2023-11-13 Emacs news
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  - Upcoming events:
    - EmacsSF (in person): hackerdojo.el <https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/296985794/> Tue Nov 14 1830 America/Los_Angeles
    - M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA <https://m-x-research.github.io/> Wed Nov 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata -- Thu Nov 16 0000 Asia/Singapore
    - Mastering Emacs book club <https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/> Fri Nov 17 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 2000 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin -- Sat Nov 18 0130 Asia/Kolkata - 0400 Asia/Singapore
    - Mastering Emacs book club <https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/> Sat Nov 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 Nov 19 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/> Fri Nov 24 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 2000 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin -- Sat Nov 25 0130 Asia/Kolkata - 0400 Asia/Singapore
    - Emacs APAC (virtual) <https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/> Sat Nov 25 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore, [announcement] (<https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/november-2023/>)
  - Emacs configuration:
    - [Kickstart.emacs Starter kit for Gnu Emacs] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/17t1zg8/kickstartemacs_starter_kit_for_gnu_emacs/>)
    - [goofansu's emacs config] (<https://git.sr.ht/~goofansu/emacs-config>) (not based on Doom Emacs): use-package, eglot, project, and minad's completion packages
    - [llemaitre19's Emacs Config] (<https://github.com/llemaitre19/emacs.d>)
    - [evjonell's Emacs Config] (<https://gitlab.com/evjonell/customacs>)
    - [sergeyklay's Emacs Config] (<https://github.com/sergeyklay/.emacs.d>)
  - Emacs Lisp:
    - [Mike Zamansky: Learning Elisp 13 - Text Properties] (<https://cestlaz.github.io/post/learning-elisp-13/>) ([Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11760>))
    - [Start an Elisp Package in Like Five Minutes] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU30EZiHNQw>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/17p2y0y/elisp_repo_kit_demonstration/>))
    - [tip: benchmark-progn, benchmark-run] (<https://indieweb.social/@xenodium/111374474259777517>)
  - Appearance:
    - [Customize Tabline in Emacs] (<https://jdhao.github.io/2021/09/30/emacs_custom_tabline/>)
    - [Marcin Borkowski: Coloring CamelCase] (<https://mbork.pl/2023-11-13_Coloring_CamelCase>)
  - Navigation:
    - [Emacs winner-mode to restore your window layouts] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs230xpkFwI>) (12:09)
  - Hyperbole:
    - [Teaching Emacs to recognize Jira tickets and show them in a browser using Hyperbole implicit buttons] (<https://beorgapp.com/blog/hyperbole-implicit-buttons/>)
  - Dired:
    - [tip: find-name-dired, dired-do-query-replace-regexp] (<https://emacs.ch/@cragg/111343681846038660>)
    - [My Dired Symlink Hack] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=hOjzfmFB2Es9WNOI&v=59XPGvJMggY>)
    - [dired-dwim-targetを一時的に無効化する] (<https://qiita.com/wakamenod/items/6609b812a99e99f24cf4?amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_source=popular_items&utm_campaign=popular_items>)
  - Org Mode:
    - [5 Reasons I Love Emacs Orgmode] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=ZdEYoEeqhgIzyYHK&v=DEeStDz_imQ&feature=youtu.be>)
    - [Highlighting in Org-Mode] (<https://www.gonsie.com/blorg/org-highlight.html>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/planetemacs/comments/17rwloq/highlighting_in_orgmode/>))
    - [org-capture to a directory-local file] (<https://gist.github.com/Nidish96/fbaeb37b616d7566dec38070e93369c8>) ([@Nidish96@emacs.ch] (<https://emacs.ch/@Nidish96/111374106498819421>))
    - [Declarative filesystem management with Emacs & Org Mode] (<https://sqrtminusone.xyz/posts/2023-11-11-index/>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/17srv1k/declarative_filesystem_management_with_emacs_org/>), [HN] (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38238268>))
    - [mastorg.el: Read or archive mastodon toot context in org mode] (<https://g.ypei.me/dotted.git/plain/emacs/.emacs.d/lisp/my/mastorg.el>)
    - [Jack Baty: Display list of org-attach'ed files in buffer property] (<https://baty.net/2023/11/display-list-of-org-attached-files-in-buffer-property/>)
    - [Orgmunge 0.2.0 released] (<https://github.com/durableOne/orgmunge/commit/0f2984b4f3be3bbd92ede36f6210654758fd22c0>) - flexibly specify TODO keywords (orgmunge: modify Org documents from Python)
    - Org development:
      - [org-babel-ref-resolve: Search current buffer when FILE in FILE:REF does not exist] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=b5cfc311db9f871ef545277aff9f296c5d2e7ab4>)
  - Denote:
    - [Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Denote version 2.1.0] (<https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2023-11-12-denote-2-1-0/>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/17u52ig/denote_denoteel_version_210_released/>), [HN] (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38247726>))
  - Completion:
    - [Converting code snippets from Ultisnips format to YASnippet format] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/17s8ztu/converting_code_snippets_from_ultisnips_format_to/>) ([Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11764>))
  - Coding:
