2024-04-08 Emacs news
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  - Upcoming events:
    - Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) <https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs> Fri Apr 12 1800 Europe/Paris
    - M-x Research: TBA <https://m-x-research.github.io/> Wed Apr 17 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  - Emacs configuration:
    - [Literate Configuration: A Direct Approach - System Crafters Live!] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9zI4Fcirs>) (01:54:41)
    - [Has anyone here switched from evil to default bindings?] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bty1p8/has_anyone_here_switched_from_evil_to_default/>)
    - [Configuring Emacs] (<https://themagitian.github.io/posts/emacsconfig/>) - literate, focuses on IDE
    - [Uncle Dave's Emacs Config] (<https://github.com/daedreth/UncleDavesEmacs>) - literate
    - [PythonNut's Emacs Config] (<https://github.com/PythonNut/quark-emacs>) - fast startup
    - 
    - [themagitian's Emacs config] (<https://themagitian.github.io/posts/emacsconfig/>) ([@Magitian@fedia.social] (<https://fedia.social/notes/9rt71wbhs2y6x5s1>))
    - [shahinism's Emacs Config (nix-based)] (<https://github.com/shahinism/45r4r/blob/refactor/lsp-mode/home/features/emacs/emacs.default/lisp/sh-note.el>)
    - [eugeneandrienko's Emacs Config] (<https://github.com/eugeneandrienko/dotfiles>)
    - [cvdub's Emacs Config] (<https://github.com/cvdub/cjvmacs>)
    - [gf3's Emacs Config] (<https://github.com/gf3/dotfiles/tree/main/.config/emacs>)
    - [zzamboni's Doom Emacs Config] (<https://github.com/zzamboni/dot-doom>)
  - Emacs Lisp:
    - [Anand Tamariya: Elisp Snippets] (<https://lifeofpenguin.blogspot.com/2024/04/elisp-snippets.html>) - random color, random number
  - Appearance:
    - [Tim Heaney: Color palettes] (<https://oylenshpeegul.gitlab.io/blog/posts/20240407/>) - mention of rainbow-mode
    - [Tab-line customization demo] (<https://youtube.com/watch?v=es5AmF807Oo&si=swrfLGCVDs7gLrZw>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bx5x2h/emacs3/>))
  - Navigation:
    - [Emacs: Registers] (<https://arialdomartini.github.io/emacs-registers>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bwe4nh/registers/>), [Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=12091>))
    - [Recommendation for perspective.el, which works well with ibuffer.el - @Mehrad@fosstodon.org] (<https://fosstodon.org/@Mehrad/112198292556150807>)
    - [mahmoodsheikh36/blk: emacs package for interlinking arbitrary text patterns] (<https://github.com/mahmoodsheikh36/blk>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bvnm6i/new_package_blk/>))
  - Writing:
    - [Emacs Define Word And Thesaurus 2024_04_04_03:24:19 - YouTube] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU-6powpCGA>)
    - [The Emacs Workflow for Publishing Articles, Books and Websites] (<https://lucidmanager.org/productivity/emacs-workflow/>) (2022, [Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=12086>)) - Denote and Org
    - [Howm vs a giant Org-mode outline] (<https://scribbles.baty.net/post/howm-vs-a-giant-org-mode-outline-8us7sdll>) ([@jbaty@social.lol] (<https://social.lol/@jbaty/112208827766724687>))
  - Org Mode:
    - [Another little gem: org-toggle-narrow-to-subtree] (<https://taonaw.com/2024/04/03/another-little-gem.html>)
    - [Creating a blog] (<https://tusharhero.codeberg.page/creating_a_blog.html>)
    - [Org Mode Fundamentals Volume 3: Moving Around] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9y9Ry5IL6s>) (07:14)
    - [Org Mode Fundamentals Volume 4: Structure Editing] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEZNOSfeIxU>) (04:33)
    - [Exporting Files in Emacs Using Pandoc] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=UoVaMHjN1rK9Nfxi&v=-KZsylRH75U&feature=youtu.be>) (6:43)
    - [Recommendation for org-roam-ui, publish-org-roam-ui - @Lucius_Chen@mastodon.social] (<https://mastodon.social/@Lucius_Chen/112193634710127460>)
    - [emacs-daytime update: changes when you reach your target or maximum] (<https://media.emacs.ch/cache/media_attachments/files/112/206/875/180/378/515/original/e1f3de5c0af239b7.png>) ([@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social] (<https://rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/112206691049682687>))
    - Org development:
      - [lisp/org-colview.el: Add defcustom `org-columns-checkbox-allowed-values'] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=cc3a13c1feca46b0ac47fa9351a9c543952d1cf9>)
      - [org-dblock-write:columnview: Write width specifications] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=b2827aed9811ab293fbe0fb3ea3923e7f8d69ff8>)
      - [etc/ORG-NEWS: Fix typos] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=f6876d73b390d6629e2ba3c0ee679ad363b5e68b>)
  - Coding:
    - [emacs jupyter] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHu5OnHc6V8>) (05:34)
    - [v0.5 - verilog-ext.el & vhdl-ext.el] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1by8cpz/v05_verilogextel_vhdlextel/>)
    - [tailmacs: manage your tailnet in Emacs] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdigBnVnfX4>) (04:32)
    - [t0yv0/treesitedit.el: Paredit-inspired navigation on top of treesitter] (<https://github.com/t0yv0/treesitedit.el>) ([@t0yv0@vmst.io] (<https://vmst.io/@t0yv0/112224424336967956>))
