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

These are the notes from Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) meetup happened on May 22, 2021.

• Emacs for Bookmark management
  • [yantar92] use Org mode with details about all the things.
  • [bhavin192] very small list of Org mode headings.
  • [meain] plain text file with id, it also curls the title etc.
  • https://github.com/yantar92/org-capture-ref adds more metadata for different websites.
  • [Yuchen] org-capture + tridactyl (Firefox extension).
  • qutebrowser: whole browser driven by keyboard.
  • A demo of org-capture-ref by yantar92
    • Metadata parsing works at the time of capture.
• Using doct for capture templates demo by yantar92
  • https://github.com/progfolio/doct
  • It can help to generate completion for different things, like categories.
  • Simple templates can be done with Yasnippet as well.
  • https://github.com/ag91/ya-org-capture
  • %^{PROMPT} ref: https://orgmode.org/manual/Template-expansion.html#Template-expansion
• Emacs tree-sitter for manipulating code functions/methods
  • https://github.com/ubolonton/emacs-tree-sitter
  • [yantar92] Emacs thing-at-point can be used.
  • https://github.com/jyp/boon/ boon-arguments.el.
• Workflow for editing a specific function from a package
  • [yantar92] https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el/
  • Made for development requirements like these.
  • [yantar92] copy the function in *scratch* and execute it, it should work most of the time.
  • [yantar92] you can use debug-on-entry, trace-function.
  • https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsLispTracing

Credits: bhavin192, meain, yantar92, Yuchen.