2022-11-14 Emacs news ===================== - Help wanted: - [org-vcard: seeking new maintainer] () - [Emacs User Survey] () ([emacs-devel] (), [Reddit] (), [HN] (), [lobste.rs] ()) - [Prot is asking for help to move countries] () - Upcoming events: - [Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, November 26, 2022] () - M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA Tue Nov 15 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata -- Wed Nov 16 0000 Singapore - Hispa Emacs (virtual) Fri Nov 18 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata -- Sat Nov 19 0000 Singapore - EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el Sat Nov 19 1100 Vancouver / 1300 Chicago / 1400 Toronto / 1900 GMT / 2000 Berlin -- Sun Nov 20 0030 Kolkata / 0300 Singapore - Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) Sat Nov 26 0030 Vancouver / 0230 Chicago / 0330 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 0930 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore - Emacs configuration: - [eglot tip: build from emacs source with straight.el] () - [emacs early-init.el and general tips and tricks] () (47:41) - Emacs Lisp: - [Zwitterionic digressions - Get user inputs in Emacs Lisp] () ([Reddit] ()) - [[NEW] jack is a HTML renderer library for Emacs Lisp | you might find it useful] () ([Reddit] ()) - [shortdoc appreciation] () ([Reddit] ()) - [Xah Talk Show 2022-11-10 Emacs Lisp Write a Python Mode from Scratch, and Why Python Sucks] () (50:11) - [Learn how to write an Emacs mode that highlights lines starting with the dollar sign] () (22:01) - Appearance: - [GitHub - erickgnavar/cloak-mode: A minor mode to hide sensitive values in buffers per major mode] () ([Reddit] ()) - Dired: - [GNU Emacs: Create directory in dired-mode] () (00:55) - [GNU Emacs: Show/hide dot files.] () (00:21) - Writing: - [Ben Simon: Wordsmithing with Emacs] () ([Irreal] ()) - Org Mode: - [Jean-Christophe Helary: New Capture app, with org-protocol this time.] () - [GitHub - mmagnus/OrgModeClockingXBar: OrgModeClockingXBar - See what you are working on ;-) [if using orgmode/clocking]​] () ([Reddit] ()) - Org development: [ox-icalendar: Create export backend options for deadline/scheduled-summary-prefix defcustoms] () - Coding: - [[ANN] Gitstatus-el : fast and asynchronous Git status information for UI] () ([Reddit] ()) - [phpinspect.el] () - [Simple personal menu web page built with Emacs Lisp, Jack html generator and hyperscript] () (02:11) - [XLSP Can't Save Emacs] () (06:57) - Math: - [Convert numbers in different bases with the Emacs package Calc] () ([Reddit] ()) - [How to assign values to variables in Emacs GNU Calc] () (07:41) - [Getting Started With GNU Emacs Calculator (calc)] () (09:38) - Shells: - [Dynamic buffer-name in term-mode | ansi-term, rename-buffer, after-change-functions, add-hook] () ([Reddit] ()) - Community: - [Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread] () - [I feel stuck in my emacs learning curve.] () - [Shower thoughts on how Emacs follows Unix philosophy] () ([HN] (), [Reddit] (), [stormrider] (), [Irreal] ())) - [Mastodon instance for Emacs users and FOSS enthusiasts] () ([Reddit] (), [HN] (), [lobste.rs] ()) - [A parallel universe where Emacs is the popular editor (join us!)] () Mastodon ([Reddit] ()) - [In the 1990s a piece of Germany’s air traffic control software ran on Emacs] () (2021, [HN] ()) - [Lucid Energize Demo VHS 1993] () - Other: - [Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs: quickly killing processes] () ([Reddit] (), [HN] ()) - [Mindmaps in Emacs] () - plantuml - [New Package: tochemfig.el - Make Emacs write chemfig code from molfile or SMILES.] () ([Reddit] ()) - [I added a simple hook in emacs to the GPT-3 API -- actions that are a tiny complexity level above what I usually use kbd macros for (like smart capitalization) easily become possible to automate!] () ([Reddit] ()) - [Installing Emacs 28.2 on a Chromebook (The Emacs Mega Tutorial Continues ...)] () (06:57) - [10 Hour Emacs Compilation] () (09:59:07) - [4 Hours of Emacs] () (03:53:12) - [~declantsien/WREmacs - sourcehut git] () WebRender ([Reddit] ()) - Emacs development: - [progress on tree-sitter support for C-like languages] () ([earlier] ()) - [emacs-devel: notes on tree-sitter and c-sharp] () - [things to extract from cc-mode] () - Shorthands discussions: - [A short defense of shorthands.el (but CL packages are still better)] () - [the story from the beginning] () - [shorthands doesn't negate the need for cl packages] (); ([complications with backwards compatibility] ()) - [more discussion of challenges] () - [* lisp/minibuffer.el (set-message-functions): New user option.] () - [Add to /etc/NEWS a mention of the new C++20 support in CC Mode] () - [; * etc/NEWS: Mention that order of overlays might change. (Bug#59067)] () - [EUDC: Add ecomplete and mailabbrev backends] () - [EUDC: Add eudc-ignore-options-file customization] () - New packages: - beans : Major mode for Beans grammar (MELPA) - corfu-prescient : Corfu integration (MELPA) - flymake-elisp-config : Setup load-path for flymake on Emacs Lisp mode (MELPA) - gitstatus : Common front-end for `gitstatusd' (MELPA) - glue : Emacs - Common Lisp interop using SLIME or SLY (MELPA) - jarchive : Open project dependencies in jar archives (GNU ELPA) - lurk-mode : A major mode for editing lurk files (MELPA) - ob-lurk : Evaluate lurk code blocks in org mode (MELPA) - org-rainbow-tags : Colorize org tags automatically (MELPA) - ptree : Property tree data structure (MELPA) - vertico-prescient : Vertico integration (MELPA) - zk-desktop : Desktop environment for zk (MELPA) Links from [reddit.com/r/emacs] (), [r/orgmode] (), [r/spacemacs] (), [r/planetemacs] (), [Hacker News] (), [lobste.rs] (), [planet.emacslife.com] (), [YouTube] (), [the Emacs NEWS file] (), [Emacs Calendar] (), [emacs-devel] (), and [lemmy/c/emacs] (). 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