2024-12-30 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2024-12-30 Emacs news

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • 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 d0000 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jan 8 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 9 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jan 10 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • Repaying emacs configuration debt (@naiquevin@fosstodon.org)
  • inktvis75/lv-emacs: My Emacs Configuration (@inktvis75.bsky.social)
  • Embarkを使う15の方法 | Emacs JP
  • kcarta/.emacs.d: My personal Emacs config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Watching variable changes - add-variable-watcher
  • log101: AoC was a great opportunity to learn Emacs
  • dimiro1/xid.el: An implementation of the XID specification (https://github.com/rs/xid) for Emacs. (Reddit)
  • Dibujando figuras con Emacs (@Jose_A_Alonso@mathstodon.xyz)
• Appearance:
  • Boxes everywhere (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ‘standard-themes’ version 2.2.0
• Navigation:
  • Alex Popescu: easysession.el Emacs Package for Handling Sessions
  • Emacs를 위한 트리 레이아웃 파일 탐색기 Treemacs 기본 사용법 - (emacsian ohyecloudy)
• TRAMP:
  • Cleanup TRAMP connections prior to sleeping with Hammerspoon
• Writing:
  • mhayashi1120/Emacs-langtool: LanguageTool for Emacs (@st3fan@fedi.caliandroid.de)
  • Howm tip: howm-list-toggle-title
  • Trope-Mode: An Emacs major mode for the TV Tropes markup language (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [TASK] Rewriting org-pcomplete into capf backend (was: Completions Registry)
  • Emacs for Students of Life🖊📖 (29:12)
  • Emacs for writing prose - Applications - Doom Emacs Discourse (2022)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: How I handled projects in Emacs org-mode in 2024
  • Task Repeaters in Org Mode (@al3x@hachyderm.io)
  • Using Emacs and Org-mode as a static site generator (@ogbe.net)
  • Meeting notes #14 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]​] on Wed, Dec 11, 19:00 UTC+3 (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Org 2 Web Site
  • Keyboard Macros in Your Presentations (Reddit)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: tone down Org citations on demand
    • James Dyer: Exploring Static Website Publishing with Org Publish
    • Recreating the Cortex Theme Journal in Emacs Org Mode | Mark's Project Blog (@mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)
    • Sacha Chua: Linking to Org Babel source in a comment, and making that always use file links
    • Making Tag Pages in an Org Mode Blog (@randyridenour@zirk.us)
    • Capturing slack messages directly into Emacs orgmode inbox (Reddit)
    • Adding macOS tags to my Org-Roam File Organization Workflow (06:51)
  • Org development:
    • ox-odt: Avoid putting forbidden characters into ODT xml
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Document fixes in the org-protocol bookmarklets
    • ob-calc: Format vector and matrix results as Org tables
    • Add new option `org-edit-keep-region'
    • ox-beamer: Add onlyenv to the beamer environments
    • ox-texinfo: Support numeric values of `toc' in `#+OPTIONS'
    • Add `yank-media' handler for LibreOffice Calc tables
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: sequence notes with new ‘denote-sequence.el’
• Completion:
  • You can press SPC in the M-x minibuffer instead of "-".
• Coding:
  • Karthik Chikmagalur: Fringe Matters: Finding the Right Difference - diff-hl
  • Alvaro Ramirez: symbol-overlay-mc now on MELPA (Reddit)
  • The Emacs Cat: Python Programming in Emacs (Irreal)
  • Hyprlang-ts-mode is now on Melpa
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: sxhkdrc-mode version 1.1.0
  • Meta Redux: State of CIDER Survey (2024)
• Web:
  • chmouel/isgd.el: is.gd url shortener interface to emacs (@chmouel@fosstodon.org)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Notmuch tip: M-RET (notmuch-tree-from-search-thread)
  • Quickly Switch Between HTML and Plain Text in mu4e - Top Bug Net (Irreal)
• AI:
  • TIL: If you've issues with wrapping long lines in gptel.el, just edit the system message and tell it to break lines but not code
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2024-12-25 / week 52 - setq-mode-local, default t binding, nameless
  • How I Emacs (#1) - Kris Carta's personal blog - six months in
  • Sacha Chua: EmacsConf 2024 notes (long HN discussion)
  • Sacha Chua: emacs.tv (Reddit)
  • XEmacs internals manual (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • lets make a midi controller with qmk - YouTube (@pulusound.fi)
• Other:
  • xFA25E/pueue: Emacs interface for Pueue (@jnpn@mastodon.social) - task manager
  • Ledger: query and insert an account
  • Ledger tip: (add-hook 'ledger-report-mode-hook 'compilation-minor-mode)
  • Embracing the eternal Sexp wisdom with the GNU - configuring your life, workflows and websites with Lisps, Guile Scheme, Guix, Emacs, etc. (Reddit, HN)
  • Much Ado About Emacs 005 - Bicycle For Your Mind - notes, scroll page without moving point
  • hyperdrive.el v0.5.2 bugfix release
  • Emacs using the lucid toolkit is blazingly fast
  • [ANN] MoC. Buffer Text to Video & Presentation Content, Elisp Replay, and Related Gizmos (Reddit)
  • EmacsConf 2024 Playlist | Playlist
  • Irreal: PSA: The GPG/Emacs Interaction Bug Is Fixed
  • Emacs using the lucid toolkit is blazingly fast (Irreal)
  • Introducing Candyshop - Simplify Your Emacs Workspace on OSX!
  • enthdegree/kobo-emacs: Steps to get emacs running on a Kobo Clara BW
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • SIGPROF + SIGCHLD and igc: igc garbage collector and signals (possible refactor)
      • idea on how to make a safer profiler
    • Re: Some experience with the igc branch: to fork or not to fork
      • documentation about garbage collection
      • issues doing reverse debugging on Windows
      • thinking about how to get a backtrace
      • figuring out what needs to be done in the signal handler and what can be done outside it
    • Re: igc, macOS avoiding signals: using tracing frameworks?
    • Discussion with MPS people
    • Re: Tree-sitter maturity: vendoring the grammars
  • Treesit support for show-paren-mode (bug#75122)
  • Add new variable 'up-list-function' for 'treesit-up-list'
  • Add new variable 'down-list-function' for 'treesit-down-list'
  • Add new variable 'forward-list-function' for 'treesit-forward-list'
  • Make browser windows pop up when browsing URLs on Wayland
  • Drop support form gnome-moz-remote from browse-url
  • New: treesit-explore, treesit-aggregated-simple-imenu-settings; treesit-explore-mode now supports local parsers
  • Add treesit-language-display-name
• New packages:
  • hyprlang-ts-mode: Major mode for editing hyprland configuration files (MELPA)
  • org-shortcut: Bindings for shortcut.com in org-mode (MELPA)
  • portage-modes: Major modes for editing Portage config files (MELPA)
  • selected-window-contrast: Highlight by brightness of text and background (MELPA)

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