2022-03-14 Emacs news

Emacs pretest 28.0.92 is out (Reddit)
Help wanted:
- I will pay you to write this plugin for me - private comments on a codebase
Upcoming events:
- Emacs APAC: UPDATED Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, March 19, 2022
- M-x Research (contact them for password): "Functional programming: an (Emacs) Lisp view (2/n)" https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Mar 15 0900 Vancouver / 1100 Chicago / 1200 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata – Wed Mar 16 0000 Singapore
- Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Mar 19 0130 Vancouver / 0330 Chicago / 0430 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 0930 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore
Beginner:
- Packages for Emacs beginner
Emacs configuration:
- Decrease Emacs' launch time when using straight.el
Emacs Lisp:
- Jeremy Friesen: Further Into Emacs with Pcase, Backquotes, and Commas
- 使用 C/Rust 开发 Emacs 动态模块 (Using C/Rust to develop Emacs dynamic modules)
Appearance:
- redacted.el (Reddit)
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: demonstration of pulsar.el
- Enhanced my coding experience with svg-tag-mode
- Emacs - highlighting the current word (Reddit)
- TopSpace: Scroll down & recenter top lines in Emacs / get upper margins/padding. (Reddit)
- Kuronami (黒波) Theme An Emacs theme with cool autumnal colors against a deep blue background. 🍁 ❄ 🌊
Navigation:
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: demonstration of logos.el - focus on pages and move between them
- demap.el: A minimap buffer that shows a zoomed out view of the active window (Reddit)
- My boss said use vs code it will give side tree and terminal. I did this for him. (Reddit)
Dired:
- [Dirvish] A minimalistic yet versatile file manager based on Dired (v1.0.0 Release) (Reddit)
Writing:
- Manuel Uberti: Eglot and digestif for LaTeX
Org Mode:
- New Package: Simple Todo workflow on top of Org inspired by magit (Reddit)
- Garjola Dindi: Some Org Mode agenda views for my GTD weekly review
- Andrea: Org Agenda: keep the buffer order untouched after saving all modified org buffers
- helm-org-names: A helm-based interface for working with names of code blocks, tables, and figures in an Org-Mode document
- VP of Emacs: Meeting Notes (03:50)
- How to represent historical timelines
- Emacs TIL: Process Org Files Programmatically
- Did you know that org-mode's source code contains more than 5000 examples?
- org-mac-image-paste — Paste images and cropped PDF clips directly into org files (Mac only)
- Import, export, and integration:
Completion:
- Sample usage of Cape — Completion At Point Extensions
Coding:
- [ANN] A PHP tutorial has been added to lsp-mode docs
- Marcin Borkowski: Proper indentation after a const in Emacs
- emacs-virtual-comment: Virtual Comments for Emacs
- Context Menu in Magit Status Buffers (Reddit)
- Emacs Debug With GDB 2022_03_09_09:17:31 (13:35)
- 1.2. How to Setup Betty Linter Coding Style Tools in Emacs & Vi/Vim | C Programming Language (13:13)
Shells:
- Using Emacs as my Shell (Reddit)
Spacemacs:
- New feature: Display file icon on Spacemacs home buffer
Doom Emacs:
- How to install Doom Emacs 2022 Linux (09:57)
Multimedia:
- versuri - the lyrics package for emacs
Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- Eric MacAdie: 2022-03 Austin Emacs Meetup
- Discord server for Spacemacs
- Tip for searching emacs-devel via public-inbox
Other:
- Stevey's Tech Talk E39 – A guided tour of Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
- Profiling Performance in Emacs (Reddit)
- For those who live inside Emacs, when do you come out?
- Irreal: Rectangle Mark Mode
- Ce serait cool si Emacs pouvait lire des epubs, non? · Yal (Reddit)
Emacs development:
- Discussion of a patch for selecting completions from the minibuffer
- Seperate bytecode stack for Emacs (Reddit)
- New command `gnus-summary-browse-all-urls' bound to "v"
- Don't always escape "." and "?" in `prin1'
- Follow contemporary practices in the Tamil input methods
- EUDC: Support querying all servers
- EUDC: Update save-query-as-kill name and docstring
New packages:
- display-wttr: Display wttr(weather) in the mode line (MELPA)
- logos: Simple focus mode and extras (GNU ELPA)
- norns: Control your monome norns (MELPA)
- osm: OpenStreetMap viewer (GNU ELPA)
- pyvenv-auto: Automatically switch Python venvs (MELPA)
- skerrick: REPL-driven development for NodeJS (MELPA)

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

From:	Sacha Chua
Subject:	2022-03-14 Emacs news
Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2022 23:07:43 -0400
User-agent:	Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)