2024-02-19 Emacs news
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  - Upcoming events:
    - M-x Research: TBA <https://m-x-research.github.io/> Wed Feb 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata -- Thu Feb 22 0000 Asia/Singapore
    - EmacsSF (in person): Emacs Lisp Hacking Night <https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/299082479/> Thu Feb 22 1800 America/Los_Angeles
    - Emacs APAC (virtual) <https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/> Sat Feb 24 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
    - Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) <https://emacs-berlin.org/> Wed Feb 28 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata -- Thu Feb 29 0130 Asia/Singapore
    - M-x Research: TBA <https://m-x-research.github.io/> Fri Mar 1 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata -- Sat Mar 2 0000 Asia/Singapore
    - [European Lisp Symposium 2024] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-02/msg00660.html>) (May 6-7, Vienna) - Andrea Corallo wants to know if anyone wants to meet up
  - Beginner:
    - [The Ultimate Collection of Emacs Resources] (<https://batsov.com/articles/2011/11/30/the-ultimate-collection-of-emacs-resources/>) (2011, [Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1aq7hu8/the_ultimate_collection_of_emacs_resources/>))
    - [Mario Jason Braganza: Note to Self, Emacs Help Stuff] (<https://janusworx.com/blog/note-to-self-emacs-help-stuff/>)
    - [Lookup the Documentation of Functions, Variables and Faces] (<https://emacsredux.com/blog/2024/02/18/describe-symbol/>)
  - Emacs configuration:
    - [What are the best practices in laying out an init.el that won't turn into spaghetti after a year or two?] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1ata6ag/what_are_the_best_practices_in_laying_out_an/>)
    - [Temporarily rebind a key with automatic restore] (<https://gist.github.com/lesliesrussell/0befc9b479dfc0e227be3fd58c540ab8>)
    - [Kickstart.emacs is now Stable!] (<https://github.com/MiniApollo/kickstart.emacs>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1aq3x7x/kickstartemacs_is_now_stable/>))
    - [greenbeast's Emacs Config] (<https://gitlab.com/greenbeast/dotfiles/-/blob/work-setup/init.org>) - treesitter, dirvish, meow, dashboard, svg-tag, ...
    - [manueljlin's Emacs Config] (<https://gitlab.com/manueljlin/emacs-config/>) - Potato Emacs: elpaca, meow + Canary Ortho, lsp, drt-indent, corfu, ...
    - [masukomi's Doom Emacs Config] (<https://github.com/masukomi/masuconfigs/blob/master/.doom.d/config.el>) - includes copilot
    - [TanbinIslam43's Doom Emacs Config] (<https://github.com/TanbinIslam43/mydotfiles/tree/main/.doom.d>) - short
  - Emacs Lisp:
    - [Lessons learned from creating my first ELPA package - box.matto.nl] (<https://box.matto.nl/lessons-learned-from-creating-my-first-elpa-package.html>) ([@pkal@emacs.ch] (<https://emacs.ch/@pkal/111943199193812005>))
    - [Finding the maximum number of days in a month] (<https://github.com/brandelune/brandelune.github.io/blob/1ce686edc8ab3df7a78e02a5a16b87df71391cc1/adventuresintechland.el#L227>) ([@jchelary@emacs.ch] (<https://emacs.ch/@jchelary/111957325115392939>)) - monthMaxDay, hardcoded
    - [TIL to use cl-callf to toggle a var without repeating the name] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1ap9azk/til_to_use_clcallf_to_toggle_a_var_without/>) ([Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11980>))
    - [Emacs Redux: Replacing dash.el with Built-in Emacs APIs] (<https://emacsredux.com/blog/2024/02/19/replacing-dash-el-with-built-in-emacs-apis/>)
    - [TIL: Emacs has a very nice built-in binary data library] (<https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Byte-Packing.html>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1at1iy0/til_emacs_has_a_very_nice_builtin_binary_data/>))
    - [Elisp testing example | Programador Web Valencia] (<https://programadorwebvalencia.com/elisp-testing-example/>) ([@andros@hostux.social] (<https://hostux.social/@andros/111930907819208480>))
  - Appearance:
