2023-02-13 Emacs news
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  - Upcoming events:
    - [Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, February 25, 2023] (<https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/february-2023/>)
    - Mastering Emacs book club <https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/> Fri Feb 17 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 2000 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin -- Sat Feb 18 0130 Asia/Kolkata - 0400 Asia/Singapore
    - Mastering Emacs book club <https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/> Sat Feb 18 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 1000 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1530 Asia/Kolkata - 1800 Asia/Singapore
    - Mastering Emacs book club <https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/> Sun Feb 19 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 1000 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1530 Asia/Kolkata - 1800 Asia/Singapore
    - M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA <https://m-x-research.github.io/> Tue Feb 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata -- Wed Feb 22 0000 Asia/Singapore
    - Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) <https://emacs-berlin.org/> Wed Feb 22 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata -- Thu Feb 23 0130 Asia/Singapore
    - Mastering Emacs book club <https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/> Fri Feb 24 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 2000 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin -- Sat Feb 25 0130 Asia/Kolkata - 0400 Asia/Singapore
    - Emacs APAC (virtual) <https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/> Sat Feb 25 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
    - Mastering Emacs book club <https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/> Sat Feb 25 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 1000 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1530 Asia/Kolkata - 1800 Asia/Singapore
    - Mastering Emacs book club <https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/> Sun Feb 26 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 1000 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1530 Asia/Kolkata - 1800 Asia/Singapore
  - Beginner:
    - [Emacs From Scratch, An Emacs tutorial for beginners – 13 Editing Modes, Part 1] (<https://youtube.com/watch?v=JkI-sdgpOoA&feature=share>) (21:15)
  - Emacs configuration:
    - [davep's Emacs Config] (<https://github.com/davep/.emacs.d>)
  - Emacs Lisp:
    - [[ANN] elisp-autofmt now supports formatting the selection] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10vp9w6/ann_elispautofmt_now_supports_formatting_the/>) ([package] (<https://codeberg.org/ideasman42/emacs-elisp-autofmt>))
    - [A little read-string utility using an Org Mode buffer] (<https://ag91.github.io/blog/2023/02/09/a-little-read-string-utility-using-an-org-mode-buffer/>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10xhvd8/a_little_readstring_utility_using_an_org_mode/>))
    - [Xah Talk Show 2023-02-12 Emacs Lisp Coding, Transpose HTML Table] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcknH7qtbZI>) (55:11)
  - Appearance:
    - [Ryan Rix: Hopefully systemd-inhibit-mode will keep me from burning in my monitor and burning out my laptop battery.] (<https://cce.whatthefuck.computer/updates#20230212T165513.223450>)
    - [Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: fontaine version 1.0.0] (<https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2023-02-11-fontaine-1-0-0/>)
    - [Aime Bertrand: Custom Emacs themes] (<https://macowners.club/posts/custom-emacs-themes/>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10zxi13/custom_emacs_themes/>))
    - [eval-exec/crazy-theme.el: 🎲 A Crazy Emacs theme🎨 for crazy people🌪️. Tired of the same old color scheme every day😩? Try it out and add some chaos to your coding life! 😈] (<https://github.com/eval-exec/crazy-theme.el>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10yr3vp/introducing_crazythemeel_a_crazy_emacs_color/>))
  - Navigation:
