From 59b7d114b5126cb744fa9a3d2920e83ac2adb445 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sacha Chua Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 09:29:42 -0500 Subject: Update subtitles --- ...-2020-01--emacs-news-highlights--sacha-chua.srt | 503 --------------------- 1 file changed, 503 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020-01--emacs-news-highlights--sacha-chua.srt (limited to '2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020-01--emacs-news-highlights--sacha-chua.srt') diff --git a/2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020-01--emacs-news-highlights--sacha-chua.srt b/2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020-01--emacs-news-highlights--sacha-chua.srt deleted file mode 100644 index 9dd804ea..00000000 --- a/2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020-01--emacs-news-highlights--sacha-chua.srt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,503 +0,0 @@ -1 -0:00:00,000 --> 0:00:04,000 -I'm Sacha Chua, and welcome to EmacsConf 2020. - - -2 -0:00:04,000 --> 0:00:07,000 -To kick things off, here are ten cool things - - -3 -0:00:07,000 --> 0:00:08,000 -that people have been working on - - -4 -0:00:08,000 --> 0:00:10,000 -since the conference last year. - - -5 -0:00:10,000 --> 0:00:11,000 -If you want to follow the links - - -6 -0:00:11,000 --> 0:00:14,000 -or if you'd like to add something I've missed, - - -7 -0:00:14,000 --> 0:00:16,000 -add them to the collaborative pad - - -8 -0:00:16,000 --> 0:00:17,000 -if you're watching this live - - -9 -0:00:17,000 --> 0:00:20,000 -or check out the EmacsConf wiki page for this talk. - - -10 -0:00:20,000 --> 0:00:24,000 -The big news this year was the release of Emacs 27.1, - - -11 -0:00:24,000 --> 0:00:27,000 -a little over two years after Emacs 26. - - -12 -0:00:27,000 --> 0:00:31,000 -Mickey Petersen's notes on the release are a great way - - -13 -0:00:31,000 --> 0:00:32,000 -to find out what's new, - - -14 -0:00:32,000 --> 0:00:34,000 -and John Wiegley's development update tomorrow - - -15 -0:00:34,000 --> 0:00:36,000 -will probably give more details. - - -16 -0:00:36,000 --> 0:00:39,000 -What's coming up for Emacs 28 and beyond? - - -17 -0:00:39,000 --> 0:00:40,000 -One of the branches that people are - - -18 -0:00:40,000 --> 0:00:44,000 -excited about is gccemacs, which compiles - - -19 -0:00:44,000 --> 0:00:48,000 -Emacs Lisp to native code so that it runs faster. - - -20 -0:00:48,000 --> 0:00:50,000 -To learn more, check out the Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code - - -21 -0:00:50,000 --> 0:00:55,000 -presentation from the European Lisp Symposium. - - -22 -0:00:55,000 --> 0:00:56,000 -There was a huge conversation about - - -23 -0:00:56,000 --> 0:00:59,000 -modernizing Emacs on emacs-devel and other places. - - -24 -0:00:59,000 --> 0:01:02,000 -Linux Weekly News has a good summary. - - -25 -0:01:02,000 --> 0:01:04,000 -One of the interesting sub-threads on emacs-devel - - -26 -0:01:04,000 --> 0:01:06,000 -was about using more variable-width fonts, - - -27 -0:01:06,000 --> 0:01:08,000 -which would probably go a long way to - - -28 -0:01:08,000 --> 0:01:11,000 -making Emacs look pretty fancy once people - - -29 -0:01:11,000 --> 0:01:13,000 -sort out the alignment issues. - - -30 -0:01:13,000 --> 0:01:15,000 -It looks like core Emacs will probably - - -31 -0:01:15,000 --> 0:01:18,000 -change slowly in terms of functionality and documentation, - - -32 -0:01:18,000 --> 0:01:21,000 -but starter kits and configuration give people - - -33 -0:01:21,000 --> 0:01:22,000 -a great way to experiment. - - -34 -0:01:22,000 --> 0:01:24,000 -Speaking of starter kits, - - -35 -0:01:24,000 --> 0:01:27,000 -Doom Emacs seems to be growing in popularity. - - -36 -0:01:27,000 --> 0:01:28,000 -It got a big boost thanks to DoomCasts and - - -37 -0:01:28,000 --> 0:01:32,000 -DistroTube videos. So if you're curious, - - -38 -0:01:32,000 --> 0:01:35,000 -go ahead and check those out. - - -39 -0:01:35,000 --> 0:01:37,000 -And for general Emacs topics, - - -40 -0:01:37,000 --> 0:01:38,000 -there have been a ton of other great videos - - -41 -0:01:38,000 --> 0:01:42,000 -from Protesilaos Stavrou, Mike Zamansky, System Crafters, - - -42 -0:01:42,000 --> 0:01:45,000 -and other folks. Good stuff. - - -43 -0:01:45,000 --> 0:01:46,000 -Org continues to be a big reason - - -44 -0:01:46,000 --> 0:01:48,000 -for people