2021-09-27 Emacs news
=====================

  - Ending soon: [EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals] (<https://emacsconf.org/2021/cfp/>) ([Reddit] (<https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/oyl40m/emacsconf_2021_call_for_proposals/>), [HN] (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28075442>)) until Sept 30
  - Upcoming events:
    - EmacsConf Office Hour <https://emacsconf.org/2021/office-hours/> Tue Sep 28 1800 Vancouver / 2000 Chicago / 2100 Toronto -- Wed Sep 29 0100 GMT / 0300 Berlin / 0630 Kolkata / 0900 Singapore
    - Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) <https://emacs-berlin.org/> Wed Sep 29 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1630 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2200 Kolkata -- Thu Sep 30 0030 Singapore
    - M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA <https://m-x-research.github.io/> Fri Oct 1 0700 Vancouver / 0900 Chicago / 1000 Toronto / 1400 GMT / 1600 Berlin / 1930 Kolkata / 2200 Singapore
    - EmacsNYC: Discussion: Remote Collaboration Software and crdt.el <https://www.meetup.com/New-York-Emacs-Meetup/events/280981454/> Mon Oct 4 1600 Vancouver / 1800 Chicago / 1900 Toronto / 2300 GMT -- Tue Oct 5 0100 Berlin / 0430 Kolkata / 0700 Singapore ([Emacs NYC] (<http://emacsnyc.org/2021/09/23/online-meetup-discussionremote-collaboration-software-and-crtd-el.html>))
    - EmacsATX: TBD <https://www.meetup.com/EmacsATX/events/hkckgsyccnbjb/> Wed Oct 6 1630 Vancouver / 1830 Chicago / 1930 Toronto / 2330 GMT -- Thu Oct 7 0130 Berlin / 0500 Kolkata / 0730 Singapore
  - Emacs configuration:
    - [Tory Anderson: Swapping chords in Dvorak, or Why does emacs keyboard-translate fail with (wrong-type-argument characterp 134217845)] (<https://tech.toryanderson.com/2021/09/20/swapping-chords-in-dvorak-or-why-does-emacs-keyboard-translate-fail-with-wrong-type-argument-characterp-134217845/>)
    - [Tory Anderson: Fail-fast Transients like Hydra] (<https://tech.toryanderson.com/2021/09/23/fail-fast-transients-like-hydra/>)
    - [System Crafters Live! - Investigating use-package Alternatives] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZolOUgXHgbo>) (02:08:23)
    - [Just out of curiosity, how many bytes/kilobytes/megabytes does your dot file weight?] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/pthma9/just_out_of_curiosity_how_many/>)
    - [ap.el: A simple, Emacs Lisp-focused Emacs config] (<https://github.com/alphapapa/ap.el>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/pt4psr/apel_a_simple_emacs_lispfocused_emacs_config/>))
    - [with-emacs.sh: Script to easily run Emacs with specified configurations] (<https://github.com/alphapapa/with-emacs.sh>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/pv46oi/withemacssh_script_to_easily_run_emacs_with/>))
    - [My Current Emacs Configuration] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knRI1O_XSeY>) (34:33) - web dev, software dev - Timothy Unkert
    - [Crandel's .emacs] (<https://github.com/Crandel/home/tree/master/.config/emacs>)
  - Emacs Lisp:
    - [Sid Kasivajhula: Symex.el: Edit Lisp Code in a Vim-like Way] (<https://countvajhula.com/2021/09/25/symex-el-edit-lisp-code-in-a-vim-like-way/>)
    - [Sid Kasivajhula: The Animated Guide to Symex] (<https://countvajhula.com/2021/09/25/the-animated-guide-to-symex/>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/pv231f/the_animated_guide_to_symex/>))
    - [scimax - formatting strings in elisp] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk2W9krvNVg>) (22:35, [Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=9993>))
    - [scimax - functions in emacs-lisp] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-IsXzEz7hs>) (26:02, [Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=10000>))
    - [Little Experiment - Source Code View in Built-in Help, a lá Helpful] (<https://youtu.be/yiS1eXdgcYI>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/pt3icl/little_experiment_source_code_view_in_builtin/>))
