2024-07-01 Emacs news

EmacsConf - 2024 - Call for Participation (Reddit)
Upcoming events:
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/301106856/ Wed Jul 3 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Jul 4 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #11 2024 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/9fa1f342-0447-49f4-881c-42e0689ea80e Thu Jul 4 1900 CET
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jul 5 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- OrgMeetup (virtual) https://bbb.emacsverse.org/b/iho-h7r-qg8-led Wed Jul 10 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 11 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jul 12 1800 Europe/Paris
Emacs configuration:
- use-package :xdg-state
- Elpaca vs Straight.el | Is One Clearly Better Or Is It Up To One's Preference?
- kj/confi-emacs-actual - confi-emacs-actual - Git personal de KJ
- rconybea's Emacs Config
- Cool feature of general.el - binding a keymap
- Charles Choi: Announcing Casual Suite (Reddit, Irreal)
Emacs Lisp:
- Organizing large elisp projects: what's your approach?
Appearance:
- Transparency use-case: poor man's teleprompter
- Transparency use-case: taking notes during video calls
- Wow … the font rendering in Emacs-30 on mac with emacs-plus is just 👌🏽🔥😘
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: The Modus themes can now be extended with a ‘user’ palette
- Alex Popescu: Why Having Multiple Emacs Themes if Not Cycling Through Them
- James Cherti: Emacs: Customizing the Ellipsis (…) in Outline Mode and Outline Minor Mode
Navigation:
- Moving to the beginning or end of whatever you're in the middle of; new package, comparison (@mekeor@mastodon.catgirl.cloud)
- persp-mode stuff · GitHub
- Christian Tietze: Embark: Display Buffer in Dedicated Side Window
Org Mode:
- Emacs Org Features Deadline Scheduling And Add Properties 2024_06_27_02:44:00
- Organisation de tâches orgmode – Cipher Bliss
- Org table - copying, pasting column fields between hlines
- Org development:
  - ob-sqlite: Add ability to open a database in readonly mode
Denote:
- Christian Tietze: Create Journal Note For a Previous Day in denote.el
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Denote version 3.0.0
Completion:
- Vertico Extensions for Emacs
Coding:
- debbugs appreciation
- Emacs's Magit Interface Show Git Cli Like Output Asynchronously 2024_06_29_02:26:23 (07:07)
- New: sedit-mouse.el (Reddit) - mouse-bound structural editing commands
- Emacs's Magit Interface Show Git Cli Like Output Asynchronously 2024_06_29_02:26:23
- Emacs Way Of Seeing Git Aliases While Inside The Magit Mode 2024_06_19_13:23:09
- compile-multi: select composer.json script targets for PHP projects
- Ebrowse, a browser for c++ class hierarchies (Reddit)
- Marcin Borkowski: PGmacs - editing PostgreSQL databases from Emacs
- James Cherti: Emacs: YAML file code Folding and Outlining
Math:
- A New Package by Lars Ingebrigtsen for Making Charts in Emacs: eplot (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
- Lars Ingebrigtsen: Emacs eplot UI vs UX
- Lars Ingebrigtsen: Further Emacs Interface Innovations
Shells:
- Eshell temporarily unset alias (run command without alias)
Mail, news, and chat:
- emacs-opml-to-elfeed-feeds: package for dealing with lists of remote OPML files and interfacing them with Elfeed feeds (@kakafarm@emacs.ch)
Multimedia:
- Wins and Fails in Streaming Music with Emacs (@tacosandlinux@emacs.ch)
Fun:
- Emacs Power Mode base on holo-layer (00:30), flame (01:08), supernova (00:48), lightning (00:52), balloon (01:10), matrix (00:40)
- Emacs gamification (2015)
- Animate an ASCII cat in Emacs (Reddit)
AI:
- karthink/gptel-quick: Quick LLM lookups in Emacs
- New ellama command for reasoning problems
Community:
- Guile, Guix and WASM, the future of the Web? - YouTube (@futurile@mastodon.social)
- An Opinionated Technical Workflow : Thinkpad, Fedora, Emacs (39:57)
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- What are your favorite utilities from Emacs? (Irreal)
- What’s a tool/feature that made you made you go “how have I not been using that?” and has become integral to your workflow ever since
Other:
- Emacs A11y Tip #3: Emacs with speechd-el running on Termux for Android
- linkode.el: Create linkode.org snippets using emacs
- Real-time collaboration between Emacs and iPhone (Reddit)
- Cambalache: a basic (but usable) file manager for WebDAV (Reddit)
- Using Emacs to Monitor Dbus (Reddit) - discussion
- Text Wrap (Reddit) - SVG text wrapping for vertical right-to-left script
- James Dyer: WOWEE - Windows Operating With Emacs Enhancements - AutoHotkey scripts to similutae some Emacs commands and keybindings
- J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: which-key merged in to Emacs
- Irreal: BOM Characters From Windows Files
Emacs development:
- Irreal: The Emacs 30 Release Cycle Has Started
- Re: MPS: dangling markers - MPS issues that need to be solved to avoid crashes
- Considerations for opt-in statistics gathering and lessons learned from emacs-gc-stats
- Trying to figure out with-editor
- Process execution has been optimized on Android
New packages:
- mowie: Cycle Through Point-Moving Commands (MELPA)
- pythontest: Testing executor for python (MELPA)
- template-dumper: Create files from yasnippet templates (MELPA)
- whaler: Minimalistic and customizable project manager (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, kbin, programming.dev, lemmy, communick.news, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!

From:	Sacha Chua
Subject:	2024-07-01 Emacs news
Date:	Mon, 01 Jul 2024 20:38:25 -0400