* 2022-12-05 Emacs news
- Emacs 29:
  - [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-11/msg01774.html][Release branch emacs-29]]
  - [[https://emacs.ch/@cpbotha/109422831468371107][The emacs-29 release branch was just cut by the amazing Eli Zaretskii!]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/z76946/the_emacs29_release_branch_was_just_cut_by_the/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2KGCbLDcp8][Trying Out Emacs 29, Part 2 - System Crafters Live!]] (23:47)
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zwNH2Orw8s][Trying New Emacs 29 Features - System Crafters Live!]] (01:35:44)
  - [[https://blog.phundrak.com/emacs-29-what-can-we-expect/][Emacs 29 is nigh! What can we expect?]] ([[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33788208][HN]], [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/z7upya/emacs_29_is_nigh_what_can_we_expect/][Reddit]], [[https://lobste.rs/s/h0apsh/emacs_29_is_nigh_what_can_we_expect][lobste.rs]])
  - [[https://irreal.org/blog/?p=10982][Irreal: Emacs-29 Release Branch and Org Mode 9.6]]
  - [[https://irreal.org/blog/?p=10984][Irreal: Emacs 29 Changes]]
- Upcoming events:
  - M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Dec 6 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata -- Wed Dec 7 0000 Singapore
  - Emacs Paris: Emacs workshop in Paris (hybrid) Tue Dec 6 1000 Vancouver / 1200 Chicago / 1300 Toronto / 1800 GMT / 1900 Berlin / 2330 Kolkata -- Wed Dec 7 0200 Singapore
  - EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/289755647/ Wed Dec 7 1630 Vancouver / 1830 Chicago / 1930 Toronto -- Thu Dec 8 0030 GMT / 0130 Berlin / 0600 Kolkata / 0830 Singapore
  - Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Dec 9 0900 Vancouver / 1100 Chicago / 1200 Toronto / 1700 GMT / 1800 Berlin / 2230 Kolkata -- Sat Dec 10 0100 Singapore
  - Hispa Emacs (virtual) https://hispa-emacs.org/ Wed Dec 14 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata -- Thu Dec 15 0000 Singapore
- Beginner:
  - [[https://i.redd.it/nwo260l39r2a1.png][emacs29's C-h q (help-quit-or-quick) is pretty neat]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/z78727/emacs29s_ch_q_helpquitorquick_is_pretty_neat/][Reddit]])
- Emacs configuration:
  - [[https://tony-zorman.com/posts/2022-11-30-package-vc-install.html][Exploring package-vc-install as an alternative to Quelpa]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/z9i4ce/exploring_packagevcinstall_as_an_alternative_to/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://paste.sr.ht/~akagi/710d1c261f98ed5f50a175308957ef7dca3c8ded][Skempo templates to commit new/updated #guix package using #emacs built-in vc.]] ([[https://fosstodon.org/@fd9a/109436960812187543][Mastodon]])
  - [[https://chainsawriot.com/postmannheim/2022/12/01/aoe1.html][Advent of emacs #1: How I do package management in emacs]]
- Emacs Lisp:
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/zd0zal/breaking_through_the_intermediate_wall_in_elisp/][Breaking through the intermediate wall in elisp / lisps in general]]
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efBlQF6lb2I][Emacs Lisp is everywhere, this is not a joke! Look at query-replace-regexp command]] (5:52, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/z87a8l/emacs_lisp_is_everywhere_this_is_not_a_joke_look/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpouE8E6aqI][Using packages to learn elisp in emacs]] (03:31)
  - [[https://apps.bram85.nl/gitea/bram/gists/src/commit/3556a128eca9f7608de988fefb85d1c7cfbc9eea/gists/xr-for-readable-regular-expressions.org][gists/xr-for-readable-regular-expressions]] ([[https://emacs.ch/@bram85/109460751703615315][Mastodon]])
- Appearance:
  - [[https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/emacs/13900/configuring-a-simple-modeline][Grant Rettke: Configuring A Simple-Modeline]]
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/zc8zjc/emacsminiframe_windowrules_hyprland_gui_goodness/][Emacs-mini-frame + window-rules + Hyprland = GUI GOODNESS]]
  - [[https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2022-11-30-standard-themes-emacs/][Protesilaos Stavrou: Introduction to the standard-themes for Emacs]]
  - [[https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2022-12-02-ef-themes-0-10-0/][Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 0.10.0]]
  - [[https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2022-12-03-modus-themes-v4-development/][Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: breaking changes coming to modus-themes version 4]]
- Navigation:
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JhYATXavoM][Get the most of the command query-replace]]
- Writing:
  - [[https://ag91.github.io/blog/2022/11/29/a-tiny-elisp-library-to-gather-synonyms-with-wordnet/][A tiny Elisp library to gather synonyms with Wordnet (and how to use it so Emacs can help searching my notes)]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/z80cwq/a_tiny_elisp_library_to_gather_synonyms_with/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr5U5Xq41Hg][Emacs For Writers | How To Wrap Text]] (12:29)
- Org Mode:
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/z7qulo/org_96_is_out/][Org 9.6 is out :)]]
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTq11L5zLmE][Learn how to write a command that limits searches to org-mode headlines]] (16:35, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/z93tbv/learn_how_to_write_a_command_that_limits_searches/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://youtu.be/mRGFE-Pn86Q][My hipster org-mode blog setup! (link handling, server side rendering with next.js, and more)]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/z7sxrb/my_hipster_orgmode_blog_setup_link_handling/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://alejandrogallo.github.io/blog/posts/ob-p5js/][Using p5js with org-mode in emacs | Ale's Ecke]] ([[https://masto.ai/@cadr/109435493274376697][Mastodon]])
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXYdqEFD_Fw][Emacs | Standard Manuscript Format Export From Org Mode | Just Imagine!]] (09:48)
  - [[https://baty.net/2022/keeping-my-org-agenda-updated/][Keeping my Org Agenda updated based on Denote keywords · Baty.net]] ([[https://fosstodon.org/@jackbaty/109434410486908957][Mastodon]])
