2022-11-07 Emacs news
=====================

  - Help wanted:
    - [[HELP] Clearing bug reports before the upcoming Org release] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/ynhfvh/help_clearing_bug_reports_before_the_upcoming_org/>)
    - [Emacs User Survey] (<https://emacssurvey.org/>) ([emacs-devel] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-10/msg01824.html>), [Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/yc26yd/the_2022_emacs_user_survey_is_now_open/>), [HN] (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33328142>), [lobste.rs] (<https://lobste.rs/s/yjpdsg/emacs_user_survey_2022>))
    - [Prot is asking for help to move countries] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/yo7vto/prot_is_asking_for_help_to_move_countries/>)
  - Upcoming events:
    - [EmacsConf 2022 (Dec 3 & 4) - Schedule] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/yilmhv/emacsconf_2022_dec_3_4_schedule/>) ([Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=10920>))
    - Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) <https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs> Fri Nov 11 0900 Vancouver / 1100 Chicago / 1200 Toronto / 1700 GMT / 1800 Berlin / 2230 Kolkata -- Sat Nov 12 0100 Singapore
    - M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA <https://m-x-research.github.io/> Tue Nov 15 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata -- Wed Nov 16 0000 Singapore
    - [Emacs plus: la migliore versione di Emacs per Mac Os e Il tema che cambia in automatico] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJTBTdIVg1o>) Nov 16
    - Hispa Emacs (virtual) <https://hispa-emacs.org/> Fri Nov 18 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata -- Sat Nov 19 0000 Singapore
    - EmacsSF: coffee.el <https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/289525306/> Sat Nov 19 1100 Vancouver / 1300 Chicago / 1400 Toronto / 1900 GMT / 2000 Berlin -- Sun Nov 20 0030 Kolkata / 0300 Singapore
  - Beginner:
    - [Emacs Mega Tutorial Part 1 (The Saga Begins)] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBMeBaWwi9s>) (01:12:55)
    - [Emacs Basic Editing Commands (Mega Tutorial Part 2)] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIW4Pn8gU>) (41:03)
    - [Emacs: Advanced Editing with Mark and Region commands] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDwHHFbJ49s>) (05:46)
    - [How to really love Emacs? Learn Elisp. - YouTube] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1JesjbtDM>) (18:56, [Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/ymd8gd/i_made_a_fun_introduction_to_elisp_video_while/>), [Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=10930>))
  - Emacs configuration:
    - [emacs-key-guide: Quickly add keyguides to buffers] (<https://github.com/dalanicolai/emacs-key-guide>)
    - [Creating and displaying cheatsheets of keybindings] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/ykm7in/creating_and_displaying_cheatsheets_of_keybindings/>)
    - [lambda-emacs: Emacs distribution with sane defaults, pre-configured packages, and useful functions.] (<https://github.com/Lambda-Emacs/lambda-emacs>)
    - [Jamie Matthews' emacs config] (<https://gitlab.com/jdm204/dotfiles/-/blob/master/config.org/>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/planetemacs/comments/ynh7td/jamie_matthews_emacs_config/>))
    - [Derek Taylor's Emacs Config] (<https://gitlab.com/dwt1/dotfiles/-/blob/master/.emacs.d.gnu/config.org>)
    - [justinbarcla's .emacs.d] (<https://github.com/justinbarclay/.emacs.d>)
    - [ted-tanner"s .emacs] (<https://github.com/ted-tanner/personal-emacs-profile>)
  - Emacs Lisp:
    - [Marcin Borkowski: Counting working days again] (<http://mbork.pl/2022-11-07_Counting_working_days_again>)
    - [Andrey Listopadov: Emacs Lisp shorthands as namespacing system] (<https://andreyorst.gitlab.io/posts/2022-11-01-emacs-lisp-shorthands-as-namespacing-system/>)
    - [How to build an editor with Emacs Lisp - 11 Common pitfalls of Macros] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NSRQsGxqws>) (18:48)
    - [Programmatically Setting Lisp Docstrings] (<https://nullprogram.com/blog/2012/08/02/>) (2012)
  - Appearance:
    - [What type of theme do you use?] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/yihxbn/what_type_of_theme_do_you_use/>)
    - [nano-toolbar: Emacs toolbar in the header line] (<https://github.com/rougier/nano-toolbar>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/yj42fr/toolbar_on_the_header_line_with_svglib_buttons/>))
