2022-04-18 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2022-04-18 Emacs news

• Upcoming events:
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Apr 19 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Apr 23 0130 Vancouver / 0330 Chicago / 0430 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 1030 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Apr 27 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1630 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2200 Kolkata – Thu Apr 28 0030 Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Zachary Kanfer: Change Emacs's Default Behavior
  • As new user, Emacs vanilla or Doom Emacs?
  • What Do People Dislike About Emacs Distros?
  • Philip K.: An Experiment: The Emacs Configuration Generator
  • Installing Packages Manually in Emacs (06:45)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Don’t explain, show me examples! A tour of the catch/throw pattern in the Emacs source code (Reddit)
  • Emacs newbie fixes stuff (02:32) - searching forward
  • draw-tree.el (Reddit)
  • Multi-select Tree widget - patch
  • Functional programming: an (Emacs) Lisp view 2/n (57:23)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Introducing "cursory" package for Emacs
  • tree-sitter highlighting rocks
  • Emacs widget icons (Reddit) - you can customize them
• Navigation:
  • ripgrep is fantastic | Emacs is fantastic | BOOM you get the fantastic rg.el
  • With ace-window and link-hint, open links exactly where you want them (Reddit)
  • Moving Around An Emacs Document (09:05)
• Org Mode:
  • A Developer’s Second Brain on Plaintext | by Junji Zhi (Irreal)
  • Org mode math research notes workflow (Irreal)
  • I made an macro + package for more easily defining org-agenda-category-icon-alist (Reddit)
  • [ANN] ob-dsq.el: Use SQL to join and query JSON, CSV, Org tables, all the things!
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • scripter.co | Emacs: Improving ox-hugo exported Org "info:" links
    • Org-mode - Insert Page break, Line break and Horizontal lines (05:37)
    • Dynamic content filtering in org-exported HTML documents with tags
    • Orion: Voice to Org-mode bot
  • Plain Org v1.3 released (link to notes in comments) (Reddit)
• Completion:
  • Consult interface to dash-docs
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: discontinuing development of MCT
• Coding:
  • Gerrit in Emacs | λ (Reddit) - for the Gerrit code review tool
• Web:
  • [ANN] unpackaged/imenu-eww-headings: Offer HTML headings in EWW buffers with Imenu (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Emacs livecoding streamers
  • Doom Emacs now has a Discourse
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: 15x10%
• Other:
  • Emacs as a lawyer? (and a non programmer / writer) - comments have lots of suggestions for using Emacs in a law practice
  • el-secretario: The Emacs Secretary - Manage tasks, feeds, email under a unified interface (Reddit)
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: More vtable fun
  • Manuel Uberti: Restart Emacs
  • Andrea: Moldable Emacs: mold can now update themselves with their :when clause!
  • Emacs Has Builtin Chat :) Those Other IDEs Don't :( (14:52) (Irreal)
  • Chen Bin (redguardtoo): Emacs 28.1 on Debian Linux
• Emacs development:
  • Make it easier to use Emacs as a script interpreter
  • Improve the support for the Brahmi script
  • Allow editing variable values in Help buffers
  • Add new function `flush-standard-output'.
  • Further improve buffer-match-p related documentation
  • Add a new command `restart-emacs'
  • Clarify setopt NEWS entry
  • Add a doc string to xref-current-item
  • Improve exif-field discoverability
  • Document project-kill-buffers-display-buffer-list
  • Document prefix to project-find-file
  • Fix glyphless-display-mode indexing
  • Document completions-sort
  • Mention completion-wrap-movement in relevant commands
  • Document minibuffer-completion-auto-choose/M-up/M-down
  • Bind TAB and <backtab> on buttons
  • Add a new mode for editing and viewing the Emacs NEWS file
  • Add new function buttonize-region
  • Improve support for the Brahmi script
  • Improve buffer-match-p documentation
  • Add rcirc-cycle-completion-flag
  • Document additions of cl-with-gensyms and cl-once-only
  • Make list-times not include zero elements
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Mention that PGTK build needs GTK >= 3.20.
  • Add NEWS entry for `C-h m' change
  • Mention animated WebP images
• New packages:
  • clingo-mode: A major mode for editing Answer Set Programs (MELPA)
  • flymake-collection: Collection of checkers for flymake, bringing flymake to the level of flycheck (MELPA)
  • liblouis: Mode for editing liblouis braille translation tables (MELPA)
  • vundo: Visual undo tree (GNU ELPA)
  • wordreference: Interface for wordreference.com (MELPA)

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