Notes from Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, June 2021

These are the notes from Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) meetup happened on June 26, 2021.

• Showing trailing whitespaces in the current buffer
  • [irek] I keep whitespace-mode on in some modes.
  • show-trailing-whitespace: https://stackoverflow.com/q/11700934/6202405
• rainbow-delimiters: different color theme
  • https://github.com/Fanael/rainbow-delimiters
  • https://twitter.com/susam/status/1408066764705984514
• Browsing DevDocs (devdocs.io) in eww
  • https://github.com/blahgeek/emacs-devdocs-browser
  • https://github.com/sunaku/dasht
• ox-hugo publishing: marking posts as draft
  • [archgaelix] want to mark the TODO entries as draft posts.
• Building Emacs with correct flags
  • [bhavin192] I build the RPM from source https://geeksocket.in/posts/emacs-pretest-rpm/#cloning-the-git-repository
  • [meain] for mac users building Emacs, try https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport It seems to be much faster generally.
• Hiding the content of a selected region
  • [bhavin192] C-x n s (in Org mode to narrow to the tree).
  • [archgaelix] I use hide-show for code blocks.
  • [meain] https://github.com/magnars/fold-this.el
• Issues with straight.el on macOS

  • [meain] I’m not able to fetch things, get SSL related errors.

    fatal: unable to access 'https://gitlab.com/ideasman42/emacs-mode-line-idle.git/': SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
    

• Using shell inside Emacs
  • [bhavin192] the TERM variable can be set to blank when running inside an Emacs shell, with that most of the CLI tools will not print unsupported escape sequences.
  • [irek] I have set PAGER to cat and EDITOR to ed.
  • [bhavin192] I use emacsclient when using shell https://gitlab.com/bhavin192/dotfiles/-/blob/40ba2d7ac8cc4fe41b0593898e17f924323b4cdf/.bashrc#L116-122
  • [mohan43u] ansi-xterm can be used as well.
  • [meain] speed comparison between vterm and ansi-term. https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm
• Elfeed utility functions
  • https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed
  • [meain] utility functions to do extra filtering based on tags and titles of the feed entries.
  • https://github.com/meain/dotfiles/blob/aa89b7be6fbd89ffabb5ccd28ab36df68593b400/emacs/.config/emacs/init.el#L1596

Credits: archgaelix, bhavin192, irek, meain, mohan43u, Susam, Yuchen.