    - [Beautifying the Mode Line] (<https://www.gonsie.com/blorg/modeline.html>) ([@ifiinlist@mastodon.social] (<https://mastodon.social/@ifiinlist/111940659471450955>))
    - [[auto-dark] 0.12 - Now supports emacs-mac (MacOS) and allows 'default' Emacs theme] (<https://i.redd.it/4bo5crbx36ic1.gif>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1ap213j/autodark_012_now_supports_emacsmac_macos_and/>))
    - [NANO: hacking tab-line-mode to display under the mode-line, putting mode-line info in the header] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1asfzfm/pushing_the_lmits/>)
  - Navigation:
    - [Charles Choi: cc-isearch-menu now on MELPA] (<http://yummymelon.com/devnull/cc-isearch-menu-now-on-melpa.html>)
  - Dired:
    - [Marcin Borkowski: Opening external drives in Dired] (<https://mbork.pl/2024-02-17_Opening_external_drives_in_Dired>) ([Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11984>))
    - [Update to dired-auto-readme-mode] (<https://github.com/amno1/dired-auto-readme>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1au6j6p/update_to_diredautoreadmemode/>))
  - Writing:
    - [Create and yank bibtex entry from a DOI] (<https://gist.github.com/lgatto/f54888e7f16968f853346c67b232cae0>)
  - Org Mode:
    - [Org Capturing Introduction - Howardism] (<https://howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/capturing-intro.html>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1apbwin/org_capturing_introduction_howardism/>))
    - [Encrypting the content of Emacs Org files] (<https://fluca1978.github.io/2021/09/16/Emacs_Org_Encrypt.html>) (2021)
    - [A small update to org-view-mode] (<https://github.com/amno1/org-view-mode>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1au2nh3/a_small_update_to_orgviewmode/>))
    - [A small, but useful org-agenda tweak - jumping to narrowed subtrees] (<https://svbck.org/blog/2024-02-14-a-small-but-useful-agenda-tweak.html>) ([@svbck@fosstodon.org] (<https://fosstodon.org/@svbck/111945739870788047>))
    - [[WIP/RFC] Reorg: reorganize your life] (<https://github.com/legalnonsense/reorg>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1ary91e/wiprfc_reorg_reorganize_your_life/>))
    - [Charles Choi: Computing Truth Tables in Org] (<http://yummymelon.com/devnull/computing-truth-tables-in-org.html>)
    - [Karthik Chikmagalur: For Your Reference: RefTeX in Org Mode] (<https://karthinks.com/software/reftex-in-org-mode/>)
    - Org development:
      - [org-insert-link: Do not expand path arg when `org-link-file-path-type' is a function] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=388ba5b5c415ef75adc79a2553d5f5ae06c044af>)
      - [ox-org: Do not process citations by default] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=b8ee1315a1cd80fb92f2577f480c475486a71907>)
  - Denote:
    - [Adding Denote files to the Org agenda by filename] (<https://mike.puddingtime.org/posts/2024-02-14-daily-notes/>) ([@mph@social.lol] (<https://social.lol/@mph/111933365042595236>))
  - Completion:
    - [Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: modern minibuffer packages (Vertico, Consult, etc.)] (<https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-02-17-emacs-modern-minibuffer-packages/>) (44:01 [YouTube] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3aaxOqwHhI>), [Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1ata3o3/emacs_modern_minibuffer_packages_vertico_consult/>))
    - [Vertico: Minimalist Vertical Interactive Completion in Emacs] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep5CK6armPM>) (07:04)
    - [Emacs Helm Essentials] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KYiTlYepzw>) (10:11)
  - Coding:
    - [Mike Zamansky: Using Emacs 82 - Conda and Direnv] (<https://cestlaz.github.io/post/using-emacs-82-conda-direnv/>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1apzg00/using_emacs_with_conda_and_direnv/>), [Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11978>))
    - [Meta Redux: CIDER: Preliminary Support for clojure-ts-mode] (<https://metaredux.com/posts/2024/02/19/cider-preliminary-support-for-clojure-ts-mode.html>)
    - [Meta Redux: Configuring fixed/tonsky indentation in clojure-mode] (<https://metaredux.com/posts/2024/02/19/configuring-fixed-tonsky-indentation-in-clojure-mode.html>)
