2021-03-15 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

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
  • 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
  • The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • doom-emacs: My Doom Emacs configuration
  • The basics of the Straight Package Manager for Emacs
  • I split my Emacs configuration and made it adaptive (6:37)
  • Your Emacs init file - use-package - setq versus customize (11:03)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Found out: `setf' is totally undervalued!
  • Transient API Example (Alternative Bindings Part 1)
  • Reading and Writing Buffers in Practice - Learning Emacs Lisp #5 (1:03:7)
  • Christian Tietze: Refactoring Case Change Code to Idiomatic Emacs Lisp
• Emacs development:
  • Discussion of M-o keybinding removal experiment
  • * lisp/tab-bar.el: Tab groups can be displayed with tab-bar-format-tabs-groups
  • Add a new `image-transform-smoothing' user option
  • Enable selectable image smoothing (bug#38394)
  • * lisp/tab-bar.el (tab-bar-close-group-tabs): New command.
  • * lisp/tab-bar.el: 'C-x t G' (tab-group) assigns a group name to the tab.
  • Add Tramp sshfs method
  • Delete two more items obsoleted in Emacs 23.1
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Tips - How to Create Your Own Color Theme
• Navigation:
  • smart-scan: Jumps between other symbols found at point in Emacs
• Org Mode:
  • Reproducible Research and Software Development Methods for Management tasks using Emacs Orgmode
  • Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook (2017) (HN, 70+ comments)
  • Export:
    • Perfect Emacs Org Mode Exports to LaTeX – Straightforward Emacs (8:6)
    • org-utf-to-xetex: Org-Mode Print Unicode Characters Directly To PDF
  • Org Roam:
    • Keeping todo items in org-roam
    • Emacs café: Introducing nroam (Reddit) - replaces backlink side buffer with end-of-buffer list
    • Find Org Roam notes via their relations (Reddit)
  • Other:
    • Introducing org-xournalpp (based on org-krita)
    • PyOrgMode: A python class for reading and writing orgmode files
    • Flat Habits: Org habits iOS app update
    • Sync Emacs Org Agenda Files via Dropbox Without Conflicts
• Completion:
  • bibtex-actions: a helm-bibtex-like package for selectrum et al
• Coding:
  • Using Emacs as a database client by Arjan van der Gaag
  • Flycheck and HLS - Haskell
  • eglot tramp support just merged!
  • Arch + Spacemacs for python
  • Emacs y lsp-mode
• Mail and news:
  • How to set up Gnus in Emacs for GMAIL in a seven easy steps (and 7 minutes!)
  • emacs, mu4e, mbsync and ProtonMail - doubleloop
• Community:
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
  • From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015) (HN - 170+ comments)
• Other:
  • System Crafters Live! - Emacs Native Comp will change everything • Trying out Eglot • Q&A (2:2:9)
  • emacs subscribe to youtube channels or playlist and open the links with mpv player (33:20)
  • ytel-show: Browse youtube in emacs
  • Best Emacs interfaces
  • diffpdf.el: Transient UI for diffpdf
• New packages:
  • cascading-dir-locals: Apply all (!) .dir-locals.el from root to current directory
  • cfn-mode: AWS cloudformation mode
  • company-ipa: IPA backend for company
  • current-word-highlight: Highlight the current word minor mode
  • desktop-mail-user-agent: Call OS default mail program to compose mail
  • diffpdf: Transient diffpdf
  • flycheck-cfn: Flycheck backend for AWS cloudformation
  • just-mode: Justfile editing mode
  • laas: A bundle of as-you-type LaTeX snippets
  • leaf-defaults: Awesome leaf config collections
  • ligo-mode: A major mode for editing LIGO source code
  • lsp-grammarly: LSP Clients for Grammarly
  • numpydoc: NumPy style docstring insertion
  • ob-haxe: org-babel functions for haxe evaluation
  • org-appear: Auto-toggle Org elements
  • popper: Summon and dismiss buffers as popups
  • seen-mode: A syntax highlighting package for text/kepago
  • sequed: Major mode for FASTA format DNA alignments
  • vulpea: A collection of org-roam note-taking functions

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file and emacs-devel.

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