    - [[auto-dark-emacs] - An automatic theme changer for Emacs on macOS - UPDATED!] (<https://i.redd.it/0f254p3ftzx91.gif>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/ym9jw3/autodarkemacs_an_automatic_theme_changer_for/>))
    - [Protesilaos Stavrou: Re: difference between ef-themes and modus-themes for Emacs?] (<https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2022-11-01-ef-modus-themes-differences/>)
  - Org Mode:
    - [Using emacs and org-mode to teach programming] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSYL-ricWLg>)
    - [New Package: Org Rainbow Tags - A minor mode to colorize org tags automatically] (<https://github.com/KaratasFurkan/org-rainbow-tags>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/yj43hl/new_package_org_rainbow_tags_a_minor_mode_to/>))
    - [Lorenz attractor plotting in Python/Org-mode] (<https://i.redd.it/kw0ukmr45dx91.png>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/yjco2m/lorenz_attractor_plotting_in_pythonorgmode/>))
    - [New package: Forgecast - cast resources to their forges] (<https://github.com/grtcdr/forgecast>) ([r/emacs] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/yjims7/new_package_forgecast_cast_resources_to_their/>), [r/orgmode] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/ykzwc1/new_package_forgecast_cast_resources_to_their/>))
    - [Oolook: Style for org-mode] (<https://dvolk.github.io/oolook/>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/yilyzi/oolook_style_for_orgmode/>))
    - [org-noter-plus-djvu: Emacs document annotator, using Org-mode] (<https://github.com/dmitrym0/org-noter-plus-djvu>)
    - [Use Syncthing with WebDAV to Sync Org Files Everywhere] (<https://whhone.com/posts/webdav-syncthing/>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/ymbbr9/use_syncthing_with_webdav_to_sync_org_files/>))
    - Org development:
      - [Refactor `org-time-stamp-custom-formats' and `org-time-stamp-formats'] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=e3a7c01874c9bb80e04ffa58c578619faf09e7f0>)
      - [org-babel: Add new "strip-tangle" :noweb argument value] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=5e0c5c186dc151a2a2447a52c57f0db5b501a17b>)
      - [ob-sql.el: Respect all params when using dbconnection] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=fbbc8b55cf3a39c85f8576321ec560baf4d2331a>)
  - Completion:
    - [Making the yasnippet *new-snippet* buffer more helpful, and comparing it to Jetbrains live templates] (<https://mjdiloreto.github.io/posts/yasnippet-helpful-buffer/>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/ynrrnk/making_the_yasnippet_newsnippet_buffer_more/>))
    - [Store auto-yasnippets in registers and expand on insert] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/ynbbu7/store_autoyasnippets_in_registers_and_expand_on/>)
  - Coding:
    - [Emacs as a C++ IDE ascii demo] (<https://asciinema.org/a/wtL300FrAevPAAY298lnUXO4c>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/ynyisi/emacs_as_a_c_ide_ascii_demo/>))
    - [LSP mode guide on enabling/disabling features] (<https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/tutorials/how-to-turn-off/>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/ym30os/lsp_mode_guide_on_enablingdisabling_features/>))
    - [Async non-blocking JSONRPC (or lsp performance faster/comparable with other clients)] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/ymrkyn/async_nonblocking_jsonrpc_or_lsp_performance/>)
    - [Meta Redux: Meta Reduce 2022.0] (<https://metaredux.com/posts/2022/11/01/meta-reduce-2022-0.html>) - nREPL, CIDER, Projectile, OCaml
  - Shells:
    - [Aweshell: Awesome shell extension based on eshell with multiple extra features] (<https://github.com/manateelazycat/aweshell>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/ylro4h/aweshell_awesome_shell_extension_based_on_eshell/>))
    - [vfish: Emacs vterm plugin for Fish shell] (<https://github.com/pymander/vfish>)
  - Doom Emacs:
    - [Better TSX support w/ Tree-sitter in Doom Emacs] (<https://merrick.luois.me/posts/better-tsx-support-in-doom-emacs>)
    - [Emacs tab bar mode, doom mode line, unicode icons, moving the menu bar] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEQjtk_TuQ4>) (53:51)
    - [Emacs tabs now have a fixed width and auto truncate text, cleaning up the doom modeline] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOrBXlPhtM0>) (24:14)
