2021-03-15 Emacs news
=====================

  - Upcoming events:
    - M-x Research (virtual, contact them for passcode) <https://m-x-research.github.io/> Thu Mar 18 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1600 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
    - EmacsSF: Retro Emacs, Lightning Talks, and General Emacs Discussion <https://www.meetup.com/Emacs-SF/events/276931136/> Fri Mar 19 1030 Vancouver / 1230 Chicago / 1330 Toronto / 1730 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2300 Kolkata -- Sat Mar 20 0130 Singapore
    - Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) <https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/> Sat Mar 27 0130 Vancouver / 0330 Chicago / 0430 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 0930 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore - [announcement] (<https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/march-2021/>)
    - Singapore: Emacs & Never Code Alone SG <https://www.meetup.com/Emacs-SG/events/268260076/> Wed Mar 31 0400 Vancouver / 0600 Chicago / 0700 Toronto / 1100 GMT / 1300 Berlin / 1630 Kolkata / 1900 Singapore
    - Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) <https://emacs-berlin.org/> Wed Mar 31 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1630 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2200 Kolkata -- Thu Apr 1 0030 Singapore
  - Beginner:
    - [emacs-course: An emacs course] (<https://github.com/dfeich/emacs-course>)
    - [The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs] (<https://youtu.be/48JlgiBpw_I>) ([Reddit] (<https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/m0hc63/the_absolute_beginners_guide_to_emacs/>))
  - Emacs configuration:
    - [doom-emacs: My Doom Emacs configuration] (<https://github.com/TimothyYe/doom-emacs>)
    - [The basics of the Straight Package Manager for Emacs] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/m27e96/the_basics_of_the_straight_package_manager_for/>)
    - [I split my Emacs configuration and made it adaptive] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4QPtWCGFJ8>) (6:37)
    - [Your Emacs init file - use-package - setq versus customize] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jij0kVb5pw>) (11:03)
  - Emacs Lisp:
    - [Found out: `setf' is totally undervalued!] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/m4fe7r/found_out_setf_is_totally_undervalued/>)
    - [Transient API Example (Alternative Bindings Part 1)] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/m518xh/transient_api_example_alternative_bindings_part_1/>)
    - [Reading and Writing Buffers in Practice - Learning Emacs Lisp #5] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7d2LmivyyM>) (1:03:7)
    - [Christian Tietze: Refactoring Case Change Code to Idiomatic Emacs Lisp] (<https://christiantietze.de/posts/2021/03/idiomatic-elisp-change-case/>)
  - Emacs development:
    - [Discussion of M-o keybinding removal experiment] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-03/msg00568.html>)
    - [* lisp/tab-bar.el: Tab groups can be displayed with tab-bar-format-tabs-groups] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=f9b737fb9d21ac7adff403274167e76e77d033b8>)
    - [Add a new `image-transform-smoothing' user option] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=5dff53f5da4f17d74a0ad2cd7ec0a736aa5111f7>)
    - [Enable selectable image smoothing (bug#38394)] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=c93447eac6f801d7ff97ed6dad368dc49d55cc46>)
    - [* lisp/tab-bar.el (tab-bar-close-group-tabs): New command.] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=d07ed6dfee9338b0d715f8181703252c99e5133a>)
    - [* lisp/tab-bar.el: 'C-x t G' (tab-group) assigns a group name to the tab.] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=5fa2775c0cab746d49aa0bcc96ecdcff23a9ba05>)
    - [Add Tramp sshfs method] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=11d3af3c7b9dc5a2910807d311168fb82d962d0d>)
    - [Delete two more items obsoleted in Emacs 23.1] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=a190bc9f3067d9c35fc4344248222eb6ff2a0fc6>)
  - Appearance:
    - [Emacs Tips - How to Create Your Own Color Theme] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCCIudu53Zg&feature=youtu.be>)
  - Navigation:
    - [smart-scan: Jumps between other symbols found at point in Emacs] (<https://github.com/mickeynp/smart-scan>)
  - Org Mode:
    - [Reproducible Research and Software Development Methods for Management tasks using Emacs Orgmode] (<https://dfeich.github.io/www/org-mode/emacs/reproducible-research/2018/05/20/reproducible-research-for-management.html>)
    - [Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook (2017)] (<http://ehneilsen.net/notebook/orgExamples/org-examples.html>) ([HN] (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26408822>), 70+ comments)
    - Export:
      - [Perfect Emacs Org Mode Exports to LaTeX – Straightforward Emacs] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qHloGTT8XE>) (8:6)
      - [org-utf-to-xetex: Org-Mode Print Unicode Characters Directly To PDF] (<https://github.com/grettke/org-utf-to-xetex>)
    - Org Roam:
      - [Keeping todo items in org-roam] (<https://magnus.therning.org/2021-03-14-keeping-todo-items-in-org-roam.html>)
      - [Emacs café: Introducing nroam] (<https://emacs.cafe/emacs/org-mode/org-roam/2021/03/11/introduction-to-nroam.html>) ([Reddit] (<https://reddit.com/r/planetemacs/comments/m324py/emacs_café_introducing_nroam/>)) - replaces backlink side buffer with end-of-buffer list