    - [Mattias Engdegård makes an interesting discovery about the Emacs Lisp bytecode interpreter, and ERT tests] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-09/msg01492.html>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/ps5o04/mattias_engdegård_makes_an_interesting_discovery/>))
  - Appearance:
    - [[ANN] idle-highlight-mode (fast symbol-at-point highlighting) updated] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/pweeeb/ann_idlehighlightmode_fast_symbolatpoint/>)
    - [Tory Anderson: Replacing beacon.el with hl-line-flash] (<https://tech.toryanderson.com/2021/09/24/replacing-beacon.el-with-hl-line-flash/>)
    - [yuri tricys: How to Configure Emacs Themes in var_year] (<https://readingworldmagazine.com/emacs/2021-09-22-how-to-configure-emacs-themes/>)
    - [an-old-hope-emacs: a syntax theme from a galaxy far far away...] (<https://github.com/mohkale/an-old-hope-emacs>)
    - [Emacs Beautification Using Mode-Line Dashboard And Themes] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n920BQM_ic4>) (12:14)
  - Navigation:
    - [Grant Rettke: Automatically open read-only files in View mode] (<https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/programming/13521/automatically-open-read-only-files-in-view-mode?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=automatically-open-read-only-files-in-view-mode>)
    - [Gumshoe 2.0, my first package in Melpa] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/pt8kod/gumshoe_20_my_first_package_in_melpa/>) - fancy point logger to help you remember where you've been
    - [Swiper Search & Centaur-Tabs in Emacs] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkRQ_WWJqyg>) (03:56)
    - [Emacs filetree package demo] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KrMaLq8Bms&feature=youtu.be>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/psbsve/demo_video_for_filetree_package/>))
    - [Tory Anderson: The lost art of page breaks in text documents] (<https://tech.toryanderson.com/2021/09/20/the-lost-art-of-page-breaks-in-text-documents/>)
  - Dired:
    - [Moldable Emacs: extending the Playground powers via hooks (to include Dired)] (<https://ag91.github.io/blog/2021/09/23/moldable-emacs-extending-the-playground-powers-via-hooks-to-include-dired/>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/pu3v7r/moldable_emacs_extending_the_playground_powers/>))
  - Org Mode:
    - [Emacs Org-Mode Intro] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZZVRCo1dLc>) (13:14)
    - [O que é, e como utilizar: Org em Emacs] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffBDQauDAgQ>) (22:48)
    - [[ANN] org-ql 0.6 released] (<https://github.com/alphapapa/org-ql#06>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/pt1iol/ann_orgql_06_released/>))
    - [TAONAW: Refreshing my Capture Templates] (<https://helpdeskheadesk.net/help-desk-head-desk/2021-09-19/>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/pt665p/capture_templates_updated_mine_whats_yours/>))
    - Images:
      - [Now you can real-ly view your org files] (<https://i.redd.it/b81lkn1sd4p71.gif>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/ptgfhs/now_you_can_really_view_your_org_files/>))
      - [Use Emacs for Systems Thinking] (<https://junjizhi.com/all/experience/2021/09/19/emacs-systems-thinking/>) ([Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=9996>))
      - [Emacs Drawing Tool] (<https://github.com/misohena/el-easydraw>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/pvtbq5/emacs_drawing_tool/>)) - for drawing diagrams in Org, includes color picker
    - Org Roam:
      - [I split my brain] (<https://www.badykov.com/emacs/2021/09/27/split/>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/pvrv0u/i_split_my_brain/>)) - org-roam contexts
      - [5 Org Roam Hacks for Better Productivity in Emacs] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUkuyW6hr18>) (29:44)
    - Import, export, and integration:
      - [😎😎 Emacs exportar .org a .pdf (video random)😜😜] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oacHbFO71v8>) (14:05)
