2022-04-25 Emacs news

• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Apr 27 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1630 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2200 Kolkata – Thu Apr 28 0030 Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue May 3 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Functional Programming in Elisp & Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/EmacsATX/events/285165510/ Wed May 4 1630 Vancouver / 1830 Chicago / 1930 Toronto / 2330 GMT – Thu May 5 0130 Berlin / 0500 Kolkata / 0730 Singapore
  • Emacs Paris (virtual, in French) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Thu May 5 0830 Vancouver / 1030 Chicago / 1130 Toronto / 1530 GMT / 1730 Berlin / 2100 Kolkata / 2330 Singapore
  • Emacs users group Slovenia https://emacs.si/ Thu May 5 1100 Vancouver / 1300 Chicago / 1400 Toronto / 1800 GMT / 2000 Berlin / 2330 Kolkata – Fri May 6 0200 Singapore
• Beginner:
  • LinuxFest Northwest 2022: GNU Emacs & Screen - intro, advanced topics, and Q &A (53:02)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs Configuration Generator (amodernist.com) (Reddit, HN)
  • Christian Tietze: Transient Menus Galore - org-menu, tray
  • Starting fresh?
  • Repeat with me: Avy actions are awesome! (Reddit) - setting up repeatable Avy commands
  • Short Intro to my Emacs Config (11:11)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Programming with Elisp is magic (Reddit)
  • Video demo of my inspector for Emacs (Reddit, Github, emacs-devel)
• Appearance:
  • Christian Tietze: Center Window on the Current Monitor in Emacs, Simplified
  • pulsing-cursor-mode - UI tweak cursor animation: fades in & out. (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: colour theory and techniques used in the Modus themes
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Modus themes: case study on Avy faces and colour combinations
• Writing:
  • Emacs Dictionary Access Within 2022_04_25_18:55:07 (07:19)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode Release 9.5.3 (bugfix) (Irreal)
  • New workflow for reading epubs and taking notes using calibre + org mode
  • Marcin Borkowski: Calculating fuel consumption in Org
  • Org-mode - Field formatters in table calculations (08:15)
  • #3 Org mode profiling meetup on Sat, Apr 23 - includes notes
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • TUG 2021 — Rohit Goswami — Continuous Integration and TeX with Org-Mode (38:48)
    • Org-mode - Hide red rectangles from toc (06:54)
    • Org-mode - Insert horizontal line in footer (05:37)
    • Tip: Org clock status on gnome-shell top-bar
  • Org development:
    • ORG-NEWS: Add list of changes - new folding backend, isearch checks hidden parts of links, org-catch-invisible-edits works for links, preserving folding state of drawers, outline-* functions may be broken, org-at-heading-p has optional argument
    • ob-python improvements to :return header argument
  • Plain Org v1.4 released (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Pict2e-lua: a library for diagrams that is being developed with eev and test blocks - YouTube (8:13)
  • GNU Emacs as a lightweight Java IDE - 3 (Getter/Setter) (00:52, Reddit)
  • [ANN] New Package: Oh My GitHub
  • flymake-rakudo - Another syntax checker for Raku on Emacs
  • GitHub - mohkale/flymake-collection: Collection of checkers for flymake (Reddit)
  • If you have never used wgrep with rg.el to rename a function in several files, try it | that will blow your mind (Reddit, Irreal)
• Shells:
  • Amazing in native Windows 11's Emacs28.1 to get Linux environment as shell-command and interactive shell
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, etc. Thread
• Other:
  • Irreal: Invoking the Messages Buffer
  • Best emacs books
  • Emacs Curated List Of Apps And Utility By The Community 2022 04 24 16:22:17 (03:43) Overview of Awesome Emacs
  • ERC - IRC in Emacs (07:19)
  • Let's do IRC the secure way in Emacs (04:11) erc-tls
• Emacs development:
  • Discussion of PGTK-related misconceptions
  • Discussion of a possible binding for imenu and the merits of M-g i vs M-s i
  • Discussion of time resolution
  • Use (TICKS . HZ) for current-time etc.
  • Support (encode-time (list s m h D M Y))
  • Change the display of menu bindings in Help
  • Add new function `read-string-from-buffer'.
  • Allow 'C-u C-h .' to describe button/widgets
  • Allow not clearing the echo area
  • Add new minor mode word-wrap-whitespace-mode
  • New electric forward slash Eshell module
  • Bind 'imenu' to 'M-g i' globally
  • Allow searching for regexps with a prefix
  • Document how to specify fallback modes
  • Allow several mode: elements in the local variable section
• New packages:
  • consult-ag: The silver searcher integration using Consult (MELPA)
  • cursory: Manage cursor styles using presets (GNU ELPA)
  • flymake-rakudo: Flymake syntax checker for Rakudo (MELPA)
  • stem-reading-mode: Highlight word stems for speed-reading (MELPA)
  • talonscript-mode: Major mode for Talon Voice's .talon files (MELPA)
  • tmr: Set timers using a convenient notation (GNU ELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, emacs-devel, and lemmy/c/emacs. Also thanks to Andrés Ramírez for a few emacs-devel links!