2023-01-09 Emacs news
Emacs 29: Feature freeze on the emacs-29 release branch (Reddit, Irreal) Upcoming events: Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jan 13 1800 Europe/Paris...
View ArticleFixing my old ambiguous sketch references
At some point during the conversion of my blog from Wordpress to 11ty, I wanted to change my sketch links to use a custom shortcode instead of referring to the sketch in my old wp-uploads directory....
View ArticleUsing bug-hunter to quickly find a problem in my long Emacs configuration
I noticed that author names in my mastodon.el timeline were no longer getting highlighted. Since it behaved correctly when I used emacs -Q, I knew the problem was somewhere in my configuration....
View Article2023-01-16 Emacs news
Upcoming events: (could find another way to list the Mastering Emacs book club meetings; suggestions?) Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, January 28, 2023 M-x...
View Article2023-01-23 Emacs news
[2023-01-23 Mon]: Added emacs.si meetup Upcoming events: Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jan 25 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto -...
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Making highlight-sexp follow modus-themes-toggle
I'm experimenting with using the highlight-sexp minor mode to highlight my current s-expression, since I sometimes get confused about what I'm modifying with smartparens. The highlight-sexp background...
View ArticleAdding a custom header argument to Org Mode source blocks and using that...
I sometimes want to put long source blocks in a <details><summary>...</summary>...</details> block when I export to HTML, so that they're tucked away in a collapsible block. I...
View ArticleChecking image sizes and aspect ratios in Emacs Lisp so that I can...
A+ occasionally likes to flip through pictures in a photo album. I want to print another batch of 4x6 photos, and I'd like to crop them before labeling them with the date from the EXIF info. Most of...
View Article2023-01-30 Emacs news
Upcoming events: Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup 2023 #1 https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/d8cc520f-e3ba-4408-8852-556e5270bc43 Mon Jan 30 1900 CET EmacsATX: Emacs Social...
View ArticleUsing Spookfox to scroll Firefox up and down from Emacs
I open lots of pages in the process of making Emacs News. I like to open the pages in Mozilla Firefox, but I want the keyboard focus to stay with Emacs so that I can quickly categorize the links. I...
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Using Org Babel to learn Rubik's cube algorithms
A+ has started learning Rubik's cube algorithms for permutation of the last layer (PLL) algorithms for the Rubik's cube. To help her focus on just a few at a time instead of getting distracted by the...
View Article2023-02-06 Emacs news
Upcoming events: Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si 2023 #2 online meetup https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/137e242d-5abb-4ba2-bf1d-143119f6baf4 Mon Feb 6 2000 CET M-x Research (contact them for password):...
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Using rubik.el to make SVG last-layer diagrams from algorithms
So I checked out emacs-cube, but I had a hard time figuring out how to work with the data model without getting into all the rendering because it figures "left" and "right" based on camera position....
View Article2023-02-13 Emacs news
Upcoming events: Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, February 25, 2023 Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Feb 17 1200...
View Article2023-02-20 Emacs news
Upcoming events: M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Feb 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700...
View Article2023-02-27 Emacs news
Help wanted: Magit maintainer Tarsius is losing donators at alarming speed. Please help! The Emacs Bengaluru group has no organizer - step up if anyone wants to become one (Twitter) Security:...
View Article2023-03-06 Emacs news
[2023-03-06 Mon] Update: Added https://www.fredgruber.org/post/ess_emacs_default_r_session/ to Org Mode section. Upcoming events: Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #3 2023...
View Article2023-03-13 Emacs news
Security: Re: emacs-29 3c1693d08b0: Fix Elisp code injection vulnerability in emacs Upcoming events: Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, March 25, 2023 M-x...
View Article2023-03-20 Emacs news
Upcoming events: Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Mar 24 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2000...
View Article2023-03-27 Emacs news
Security: Structurally fixing command injection bugs Upcoming events: Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Mar 29 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230...
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