    - [James Dyer: Simple Flexible Scrolling] (<https://emacs.dyerdwelling.family/emacs/20230205185836-emacs--simple-flexible-scrolling/>)
    - [Don't kill my xref buffers] (<https://dawranliou.com/blog/xref-with-eglot-and-project/>)
    - [An Emacs package that goes back to the Dinosaurs: Avy] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ9ciomvgNo>) (07:30)
  - Writing:
    - [valentjn/ltex-ls: LTeX Language Server: LSP language server for LanguageTool with support for LaTeX , Markdown , and others] (<https://github.com/valentjn/ltex-ls>)
  - Org Mode:
    - [Small example of using Emacs Lisp to track a metric in a table] (<https://apps.bram85.nl/git/bram/gists/raw/commit/7543ed0f2848490929766ad74b7964ed420350ac/gists/track-use-package-over-time.org>)
    - [Visit the org headline from the attach dired buffer] (<https://fuco1.github.io/2023-02-08-Visit-the-org-headline-from-the-attach-dired-buffer.html>) ([Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11138>))
    - [Emacs Orgmode Subscripts Superscripts Plus Protect Underscore Separated Words] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb4ZZ2kN03g&feature=youtu.be>) (13:18)
    - [Mario Jason Braganza: What I Learned Today (10th of February, 2023)] (<https://janusworx.com/blog/what-i-learned-today-2023-02-10/>) - clocking on TODO state change
    - [Jeremy Friesen: Thinking Through Capturing and Annotating "Bad" Code] (<https://takeonrules.com/2023/02/10/thinking-through-capturing-and-annotating-bad-code/>)
    - [Jeremy Friesen: Custom Org-Mode Capture Function for Annotating Bad Code] (<https://takeonrules.com/2023/02/11/custom-org-mode-capture-function-for-annotating-bad-code/>)
    - Import, export, and integration:
      - [OrJi - HitchDev] (<https://hitchdev.com/orji>) - Org Mode and Jinja
      - [Implementing per-project package management for ox-publish projects] (<https://grtcdr.tn/posts/2023-02-07.html>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10yotcy/implementing_perproject_package_management_for/>))
      - [Org mode Tips] (<https://www.draketo.de/software/org-mode-tipps>) - full-page images, agendas, Gantt charts, export, Kanban, clocktable, ledger
    - Org development:
      - [lisp/ox-beamer.el: add labels to latex export] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=666a61bcc8c8330075eb25861981a0a459dec788>)
  - Completion:
    - [Nicolas Martyanoff: Templating in Emacs with Tempo] (<https://www.n16f.net/blog/templating-in-emacs-with-tempo/>)
    - [Supercharge your Emacs / Spacemacs / Doom with Yasnippets! - YouTube] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmBovJvQ3KU>) ([Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11131>))
  - Coding:
    - [Flutter auto reload with Emacs | Flutter development] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV3kYjVXxPs>) (02:37)
    - [Flymake just works with ruff] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10yzhmn/flymake_just_works_with_ruff/>)
    - [RESTing with Emacs, or why EDN is better than JSON] (<https://youtu.be/H9JNIb-_VZ0>) (27:57, [Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10xotja/resting_with_emacs_or_why_edn_is_better_than_json/>))
    - [Tim Heaney: Emacs 29 and Eglot!] (<https://oylenshpeegul.gitlab.io/blog/posts/20230206/>)
    - [(Small) breaking changes in treesit-auto 0.5] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10y7krg/small_breaking_changes_in_treesitauto_05/>)
    - [Day 15: Structural Editing - Road to FOSS Business] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGn-e-_0Hu8&feature=youtu.be>)
    - [Trying Combobulate] (<https://write.as/jeffbowman/trying-combobulate>)
  - Web:
    - [webdriver: Control a browser with Emacs Lisp] (<https://gitlab.com/maurooaranda/emacs-webdriver>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10zpabe/webdriver_control_a_browser_with_emacs_lisp/>))
  - Chat:
    - [Copy org-ified toot to clipboard/org-journal (mastodon.el)] (<https://lihai.de/2023/01/28/copy-org-ified-toot-to-clipboard-mastodon-el/>)
  - Mail, news, and chat:
    - [Setting up mu4e for office 365] (<https://cvanelteren.github.io/post/mu4e/>)
    - [burnthekernel/copy-message-id-to-org-mu4e: Thunderbird - copy message ID to clipboard as an org mode link to mu4e] (<https://github.com/burnthekernel/copy-message-id-to-org-mu4e>)
