2022-10-10 Emacs news

Help wanted:
- Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes (Reddit)
Upcoming events:
- live: Building minimal Emacs config. - Oct 11 at 12PM EDT (5 PM UTC)
- Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, October 22, 2022
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Oct 14 0900 Vancouver / 1100 Chicago / 1200 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1800 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata – Sat Oct 15 0000 Singapore
- EmacsSF: pumpkin-spice.el https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/288895026/ Sat Oct 15 1100 Vancouver / 1300 Chicago / 1400 Toronto / 1800 GMT / 2000 Berlin / 2330 Kolkata – Sun Oct 16 0200 Singapore
- M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Oct 18 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
- Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Oct 22 0130 Vancouver / 0330 Chicago / 0430 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 1030 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore
Beginner:
- Emacs Debugging Basics (Reddit, Irreal)
Emacs configuration:
- kavulox's Emacs Config
Emacs Lisp:
- Marcin Borkowski: Converting words and sentences to identifiers
- Oauth2 sample flow in Elisp (Reddit)
- Custom Functionality in Emacs vs Neovim (04:15)
Appearance:
- Emacs Font Lock How to highlight multiline text
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Ef themes 0.7.0 for GNU Emacs
Navigation:
- Reveal in macOS Finder (DWIM style) (Reddit)
- Comparison of tools to search for related files
Writing:
- Mickey Petersen: Wordsmithing in Emacs (Reddit, Irreal, Janusworx)
- GitHub - fpiper/hl-sentence-length (inspired by The art of sentence length by Gary Provost, Reddit)
Org Mode:
- You Should Really Learn Org Mode (19:32, Reddit)
- How do you take book notes?
- book-mode: A clean interface for org files (Emacs)
- Mario Jason Braganza: Ticking Off Checkboxes With the Mouse in Org Mode
- Serie - Strukturierte Notizen: Zetteldeft
- Andrea: Self reflection: a favour I own myself (with a bit of org-ql to make it easier!) - finding out which tasks have taken a long time to complete
- Import, export, and integration:
- Org development:
  - org-capture: Add template hook properties
  - Allow returning empty list from post-processing block
Completion:
- (Me) Default emacs completions are good, I swear! (Reddit)
Coding:
- Followup to "Newline behavior like other editors"
- Kisaragi Hiu: Trying to set up Emacs for C++
- hc.el.git - An emacs package for exploring haskell code.
- Emacs as a Kotlin IDE | It's awesome! (18:03)
- eglot + tree-sitter in core emacs will be awesome - discussion in comments
Shells:
- The Emacs Cat: How to Clear the Eshell
Web:
- Preview any link or tweet directly within emacs (Reddit)
Mail and news:
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: notmuch-indicator version 0.2.0
- Org mode - Newsticker RSS feed reader (12:11)
Doom Emacs:
- The Severed Heads (1957) + Doom Emacs Stuff + Working on Website (02:03:04)
Multimedia:
- Marcin Borkowski: Adding timestamps to youtube links
- New package: youtube-sub-extractor.el (Irreal)
Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- The History of Emacs (14:32)
- Emacs Paris: A recorded session
- OCD about Emacs
- What do you tells VSCode and Jetbrains naysayers
- Irreal: Red Meat Friday: Is The FSF Fighting The Previous War?
- How would RMS name emacs, if it was created today?
- Emacs Users: I'm Okay, I Promise — blog.djha.skin - vim perspective
Other:
- Tim Heaney: Emacs 28.2
- Emacs 29 pure gtk running natively on Wayland instead of XWayland (01:04:15)
Emacs development:
- Progress on merging Eglot, a lsp client, to Emacs Core: An Update
- emacs-devel: progress on noverlay branch
- Re: Windows Pseudo Console support (one of the reasons why Emacs on Windows has challenges)
- Error compiling emacsql-sqlite on Windows when `.emacs.d` is in a path with non-ASCII characters · Issue #77 · magit/emacsql · GitHub (2021, another reason)
- Add a VC command to prepare patches
- Add support for the Coptic script (bug#58330)
- * etc/NEWS: Document how to continue using 'linum'. (Bug#58220)
- * etc/NEWS: Add instructions for replacing 'linum'. (Bug#58220)
- New command 'world-clock-copy-time-as-kill'
- Add tramp-kubernetes integration
- Add 'seq-keep'
- * etc/NEWS: Mention new Tramp method "podman". Fix typos.
- image-dired: Shorten several long names
- Move image commands to the 'i' sub map
- Add Ukrainian tutorial
- Make `eq' obsolete as a generalized variable
- * etc/NEWS: Clarify confusing Image-Dired entry. (Bug#58279)
New packages:
- emacsql-pg: EmacSQL back-end for PostgreSQL via pg (MELPA)
- etd: Examples to Tests and Docs (MELPA)
- hcel: Haskell codebase explorer / cross referencer (GNU ELPA)
- himalaya: Interface for the himalaya email client (MELPA)
- icl-mode: Support for IEEE 1687 ICL/PDL (MELPA)
- ob-ffuf: Babel functions for ffuf (MELPA)
- pebble-mode: A major mode for pebble (MELPA)
- ropgadget: Display and filter ROP gadgets of a binary (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, emacs-devel, and lemmy/c/emacs. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for links!

From:	Sacha Chua
Subject:	2022-10-10 Emacs news
Date:	Mon, 10 Oct 2022 21:01:50 -0400
User-agent:	Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)