2023-07-03 Emacs news

• Help wanted:
  • EmacsConf 2023 Call for Participation (Reddit)
• Upcoming events:
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social and Org-Reveal https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/294050029/ Wed Jul 5 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Jul 6 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Paris (virtual, in French) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Thu Jul 6 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jul 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Jul 7 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Jul 8 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Jul 8 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/294457289/ Sat Jul 8 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Jul 9 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jul 14 1800 Europe/Paris
• Beginner:
  • What is Emacs? (18:40)
  • Get started with emacs (09:14)
• Emacs configuration:
  • zbelial/pie: Package installer for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Customizing Your Emacs w/ Caleb Ayew-Ew (58:27)
  • Emacs Notes: Migrating to `use-package' TIP 1: Do NOT use a naive `macroexpand' to grok a `use-package' declaration; use this wrapper instead
  • RELEASED: emacs-groundup v0.2 ! - config for task/proj management, Julia, Python, Evil; module-based
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Listful Andrew: Democratize: See in Helpful all usage examples of libraries (Emacs package)
  • So you want to destructure some hash tables, huh? — Listful Andrew
  • Embracing Emacs Lisp hash tables: introducing XHT — Listful Andrew
  • Dot-bind any key–value thing in Emacs Lisp — Listful Andrew
  • p3r7/awesome-elisp: 🏵️ A curated list of Emacs Lisp development resources (HN)
  • xah talk show 2023-06-27 Emacs Lisp, Write HTML/XML Validator, part 2 (01:09:56)
• Appearance:
  • Automatic light/dark switch 2023
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 1.2.0
• Navigation:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: mark and register basics (YouTube 35:34, Reddit)
  • Open new Emacs buffers only in the current window (03:16)
  • Continuous scroll for pdf-tools
• TRAMP:
  • Work on remote servers from the comfort of your local Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
• Dired:
  • An 'Open with' dialog for Emacs (02:39)
  • media-progress - display position where you stopped playing media file in dirvish/dired buffers
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Stitching images from the comfort of dired (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • New package: org-heatmap (Show heatmap in org-mode)
  • org-upcoming-modeline now on melpa (Reddit)
  • orgmunge: A Python package to read, modify and write an Org tree
  • Building Gallery Mental
  • Khoj AI: Search, Chat with your Org-Mode Notes, PDFs, Images and Github repos from Emacs
  • Org development:
    • Rename `org-element-property-1' to `org-element-property-raw'
    • fixup! etc/ORG-NEWS: Document Org API changes
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Document Org API changes
• Completion:
  • Understanding Minibuffer Completion
  • rubenphilipp/aby: Aby is a snippet orchestrator for Emacs. (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • martini97/testrun.el: Test runner for emacs
  • New package : lspce - a simple LSP Client for Emacs
  • How is Magit a better git experience than just using the CLI?
  • nfdn: Mousing with Magit
  • armindarvish/consult-gh: a GitHub CLI client inside GNU Emacs using Consult (Reddit)
  • consult-gh now supports directly opening issues in magit/forge!
• Shells:
  • shell-command-x.el: Extensions for shell commands
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Michal Sapka: Managing email with Notmuch and Emacs
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: notmuch-indicator version 1.0.0
  • Using Emacs 81 Elfeed Webkit (Reddit, Irreal)
• AI:
  • mu4e-snooze and adventures with AI co-programming
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • How many years have you been using Emacs? (Irreal)
  • The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
• Other:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: substitute version 0.2.0
  • emacs lisp live code: make editable temp copy of my buffer (13:41)
  • Will Schenk: Emacs Blogging mode take 2
  • Emacs GIS Smallworld minimal improvement at my company (09:47)
  • Missing about GNU Emacs screen (03:12)
  • Emacs: ¿Como desinstalar el editor emacs de el termux? (01:18)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Considerations for call-process alternative that might block less
  • cperl-mode: Syntax of Perl up to version 5.38 is supported
  • Add user option remote-file-name-access-timeout
  • * etc/NEWS: Announce addition of `duplicate-region-final-position`.
  • cperl-mode: Subroutine signatures are now supported
• New packages:
  • astro-ts-mode: Major mode for editing Astro templates (MELPA)
  • bufferbin: Quick mouse access to buffers (MELPA)
  • eglot-tempel: Use eglot as inline template expander (MELPA)
  • flymake-hledger: Flymake module to check hledger journals (MELPA)
  • haki-theme: An elegant, high-contrast dark theme in modern sense (MELPA)
  • micromamba: A library for working with micromamba environments (MELPA)
  • org-upcoming-modeline: Show next org event in mode line (MELPA)
  • shell-command-x: Extensions for shell commands (MELPA)
  • ushin-shapes: USHIN shapes in org-mode (MELPA)
  • window-commander: Simply execute commands on windows (GNU ELPA)

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