      - [Tim Heaney: blogpost] (<https://oylenshpeegul.gitlab.io/blog/posts/20210921/>) - Rust script to create an ox-hugo blog post
      - [weblorg - v0.1.2 - Slowly but Surely-weblorg, the modern Static HTML Generator for Emacs and Org-Mode] (<https://emacs.love/weblorg/posts/v0-1-2-slowly-but-surely.html>)
      - [Managing calendar events in Emacs] (<https://www.hoowl.se/khalel.html>)
  - Coding:
    - [comint-mime: Display graphics and other MIME attachments in Emacs shells] (<https://github.com/astoff/comint-mime>)
    - [Announcing experimental support for Janet programming language in PEL] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/pu3mtc/announcing_experimental_support_for_janet/>) (Pragmatic Emacs Library, configuration)
    - [theme-check on Emacs. Theme Check is a command line tool that helps you follow Shopify Themes & Liquid best practices by analyzing the Liquid & JSON inside your theme] (<https://github.com/Shopify/theme-check/wiki/Emacs>)
    - [Tim Heaney: Zig] (<https://oylenshpeegul.gitlab.io/blog/posts/20210920/>)
    - [EmacsでのISLispモードが公開されています。] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC0swmxh8AM>) (06:21)
  - Mail and news:
    - [Mu4e (very) fast thread folding] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/pvpb6d/mu4e_very_fast_thread_folding/>)
    - [dank-mode: Emacs major mode for browsing Reddit] (<https://github.com/john2x/dank-mode>)
    - [Emacs NYC: Managing Email in Emacs with mu4e] (<http://emacsnyc.org/2021/09/20/managing-email-in-emacs-with-mu4e.html>) (1:13:41)
  - Chat:
    - [Telega Manual (v0.7.018). telega is full featured unofficial client for Telegram platform for GNU Emacs.] (<https://zevlg.github.io/telega.el/>)
    - [Tassilo Horn: Rcirc hack of the day: print timestamps less often] (<https://tsdh.org/posts/2021-09-22-rcirc-hack-of-the-day-print-timestamps-less-often.html>)
  - Community:
    - [Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/pt2xws/weekly_tips_tricks_c_thread/>)
    - [XEmacs vs. GNU Emacs] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/puqodm/xemacs_vs_gnu_emacs/>)
    - [Life of an Emacser] (<https://i.redd.it/qpbqimfqx4p71.jpg>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/pti06k/life_of_an_emacser/>))
    - [Protesilaos Stavrou: Live stream: Emacs and the Unix philosophy] (<https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2021-09-22-live-stream-emacs-unix/>)
    - [Alex Schroeder: The first programming language is English] (<https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2021-09-22_The_first_programming_language_is_English>)
    - [Lars Ingebrigtsen: 11x10%] (<https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2021/09/21/11x10/>)
  - Other:
    - [Como utilizar o Emacs (com evil mode)] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub3T-y6_u-4>) (27:59)
    - [Emacs Macros] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3Ja6N0edwo>) (07:43) - keyboard macros
    - [System Crafters Live! - The Many Varieties of Emacs] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE714pm1kvE>) (48:26)
    - [System Crafters Live! - The Many Varieties of Emacs (Part 2)] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMP8JjmS3ds>) (1:07:41)
    - [I love that you can do this (A few of them got a little destroyed)] (<https://i.redd.it/bg5uuk1d71p71.png>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/pt4lh1/i_love_that_you_can_do_this_a_few_of_them_got_a/>)) - running various text editors inside Emacs
    - [qrencode-el: QRCode encoder for Emacs in pure elisp] (<https://github.com/ruediger/qrencode-el>)
    - [Emacs Typing Tutor | Actually] (<https://connorberry.com/2021/08/20/emacs-typing-tutor/>) ([HN] (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28597994>))
  - Emacs development:
    - ['glyphless-char-display-control' now applies to Variation Selectors.] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=0f4b55dc8d551f266ae8cc36d94bcd216a80754b>)
    - [Enhance font_range to check for emoji composition triggers] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=a2a62f71051f1295492780f320e9b7bc02b6e6f4>)
