2024-03-25 Emacs news
=====================

  - Important updates:
    - [Demonstration of vulnerability - rename to .org, open in Emacs and check messages buffer] (<https://xristos.sdf.org/foo.org.txt>)
    - [Emacs 29.3 released] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-03/msg00611.html>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bmuoku/emacs_293_released/>), [lobste.rs] (<https://lobste.rs/s/ldocq6/gnu_emacs_29_3_released_fix_security>)) - security update
    - [[ANN] Emergency bugfix release: Org mode 9.6.23 … - Emacs.ch] (<https://emacs.ch/@yantar92/112155473496116512>)
  - Upcoming events:
    - Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) <https://emacs-berlin.org/> Wed Mar 27 1030 America/Vancouver - 1230 America/Chicago - 1330 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata -- Thu Mar 28 0130 Asia/Singapore
    - EmacsSF: Emacs Lisp Hacking Night: Org Mode (Hybrid) <https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/299740714/> Thu Mar 28 1800 America/Vancouver - 2000 America/Chicago - 2100 America/Toronto -- Fri Mar 29 0100 Etc/GMT - 0200 Europe/Berlin - 0630 Asia/Kolkata - 0900 Asia/Singapore
    - Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) <https://emacs-doctor.com/> Tue Apr 2 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
    - EmacsATX: Emacs Social <https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/299015525/> Wed Apr 3 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT -- Thu Apr 4 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
    - Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #6 2024 (v #živo) <https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/db14a364-8a55-41d5-a1a4-189ac7c33772> Thu Apr 4 1900 CET
    - M-x Research: TBA <https://m-x-research.github.io/> Fri Apr 5 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  - Beginner:
    - [A Beginner's Guide to Using Emacs Text Editor in Linux] (<https://www.tecmint.com/emacs-text-editor/>) ([@governa@fosstodon.org] (<https://fosstodon.org/@governa/112132714368163716>))
    - [Primeros pasos con Emacs] (<https://blog.iagosto.dev/entradas/primeros-pasos-con-emacs>)
  - Emacs configuration:
    - [James Dyer: Eliminating Key Chords in Emacs under Linux with Sticky Keys] (<https://emacs.dyerdwelling.family/emacs/20240309130457-emacs--kmonad-sway-kbd-map-locking/>)
    - [Use Information Theory to choose better keybindings [OC]​] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MytPttbIUOY>) (13:40, [Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bkw1j6/use_information_theory_to_choose_better/>))
    - [Current init.el file] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bmuirs/current_initel_file/>)
    - [drshapeless' Emacs Config] (<https://github.com/drshapeless/.emacs.d>)
    - [port19x/dotfiles: My Arch Linux Configuration] (<https://github.com/port19x/dotfiles>)
  - Emacs Lisp:
    - [Irreal: Prompting With The Interactive Command] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=12053>)
  - Appearance:
    - [Wrote a plugin to make popup windows/buffers show in posframe] (<https://github.com/A7R7/org-popup-posframe>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bi6svp/wrote_a_plugin_to_make_popup_windowsbuffers_show/>))
    - [Visualización de iconos con nerd-icons] (<https://notxor.nueva-actitud.org/2024/03/23/visualizacion-de-iconos-con-nerd-icons.html>) ([@Notxor@tuiter.rocks] (<https://tuiter.rocks/@Notxor/112144896906645447>))
    - [Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs: Toggling the continuation indicator] (<http://xenodium.com/toggling-emacs-continuation-fringe-indicator>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bml1jo/toggle_fringe_continuation_indicator/>))
    - [Titlebar Color Sync and Rounded Corners - Lemmy] (<https://lemmy.ml/post/13509778>)
    - [barocio/transparency.el: A minor-mode for transparency in Emacs - Codeberg.org] (<https://codeberg.org/barocio/transparency.el>) ([@barocio@emacs.ch] (<https://emacs.ch/@barocio/112140906006228171>))
    - [Some themes i created automatically] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bj1o74/some_themes_i_created_automatically/>)