  - EXWM:
    - [exwm-ss: Automatically inhibit screensaver activation in EXWM] (<https://codeberg.org/emacs-weirdware/exwm-ss>)
  - Fun:
    - [Sacha Chua: Using rubik.el to make SVG last-layer diagrams from algorithms] (<https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/02/using-rubik-el-to-make-svg-last-layer-diagrams-from-algorithms/>)
    - [Stream VOD: Pokemon A.I. in Emacs Lisp - LLLL Colonq Episode 2] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFmzZu8HXHc>) (03:34:20)
    - [misohena/el-igo: Emacs Go Game(SGF) Editor] (<https://github.com/misohena/el-igo>)
  - Community:
    - [Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10wr9ce/weekly_tips_tricks_c_thread/>)
  - Other:
    - [Some new Emacs packages I tried: Denote, zoom-frm, visual-regex, zzz-to-char, and more] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtSu3ydxKJ4>) (14:21)
    - [RogerBW's Blog: Upside Down and Inside Out] (<https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2023/02/Upside_Down_and_Inside_Out.html>) - using local Emacs as a remote editor
    - [Andrea: A little read-string utility using an Org Mode buffer] (<http://ag91.github.io/blog/2023/02/09/a-little-read-string-utility-using-an-org-mode-buffer>)
    - [Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: sxhkdrc-mode version 1.0.0] (<https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2023-02-10-emacs-sxhkdrc-mode-1-0-0/>) - Simple X Hot Key Daemon
    - [2023-02-09-10:28:04 Demonstration of adding new database columns within RCD Notes for GNU Emacs - Diode Zone] (<https://diode.zone/videos/watch/246511d8-58dd-493e-a834-4c0cb85e9e95>)
    - [Quasi-reproducible Debian rolling setup with GNU Emacs from master, with Common Lisp] (<https://git.sr.ht/~teutonicjoe/sugar-gnu-linux>)
    - [I just learned that new Macs don't come with Emacs preinstalled] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10xgs7w/i_just_learned_that_new_macs_dont_come_with_emacs/>)
    - [Yi Tang: Setup Emacs Servers in MacOS] (<http://yitang.uk/2023/02/09/emacs-as-service-in-macos/>)
    - [Seems like now we have official android build?] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10zhgoc/seems_like_now_we_have_official_android_build/>) ([Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11144>))
    - [gists/termux-emacs-keys.conf at main - gists - Forgejo] (<https://apps.bram85.nl/git/bram/gists/src/branch/main/gists/termux-emacs-keys.conf>)
  - Emacs development:
    - emacs-devel:
      - [Android input methods (was: Re: textconv.c)] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-02/msg00334.html>)
      - [FreeType and emojis on Android] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-02/msg00323.html>)
      - [Risks of advising primitives (for example, for testing)] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-02/msg00218.html>)
      - [Emacs, native compilation, and third-party package Makefiles] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-02/msg00252.html>)
      - [Update on scratch/comp-static-data] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-02/msg00262.html>)
      - [Performance tips and explanations for tree-sitter] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-02/msg00216.html>)
      - [tree-sitter, macros, and mixed grammars] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-02/msg00254.html>)
      - [Conversation about a possible feature to go to last edit locations] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-02/msg00342.html>)
    - [Support input method ``text conversion'' on X Windows] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=ae4ff4f25fbf704446f8f38d8e818f223b79042b>)
  - New packages:
    - ffmpeg-utils <https://melpa.org/#/ffmpeg-utils>: FFmpeg command utilities wrappers (MELPA)
    - ol-tmsu <https://melpa.org/#/ol-tmsu>: Org-mode links to TMSU queries (MELPA)
    - org-habit-stats <https://melpa.org/#/org-habit-stats>: Display info about habits (MELPA)
    - tmsu <https://melpa.org/#/tmsu>: A basic TMSU interface (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/2023-02>), and [lemmy/c/emacs] (<https://lemmy.ml/c/emacs>). 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!

    
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