2024-12-23 Emacs news

Help wanted:
- Org Mode requests: [FR] Allow SPC to scroll todo/tag selection menu - for users with huge accessible fonts (was: Transient: accessibility problems for users who need to use large fonts)
Emacs updates:
- Emacs 30.0.93 pretest is available (Reddit, Irreal)
- Emacs 31 News Stream VOD (01:26:53)
Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Dec 25 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Dec 26 0130 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Dec 28 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore (announcement)
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jan 3 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Jan 4 0000 Asia/Singapore
- 🧠💻 Emacs User Meetup - 38C3 (@cabhan@social.tchncs.de)
Emacs configuration:
- How to Share Your Emacs Configuration Between Different Machines (and Architectures) with Native Compilation (Reddit)
Emacs Lisp:
- Bringing Emacs Introspection & Debugging to Casual Suite (Reddit)
- callnum.el; Sort library call numbers (Reddit)
- Kisaragi Hiu: Emacs: turning parsed XML/HTML nodes back into text (encoding/printing/writing it out)
Appearance:
- Change theme by sunrise and sunset with circadian package
- konrad1977/neofusion-emacs: Emacs port for NeoFusion theme from Neovim (Reddit)
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: two new Standard themes (‘standard-light-tinted’ and ‘standard-dark-tinted’)
Navigation:
- Extending Built-In Emacs Bookmark Package (@takeonrules@dice.camp)
- Rethinking Minibuffer Movement (Reddit)
- Lisp _expression_ replacements with query-regexp-replace (Reddit)
Dired:
- Automatic fallback to /sudo: for local dired commands
Writing:
- Configuration for super-fast Latex input using AucTeX, CDLatex and a bit of YaSnippet. See karthinks.com/software/latex-input-for-impatient-scholars
- Using Howm in Emacs for Notes and Tasks - System Crafters Live! (02:11:21)
Org Mode:
- New Package: org-ranker.el - sort org headlines by custom rules (Reddit)
- Org-supertag v0.0.2 released - enhance tag system of org-mode (Reddit)
- Emacs Org Attach Various Methods 2024_12_17_14:56:08 (04:04)
- DSLiDE v0.6.0 Your slides now play keyboard macros (Reddit)
- Thanos Apollo: Progress update on org-gnosis & a graphical interface addition.
- What is desireable in an Org to HTML framework?
- How to mirror worg to a hyperdrive
- How I use Emacs to publish "food" recipes
Completion:
- Rahul Juliato: Enhancing icomplete-vertical-mode in Emacs (Reddit)
Coding:
- Meta Redux: State of CIDER Survey (2024)
- Tree-sitter Changes in Emacs 30 (Reddit)
- Run JUnit method or class at point (@skybert@hachyderm.io)
- Трошки про Emacs (21:31) - Clojure
- Using uv in Emacs | MClare Blog - python environment
- Xah Talk Show 2024-12-21 Ep605. Run Code of Python JS Fsharp Etc in Emacs. Are You Based? (53:31)
- Bases de Datos-SQLite en GNU Emacs - encuentro/taller - FTV (@hispaemacs@fosstodon.org)
Math:
- Ruslan Bekenev: Emacs: quick-calc
Web:
- TIL eww-copy-alternate-url
- eww-readable + imenu = quickly jump to different headings in webpage (@marcc@fosstodon.org)
- Adding HTML5 Display Block Elements to Emacs’ SHR (and EWW) Tag Rendering // Take on Rules (@takeonrules@dice.camp)
Mail, news, and chat:
- mastodon.el 1.1.8: adds support for link-hint, bugfixes
- glenneth/discourse-emacs: A modern Emacs package for seamless Discourse forum integration. (@barocio@techhub.social)
Multimedia:
- emacs.tv (Hello emacs.tv, 1700+ videos)
- Sacha Chua: subed.el: Tweaking subtitle times
EXWM:
- How to Use Emacs as a Desktop Environment in Linux with EXWM - Make Tech Easier
AI:
- llm version 0.20 released, with structured JSON output
- chatgpt-shell: LaTeX rendering now turned on by default on LLM shell
- lepisma/onnx.el: ONNX runtime for Emacs Lisp (Reddit) - optimized and portable ML on the edge, also interchange format for neural network models
Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2024-12-18 / week 51
- 00: Why You Want Programmable Tools (04:36, Reddit)
- What can we learn from Neovim’s rise in popularity? (HN)
Other:
- James Dyer: Calculate Number Of Days Between Two Dates - calendar-count-days-region
- glotlabs/gdrive: Google Drive CLI Client (@mousebot@todon.nl)
- HTML Renderer (Emacs) - Masonry (Reddit)
- HTML Renderer (Emacs) - colspan (Reddit)
- Marie K. Ekeberg: 24 Emacs packages and utilities to try while counting down to Jul/Christmas/Holidays
- positron-solutions/moc: Master of Ceremonies. Display & presentation utilities to make presentation packages more effective (Video, Reddit)
- The Semantics and Broad Strokes of Buffer Parallelism
- Andrey Listopadov: Extending Emacs with Fennel
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
  - Re: Some experience with the igc branch next impediments for IGC branch
  - Merging scratch/no-purespace to remove unexec and purespace - discussion, preparing to merge
  - Re: Merging scratch/no-purespace to remove unexec and purespace - ideas
    - Re: Merging scratch/no-purespace to remove unexec and purespace - hints/guesses vs promises
- * lisp/vc/smerge-mode.el (smerge-extend): New command (bug#74509)
- Add support for the ':data' keyword for play-sound in MS-Windows.
- 'seconds-to-string': new optional arguments for readable strings
- Add more documentation for TTY child frames
- NEWS entry for the removal of `redisplay-dont-pause'
- NEWS entry for tty child frames
- New treesit thing 'sexp-list' (bug#73404)
- Delete support for the Conkeror web browser
- New user option browse-url-transform-alist
- Make font-lock face variables obsolete
- Rename the property 'repeat-continue-only' to 'repeat-continue'
- ; * etc/NEWS: Mention 'eager-display' for 'completion-category-overrides'.
- unintern: Drop support for obsolete calling convention
- all-completions: Drop support for obsolete calling convention
- ; * etc/NEWS: Add 'completion-table-with-metadata' to "Lisp Changes".
- * lisp/comint.el (comint-complete-input-ring): New command (bug#74694).
New packages:
- copilot: An unofficial Copilot plugin (MELPA)
- dicom: DICOM viewer - Digital Imaging & Communications in Medicine (GNU ELPA)
- kill-dollar-mode: Remove leading $ from shell-script-like text (MELPA)
- moc: Master of Ceremonies (MELPA)
- ocaml-eglot: An OCaml companion for Eglot (MELPA)
- p4-ts-mode: Major mode for the P4_16 programming language (MELPA)
- russian-calendar: Russian holidays and conferences. Updated 2024-11-22 (MELPA)
- symbol-overlay-mc: Mark highlighted symbols with multiple cursors (MELPA)
- uv-mode: Integrate uv with python-mode (MELPA)

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From:	Sacha Chua
Subject:	2024-12-23 Emacs news
Date:	Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:27:14 -0500