* 2023-12-18 Emacs news - Upcoming events: - M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Dec 20 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata -- Thu Dec 21 0000 Asia/Singapore - Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Dec 22 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 2000 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin -- Sat Dec 23 0130 Asia/Kolkata - 0400 Asia/Singapore - Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Dec 23 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore - Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Dec 23 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 1000 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1530 Asia/Kolkata - 1800 Asia/Singapore - Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Dec 24 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 1000 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1530 Asia/Kolkata - 1800 Asia/Singapore - Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Dec 27 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata -- Thu Dec 28 0130 Asia/Singapore - Beginner: - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/18iquel/emacs_speedrun_content/][Emacs Speedrun Content]] - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlRaVN93DLk][#emacs movement keys - hands on tutorial]] (01:47) - Emacs configuration: - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/18j8js5/what_are_some_drawbacks_of_using_literate_emacs/][what are some drawbacks of using literate emacs config?]] - [[https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2023-12-18-emacs-org-advanced-literate-conf/][Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: advanced Org literate configuration]] (24:57 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycyxytk1NAQ][YouTube]]) - [[https://github.com/jojojames/.dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/.emacs.d/config/jojo-theme.el][jojojames' Emacs Config]] - [[https://codeberg.org/0x4d6165/nix-configuration/src/branch/master/settings.org][0x4d6165's configuration]] ([[https://hackers.town/@0x4d6165/111545658098325684][@0x4d6165@hackers.town]]) - Emacs Lisp: - [[https://www.danliden.com/posts/20231217-emacs-hooks.html][A quick introduction to emacs hooks]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/18l0exy/a_quick_introduction_to_emacs_hooks/][Reddit]]) - [[https://takeonrules.com/2023/12/17/introducing-extensibility-with-a-macro-a-list-and-a-reducer/][Jeremy Friesen: Introducing Extensibility with a Macro, a List, and a Reducer]] - Appearance: - [[https://christiantietze.de/posts/2023/12/update-modus-themes-mlscroll-colors/][Christian Tietze: Update for modus-themes v4 and mlscroll.el Colors]] - [[https://github.com/mpwang/perfect-margin][perfect-margin:Auto-center emacs windows (works with minimap and/or linum-mode)]] - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/18gjtk8/your_favoritemost_usefull_modeline_segments/][Your Favorite/Most usefull Mode-Line Segments?]] - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/18ian37/my_modern_emacs_ui_setup/][My Modern Emacs UI Setup]] - Navigation: - [[http://yummymelon.com/devnull/personalizing-emacs-doc-navigation.html][Charles Choi: Personalizing Emacs Doc Navigation]] ([[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38621838][HN]], [[https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11839][Irreal]]) - [[http://yummymelon.com/devnull/improving-emacs-isearch-usability-with-transient.html][nfdn: Improving Emacs isearch Usability with Transient]] - [[https://emacs.ch/@Anoncheg/111564336982300632][Turning isearch into a regex search - @Anoncheg@emacs.ch]] - Writing: - [[http://yitang.uk/2023/12/18/jekyll-in-emacs-update-blog-post-title-and-date/][Yi Tang: Jekyll in Emacs - Update Blog Post Title and Date]] - Org Mode: - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFyvzwTp29c][Emacs | Creative non-destruction]] (05:31) - [[https://github.com/SqrtMinusOne/org-clock-agg][SqrtMinusOne/org-clock-agg: Tree-like reports for org-clock records]] ([[https://emacs.ch/@sqrtminusone/111596872572796803][@sqrtminusone@emacs.ch]]) - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/18k5c3c/emacs_advent_calendar_day_16_trevokes_orggtd/][Emacs Advent Calendar, day 16: trevoke's org-gtd package]] - [[https://chainsawriot.com/postmannheim/2023/12/12/missingqa.html][Chung-hong Chan: The missing Q&A of "An Org-Mode based text adventure game for learning the basics of Emacs, inside Emacs, written in Emacs Lisp"]] - [[https://strangeweb.page/@jochie/111542252396070415][Tip about using -i to preserve global indentation - @jochie@strangeweb.page]] - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y75ICmzQV0][Ten Org-mode Extensions You Need to