From bb1ff477aa51923dab3681378e84e17850512683 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sacha Chua Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 17:21:30 -0500 Subject: Update status for montessori --- ...021-news--emacs-news-highlights--sacha-chua.vtt | 490 --------------------- 1 file changed, 490 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 2021/captions/emacsconf-2021-news--emacs-news-highlights--sacha-chua.vtt (limited to '2021/captions/emacsconf-2021-news--emacs-news-highlights--sacha-chua.vtt') diff --git a/2021/captions/emacsconf-2021-news--emacs-news-highlights--sacha-chua.vtt b/2021/captions/emacsconf-2021-news--emacs-news-highlights--sacha-chua.vtt deleted file mode 100644 index 3b8f2db3..00000000 --- a/2021/captions/emacsconf-2021-news--emacs-news-highlights--sacha-chua.vtt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,490 +0,0 @@ -WEBVTT - -00:00.003 --> 00:01.519 -I'm Sacha Chua, and here are - -00:01.519 --> 00:03.754 -ten Emacs News highlights for 2021. - -00:03.754 --> 00:05.305 -If you want to follow the links, - -00:05.305 --> 00:06.846 -check out the wiki page at - -00:06.846 --> 00:11.024 -https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/news/ . - -00:11.024 --> 00:13.442 -1. The Emacs developers are currently - -00:13.442 --> 00:15.346 -working on Emacs 28.1, - -00:15.346 --> 00:17.119 -which will be the next major release. - -00:17.119 --> 00:18.442 -Native compilation should - -00:18.442 --> 00:19.959 -make everything way faster, - -00:19.959 --> 00:21.476 -and emoji support will probably - -00:21.476 --> 00:22.549 -make things more fun. 😎👍 - -00:22.549 --> 00:25.133 -John Wiegley will share more Emacs 28 details - -00:25.133 --> 00:26.913 -in his update, so check out his talk. - -00:26.913 --> 00:28.783 -Andrea Corallo's giving a talk - -00:28.783 --> 00:30.418 -on native compilation too. - -00:30.418 --> 00:31.206 -2. - -00:31.206 --> 00:33.732 -Org mode is now at version 9.5. - -00:33.732 --> 00:35.086 -New features include - -00:35.086 --> 00:36.935 -a library for managing citations, - -00:36.935 --> 00:38.414 -asynchronous session support - -00:38.414 --> 00:39.375 -for code blocks, - -00:39.375 --> 00:40.342 -and better control - -00:40.342 --> 00:41.595 -of your agenda's appearance. - -00:41.595 --> 00:43.372 -If you've been getting your Org packages - -00:43.372 --> 00:44.506 -from Org ELPA, - -00:44.506 --> 00:46.128 -you can update your configuration - -00:46.128 --> 00:47.896 -to get Org from GNU ELPA - -00:47.896 --> 00:50.155 -and org-contrib from NonGNU ELPA. - -00:50.155 --> 00:52.278 -The new release of the Org Roam package - -00:52.278 --> 00:54.185 -should be a faster and more consistent way - -00:54.185 --> 00:56.060 -to use Org to manage a knowledgebase, - -00:56.060 --> 00:58.423 -and org-roam-ui looks pretty snazzy. - -00:58.423 --> 01:00.531 -The best way to keep up with Org changes - -01:00.531 --> 01:02.556 -is to check out the blog This Month in Org. - -01:02.556 --> 01:03.439 -3. - -01:03.439 --> 01:05.469 -New Magit major release! - -01:05.469 --> 01:07.781 -Jonas Bernoulli has split some functionality - -01:07.781 --> 01:09.557 -into other packages so that - -01:09.557 --> 01:11.719 -Emacs Lisp developers can use them, such as - -01:11.719 --> 01:14.049 -magit-section, transient, and forge. - -01:14.049 --> 01:16.502 -Here's an example of using magit-section - -01:16.502 --> 01:17.773 -to manage groups of buffers. - -01:17.773 --> 01:19.333 -You can learn more about Transient - -01:19.333 --> 01:20.842 -in the talk on self-describing - -01:20.842 --> 01:23.538 -smart domain-specific languages or DSLs. - -01:23.538 --> 01:24.320 -4. - -01:24.320 --> 01:26.545 -In terms of smaller packages, there's been - -01:26.545 --> 01:28.625 -a lot of activity around completion. - -01:28.625 --> 01:30.292 -Karthik has a great diagram, - -01:30.292 --> 01:32.459 -and Prot explains how things work together. - -01:32.459 --> 01:34.414 -I think the idea is that instead of having - -01:34.414 --> 01:36.066 -one large completion system - -01:36.066 --> 01:38.344 -like Helm or Icicles, you can choose - -01:38.344 --> 01:40.110 -a few different, smaller packages - -01:40.110 --> 01:41.869 -and configure them to work together. - -01:41.869 --> 01:43.129 -If you're curious about this, - -01:43.129 --> 01:45.159 -you might start with either selectrum - -01:45.159 --> 01:47.871 -or vertico, which are both completion interfaces, - -01:47.871 --> 01:50.443 -add marginalia for more information, - -01:50.443 --> 01:52.222 -and try consult for many useful - -01:52.222 --> 01:53.233 -completing commands. - -01:53.233 --> 01:54.279 -There are so many options, - -01:54.279 --> 01:55.867 -so it might be useful to check out - -01:55.867 --> 01:56.714 -some discussions. - -01:56.714 --> 01:57.477 -5. - -01:57.477 --> 01:59.531 -Embark is usually mentioned as part of - -01:59.531 --> 02:00.607 -that group of packages, - -02:00.607 --> 02:02.196 -but it's well worth looking into - -02:02.196 --> 02:03.895 -even if you use a different system. - -02:03.895 --> 02:06.417 -Embark lets you have context-sensitive shortcuts - -02:06.417 --> 02:08.796 -that work on things in buffers, minibuffers, - -02:08.796 --> 02:10.768 -and even collections of things. - -02:10.768 --> 02:11.737 -You can also use it - -02:11.737 --> 02:12.912 -when you start doing one command - -02:12.912 --> 02:15.012 -and then decide to do a different one instead. - -02:15.012 --> 02:16.271 -For more ideas, check out - -02:16.271 --> 02:17.495 -Fifteen Ways to Use Embark. - -02:17.495 --> 02:18.285 -6. - -02:18.285 --> 02:20.163 -Now that there are Emacs Lisp bindings - -02:20.163 --> 02:22.139 -for tree-sitter, we can work more easily - -02:22.139 --> 02:23.799 -with the structure of code instead of - -02:23.799 --> 02:25.461 -just using regular expressions. - -02:25.461 --> 02:26.209 -Check out the talk - -02:26.209 --> 02:27.804 -on Tree-edit and structural editing - -02:27.804 --> 02:28.593 -to learn more. - -02:28.593 --> 02:30.056 -You can use tree-sitter for - -02:30.056 --> 02:31.951 -intelligent snippets that get information - -02:31.951 --> 02:33.169 -from the code around them, - -02:33.169 --> 02:35.064 -editing Lisp expressions, - -02:35.064 --> 02:37.401 -and navigating text objects in Evil mode. - -02:37.401 --> 02:39.670 -(That's when Emacs is pretending to be Vi.) - -02:39.670 --> 02:42.563 -Dynamic modules help us add more to Emacs - -02:42.563 --> 02:44.388 -than Emacs Lisp easily offers, - -02:44.388 --> 02:46.804 -such as structural editing in OCaml - -02:46.804 --> 02:48.729 -and using Rust to figure out parentheses - -02:48.729 --> 02:50.086 -and indentation for Lisp. - -02:50.086 --> 02:50.999 -If you're curious, - -02:50.999 --> 02:51.923 -check out the talk on - -02:51.923 --> 02:54.336 -Extending Emacs in Rust with Dynamic Modules. - -02:54.336 --> 02:55.239 -7. - -02:55.239 --> 02:57.294 -Collaborative editing is now much easier - -02:57.294 --> 02:59.890 -since the CRDT package is in GNU ELPA. - -02:59.890 --> 03:01.632 -It allows multiple people to edit - -03:01.632 --> 03:03.285 -the same file over the network, - -03:03.285 --> 03:05.025 -using their own Emacs. - -03:05.025 --> 03:06.850 -This means you can keep your own config - -03:06.850 --> 03:08.674 -and keybindings, yay! - -03:08.674 --> 03:10.400 -Watch the Emacs Research Group talk - -03:10.400 --> 03:12.185 -for an example of how several people - -03:12.185 --> 03:13.337 -used it to work together. - -03:13.337 --> 03:13.838 -8. - -03:13.838 --> 03:15.401 -In case you're still under the impression - -03:15.401 --> 03:17.049 -that Emacs is just a text editor, - -03:17.049 --> 03:18.560 -some folks have been working on - -03:18.560 --> 03:20.254 -pretty neat graphical experiments. - -03:20.254 --> 03:22.432 -These OpenGL bindings for Emacs Lisp - -03:22.432 --> 03:24.195 -use an embedded xwidget, - -03:24.195 --> 03:26.607 -while other prototypes use the SVG support - -03:26.607 --> 03:27.700 -that's built into Emacs - -03:27.700 --> 03:29.047 -for Gantt charts, - -03:29.047 --> 03:29.819 -scribbles, - -03:29.819 --> 03:31.320 -and even diagrams. - -03:31.320 --> 03:32.790 -The color-picker from that one - -03:32.790 --> 03:34.841 -looks particularly useful for CSS. - -03:34.841 --> 03:37.043 -If you want to play around with adding SVGs - -03:37.043 --> 03:38.722 -to your files and interfaces, - -03:38.722 --> 03:39.762 -svg-icon - -03:39.762 --> 03:40.679 -and svg-lib - -03:40.679 --> 03:42.733 -might be good places to start. (Reddit) - -03:42.733 --> 03:44.207 -Of course, there's always a place - -03:44.207 --> 03:45.209 -for ASCII art, - -03:45.209 --> 03:46.933 -especially with the new boxy package - -03:46.933 --> 03:48.433 -that you can use for org files, - -03:48.433 --> 03:49.753 -imenu navigation, - -03:49.753 --> 03:51.418 -and even things in real life. - -03:51.418 --> 03:52.208 -9. - -03:52.208 --> 03:54.411 -There have been a lot of great posts, videos, - -03:54.411 --> 03:56.312 -and livestreams about Emacs this year. - -03:56.312 --> 03:57.574 -In addition to the ones - -03:57.574 --> 03:58.973 -from System Crafters, - -03:58.973 --> 04:00.153 -Emacs Elements, - -04:00.153 --> 04:01.664 -and Protesilaos, - -04:01.664 --> 04:02.474 -John Kitchin - -04:02.474 --> 04:03.220 -and Mike Zamansky - -04:03.220 --> 04:04.255 -are back, hooray! - -04:04.255 --> 04:06.626 -And Marcin Borkowski has just finished - -04:06.626 --> 04:08.516 -writing an intermediate textbook - -04:08.516 --> 04:09.751 -Emacs Lisp, too! - -04:09.751 --> 04:10.422 -10. - -04:10.422 --> 04:11.929 -Lastly, if you want to chat - -04:11.929 --> 04:13.083 -with other Emacs folks - -04:13.083 --> 04:15.284 -and get help on Emacs, Org mode, - -04:15.284 --> 04:16.211 -or other topics, - -04:16.211 --> 04:17.436 -the #emacs and #org-mode - -04:17.436 --> 04:19.861 -Internet Relay Chat or IRC channels - -04:19.861 --> 04:21.747 -are now on the libera.chat network - -04:21.747 --> 04:23.013 -instead of Freenode. - -04:23.013 --> 04:24.888 -If you'd like to add something I've missed, - -04:24.888 --> 04:26.583 -please add them to the wiki page, - -04:26.583 --> 04:29.034 -or e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com . - -04:29.034 --> 04:30.554 -That's all for this quick review. - -04:30.554 --> 04:33.104 -Enjoy the rest of EmacsConf 2021! -- cgit v1.2.3