From 340d8ac06b902d5529f842264e5f20db9de018c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sacha Chua Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 16:59:55 -0400 Subject: Can't cross domains for subtitle files --- ...021-news--emacs-news-highlights--sacha-chua.vtt | 481 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 481 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2021/captions/emacsconf-2021-news--emacs-news-highlights--sacha-chua.vtt (limited to '2021/captions') 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 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cae57e66 --- /dev/null +++ b/2021/captions/emacsconf-2021-news--emacs-news-highlights--sacha-chua.vtt @@ -0,0 +1,481 @@ +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 --> 04:04.926 +10. + +04:04.926 --> 04:06.433 +Lastly, if you want to chat + +04:06.433 --> 04:07.587 +with other Emacs folks + +04:07.587 --> 04:09.788 +and get help on Emacs, Org Mode, + +04:09.788 --> 04:10.715 +or other topics, + +04:10.715 --> 04:11.940 +the #emacs and #org-mode + +04:11.940 --> 04:14.365 +Internet Relay Chat or IRC channels + +04:14.365 --> 04:16.251 +are now on the libera.chat network + +04:16.251 --> 04:17.517 +instead of Freenode. + +04:17.517 --> 04:19.392 +If you'd like to add something I've missed, + +04:19.392 --> 04:21.087 +please add them to the wiki page, + +04:21.087 --> 04:23.538 +or e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com . + +04:23.538 --> 04:25.058 +That's all for this quick review. + +04:25.058 --> 04:27.608 +Enjoy the rest of EmacsConf 2021! -- cgit v1.2.3