    - [tip: which-function-mode] (<https://emacs.ch/@fomosapien/111375460113198055>)
    - [racket-mode: Redesign REPL I/O and add racket-hash-lang-mode] (<https://github.com/greghendershott/racket-mode/commit/25224889d20b37bfd0d315a656542bb4fe8c2076>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/17rg4i3/rackethashlangmode/>))
    - [Understanding Emacs packages for Python] (<https://www.naiquev.in/understanding-emacs-packages-for-python.html>)
    - [daemons.el: An Emacs UI for managing init system services] (<https://github.com/cbowdon/daemons.el>)
    - [journalctl-mode v1.1] (<https://github.com/SebastianMeisel/journalctl-mode/releases/tag/v1.1>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/17tq5c5/journalctlmode_v11/>)) - transient menus, asynchronous process calls ([@SebasTEAan@emacs.ch] (<https://emacs.ch/@SebasTEAan/111376970231287747>))
    - [github-linguist.el: Run GitHub Linguist on projects to collect information] (<https://github.com/akirak/github-linguist.el>)
    - [Superbol-studio-OSS: COBOL LSP, VSCode extension and Emacs mode] (<https://github.com/OCamlPro/superbol-studio-oss>) ([lobste.rs] (<https://lobste.rs/s/deqkjk/superbol_studio_oss_cobol_lsp_vscode>))
  - Shells:
    - [comint-fold: fold input + output blocks in Emacs shells] (<https://github.com/jdtsmith/comint-fold>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/17su500/comintfold_fold_input_output_blocks_in_emacs/>)
  - Web:
    - [Emacs Goodies - #28 Webjump] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKAQXK_qlfY>) (06:51)
  - Fun:
    - [mega-zone: A wrapper for Emacs zone mode that causes it to effect other frames and windows as well as the focused one.] (<https://github.com/twitchy-ears/mega-zone>)
  - AI:
    - [Not everyone's cup of tea, but this is now in chatgpt-shell (works on current buffer or dired selection)] (<https://v.redd.it/zhyhf1z2btzb1>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/17t8djs/not_everyones_cup_of_tea_but_this_is_now_in/>))
  - Community:
    - [Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/17qh1hn/weekly_tips_tricks_c_thread/>)
    - [Sacha Chua: EmacsConf 2023 status update: stuff is happening!] (<https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/11/emacsconf-2023-status-update-stuff-is-happening/>)
    - [Proposal for new ELPA package: sachac-news] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-11/msg00629.html>)
  - Other:
    - 
    - [tip: insert-char] (<https://emacs.ch/@fomosapien/111359785386802226>)
    - [Emacs Server] (<https://cdrmack.dev/posts/2023-11-04_emacs_server.html>)
    - [Emacs/GNUPlot: Plotting w/ Gnuplot Mode] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-F0kkO7r0c>) (14:35)
    - [When keyboard macros do the work for ya] (<https://v.redd.it/hwzo362c9zyb1>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/17q2a6d/when_keyboard_macros_do_the_work_for_ya/>))
    - [Tracking Physical Performance, Personal Library with Emacs] (<https://functorial.xyz/posts/tracking-physical-performance-personal-library-with-emacs.html>) - forms-mode
    - [Use unicode to display hexagrams, trigrams, and bigrams. by technomancy · Pull Request #1 · kliph/i-ching · GitHub] (<https://github.com/kliph/i-ching/pull/1>)
    - [Install Emacs on Chrome OS Flex] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=F9dADiMPaFzOmHUN&v=K8s4YauQnIc&feature=youtu.be>)
  - Emacs development:
    - emacs-devel:
      - long discussion about cl-lib:
        - [maybe don't introduce generators to seq- yet, to avoid increasing complexity] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-11/msg00427.html>)
        - [the challenges of "there's more than one way to do it"] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-11/msg00272.html>)
        - [cl functions that could be documented better] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-11/msg00439.html>), [patch for a couple] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-11/msg00463.html>)
        - [examples of cl-loop] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-11/msg00605.html>)
        - [benchmarks of cl-some vs seq-some] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-11/msg00624.html>)
        - [transition proposal focusing on new code] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-11/msg00432.html>)
        - [transition proposal using deprecation] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-11/msg00353.html>)
        - [cautious and slow approach of including cl ideas in core] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-11/msg00501.html>)
    - [* lisp/vc/vc-hooks.el (vc-display-status): New value 'no-backend' (bug#66464).] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=b3d57d4397945e16edffe78d71fd1ce040f86967>)
    - [Hook 'bug-reference-mode' up to 'thing-at-point'] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=e5ba52ad72d0e44b905d6dc321f1e6234491df53>)
    - [Allow completion frontends to fontify candidates just-in-time] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=dfffb91a70532ac0021648ba692336331cbe0499>)
  - New packages:
    - mark-yank <https://melpa.org/#/mark-yank>: Set region to the last yank (MELPA)
    - jack-ts-mode <https://melpa.org/#/jack-ts-mode>: Major mode for jack buffers using tree-sitter (MELPA)
    - gemtext-mode <https://melpa.org/#/gemtext-mode>: Major mode for Gemtext-formatted text (MELPA)
    - drepl <https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/drepl.html>: REPL protocol for the dumb terminal (GNU ELPA)

  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/2023-11>). 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!