    - [Dashboard with a Doom dashboard style] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1blc7re/dashboard_with_a_doom_dashboard_style/>)
  - Navigation:
    - [treesit-jump: jump around using treesit and avy] (<https://spartanengineer.com/posts/2024-03-19-introduction-treesit-jump.html>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bj28j5/treesitjump_jump_around_using_treesit_and_avy/>))
    - [Marcin Borkowski: Follow mode] (<https://mbork.pl/2024-03-18_Follow_mode>) ([Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=12059>))
    - [Emacs Window Positioning Enlarge And Shrinking 2024_03_26_03:33:17 - YouTube] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtLxbx7jLs0>) (4:08)
    - [Arialdo Martini: Emacs: Mark Ring] (<http://arialdomartini.github.io//emacs-mark-ring>)
    - [Arialdo Martini: Emacs: Playing Hansel and Gretel with Marks, Registers and Bookmarks] (<http://arialdomartini.github.io//emacs-navigate-back>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bksokb/emacs_playing_hansel_and_gretel/>))
  - Writing:
    - [LaTeX Input for Impatient Scholars | Karthinks] (<https://karthinks.com/software/latex-input-for-impatient-scholars/>) (2021, [@aksharvarma@mathstodon.xyz] (<https://mathstodon.xyz/@aksharvarma/112156052412980168>))
    - [jinder1s/pkm - another personal knowledge management package using sqlite3] (<https://github.com/jinder1s/pkm>) ([@PuercoPop@mastodon.social] (<https://mastodon.social/@PuercoPop/112143055799965603>))
    - [The Emacs howm package for notes - Jack Baty] (<https://baty.blog/2024/03/the-emacs-howm-package-for-notes>)
    - [2024-03-19 Emacs: English Dictionary Completion With Dabbrev] (<http://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20240319-0.gmi>)
    - [Live updating for LaTeX, with emacs support] (<https://github.com/let-def/texpresso>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bmurwq/live_updating_for_latex_with_emacs_support/>), [lobste.rs] (<https://lobste.rs/s/qmyxpw/texpresso_live_rendering_error>))
  - Org Mode:
    - [org-refile + vertico + orderless fix] (<https://github.com/minad/vertico?tab=readme-ov-file#org-refile>) ([@jtr@fosstodon.org] (<https://fosstodon.org/@jtr/112128094234512426>))
    - [Org Mode Fundamentals Volume 1] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uup3zcYMJNE>) (06:45)
    - [Emacs Org Edit Special For Editing Section 2024_03_24_16:51:18] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPPfKp5UgH4>) (03:39)
    - [My little adventure to speed up a very SLOW Org Mode] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDq3l374nmE>) (07:13)
    - [Emacs: Intro a Org-mode (español de argentina)] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYm2Zh6JOHE>) (01:03:19)
    - [obsidian-to-org: Convert an Obsidian directory to org-roam] (<https://github.com/jml/obsidian-to-org>)
    - [Emergency bugfix release: Org mode 9.6.23] (<https://list.orgmode.org/87o7b3eczr.fsf@bzg.fr/T/#t>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/1bn8unj/emergency_bugfix_release_org_mode_9623/>))
    - [Quick journaling in org-mode] (<https://mohamed.computer/posts/org-journal/>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bmq6pv/quick_journaling_in_orgmode/>))
    - [[Worg:new-article] How many files?] (<https://orgmode.org/worg/topics/how-many-files.html>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/1blsmqk/worgnewarticle_how_many_files/>))
    - [Presenting Hyperorg version 0.1.0: The Org to HTML Converter] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/OrgRoam/comments/1bifq99/presenting_hyperorg_version_010_the_org_to_html/>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/1bl2ix0/presenting_hyperorg_version_010_the_org_to_html/>))
    - [I'm just here to rave about `org-clock`] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/1bkkxjm/im_just_here_to_rave_about_orgclock/>)
    - [Org-tufte v0.4.0] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/1bj7yjx/orgtufte_v040/>)
    - [Unwound Stack: Org Mode & LaTeX] (<https://www.unwoundstack.com/blog/org-mode-and-latex.html>)
    - [tobli: A static Backloggery clone with Emacs org-mode and Python] (<https://tobli.dreamwidth.org/90202.html>)