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/gallery/zalp5r][A web frontend for your org-files (100% faithful to GNU+Emacs!)]] ([[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33829934][HN]], [[https://irreal.org/blog/?p=10990][Irreal]])
  - Org development:
    - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=b3da427ebb1c401355aa4cba9baeaa92f87ccb2f][Update version numbers for the 9.6 release]]
- Completion:
  - [[https://github.com/Crandel/tempel-collection][GitHub - Crandel/tempel-collection: Collection tempel templates]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/zd1l2v/new_package_tempelcollection/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/z75uzh/selectrum_now_deprecated_in_favor_of_vertico/][Selectrum now deprecated in favor of Vertico]]
- Coding:
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gVm2hVIhqs][How to refactor in the current buffer with iedit-mode]] ([[https://irreal.org/blog/?p=10986][Irreal]])
  - [[https://sagot.dev/en/articles/emacs-typescript/][Using Emacs for your Typescript/Node project]]
  - [[https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2022-12-05-emacs-intro-clojure-cider/][Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: introduction to Clojure (CIDER and clojure-mode)]]
  - [[https://olddeuteronomy.github.io/post/a-tree-sitter-config-that-works/][The Emacs Cat: A Simple tree-sitter Config That Works]]
- Shells:
  - [[http://howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/eshell-why.html][Why use EShell?]] (expanded)
- Math:
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/zcs0f5/new_package_essbreakerofchains/][New Package: ess-breakerofchains]]
- Web:
  - [[https://github.com/agzam/browser-hist.el][GitHub - agzam/browser-hist.el: Search through browser history, in Emacs]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/z962at/new_package_status_experimental_early_feedback_is/][Reddit]])
- Multimedia:
  - [[https://mbork.pl/2022-11-26_Extracting_Youtube_subtitles_in_Emacs][Marcin Borkowski: Extracting Youtube subtitles in Emacs]]
- Fun:
  - [[https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2022-11-28-altcaps-1-1-0/][Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: aLtCaPs version 1.1.0]]
- Community:
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/z8ltei/weekly_tips_tricks_c_thread/][Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread]]
  - [[https://christiantietze.de/posts/2022/12/dec-3---4-emacsconf-2022/][Christian Tietze: Dec 3 and Dec 4: EmacsConf 2022 Live]]
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_e7vwJ7HLM][Show Me Your REPL #2: Andrey Orst  @andreyorst]] (01:26:23)
  - [[http://curious.galthub.com/blog/2022-12-04/][Why do we hack? · Curious Musings]]
  - [[https://octodon.social/@cwebber/109433522674939837][Christine Lemmer-Webber: "emacs, lisp, guix, guile, scheme excitement thread" - the Octodon]]
- Other:
  - [[https://amodernist.com/texts/emacs-hopes-2.html][Philip K.: More things I'd like to see done in Emacs]]
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/zcewll/my_agemode_for_working_with_age_encrypted_files/][My "age-mode" for working with age encrypted files]]
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/z6ys5f/is_there_a_chance_tramp_will_be_rearchitected_at/][Is there a chance TRAMP will be rearchitected at some point?]]
  - [[https://acidwords.com/posts/2022-12-01-faster-man-pages-rendering.html][Sanel Zukan: Faster man pages rendering]]
  - [[https://christiantietze.de/posts/2022/12/use-file-open-dialog-for-file-actions/][Christian Tietze: Use System File Open Dialog for File Actions in Emacs (Just Once!)]]
  - [[http://informatimago.free.fr/i/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux.html][Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel]] ([[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33849556][HN]])
  - [[https://github.com/natrys/diagram-preview][GitHub - natrys/diagram-preview: Emacs minor mode to show preview for graphviz, plantuml, mermaid.js]] (uses kroki - 3rd party service but can be self-hosted) ([[https://emacs.ch/@natrys/109457310431469957][Mastodon]])
- Emacs development:
  - emacs-devel:
    - [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-11/msg01773.html][Re: Delegating user-reserved key binding space definition to users]]
    - [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-11/msg01799.html][Org 9.6 will be the one in Emacs 29]]
    - [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-11/msg01880.html][how to use the eat terminal]]
    - [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-11/msg01856.html][It would be nice to have a single Emacs executable which uses different toolkits]]
    - [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-11/msg01858.html][Downsides of trying to do all graphics in Emacs]]
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=5be502a697c4253270c9c3aa7536db239adc1572][Improve passing user switches to Git log commands (bug#59414)]]
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=e961a31507e6fba86a5d45fec7fa616e80028882][Speed up handling X selection requests]]
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=65456668ab1048fe8d77dc76a9e4d84481c218a5][Bump master Emacs version to 30.0.50]]
- New packages:
  - https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/eat.html: Emulate A Terminal, in a region, in a buffer and in Eshell (NonGNU ELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/latex-table-wizard: Magic editing of LaTeX tables (MELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/ligature-pragmatapro: PragmataPro support for ligature.el (MELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/org-calibre-notes: Extract highlights and notes from Calibre EPUB reader (MELPA)
  - https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/standard-themes.html: Like the default theme but more consistent (GNU ELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/tempel-collection: Collection of templates for Tempel (MELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/wgsl-mode: Syntax highlighting for the WebGPU Shading Language (MELPA)

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