to get into Emacs. - - -45 -0:01:48,000 --> 0:01:50,000 -This year, Zettelkasten-based workflows - - -46 -0:01:50,000 --> 0:01:52,000 -became popular as people played around - - -47 -0:01:52,000 --> 0:01:55,000 -with organizing ideas into small chunks - - -48 -0:01:55,000 --> 0:01:57,000 -that are linked to each other. - - -49 -0:01:57,000 --> 0:01:59,000 -org-roam is one of the packages for doing that - - -50 -0:01:59,000 --> 0:02:02,000 -and there are three presentations about it this year. - - -51 -0:02:02,000 --> 0:02:04,000 -There are also non-Org ways to do it, - - -52 -0:02:04,000 --> 0:02:07,000 -such as zetteldeft, neuron-mode, and more. - - -53 -0:02:07,000 --> 0:02:08,000 -People have been experimenting - - -54 -0:02:08,000 --> 0:02:09,000 -with Org's appearance. - - -55 -0:02:09,000 --> 0:02:12,000 -Check these screenshots out for some ideas. - - -56 -0:02:12,000 --> 0:02:14,000 -Coding: Faster JSON processing - - -57 -0:02:14,000 --> 0:02:15,000 -is going to make working with - - -58 -0:02:15,000 --> 0:02:17,000 -code analysis tools better. - - -59 -0:02:17,000 --> 0:02:21,000 -LSP-mode released version 7 and gained more contributors, too, - - -60 -0:02:21,000 --> 0:02:23,000 -so there are probably exciting times ahead - - -61 -0:02:23,000 --> 0:02:24,000 -for making Emacs even more of an - - -62 -0:02:24,000 --> 0:02:26,000 -integrated development environment. - - -63 -0:02:26,000 --> 0:02:30,000 -EAF: The Emacs Application Framework - - -64 -0:02:30,000 --> 0:02:32,000 -has some pretty interesting demos of - - -65 -0:02:32,000 --> 0:02:34,000 -embedded Qt programs in Emacs on Linux. - - -66 -0:02:34,000 --> 0:02:37,000 -Matthew Zeng will give a presentation - - -67 -0:02:37,000 --> 0:02:39,000 -on its architecture and walk through some demos, - - -68 -0:02:39,000 --> 0:02:41,000 -so check that one out too if you want. - - -69 -0:02:41,000 --> 0:02:43,000 -The big real-world change this year - - -70 -0:02:43,000 --> 0:02:47,000 -was COVID-19, of course. It sucks. A lot. - - -71 -0:02:47,000 --> 0:02:49,000 -One good thing that's come out of it - - -72 -0:02:49,000 --> 0:02:52,000 -is that many Emacs meetups have moved online, - - -73 -0:02:52,000 --> 0:02:54,000 -so it's easier to connect with people - - -74 -0:02:54,000 --> 0:02:56,000 -no matter where you are in the world. - - -75 -0:02:56,000 --> 0:03:01,000 -There's one hosted by EmacsATX on December 2 - - -76 -0:03:01,000 --> 0:03:03,000 -and it's about re-builder, leaf, and feather. - - -77 -0:03:03,000 --> 0:03:06,000 -EmacsNYC's next meetup is on December 7 - - -78 -0:03:06,000 --> 0:03:08,000 -and it's about literate programming with Org Mode. - - -79 -0:03:08,000 --> 0:03:10,000 -The Berlin remote meetup was - - -80 -0:03:10,000 --> 0:03:12,000 -just a few days ago on November 25, - - -81 -0:03:12,000 --> 0:03:15,000 -and EmacsSF and Asia-Pacific - - -82 -0:03:15,000 --> 0:03:17,000 -probably have some coming up, too. - - -83 -0:03:17,000 --> 0:03:18,000 -People generally announce the meetups - - -84 -0:03:18,000 --> 0:03:21,000 -on reddit.com/r/emacs, so you can - - -85 -0:03:21,000 --> 0:03:23,000 -look there for updates. - - -86 -0:03:23,000 --> 0:03:24,000 -If you organize one of these, - - -87 -0:03:24,000 --> 0:03:25,000 -please let me know so that - - -88 -0:03:25,000 --> 0:03:28,000 -I can include it in Emacs News. - - -89 -0:03:28,000 --> 0:03:31,000 -Lastly, there's an unofficial survey of the Emacs community. - - -90 -0:03:31,000 --> 0:03:33,000 -It closes on November 30, - - -91 -0:03:33,000 --> 0:03:34,000 -so if you'd like to participate, - - -92 -0:03:34,000 --> 0:03:37,000 -you can fill out the form at emacssurvey.org - - -93 -0:03:37,000 --> 0:03:39,000 -or send it in via e-mail. - - -94 -0:03:39,000 --> 0:03:42,000 -So those were 10 quick highlights from this year. - - -95 -0:03:42,000 --> 0:03:46,000 -If you're curious, check out the EmacsConf 2020 wiki page - - -96 -0:03:46,000 --> 0:03:47,000 -for this talk so that you can follow the links. - - -97 -0:03:47,000 --> 0:03:49,000 -If you'd like to get updates every week, - - -98 -0:03:49,000 --> 0:03:52,000 -you can check out the Emacs News I put together. - - -99 -0:03:52,000 --> 0:03:55,000 -Feel free to send me cool stuff to include. - - -100 -0:03:55,000 --> 0:03:57,000 -Now on to the rest of EmacsConf! - -101 -0:03:57,000 --> 0:03:58,000 -Have fun, and thanks for joining us! - -- cgit v1.2.3