  - Denote:
    - [Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Denote version 2.3.0] (<https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-03-24-denote-2-3-0/>)
  - Coding:
    - [CIDER: new feature for debugging on exception] (<https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/pull/3366>) ([@bbatsov@hachyderm.io] (<https://hachyderm.io/@bbatsov/112157495236420063>))
    - [Emacs - VC-Git conflicts resolution | KanchiLUG | Tamil] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lfRrKX8X8E>) (17:26)
    - [C fundamentals with Emacs + Org-mode practice: C operators (1/4)] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FhCr6kGkdg>) (11:25), [part 2] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4WoAyl5k7Q>) (13:04), [part 3] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFaInagYXOI>) (09:24), [part 4] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIS2u12Z0dw>) (05:08)
    - [Writing Go templ with Emacs] (<https://drshapeless.com/blog/posts/writing-go-templ-with-emacs.html>)
    - [flymake-perlcritic: Run Perl::Critic static analysis "While U Type" via Emacs Flymake] (<https://github.com/flymake/emacs-flymake-perlcritic>)
    - [Combobulate: Interactive Node Editing with Tree-Sitter -] (<https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/combobulate-interactive-node-editing-treesitter>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1blt0js/combobulate_interactive_node_editing_with/>))
    - [Have you bound RET to default-indent-new-line for programming yet?] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bip49v/have_you_bound_ret_to_defaultindentnewline_for/>)
    - [sqlite-mode-extras now on MELPA] (<https://i.redd.it/87ci51x6j3pc1.gif>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bhqz2h/sqlitemodeextras_now_on_melpa/>))
    - [Alvaro Ramirez: sqlite-mode-extras on MELPA] (<http://xenodium.com/sqlite-mode-extras-on-melpa>)
  - Math:
    - [Charles Choi: Announcing Casual - An opinionated porcelain for Emacs Calc] (<http://yummymelon.com/devnull/announcing-casual-an-opinionated-porcelain-for-emacs-calc.html>)
    - [[mp4] calc-preview] (<https://share.karthinks.com/calc-preview.mp4>)
    - [Emacs/gnuplot/GAWK/: Modal Age of Death Analysis] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2kCgJcPgiw>) (50:25)
    - [sje30/ess-unigd - proof-of-concept for using httpgd to view ESS plots directly within Emacs] (<https://github.com/sje30/ess-unigd>) ([@sje@fosstodon.org] (<https://fosstodon.org/@sje/112135735036810354>))
    - [Data Visualization with GNU Emacs: Live Preview] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz6t60OB-jE>) (00:32, [Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bljnym/data_visualization_with_gnu_emacs_live_preview/>))
    - [Data Visualization with GNU Emacs - Time series] (<https://youtu.be/A6OhjYjdrqY>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1biedcf/data_visualization_with_gnu_emacs_time_series/>))
  - Web:
    - [2024-03-22 Emacs: Pull Random Gemini Capsules] (<http://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20240322-0.gmi>)
  - Mail, news, and chat:
    - [message-fix-quote-alignment.el · GitHub] (<https://gist.github.com/rayslava/2ddfeabecde4ed161f2ca9a104eb0320>) ([@rayslava@lor.sh] (<https://lor.sh/@rayslava/112122650606133675>))
    - [One of my MH-E customizations: 'narrow-to-pending' (refiles and deletes)] (<https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/MHENarrowToPending>)
    - [Irreal: PSA: Mu 1.12.1] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=12055>) - bugfixes
  - Doom Emacs:
    - [Doom Emacs and Keycast] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9S3VLCGexo>) (10:55)
    - [TUI, Doom Emacs, and Codespaces] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlhANGgsVtk>) (42:31)
    - [Multiplayer editing with Zellij and Doom Emacs] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEZlWwY1rRw>) (13:17)
  - Multimedia:
    - [T. V. Raman: Smart Media Selector For The Emacspeak Audio Desktop] (<https://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2024/03/smart-media-selector-for-emacspeak.html>) ([Update] (<https://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2024/03/updated-smart-media-selector-for-audio.html>))
