2024-08-12 Emacs news

• Help wanted:
  • Continued need for people who can help take care of the MS Windows port
• Upcoming events:
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://bbb.emacsverse.org/b/iho-h7r-qg8-led Wed Aug 14 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 15 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Aug 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Aug 24 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • How to Install and Use Emacs in Linux (@linuxtldr@noc.social)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Marcin Borkowski: How to require confirmation before launching an Emacs command
  • Irreal: Suggestions For A Slow Emacs
  • Chris Maiorana: Control-Excess: The Elegant Simplicity of Vanilla Emacs
  • Shout out to this starter-kit: Minimal-Emacs
  • Configuración de Emacs Vanilla - Hardlimit (@salvari@mastodon.gal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: copy file to many directories
  • Ep572, Emacs Lisp, Validate Matching Brackets (02:24:46), part 2 (01:08:56)
• Appearance:
  • Anand Tamariya: Faux Bold and Italic (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ‘standard-themes’ version 2.1.0
• Navigation:
  • Alex Popescu: Fantastic Configuration for Emacs view-mode
• Writing:
  • Using Emacs with LaTeX on FreeBSD - Zoltan Kiraly (@hnygd@mastodon.africa)
  • The Best Emacs Microfeature fill-paragraph (Reddit, Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • Find your tasks instantly when you need to - 5 Custom Org Agenda Views for Productivity (33:40, Reddit)
  • Quickly adding org-edna blockers from the kill ring (@MenacingMecha@mastodon.gamedev.place)
  • Fix: Better org-agenda custom view if you're using org-roam (Reddit)
  • Russell Adams [ML:Org mode] (2024) Speedup on large file after reconfiguring whitespace-mode (Reddit)
  • Refactoring Emacs Config using Org
  • Jeremy Friesen: Exporting Org Mode Elfeed Links
  • Generación de Sitio Web con Emacs (17:22)
  • Org development:
    • org-mode-flyspell-verify: Do not disable flyspell inside LOGBOOK drawers
    • ob-R, ob-julia: Obey babel working dir conventions with session
    • org-cancel-repeater: Cancel all the repeaters
• Completion:
  • Emacs Commands Explanation Via Marginalia Annotation 2024_08_12_04:10:20 (07:23)
• Coding:
  • Jonas Bernoulli: Magit 4.0 released (Reddit, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, Irreal)
  • Haskell Emacs workflow (01:24)
  • Magnus: Removing symlink question - vc-follow-symlinks, vc-handled-backends
• Math:
  • Contextual Interfaces in Casual Calc (Reddit, Irreal)
• Shells:
  • My Eshell Setup (Reddit)
  • Eshell Quality Improvements (15:36)
• Web:
  • Nicolas Martyanoff: Controlling link opening in Emacs (lobste.rs)
• Multimedia:
  • James Dyer: Ready Player Mode with a little elisp Tweak
  • Ready Player Mode - Downloading/updating album artwork metadata experiment
  • James Dyer: Ready Player Mode different Utilities for Video and Audio!
• Community:
  • My Notes On Emacs & Lisp In The Stack Overflow Developers Survey 2024 – literatelisp.eu (@thees@emacs.ch)
  • abcdw offering community pair programming sessions (interactive dev with Guile and Emacs, etc.)
  • I want to create a non-trivial package for emacs - discussion has some notes on help wanted, tips for picking an idea
• Other:
  • NANO read functions, taking advantage of margins
  • Irreal: What Does It Mean For Emacs To Be A Lisp Machine
  • Thanos Apollo: Rewriting Gnosis: 0.4.0 release - personal knowledge management
• Emacs development:
  • Explanation of what happens when there's a segfault in a shared library loaded by Emacs
  • Looking for metrics or experience reports on macOS build - unstable or okay?
    • Explanation of what the NS port and why it's unmaintained
  • Debugging tips for testing on Windows
• New packages:
  • kubed: Kubernetes, Emacs, done! (GNU ELPA)
  • plz-media-type: Plz Media Types (GNU ELPA)
  • ulisp-mode: Major mode for editing and evaluate uLisp (MELPA)

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