Install! - YouTube]] ([[https://fosstodon.org/@nickanderson/111545721876819255][@nickanderson@fosstodon.org]]) - [[https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11835][Irreal: Literate Documentation with Emacs and Org Mode]] - [[https://notxor.nueva-actitud.org/2019/04/12/como-trabajar-con-sqlite3-desde-emacs.html][Cómo trabajar con SQLite3 desde Emacs]] ([[https://emacs.ch/@hispa/111552665630802206][@hispa@emacs.ch]]) - Org development: - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=7c9a5216bb63f98f7663f8c568a84d77a02ca671][ol-man.el: Enable completion]] - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=ac8b925407b9aed87eacf76e72748c00faf8711c][lisp/org-capture.el: use `org-store-link' for %K values]] - Completion: - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB7rywlahSc][Semantic completing read in #Emacs]] (17:25) - Coding: - [[https://mastodon.social/@rap1ds/111539260075262881][Tip about magit-commit-absorb - @rap1ds@mastodon.social]] - [[https://emacs.ch/@tjh/111594827004121312][Doxygen preamble yasnippet - @tjh@emacs.ch]] - [[https://happihacking.com/blog/posts/2023/dev-containers-emacs/][Dev Containers Part 2: Setup, the devcontainer CLI & Emacs]] - [[http://ag91.github.io/blog/2023/12/11/make-emacs-help-in-creating-an-example-of-scala-classes][Andrea: Make Emacs help in creating an example of Scala classes]] - Evil mode: - [[https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil/pull/1846][Add :retab command by FrostyX · Pull Request #1846 · emacs-evil/evil · GitHub]] ([[https://fosstodon.org/@FrostyX/111551262076446078][@FrostyX@fosstodon.org]]) - Mail, news, and chat: - [[https://presnell.github.io/post/email/][Reading Email with Emacs | Brett Presnell]] ([[https://social.targaryen.house/@swrogers/111551612928408843][@swrogers@social.targaryen.house]]) - Office 365, Oauth2 - [[https://codeberg.org/martianh/lem.el][lem.el updates - view cycling/toggling, display improvements]] ([[https://todon.nl/@mousebot/111550903625201289][@mousebot@todon.nl]]) - lemmy client - Math: - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frb--ezylj0][Emacs, math, latex tips #1]] (03:59) - [[https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11841][Irreal: Laas]] - LaTeX at speed - Web: - [[https://www.reddit.com/gallery/18hcev9][Comfy Wikipedia Reading Experience (eww + imenu-list + shrface)]] - [[https://github.com/karthink/wombag][wombag: A Wallabag client for Emacs]] - read-it-later, archiving webpages - Multimedia: - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/18i1bfs/emms_tag_editor/][EMMS Tag Editor]] - [[https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/12/emacsconf-backstage-making-a-play-list-checking-it-twice/][Sacha Chua: EmacsConf backstage: Making a (play)list, checking it twice]] - [[https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/12/emacsconf-backstage-using-spookfox-to-publish-youtube-and-toobnix-video-drafts/][Sacha Chua: EmacsConf backstage: Using Spookfox to publish YouTube and Toobnix video drafts]] - EXWM: - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=gT9NO-tjrkvLJ14Y&v=A86c6k-M3dI][My Steam Deck EXWM setup]] - Fun: - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/18kcxyp/edit_slay_the_spire_save_files_with_emacs/][Edit Slay the Spire save files with Emacs.]] - AI: - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYVBoGsRDBc][The Awesome Emacs CHATGPT-SHELL package]] (08:48) - Community: - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/18hc301/weekly_tips_tricks_c_thread/][Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread]] - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/18ghyg0/anyone_going_to_37c3_and_up_for_a_meetup/][Anyone going to 37c3 and up for a meet-up?]] - [[https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/87bkanr76o.fsf@localhost/][[SUMMARY] #4 OrgMeetup on Wed, Dec 13, 19:00 UTC+3 - Ihor Radchenko]] - [[https://macadie.info/2023/12/16/2023-12-austin-emacs-meetup/][Eric MacAdie: 2023-12 Austin Emacs Meetup]] - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/18hfso2/emacs_helm_is_maintained_by_one_maintaner_for_11/][Emacs' helm is maintained by one maintaner for 11 years long. His mistake to switch from Paetron made him to lose nearly all his contributors. Consider to donate again?]] - Other: - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfbLMtSTjp8][Como instalar GNU EMACS en XIAOMI POCO M4 PRO | El editor de texto extensible y autodocumentado]] (06:45) - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/18hxs9a/emacs_advent_calendar_14_indentbars_kindicon/][Emacs Advent Calendar 14: indent-bars, kind-icon, org-modern-indent, and more]] - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/18ipu9w/emacs_advent_calendar_day_15_alphapapas_emacs_and/][Emacs Advent Calendar, day 15: alphapapa's Emacs and Org-related