    - [Release v0.8 · listen.el (Audio/music player for Emacs)] (<https://github.com/alphapapa/listen.el/releases/tag/v0.8>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bjv8yj/release_v08_listenel_audiomusic_player_for_emacs/>))
  - AI:
    - [Robby: Extensible Emacs Interface to OpenAI] (<https://github.com/stevemolitor/robby>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bma94m/robby_extensible_emacs_interface_to_openai/>))
  - Community:
    - [Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bj8fwf/weekly_tips_tricks_c_thread/>)
    - [#126 Lex-Free Man Podcast | James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNV94ilhI3o>) (01:31:26)
  - Other:
    - [Protesilaos Stavrou: Re: Advice regarding note-taking in Emacs] (<https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-03-22-re-advice-emacs-note-taking/>) ([Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=12061>))
    - [myme.no - Focus by Automation] (<https://myme.no/posts/2024-03-19-focus-by-automation.html>)
    - [Irreal: A Simple Macro] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=12051>)
    - [Adding a tooltip at the former top or bottom of a PDF when scrolling] (<https://emacs.ch/@pmaohj/112126224990973943>)
    - [Emacs IETF mirror now works with automatically updated view-mode] (<https://sha256.net/emacs-ietf.html>) ([@florian@bsd.network] (<https://bsd.network/@florian/112157053940658178>))
    - [Managing Local Services in Emacs with Prodigy] (<https://www.jds.work/emacs-prodigy/>)
    - [ephone.el: Control ofonod through Emacs] (<https://github.com/27justin/ephone.el/>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1bl4ic9/ephoneel_control_ofonod_through_emacs/>))
  - Emacs development:
    - emacs-devel: [Explanation of how Java and C handle character encoding during communication - relevant to Android port] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-03/msg00600.html>)
    - [Recompute :map when image :scale, :rotation, or :flip changes] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=79c758187cef7fc1f93fd525b9d81be81ee2b2cc>)
    - [Add 'eww-readable-urls'] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=4b0f5cdb01fbd05c8184a89fa8543eb5600fb4f8>)
    - [Allow toggling "readable" mode in EWW] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=72972118e6f5831f200108cd7b80bf86538c265e>)
    - [Use 'regexp-opt' in 'dired-omit-regexp'] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=abc2d39e0102f8bb554d89da3c0ffe57188220ff>)
    - [etc/NEWS: Document the new behavior of `describe-function`] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=3197d7015b854944e326d68c5307b38f0a0d2d53>)
    - [(help-fns-function-name): New function] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=a1f8702e8345254e6898d35e554bdc06ab09c3ca>)
    - ['vtable-update-object' can now be called with one argument] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=393f58c85aeb78f814866ccaad9ae7efd3fa6766>)
    - [(primitive-function): New type] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=e624bc62752ceb2e60940c5fd9cb6e70611df71c>)
    - [(cl-type-of): New function to return more precise types (bug#69739)] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=706403f2aa3a306369a0150022da0cba1802ca2b>)
  - New packages:
    - casual <http://melpa.org/#/casual>: Transient UI for Calc (MELPA)
    - consult-eglot-embark <http://melpa.org/#/consult-eglot-embark>: Embark integration for `consult-eglot' (MELPA)
    - firstly-search <http://melpa.org/#/firstly-search>: Search with any key: Dired, Package, Buffer menu modes (MELPA)
    - org-sliced-images <http://melpa.org/#/org-sliced-images>: Sliced inline images in org-mode (MELPA)
    - pq <https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/pq.html>: libpq binding (GNU ELPA)
    - satysfi-ts-mode <http://melpa.org/#/satysfi-ts-mode>: A tree-sitter based major-mode for SATySFi (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/2024-03>). 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!