    - [doom emacs integrar plantuml archlinux] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS9srgkULhU>) (18:09)
  - EXWM:
    - [Emacs Desktop Environment #1 - Getting Started with EXWM] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7xB2fFk1tQ>)
  - Fun:
    - [GitHub - BlueFlo0d/insecure-lock: Screen locker in pure Emacs Lisp] (<https://github.com/BlueFlo0d/insecure-lock>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/yo8rgr/github_blueflo0dinsecurelock_screen_locker_in/>))
  - Community:
    - [Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/yjzant/weekly_tips_tricks_c_thread/>)
    - [Eric MacAdie: 2022-11 Austin Emacs Meetup] (<https://macadie.info/2022/11/07/2022-11-austin-emacs-meetup/>)
    - [Alex Bennée: My Setup (2022 Edition)] (<https://www.bennee.com/~alex/blog/2022/11/01/my-setup-2022-edition/>)
    - [Logiciels libres - Bastien Guerry] (<https://bzg.fr/logiciels-libres/>)
    - [Pie Menus: A 30 Year Retrospective | by Don Hopkins | Medium] (<https://donhopkins.medium.com/pie-menus-936fed383ff1>) - includes screenshots of UniPress Emacs
    - [Any experience with FOOT PEDALS?] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/yle1wa/any_experience_with_foot_pedals/>)
  - Other:
    - [Eev and TikZ, or: how to learn TikZ using a REPL - YouTube] (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7nIzpXcV6c>)
    - [Hey Emacs, where did I take that photo?] (<https://v.redd.it/yqm4552fplx91>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/ykh2pp/hey_emacs_where_did_i_take_that_photo/>), [lobste.rs] (<https://lobste.rs/s/swihmo/hey_emacs_where_did_i_take_photo>), [Irreal] (<https://irreal.org/blog/?p=10926>)) - includes openstreetmap
    - ["Super Buffer File" and Dragon integration] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/ynn70e/super_buffer_file_and_dragon_integration/>) - for dragging and dropping files
    - [Alvaro Ramirez: Hey Emacs, change the default macOS app for...] (<http://xenodium.com/hey-emacs-change-the-default-macos-app-for>) ([Reddit] (<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/yns8ju/macos_quickly_change_the_default_app_for/>))
  - Emacs development:
    - [emacs-devel: Progress on getting use-package into ELPA] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-11/msg00274.html>)
    - [emacs-devel: CL packages on hold] (<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-11/msg00381.html>)
    - [Add the "doas" alias to eshell.] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=062d16c3ebed270aa1cb64b6b6cd09c36002d4a5>)
    - [; Rename 'package-vc-link-directory' to '-install-from-checkout'] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=1557bb9d8f1f2f99aa5a594bdb1c7aa1c7546b97>)
    - [Merge branch 'feature/package+vc'] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=5fa2f116799b8a7c17ff6eedd6e1b1af077c116b>)
    - [Document 'package-vc-selected-packages'] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=b5850ba3ae8758731d9420cf62c4fca6b765905c>)
    - [* lisp/tab-bar.el (tab-bar-fixed-width): New user option.] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=ca3763af5cc2758ec71700029558e6ecc4379ea9>)
    - [Add command 'package-vc-checkout'] (<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=ec01d9a2092319a90fd95e068af689bd24fc255d>)
  - New packages:
    - bluesound <https://melpa.org/#/bluesound>: Play, pause, resume music on a Bluesound player (MELPA)
    - dir-treeview-themes <https://melpa.org/#/dir-treeview-themes>: Themes for dir-treeview (MELPA)
    - insecure-lock <https://melpa.org/#/insecure-lock>: Extensible screen lock framework (MELPA)
    - mint-mode <https://melpa.org/#/mint-mode>: Major mode for the Mint programming language (MELPA)
    - opam-switch-mode <https://melpa.org/#/opam-switch-mode>: Select OCaml opam switches via a menu (MELPA)
    - related-files <https://melpa.org/#/related-files>: Easily find files related to the current one (MELPA)
    - string-edit-at-point <https://melpa.org/#/string-edit-at-point>: Avoid escape nightmares by editing string in separate buffer (MELPA)
    - triples <https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/triples.html>: A flexible triple-based database for us in apps. (GNU ELPA)
    - youtube-sub-extractor <https://melpa.org/#/youtube-sub-extractor>: Extract YouTube video subtitles (MELPA)

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