_in_core_emacs_will_be_awesome/>) - discussion in comments
  - Shells:
    - [The Emacs Cat: How to Clear the Eshell] (<https://olddeuteronomy.github.io/post/how-to-clear-the-eshell/>)
  - Web:
    - [Preview any link or tweet directly within emacs] (<https://github.com/aviaviavi/link-preview.el>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/xv1dcj/preview_any_link_or_tweet_directly_within_emacs/>))
  - Mail and news:
    - [Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: notmuch-indicator version 0.2.0] (<https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2022-10-06-notmuch-indicator-0-2-0/>)
    - [Org mode - Newsticker RSS feed reader] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd29_JmDxJ0>) (12:11)
  - Doom Emacs:
    - [The Severed Heads (1957) + Doom Emacs Stuff + Working on Website] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJD_MIrw4TQ>) (02:03:04)
  - Multimedia:
    - [Marcin Borkowski: Adding timestamps to youtube links] (<http://mbork.pl/2022-10-10_Adding_timestamps_to_youtube_links>)
    - [New package: youtube-sub-extractor.el] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/xvv7lq/new_package_youtubesubextractorel/>) ([Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=10871>))
  - Community:
    - [Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/xw4muy/weekly_tips_tricks_c_thread/>)
    - [The History of Emacs] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dpnow-j000>) (14:32)
    - [Emacs Paris: A recorded session] (<https://bbb.emacsverse.org/playback/presentation/2.0/playback.html?meetingId=26a1b6644829c4969ad731e47af79354d8558686-1654615813990>)
    - [OCD about Emacs] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/xvpg3u/ocd_about_emacs/>)
    - [What do you tells VSCode and Jetbrains naysayers] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/xxfeur/what_do_you_tells_vscode_and_jetbrains_naysayers/>)
    - [Irreal: Red Meat Friday: Is The FSF Fighting The Previous War?] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=10864>)
    - [How would RMS name emacs, if it was created today?] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/xw1d9l/how_would_rms_name_emacs_if_it_was_created_today/>)
    - [Emacs Users: I'm Okay, I Promise — blog.djha.skin] (<https://blog.djha.skin/blog/emacs-users-im-okay-i-promise/>) - vim perspective
  - Other:
    - [Tim Heaney: Emacs 28.2] (<https://oylenshpeegul.gitlab.io/blog/posts/20221009/>)
    - [Emacs 29 pure gtk running natively on Wayland instead of XWayland] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAA37BR2B1Y>) (01:04:15)
  - Emacs development:
    - [Progress on merging Eglot, a lsp client, to Emacs Core: An Update] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-09/msg01583.html>)
    - [emacs-devel: progress on noverlay branch] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-10/msg00654.html>)
    - [Re: Windows Pseudo Console support] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-09/msg01592.html>) (one of the reasons why Emacs on Windows has challenges)
    - [Error compiling emacsql-sqlite on Windows when `.emacs.d` is in a path with non-ASCII characters · Issue #77 · magit/emacsql · GitHub] (<https://github.com/magit/emacsql/issues/77#issuecomment-887125675--8>) (2021, another reason)
    - [Add a VC command to prepare patches] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=59df0a7bd9e54003108c938519d64f6607cf48d8>)
    - [Add support for the Coptic script (bug#58330)] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=75b7aacbf608ab49991aa945c5a4e54774084294>)
    - [* etc/NEWS: Document how to continue using 'linum'. (Bug#58220)] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=039ada6d033a01fb98e5acdcf943d486625d940b>)
    - [* etc/NEWS: Add instructions for replacing 'linum'. (Bug#58220)] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=9cb38135505d65c6d171da721831bb542e1074ae>)
    - [New command 'world-clock-copy-time-as-kill'] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=10ec1a4d7e940bb6d67108aeb4316bc1f53403a9>)
    - [Add tramp-kubernetes integration] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=a259d0dda3878a64373b808627c4b4cab3971194>)
    - [Add 'seq-keep'] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=92df7cd923d0e870f08484cec06c2726be30882b>)
    - [* etc/NEWS: Mention new Tramp method "podman". Fix typos.] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=bf9d3ddac07e961d0a35414d0f64399966537d80>)
    - [image-dired: Shorten several long names] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=d9bd14975b60aa46408c67aa11a8a57bd5a8772a>)
    - [Move image commands to the 'i' sub map] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=9565f45876f4911a0f27fced215f7e86d59655e8>)
    - [Add Ukrainian tutorial] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=4f58d81b446b757afd9464fa66270abcc8ec02dc>)
    - [Make `eq' obsolete as a generalized variable] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=79d9f3b845fc94726e242239574be21f5f49813c>)
    - [* etc/NEWS: Clarify confusing Image-Dired entry. (Bug#58279)] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=2d87750004e793b7d1803df0365526944970fcd3>)
  - New packages:
    - emacsql-pg <https://melpa.org/#/emacsql-pg>: EmacSQL back-end for PostgreSQL via pg (MELPA)
    - etd <https://melpa.org/#/etd>: Examples to Tests and Docs (MELPA)
    - hcel <https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/hcel.html>: Haskell codebase explorer / cross referencer (GNU ELPA)
    - himalaya <https://melpa.org/#/himalaya>: Interface for the himalaya email client (MELPA)
    - icl-mode <https://melpa.org/#/icl-mode>: Support for IEEE 1687 ICL/PDL (MELPA)
    - ob-ffuf <https://melpa.org/#/ob-ffuf>: Babel functions for ffuf (MELPA)
    - pebble-mode <https://melpa.org/#/pebble-mode>: A major mode for pebble (MELPA)
    - ropgadget <https://melpa.org/#/ropgadget>: Display and filter ROP gadgets of a binary (MELPA)

  Links from [reddit.com/r/emacs] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs>), [r/orgmode] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode>), [r/spacemacs] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/spacemacs>), [r/planetemacs] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/planetemacs>), [Hacker News] (<https://hn.algolia.com/?query=emacs&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story>), [lobste.rs] (<https://lobste.rs/search?q=emacs&what=stories&order=newest>), [planet.emacslife.com] (<https://planet.emacslife.com>), [YouTube] (<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4th0AZixyREOtvxDpdxC9oMuX7Ar7Sdt>), [the Emacs NEWS file] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/etc/NEWS>), [Emacs Calendar] (<https://emacslife.com/calendar/>), [emacs-devel] (<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-10>), and [lemmy/c/emacs] (<https://l
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