2022-11-14 Emacs news

• Help wanted:
  • org-vcard: seeking new maintainer
  • Emacs User Survey (emacs-devel, Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • Prot is asking for help to move countries
• Upcoming events:
  • CANCELLED Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, November 26, 2022
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Nov 15 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata – Wed Nov 16 0000 Singapore
  • Hispa Emacs (virtual) https://hispa-emacs.org/ Fri Nov 18 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata – Sat Nov 19 0000 Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/289525306/ Sat Nov 19 1100 Vancouver / 1300 Chicago / 1400 Toronto / 1900 GMT / 2000 Berlin – Sun Nov 20 0030 Kolkata / 0300 Singapore
  • CANCELLED Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Nov 26 0030 Vancouver / 0230 Chicago / 0330 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 0930 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • eglot tip: build from emacs source with straight.el
  • emacs early-init.el and general tips and tricks (47:41)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Zwitterionic digressions - Get user inputs in Emacs Lisp (Reddit)
  • [NEW] jack is a HTML renderer library for Emacs Lisp | you might find it useful (Reddit)
  • shortdoc appreciation (Reddit)
  • Xah Talk Show 2022-11-10 Emacs Lisp Write a Python Mode from Scratch, and Why Python Sucks (50:11)
  • Learn how to write an Emacs mode that highlights lines starting with the dollar sign (22:01)
• Appearance:
  • GitHub - erickgnavar/cloak-mode: A minor mode to hide sensitive values in buffers per major mode (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • GNU Emacs: Create directory in dired-mode (00:55)
  • GNU Emacs: Show/hide dot files. (00:21)
• Writing:
  • Ben Simon: Wordsmithing with Emacs (Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • Jean-Christophe Helary: New Capture app, with org-protocol this time.
  • GitHub - mmagnus/OrgModeClockingXBar: OrgModeClockingXBar - See what you are working on ;-) [if using orgmode/clocking]​ (Reddit)
  • Org development: ox-icalendar: Create export backend options for deadline/scheduled-summary-prefix defcustoms
• Coding:
  • [ANN] Gitstatus-el : fast and asynchronous Git status information for UI (Reddit)
  • phpinspect.el
  • Simple personal menu web page built with Emacs Lisp, Jack html generator and hyperscript (02:11)
  • XLSP Can't Save Emacs (06:57)
• Math:
  • Convert numbers in different bases with the Emacs package Calc (Reddit)
  • How to assign values to variables in Emacs GNU Calc (07:41)
  • Getting Started With GNU Emacs Calculator (calc) (09:38)
• Shells:
  • Dynamic buffer-name in term-mode | ansi-term, rename-buffer, after-change-functions, add-hook (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • I feel stuck in my emacs learning curve.
  • Shower thoughts on how Emacs follows Unix philosophy (HN, Reddit, stormrider, Irreal))
  • Mastodon instance for Emacs users and FOSS enthusiasts (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • A parallel universe where Emacs is the popular editor (join us!) Mastodon (Reddit)
  • In the 1990s a piece of Germany’s air traffic control software ran on Emacs (2021, HN)
  • Lucid Energize Demo VHS 1993
• Other:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs: quickly killing processes (Reddit, HN)
  • Mindmaps in Emacs - plantuml
  • New Package: tochemfig.el - Make Emacs write chemfig code from molfile or SMILES. (Reddit)
  • I added a simple hook in emacs to the GPT-3 API – actions that are a tiny complexity level above what I usually use kbd macros for (like smart capitalization) easily become possible to automate! (Reddit)
  • Installing Emacs 28.2 on a Chromebook (The Emacs Mega Tutorial Continues …) (06:57)
  • 10 Hour Emacs Compilation (09:59:07)
  • 4 Hours of Emacs (03:53:12)
  • ~declantsien/WREmacs - sourcehut git WebRender (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • progress on tree-sitter support for C-like languages (earlier)
    • emacs-devel: notes on tree-sitter and c-sharp
    • things to extract from cc-mode
  • Shorthands discussions:
    • A short defense of shorthands.el (but CL packages are still better)
    • the story from the beginning
    • shorthands doesn't negate the need for cl packages; (complications with backwards compatibility)
    • more discussion of challenges
  • * lisp/minibuffer.el (set-message-functions): New user option.
  • Add to /etc/NEWS a mention of the new C++20 support in CC Mode
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Mention that order of overlays might change. (Bug#59067)
  • EUDC: Add ecomplete and mailabbrev backends
  • EUDC: Add eudc-ignore-options-file customization
• New packages:
  • beans: Major mode for Beans grammar (MELPA)
  • corfu-prescient: Corfu integration (MELPA)
  • flymake-elisp-config: Setup load-path for flymake on Emacs Lisp mode (MELPA)
  • gitstatus: Common front-end for `gitstatusd' (MELPA)
  • glue: Emacs - Common Lisp interop using SLIME or SLY (MELPA)
  • jarchive: Open project dependencies in jar archives (GNU ELPA)
  • lurk-mode: A major mode for editing lurk files (MELPA)
  • ob-lurk: Evaluate lurk code blocks in org mode (MELPA)
  • org-rainbow-tags: Colorize org tags automatically (MELPA)
  • ptree: Property tree data structure (MELPA)
  • vertico-prescient: Vertico integration (MELPA)
  • zk-desktop: Desktop environment for zk (MELPA)

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