    - [Document shorthands in the Elisp manual section on Symbols] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=58055b5fc330689234cafb51398844f6e5791077>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/pwcw7t/joão_távora_document_shorthands_in_the_elisp/>), [emacs-devel] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-09/msg01949.html>)) - namespacing
    - [Add new macro with-environment-variables] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=7cb29440433bda1ad8defad70cbd43fb2f9f4d1f>)
    - [* lisp/tab-line.el: Add modified-buffer face] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=fcca1db9fd1eb2930f29972e7def0936c3269f1b>)
    - [Renege on anonymous &rest (bug#50268, bug#50720)] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=ed02b88bbae18caad650d76876940ffb58cab554>)
    - [Add new user option ispell-help-timeout] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=9bc2ac4a95ed2c1d6d7b56c3a1fd72e5ee1dc5f5>)
    - [New :type natnum for defcustom] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=f1071bf08e246d0820edfb66163acb65e90d9482>)
    - [Add support for man page hyperlinks in doc strings] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=091791933704cd706f90c1685ac4b35f51c98199>)
    - [Indent bodies of local function definitions properly in elisp-mode] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=38037e04cb05cb1f2b604f0b1602d36b0bcf6985>)
    - [New thing-at-point target 'string' used in context-menu-region] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=2abf143f8185fced544c4f8d144ea710142d7a59>)
    - [Add support for "bright" ANSI colors in term-mode] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=d4a6e42e92ee215659d09b0456032714aab73ca5>) and [ansi-color] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=ceb9da3b7125fbdf0da04a3b158ac1e792c87f4f>)
    - [Add aggregate project discovery and maintenance functions] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=aef84c5f17c33714bda402e9408a3cb2ae928b61>): project-remember-projects-under, project-forget-project, project-forget-projects-under, project-forget-zombie-projects
    - [Move 'kdb-macro-redisplay' key binding] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=efdb89f15b4d0dae334952bfe11073534e244d75>) (old: C-x C-k Q, new: C-x C-k d)
    - [Fix build with native compilation but without zlib] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=2386b085268af9c06aebc5c4aced1aa6a0d3f702>)
    - [New major mode with font-locking for etc/AUTHORS] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=7b62ea95c9616b6897b8a727a219925c62c38557>)
    - [Add new function `ensure-list'] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=be4f8584983e63905aa409efad11fb7d8d418ccb>): makes a list of its object if it's not a list already
    - [Add new command 'checkdoc-dired'] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=1c73c0b33a9b10cdae1316ad9e0ba861af454b66>)
    - [Consistently test alist keys with equal in map.el] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=14495e33afa0b8038c494f1e6e90065683ccbd07>)
    - [Avoid double argument evaluation in vc-call macro] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=5b962a7ad8d0acfe40a41ce139059b9c8e46f666>)
    - [Make dired-compress-file query for a directory to uncompress to] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=7e395a59b025c7f4be49294ad806addf5b1a25c9>)
    - [New command 'project-find-dir' runs Dired in a directory inside project] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=9767c6b01dccb7e29e240a22d978835d240e8ab0>)
    - [Support for Unicode emoji sequences] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=de289d58a4efff4a8625f100eabdc56da98e2e07>)
  - New packages:
    - lacquer <http://melpa.org/#/lacquer>: Switch theme/font by selecting from a cache
    - org-movies <http://melpa.org/#/org-movies>: Manage watchlist with Org mode

  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>), [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/2021-09>).

  
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