    - [Meta Redux: Flycheck Updates: A new Stable Release and Way More] (<https://metaredux.com/posts/2024/02/19/flycheck-updates.html>)
    - [Release 1.7.1 · alphapapa/magit-todos] (<https://github.com/alphapapa/magit-todos/releases/tag/1.7.1>)
    - [Summarizing debbugs patch acceptance] (<https://emacs.ch/@graywolf/111942871762441228>)
  - Mail, news, and chat:
    - [rcirc-voirc.el - VoIRC for rcirc] (<https://wwwcip.cs.fau.de/~oj14ozun/src+etc/rcirc-voirc.el>) ([@pkal@emacs.ch] (<https://emacs.ch/@pkal/111947774047299320>)) - very compressed voice over IRC
    - [lem.el 0.16 update - Lemmy] (<https://lemmy.ml/post/12116284>)
    - [Irreal: OPML and RSS] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11982>)
  - Web:
    - [[RFC] Proposed change to EWW history navigation] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-02/msg00684.html>)
  - Fun:
    - [Chinese Zodiac Time for Your Emacs Mode Line] (<https://camdez.com/blog/2024/02/12/chinese-zodiac-time-for-emacs/>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1apltpr/chinese_zodiac_time_for_your_emacs_mode_line/>))
  - Community:
    - [Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1aqhyay/weekly_tips_tricks_c_thread/>)
    - [Meta Redux: CIDER: Community Impact] (<https://metaredux.com/posts/2024/02/15/cider-community-impact.html>)
    - [Why No One Can Answer The "Vim Versus Emacs" Question] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scBBjZcy6fc>) (13:44)
  - Other:
    - [EmacsConf - 2023 - talks - The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp] (<https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/emacsen/>) (2023, [HN] (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39397942>))
    - [CeleritasCelery/rune: Rust VM for Emacs] (<https://github.com/CeleritasCelery/rune>) ([@jnpn@mastodon.social] (<https://mastodon.social/@jnpn/111942584368937491>))
  - Emacs development:
    - [A vision of a multi-threaded Emacs • Core Dumped] (<https://coredumped.dev/2022/05/19/a-vision-of-a-multi-threaded-emacs/>) (2022, [HN] (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39408162>))
    - [Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-02/msg00668.html>) discussion about lisp/obsolete and others
    - [Re: Some thoughts about Emacs performance] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-02/msg00557.html>) randomness and sorting, and also this thread is nice =)
    - [Make key selection method configurable in EPA.] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=6477be93bd8a29cba8ce383f9ea3fba23c45f225>)
    - [Add support for reading/writing IELM input history (bug#67000)] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=60cff1ac9d216e5abcb350ea5e623ab0b377c131>)
    - [titdic-cnv.el: Bring all definitions under the `tit-` namespace] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=fbef8ff2a4106ff7f0f3d026071fb8096280cc61>)
    - [Add 'custom-variable' command] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=371ccf09fea26892a2fada028d27fb4b596636df>)
    - [Tree-sitter support for outline-minor-mode (bug#68824)] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=3b90e5052ce1eea47430c85c0c35741e25269ce2>)
  - New packages:
    - cc-isearch-menu <http://melpa.org/#/cc-isearch-menu>: A Transient menu for isearch (MELPA)
    - eglot-signature-eldoc-talkative <http://melpa.org/#/eglot-signature-eldoc-talkative>: Make Eglot make ElDoc echo docs (MELPA)
    - iso-639 <http://melpa.org/#/iso-639>: ISO 639 (MELPA)
    - org-cite-overlay <http://melpa.org/#/org-cite-overlay>: Overlays for org-cite citations (MELPA)
    - org-cite-overlay-sidecar <http://melpa.org/#/org-cite-overlay-sidecar>: Show Sidecar for overlaid org-cite citations (MELPA)
    - org-nix-shell <http://melpa.org/#/org-nix-shell>: Org local nix-shell (MELPA)
    - pinyin-isearch <http://melpa.org/#/pinyin-isearch>: Pinyin mode for isearch (MELPA)
    - rcirc-sqlite <https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/rcirc-sqlite.html>: rcirc logging in SQLite (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/2024-02>). 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!