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Good to know! For as much as I use Emacs I don’t really follow the Emacs community / ecosystem. I saw version 29 was recently cut- is there anywhere I can get

Good to know! For as much as I use Emacs I don’t really follow the Emacs community / ecosystem. I saw version 29 was recently cut- is there anywhere I can get a good overview of “best practices in 2022”? I wouldn’t mind dusting off my init.el and updating it. I haven’t had a good yak shave in five years or so :)

hprotagonist 4y ago
https://blog.phundrak.com/emacs-29-what-can-we-expect/ https://blog.phundrak.com/emacs-29-what-can-we-expect/ has some highlights. eglot, tree-sitter are both very nice. the sqlite integration is currently what i'd describe as "cute", but maybe not the most featureful.
- signa11 4y ago
  yup, here is the previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33788208 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33788208
- agumonkey 4y ago
  I'm shocked that ast based edition is back. Many people were against this, lots of grammar based tools sadly failed (for better or worse reasons). In a way it seems that the mainstream rose above regex level tree manipulation, and that even html/css made people start to think in subtrees rather than linear data. This might reduce efforts a lot, whether it is for edition or analysis. And this fine grained source interaction was why I was so enamoured with emacs in the first place. It was such a deep feeling of control compared to anything I tried in the late 90s.
  - hprotagonist 4y ago
    tangentially related, https://hazel.org/ https://hazel.org/
    - agumonkey 4y ago
      Thanks a lot :)
tmtvl 4y ago
The best way to set keybindings has been changed, from define-key and global-set-key to keymap-set and keymap-global-set. Some examples: (keymap-global-set "<remap> <upcase-word>" #'upcase-dwim) (keymap-set icomplete-minibuffer-map "TAB" #'icomplete-force-complete) You can also use package.el to install packages from version control now, check the package-vc-selected-packages variable.
- shunqor 4y ago
  Heloo may name thz shunqor
ReneFroger 4y ago
Not to spamming, but https://emacs.zeef.com https://emacs.zeef.com was a valuable resource for me to find many Emacs packages and communities to my liking.

hprotagonist 4y ago

https://blog.phundrak.com/emacs-29-what-can-we-expect/ https://blog.phundrak.com/emacs-29-what-can-we-expect/ has some highlights. eglot, tree-sitter are both very nice. the sqlite integration is currently what i'd describe as "cute", but maybe not the most featureful.

signa11 4y ago
yup, here is the previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33788208 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33788208
agumonkey 4y ago
I'm shocked that ast based edition is back. Many people were against this, lots of grammar based tools sadly failed (for better or worse reasons). In a way it seems that the mainstream rose above regex level tree manipulation, and that even html/css made people start to think in subtrees rather than linear data. This might reduce efforts a lot, whether it is for edition or analysis. And this fine grained source interaction was why I was so enamoured with emacs in the first place. It was such a deep feeling of control compared to anything I tried in the late 90s.
- hprotagonist 4y ago
  tangentially related, https://hazel.org/ https://hazel.org/
  - agumonkey 4y ago
    Thanks a lot :)

tmtvl 4y ago

The best way to set keybindings has been changed, from define-key and global-set-key to keymap-set and keymap-global-set. Some examples: (keymap-global-set "<remap> <upcase-word>" #'upcase-dwim) (keymap-set icomplete-minibuffer-map "TAB" #'icomplete-force-complete) You can also use package.el to install packages from version control now, check the package-vc-selected-packages variable.

shunqor 4y ago
Heloo may name thz shunqor

ReneFroger 4y ago

Not to spamming, but https://emacs.zeef.com https://emacs.zeef.com was a valuable resource for me to find many Emacs packages and communities to my liking.