      - [Find Org Roam notes via their relations] (<https://ag91.github.io/blog/2021/03/12/find-org-roam-notes-via-their-relations/>) ([Reddit] (<https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/m3pncs/find_org_roam_notes_via_their_relations/>))
    - Other:
      - [Introducing org-xournalpp (based on org-krita)] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/m3fknu/introducing_orgxournalpp_based_on_orgkrita/>)
      - [PyOrgMode: A python class for reading and writing orgmode files] (<https://github.com/bjonnh/PyOrgMode>)
      - [Flat Habits: Org habits iOS app update] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/m3sk8l/flat_habits_org_habits_ios_app_update/>)
      - [Sync Emacs Org Agenda Files via Dropbox Without Conflicts] (<https://christiantietze.de/posts/2019/03/sync-emacs-org-files/>)
  - Completion:
    - [bibtex-actions: a helm-bibtex-like package for selectrum et al] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/m4wvfl/bibtexactions_a_helmbibtexlike_package_for/>)
  - Coding:
    - [Using Emacs as a database client by Arjan van der Gaag] (<https://arjanvandergaag.nl/blog/using-emacs-as-a-database-client.html>)
    - [Flycheck and HLS] (<https://magnus.therning.org/2021-03-05-000-flycheck-and-hls.html>) - Haskell
    - [eglot tramp support just merged!] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/m2g3ae/eglot_tramp_support_just_merged/>)
    - [Arch + Spacemacs for python] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/spacemacs/comments/m2dypq/arch_spacemacs_for_python/>)
    - [Emacs y lsp-mode] (<https://notxor.nueva-actitud.org/2021/03/11/emacs-y-lsp-mode.html>)
  - Mail and news:
    - [How to set up Gnus in Emacs for GMAIL in a seven easy steps (and 7 minutes!)] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/m0z0ck/how_to_set_up_gnus_in_emacs_for_gmail_in_a_seven/>)
    - [emacs, mu4e, mbsync and ProtonMail - doubleloop] (<https://doubleloop.net/2019/09/06/emacs-mu4e-mbsync-and-protonmail/>)
  - Community:
    - [Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/m111dp/weekly_tipstricketc_thread/>)
    - [From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)] (<https://blog.aaronbieber.com/2015/05/24/from-vim-to-emacs-in-fourteen-days.html>) ([HN] (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26423000>) - 170+ comments)
  - Other:
    - [System Crafters Live! - Emacs Native Comp will change *everything* • Trying out Eglot • Q&A] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8OLg-f9EHk>) (2:2:9)
    - [emacs subscribe to youtube channels or playlist and open the links with mpv player] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUgZ1UmIZKU>) (33:20)
    - [ytel-show: Browse youtube in emacs] (<https://github.com/xFA25E/ytel-show>)
    - [Best Emacs interfaces] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/m2v1fj/best_emacs_interfaces/>)
    - [diffpdf.el: Transient UI for diffpdf] (<https://github.com/ShuguangSun/diffpdf.el>)
  - New packages:
    - cascading-dir-locals <http://melpa.org/#/cascading-dir-locals>: Apply all (!) .dir-locals.el from root to current directory
    - cfn-mode <http://melpa.org/#/cfn-mode>: AWS cloudformation mode
    - company-ipa <http://melpa.org/#/company-ipa>: IPA backend for company
    - current-word-highlight <http://melpa.org/#/current-word-highlight>: Highlight the current word minor mode
    - desktop-mail-user-agent <http://melpa.org/#/desktop-mail-user-agent>: Call OS default mail program to compose mail
    - diffpdf <http://melpa.org/#/diffpdf>: Transient diffpdf
    - flycheck-cfn <http://melpa.org/#/flycheck-cfn>: Flycheck backend for AWS cloudformation
    - just-mode <http://melpa.org/#/just-mode>: Justfile editing mode
    - laas <http://melpa.org/#/laas>: A bundle of as-you-type LaTeX snippets
    - leaf-defaults <http://melpa.org/#/leaf-defaults>: Awesome leaf config collections
    - ligo-mode <http://melpa.org/#/ligo-mode>: A major mode for editing LIGO source code
    - lsp-grammarly <http://melpa.org/#/lsp-grammarly>: LSP Clients for Grammarly
    - numpydoc <http://melpa.org/#/numpydoc>: NumPy style docstring insertion
    - ob-haxe <https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/ob-haxe.html>: org-babel functions for haxe evaluation
    - org-appear <http://melpa.org/#/org-appear>: Auto-toggle Org elements
    - popper <http://melpa.org/#/popper>: Summon and dismiss buffers as popups
    - seen-mode <http://melpa.org/#/seen-mode>: A syntax highlighting package for text/kepago
    - sequed <http://melpa.org/#/sequed>: Major mode for FASTA format DNA alignments
    - vulpea <http://melpa.org/#/vulpea>: A collection of org-roam note-taking functions

  Links from [reddit.com/r/emacs] (<http://reddit.com/r/emacs>), [r/orgmode] (<http://reddit.com/r/orgmode>), [r/spacemacs] (<http://reddit.com/r/spacemacs>), [r/planetemacs] (<http://reddit.com/r/planetemacs>), [Hacker News] (<https://hn.algolia.com/?query=emacs&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story>), [planet.emacslife.com] (<https://planet.emacslife.com>), [YouTube] (<https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=emacs&search_sort=video_date_uploaded>), [the Emacs NEWS file] (<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/etc/NEWS>) and [emacs-devel] (<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-03>).

  
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