2023-12-04 Emacs news

• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (Octo) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Dec 5 1830 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsATX: Eshell Insights https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/295467667/ Wed Dec 6 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto – Thu Dec 7 0030 Etc/GMT - 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0600 Asia/Kolkata - 0830 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #13 2023 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/11bee38f-c56c-4417-a4c5-0ab81e90ba3f Thu Dec 7 1900 CET
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Dec 8 1800 Europe/Paris
  • Emacs.si: Emacs.si meetup #14 2023 (#online) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/711108f9-1286-4d29-98f3-5043ce2d9ae6 Fri Dec 8 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2000 Europe/Berlin – Sat Dec 9 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Dec 8 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 2000 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Dec 9 0130 Asia/Kolkata - 0400 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Dec 9 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 1000 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1530 Asia/Kolkata - 1800 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Dec 10 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 1000 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1530 Asia/Kolkata - 1800 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • How to learn Emacs?
• Emacs configuration:
  • James Dyer: Describe Character / Face Under Cursor
  • Tory Anderson: Transient for convenience with emms (Reddit)
  • hnarayanan's Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Advent of Code Emacs Lisp — Day 1 (Reddit) - finding numbers and adding them
  • Advent of Code 2023 with Emacs Lisp — Day 2 (Reddit) - sum numbers with conditions
  • AoC Puzzle Skeleton Generator (Reddit)
  • Mike Zamansky: Learning Elisp 15 - cleaning up our minor mode (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Jonas Bernoulli: Transient 0.5 released (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • Fun With Overlays #emacs (00:30)
  • Anything goes: Cycle Through Emacs Themes
  • Maximizing Screen Space with GNU Unifont in Emacs
  • Anything goes: Preventing Emacs Window Resizing on Startup
• Navigation:
  • The Essentials of Emacs Bookmarks
• Writing:
  • Howm: A forgotten gem for note-taking (Reddit)
  • Emacs Goodies - #29 Dictionary (07:18)
  • Emacs Advent Calendar 2: Cyclekey - Quickly cycle through diacritics at point
  • rnkn/freeze-it: Emacs minor-mode to make your previous writing read-only (Reddit)
  • Programming with Steno - YouTube (and in Castilian; from @SequentialDesign@emacs.ch)
• Org Mode:
  • Jeremy Friesen: Emacs Turbo-Charges My Writing
  • org-tidy: 🧹Automatically tidy org-mode property drawers (separate from org-tidy, which handles buffers)
  • [NEW] one.el - Static Site Generator for Emacs Lisp programmers
  • Charles Choi: Running SQL Queries on Org Tables (Irreal)
  • Irreal: More On SQL For Arbitrary Data - ob-dsq
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: the new Denote sort mechanism (Dired, Org dynamic blocks)
• Completion:
  • Emacs Advent Calendar 1: Stable releases of Consult, Corfu, Cape, Vertico and more
• Coding:
  • Emacs Goodies - #30 Whitespace Mode (03:40)
  • emacs-ruff-format: Format Python source in Emacs using Ruff
  • julia-formatter.el: Use JuliaFormatter.jl as backend for indenting code
  • Thank you to the author of the terraform-doc package!
  • Ok I tried Tree-sitter! Here is what I think about it… (1:56:46)
• Shells:
  • Tony Zorman: Integrating Zsh's History Into Eshell
• Web:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Building your own bookmark launcher (Reddit, Irreal)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Tory Anderson: How to PGP decrypt Deltachat email with Gnus
• Multimedia:
  • elfeed-org, elfeed-tube, and elfeed-tube-mpv tip; http_proxy and https_proxy env
• Fun:
  • Crafting Ironsworn in Emacs (14:37, Toobnix, Reddit, Reddit)
• AI:
  • Emacs Meets ChatGPT for Flawless* Grammar and Spelling (YouTube, Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Jeremy Friesen: Mentoring VS-Coders as an Emacsian
  • EmacsConf 2023, day 2: Talks and conclusion (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Analyzing my Emacs time over the last 11 years or so
• Other:
  • easy-kill-extras.el: Extra functions for easy-kill/easy-mark.
  • Package alert: mkleehammer/surround: An Emacs package for inserting, changing, and, deleting surrounding pairs of quotes, braces, etc. (Reddit)
  • Emacs Goodies - #27 Emacs Lock Mode (03:59)
  • Emacs Advent Calendar: hyperdrive.el v0.3.0!
  • Read Confluence from Emacs! And JIRA tickets. With caveats. (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: I am co-presenting hyperdrive.el at EmacsConf 2023
  • session-async.el: Asynchonous processing in Emacs with stateful sessions
  • EmacsMacOSModule: Native Emacs interactive commands to reveal files and share them. For example, AirDrop your current buffer or a selection of dired files.
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Using Common Lisp in Emacs [LWN.net]​ (Reddit, HN, HN)
    • Re: feature that was needed for read-symbol-shorthands - recommendations against more shorthands complexity
    • algol-mode/a68-mode to be added to GNU ELPA - yay old modes being dusted off
    • perl-mode and cperl-mode differences, config
    • supporting opening more info nodes in the browser
    • continued discussion of pcase
  • Add historical option to completions-sort
  • Deselect the selected completion candidate when typing
  • * lisp/dired-aux.el (shell-command-guess-open): New defcustom (bug#18132).
  • Make register-preview-delay obsolete
  • New user option 'shell-command-guess-functions' (bug#18132)
• New packages:
  • bookmark-frecency: Sort bookmarks by frecency (MELPA)
  • flymake-fennel: Flymake backend for Fennel (MELPA)
  • inputrc-mode: Major mode for readline configuration (MELPA)
  • jtsx: Extends default support for JSX/TSX (MELPA)
  • mermaid-docker-mode: Render mermaid graphs with Docker service (MELPA)

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