packages]] - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/18kx1wj/emacs_advent_calendar_day_17_companymode_vc/][Emacs Advent Calendar, day 17: company-mode, VC, project, treesit.el, ruby, etags-regen]] - [[https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2023-12-12-emacs-multilingual-editing/][Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: multilingual editing (Greek, French, Chinese, etc.)]] ([[https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11837][Irreal]]) - [[https://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2023/12/emacs-hidden-holiday-gems.html][T. V. Raman: Emacs: Hidden Holiday Gems]] - [[https://emacs.ch/@bram85/111580555195721041][Getting gpg-agent to work porperly inside Emacs and Termux - @bram85@emacs.ch]] - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFzdPjeSN8E][Emacs: multilingual editing (Greek, French, Chinese, etc.)]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/18gupdo/emacs_multilingual_editing_greek_french_chinese/][Reddit]]) - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x19XMoMqDBA][Sharing Files from Emacs with Hyperdrive.el]] (01:55:47) - [[http://sydel.exherbolinux.org/][syd.el - configuring a Syd sandbox in Emacs]] - syd: Rust-based sandbox for applications ([[https://asciinema.org/a/627055 ][Asciicast]], [[https://crates.io/crates/syd][Syd]]) - [[https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11845][Irreal: Lem: An Alternative To Emacs?]] - Emacs development: - emacs-devel: - [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-12/msg00123.html][Dropping the dashes when displying command names]] (Zmacs behavior; also [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-12/msg00145.html][maybe making dashes less prominent]]) - [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-12/msg00207.html][[FR] Allow flattened imenu index (was: [PATCH] Add new option 'org-imenu]] - [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-12/msg00416.html][alternative proposal re: completion boundaries]] - [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-12/msg00317.html][cond* design so far]] - [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-12/msg00548.html][Re: cond* - pcase useful for destructuring alists, plists, and structs]] - [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-12/msg00475.html][Re: Turning on savehist-mode by default]] - concerns, maybe careful transition needed - [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-12/msg00205.html][New customizable variable register-use-preview]] - [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-12/msg00584.html][Help wanted for outline-mode treesitter support]] - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=4fc2fcb37d62748ef5fbaeddde91447de69bf2a6][; Document sending extra HTTP headers in NEWS]] - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=346e5712304e66bb1b52387115b89d1966cf184b][Never send user email address in HTTP requests]] - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=3eb421bda38981dbb08c3342833b1c7156156469][(display-buffer): New `pop-up-frames` action alist entry]] - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=c4541a35770fe7925f733fcdaa9e4e3348a3c85c][Offer to show diff against auto-save in recover-file]] - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=5b80894d0a7ff94496c37bad595579c29f5a925c][Support viewing VC change history across renames (Git, Hg)]] - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=67654fe96577823e6fcbd3e88b9779653f8b6201][New macro connection-local-p]] Links from [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs][reddit.com/r/emacs]], [[https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode][r/orgmode]], [[https://www.reddit.com/r/spacemacs][r/spacemacs]], [[https://www.reddit.com/r/planetemacs][r/planetemacs]], [[https://hn.algolia.com/?query=emacs&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story][Hacker News]], [[https://lobste.rs/search?q=emacs&what=stories&order=newest][lobste.rs]], [[https://kbin.social/m/emacs/newest][kbin]], [[https://programming.dev/c/emacs?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New][programming.dev]], [[https://lemmy.ml/c/emacs?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New][lemmy]], [[https://communick.news/c/emacs?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New][communick.news]], [[https://planet.emacslife.com][planet.emacslife.com]], [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4th0AZixyREOtvxDpdxC9oMuX7Ar7Sdt][YouTube]], [[http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/etc/NEWS][the Emacs NEWS file]], [[https://emacslife.com/calendar/][Emacs Calendar]], and [[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-12][emacs-devel]]. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at [[mailto:sacha@sachachua.com][sacha@sachachua.com]]. Thank you!