2024-06-10 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2024-06-10 Emacs news

• Upcoming events:
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://bbb.emacsverse.org/b/iho-h7r-qg8-led Wed Jun 12 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jun 13 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF: Emacs Lisp Hacking Night: Debugging (Hybrid) https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/301454544/ Thu Jun 13 1800 America/Vancouver - 2000 America/Chicago - 2100 America/Toronto – Fri Jun 14 0100 Etc/GMT - 0300 Europe/Berlin - 0630 Asia/Kolkata - 0900 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jun 14 1800 Europe/Paris
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jun 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Jun 22 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • FYI: Option `help-enable-variable-value-editing`
  • But She's a Girl: On the 'Emacs From Scratch' cycle
• Emacs Lisp:
  • How to quickly find the Emacs Lisp function you need when writing Emacs Lisp code - see tips in comments
  • Always Yes in Emacs Lisp (@genegoykhman@mastodon.social)
  • read-duration.el - time duration reader (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • theesm/simple-set-backlight.el - Codeberg.org (@thees@emacs.ch)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Hey mouse, dont mess with my Emacs font size (Reddit, Irreal)
  • A Composition of Emacs Themes that is even ok (06:42, @mekeor@mastodon.catgirl.cloud)
  • Zathura-sync-theme: A package that automatically synchronizes Zathura's colorscheme with your emacs theme (Reddit)
  • A trans-themed Emacs wallpaper (based on Maria Shanina's Desert Nights) (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Vim-style repeatable key bindings for navigating windows in Emacs
  • Christian Tietze: Fold Search Results Away in rg.el
  • Announcing Casual Info (Reddit, Irreal)
• Writing:
  • The Best Emacs Microfeature - fill-paragraph (HN)
  • Finally, paw.el is out. Annotation + Language learning tool in emacs. (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Mario Jason Braganza: Note to Self, Linking to a Headline in an Org File
  • Rethinking and organizing my life with org-mode (part 2) - now.org (@jtr@fosstodon.org)
  • Getting Boxes Done, the Code (@howard@emacs.ch)
  • Emacs Org File Headings Expand And Collapse Via Keystrokes 2024_06_08_14:56:00 (02:08)
  • Emacs Org Mode Emphasis Markers 2024_06_08_02:50:23 (07:52)
  • my-url-linkify with my-add-description, now also sets the description of an ID-link to the heading (@publicvoit@graz.social)
  • orgtre/ankiorg: Emacs anki-editor add-on which pulls Anki notes to Org
  • anki-editor/anki-editor: Emacs minor mode for making Anki cards with Org Mode - maintained fork supports newer Anki features
  • org-krita and org-xournalpp with custom link
  • ob-jira (@bkhl@emacs.ch)
  • Org development:
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Announce removal of searching inside hidden parts of links
    • org-capture-templates: New placeholder to refer to %^{prompt}X answers
    • org-babel-exp-code: Fix exporting src blocks with :var arguments
    • ol: Add support for shortdoc link type
    • org-babel-latex-process-alist: Use latemk or run latex trice
• Denote:
  • Crafting Note-Taking Extensions for Denote - System Crafters Live! (01:58:18)
• Completion:
  • Jeremy Friesen: Adding a Consult Function for Visualizing Xref
  • Emacs Consult Git Is A Way To See All The Files Of A Git Repo In Minibuffer_2024_06_10 00:47:48 (07:41)
• Coding:
  • jeko / Gunit64 · GitLab - tools to fire up SRFI64 tests (@jeko@framapiaf.org)
  • Live-coding: Hot-recompiling Lisp interface design with CLIM
  • Live clim org emacs lisp slime first steps - 5/31/2024, 12:43:14 AM - toobnix (@screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)
  • Kele (Kubernetes management package) 0.6.0 released (Reddit) - kind-specific keybindings, permission-based keybindings, resource listing
  • Mermaid preview using wxwidget browser (Reddit)
  • Kyle Meyer: A Tour of Magit
• Math:
  • Casual Calc 1.6.0 update, renamed casual-main-menu to casual-calc-tmenu (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
• Shells:
  • imenu on Emacs eshell (@xenodium@indieweb.social)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • rcirc-sqlite update: toggle display of server in channel name with ( and ) (@mattof@emacs.ch)
• Doom Emacs:
  • update: doom emacs && dotfile management (07:59) - welcome to the Emacs community, bashbunni!
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Emacs and me
  • Zapisnik sestanka čet 6. 6. 2024 (@len@toot.si)
  • Eric MacAdie: 2024-06 Austin Emacs Meetup
• Other:
  • What Emacs got right, or how I wish modern apps were more like a 50 year old text editor (Reddit)
  • scovl/pomodoro: A simple emacs pomodoro timer (@lobocode@hachyderm.io)
  • Sunrise/sunset and lunar phases
  • Release v0.3 · hammy.el: Simple, programmable timers for Emacs (intervals, one-shot, etc) (Reddit)
  • Irreal: TABs or Spaces
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Using Emacs to Monitor Dbus (Irreal)
  • Announcing a plan to change some Casual package names (Reddit)
  • neetware/emacsOS: EmacsOS Linux installer - installs Emacs and X, changes OS name from Debian/Arch to emacsOS, starts Emacs when X starts
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Maintaining support for really old systems
      • also a note about locale.h and Android 4.4 or earlier
    • Help wanted Re: master 5eb729c0b36 1/2: Report touch events on MS-Windows - just need to build Emacs, verify that the toolbar works and touch-screen gestures are recognized properly
  • cperl-mode.el: Update for the current Perl version 5.040
  • * etc/NEWS: Announce Org update.
  • Text improvements for the documentation of 'some-window' (bug#70949)
  • Report touch events on MS-Windows
  • Add documentation for window-tool-bar package
  • Add new command 'package-vc-log-incoming'
  • (hack-dir-local-get-variables-functions): New hook
  • (find-auto-coding): Provide filename to `auto-coding-functions`
  • read-process-output-max: Increase the default value
  • Go around calling the default process filter (reducing GC churn)
  • Be more efficient when buffering output in Eshell
  • Add new alist entry 'some-window' for 'display-buffer-use-some-window'
  • * lisp/buff-menu.el: Mark all entries in outline.
  • Add 'sqlite-execute-batch' command
  • Add manual entry for treesit-primary-parser
  • Revert "New function treesit-parser-changed-ranges"
  • New commands to show/hide outlines by regexp (bug#49731)
  • New variable 'revert-buffer-restore-functions' (bug#69511)
• New packages:
  • denote-citar-sections: Universal Sidecar sections for citar-denote (MELPA)
  • denote-sections: Universal Sidecar Sections for Denote (MELPA)
  • qwen-chat-shell: Qwen-chat shell + buffer insert commands (MELPA)
  • regswap: Functionality for swapping two regions (MELPA)
  • vim-tab-bar: Vim-like tab bar (MELPA)
  • wiz: Macros to simplify startup initialization (MELPA)

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