    - [LSP Mode - LSP support for Emacs 9.0.0 released] (<https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/page/CHANGELOG/#release-900>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1byrk4b/lsp_mode_lsp_support_for_emacs_900_released/>))
    - [Marcin Borkowski: Even more Magit tips] (<https://mbork.pl/2024-04-08_Even_more_Magit_tips>)
    - [gitsum.el --- basic darcsum feelalike for Git] (<https://github.com/leahneukirchen/gitsum>)
  - Math:
    - [i like emacs] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd4_O3TqArs>) - a workflow for linear algebra homework
    - [New package for R developers: shinybg] (<https://codeberg.org/teoten/shinybg>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bvluht/new_package_for_r_developers_shinybg/>))
  - Fun:
    - [bug#70209: 30.0.50; describe key + lambda too poetic] (<https://yhetil.org/emacs-bugs/874jcgbekr.fsf@gmail.com/T/#u>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bwufaj/bug70209_30050_describe_key_lambda_too_poetic/>), [HN] (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39947731>))
  - Community:
    - [Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bun8ky/weekly_tips_tricks_c_thread/>)
    - [An interview with Bernard Greenberg, the creator of Multics Emacs] (<https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history/blob/sources/docs/Bernard-Greenberg-interview.org>)
    - [tusharhero: Why do I use Emacs?] (<https://tusharhero.codeberg.page/why_emacs.html>)
  - Other:
    - [Try `C-[ C-char` if you don't like `C-M-char` - Lemmy] (<https://lemmy.ml/post/14214187>)
    - [Tory Anderson: tip: recover-session-finish] (<https://tech.toryanderson.com/2024/04/02/tip-recover-session-finish/>) ([Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=12084>))
    - [tubestatus.el: London Tube live service status from Emacs using the TfL API] (<https://github.com/smallwat3r/tubestatus.el>)
    - [Ubuntu 24.04 has emacs 29.3] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1by7ufp/ubuntu_2404_has_emacs_293/>)
    - [What Makes Emacs Different and Unique] (<https://blog.emacsos.com/emacs-is-different.html>)
    - [password-store-otp: Emacs functions to interact with the pass-otp extension for pass] (<https://github.com/volrath/password-store-otp.el>)
    - [lemmington: RPC integrations between GNU Emacs to Lem] (<https://github.com/lem-project/lemmington>)
    - [Chrome-Emacs Update: Experimental Support for vscode.dev and GitHub Codespaces] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1btv7wf/chromeemacs_update_experimental_support_for/>)
  - Emacs development:
    - Discussion:
      - [Has anyone tried the new json parser?] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bugrsk/has_anyone_tried_the_new_json_parser/>)
      - [Improving JSON pretty printing, how to represent floats?] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-04/msg00100.html>)
      - [project.el support for multiple build directories would be nice] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-04/msg00003.html>) - discussion of different project types
    - [Document tree-sitter things feature (bug#70016) (bug#68824)] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=4efe3b99a5d0d72b6a96bf339601f9390ca5c03a>)
    - [; * etc/NEWS: Add entry about tab-bar-mode-map (bug#69578).] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=ec25f5ad3d4323b56f239a06186f965c8d4cb695>)
    - [Mark display-comint-buffer-action as obsolete after adding a category.] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=4e22ad8cef0710bf5ce3bf99deb8dd6e30d4078c>)
    - [New variable haiku-pass-control-tab-to-system] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=ba3bf69f84e5c1143a6ff3b1e7031a10e0beed89>)
    - [New functions to set and use context of window points (bug#33871)] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=c3781bf59edcd67769d068b5bc8f724e890d8e54>)
    - [New condition/action entry 'category' for 'display-buffer' (bug#69983)] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=9af533dc751e5220a545ca7e15456992cbbfab98>)
  - AI:
    - [gptel v0.8.5: additional Org Mode features, bugfixes] (<https://github.com/karthink/gptel/releases/tag/v0.8.5>) ([@nickanderson@fosstodon.org] (<https://fosstodon.org/@nickanderson/112220029628278420>))
  - New packages:
    - biomejs-format <http://melpa.org/#/biomejs-format>: Minor mode to format JS code with Biome on file save (MELPA)
    - browser-hist <http://melpa.org/#/browser-hist>: Search through the Browser history (MELPA)
    - essgd <http://melpa.org/#/essgd>: Show R plots from ESS within a buffer (MELPA)
    - markdown-ts-mode <http://melpa.org/#/markdown-ts-mode>: Major mode for Markdown using Treesitter (MELPA)
    - password-menu <http://melpa.org/#/password-menu>: Password Menu for auth-source secrets (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>), [kbin] (<https://kbin.social/m/emacs/newest>), [programming.dev] (<https://programming.dev/c/emacs?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New>), [lemmy] (<https://lemmy.ml/c/emacs?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New>), [communick.news] (<https://communick.news/c/emacs?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New>), [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/>), and [emacs-devel] (<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-04>). Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at [sacha@sachachua.com] (<mailto:sacha@sachachua.com>). Thank you!