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+WEBVTT
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+I'm Sacha Chua, and here are
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+ten Emacs News highlights for 2021.
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+If you want to follow the links,
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+check out the wiki page at
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+https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/news/ .
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+1. The Emacs developers are currently
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+working on Emacs 28.1,
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+which will be the next major release.
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+John Wiegley will share more Emacs 28 details
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+in his update, so check out his talk.
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+Andrea Corallo's giving a talk
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+on native compilation too.
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+2.
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+Org Mode is now at version 9.5.
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+New features include
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+a library for managing citations,
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+asynchronous session support
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+for code blocks,
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+and better control
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+of your agenda's appearance.
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+If you've been getting your Org packages
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+from Org ELPA,
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+you can update your configuration
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+to get Org from GNU ELPA
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+and org-contrib from NonGNU ELPA.
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+The new release of the Org Roam package
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+should be a faster and more consistent way
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+to use Org to manage a knowledgebase,
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+and org-roam-ui looks pretty snazzy.
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+The best way to keep up with Org changes
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+is to check out the blog This Month in Org.
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+3.
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+New Magit major release!
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+Jonas Bernoulli has split some functionality
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+into other packages so that
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+Emacs Lisp developers can use them, such as
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+magit-section, transient, and forge.
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+Here's an example of using magit-section
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+to manage groups of buffers.
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+You can learn more about Transient
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+in the talk on self-describing
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+smart domain-specific languages or DSLs.
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+4.
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+In terms of smaller packages, there's been
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+a lot of activity around completion.
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+Karthik has a great diagram,
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+and Prot explains how things work together.
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+I think the idea is that instead of having
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+one large completion system
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+like Helm or Icicles, you can choose
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+a few different, smaller packages
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+and configure them to work together.
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+If you're curious about this,
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+you might start with either selectrum
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+or vertico, which are both completion interfaces,
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+add marginalia for more information,
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+and try consult for many useful
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+completing commands.
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+There are so many options,
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+so it might be useful to check out
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+some discussions.
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+5.
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+Embark is usually mentioned as part of
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+that group of packages,
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+but it's well worth looking into
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+even if you use a different system.
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+Embark lets you have context-sensitive shortcuts
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+that work on things in buffers, minibuffers,
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+and even collections of things.
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+You can also use it
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+when you start doing one command
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+and then decide to do a different one instead.
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+For more ideas, check out
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+Fifteen Ways to Use Embark.
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+6.
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+Now that there are Emacs Lisp bindings
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+for tree-sitter, we can work more easily
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+with the structure of code instead of
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+just using regular expressions.
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+Check out the talk
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+on Tree-edit and structural editing
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+to learn more.
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+You can use tree-sitter for
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+intelligent snippets that get information
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+from the code around them,
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+editing Lisp expressions,
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+and navigating text objects in Evil mode.
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+(That's when Emacs is pretending to be Vi.)
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+Dynamic modules help us add more to Emacs
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+than Emacs Lisp easily offers,
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+such as structural editing in OCaml
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+and using Rust to figure out parentheses
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+and indentation for Lisp.
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+7.
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+Collaborative editing is now much easier
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+since the CRDT package is in GNU ELPA.
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+It allows multiple people to edit
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+the same file over the network,
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+using their own Emacs.
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+This means you can keep your own config
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+and keybindings, yay!
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+Watch the Emacs Research Group talk
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+for an example of how several people
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+used it to work together.
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+8.
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+In case you're still under the impression
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+that Emacs is just a text editor,
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+some folks have been working on
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+pretty neat graphical experiments.
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+These OpenGL bindings for Emacs Lisp
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+use an embedded xwidget,
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+while other prototypes use the SVG support
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+that's built into Emacs
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+for Gantt charts,
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+scribbles,
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+and even diagrams.
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+The color-picker from that one
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+looks particularly useful for CSS.
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+If you want to play around with adding SVGs
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+to your files and interfaces,
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+svg-icon
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+and svg-lib
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+might be good places to start. (Reddit)
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+Of course, there's always a place
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+for ASCII art,
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+especially with the new boxy package
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+that you can use for org files,
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+imenu navigation,
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+and even things in real life.
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+9.
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+There have been a lot of great posts, videos,
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+and livestreams about Emacs this year.
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+In addition to the ones
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+from System Crafters,
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+Emacs Elements,
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+and Protesilaos,
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+John Kitchin
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+and Mike Zamansky
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+are back, hooray!
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+And Marcin Borkowski has just finished
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+writing an intermediate textbook
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+Emacs Lisp, too!
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+10.
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+Lastly, if you want to chat
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+with other Emacs folks
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+and get help on Emacs, Org Mode,
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+or other topics,
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+the #emacs and #org-mode
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+Internet Relay Chat or IRC channels
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+are now on the libera.chat network
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+instead of Freenode.
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+If you'd like to add something I've missed,
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+please add them to the wiki page,
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+or e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com .
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+That's all for this quick review.
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+Enjoy the rest of EmacsConf 2021!