2025-04-21 Emacs news
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- Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Apr 26 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Apr 30 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu May 1 0030 Asia/Singapore
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- 日本人Emacsユーザはluatex-jaを使おう!(無音) (02:33)
- Org Mode:
- The Zen of Task Management with Org (Reddit, Irreal)
- How I use Org-mode to organize my life (19:11)
- Org Speed Commands #emacs #orgmode #programming #coding (10:56)
- Quickly Save Org Docs in Emacs #coding #programming (03:02)
- org-mode babel asymptote 日本語化(無音)。luatex-jaを使おうの続きかな?! (01:50)
- Neat trees from org-ql to org-mode
- ablatedsprocket: Doing Taxes in Emacs
- Jeremy Friesen: Automating Adding Books to My Org-Mode Document
- Hugo posting in Emacs
- Charles Choi: Making an App, Looking for Beta Testers (Irreal) - org-protocol proxy for macOS
- Org development:
- Denote:
- Solving the Denote/Gollum links quandary (@mph@social.lol)
- FYI: Denote version 4 released (Reddit) - breaking change: reorganized to core + extensions
- Completion:
- Skeletons in the Closet
- Bible Verse of The Day in Emacs — Now also on MELPA (Reddit) - update: insert verse, passage, or chapter at point
- Coding:
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- knowledge gives strength to the hands (Reddit) - see comments for explanation; using ASCII art to help plan projects, I think
- 10PRINT inspired "Snowcrash" in Emacs (Reddit)
- AI:
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- Other:
- Understanding the Dynamic Module System of GNU Emacs
- GTD + Emacs (03:59)
- Lars Ingebrigtsen: A Book Tracking Package for Emacs
- hsolg/emacs-departure-times-norway: displays departure times for public transit in Norway (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
- Yi Tang: Filter Ledger Transactions using Tags
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: tmr version 1.1.0
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
- Re: Trust API (was: bug#74879: 30.0.92; trusted-content-p and trusted-fi
- Re: Versions of language grammar library - help needed with built-in major modes
- good idea to use -O0 when building development branches
- Flymake: bump package version to 1.4.0
- Flymake: rework, simplify and address problems of recent change (bug#75841)
- Rename 'treesit-auto-install' to 'treesit-auto-install-grammar'
- * lisp/treesit.el (treesit-auto-install): New defcustom.
- Bind new window layout commands under C-x w
- (eieio-backward-compatibility): Set to `warn` (bug#77612)
- ; * etc/NEWS: Move ts-modes after tree-sitter section.
- Optionally add new empty file to Dired subdirectory
- emacs-devel:
- New packages:
- aws-athena-babel: Run AWS Athena queries from Org Babel (MELPA)
- bank-buddy: Financial analysis and reporting (MELPA)
- departure-times-norway: Description (MELPA)
- doc-view-follow: Synchronize windows showing the same document (GNU ELPA)
- inform-mode: Major mode for Inform 6 interactive fiction code (MELPA)
- persist-text-scale: Persist and restore text scale (MELPA)
- total-recall: Spaced repetition system (MELPA)
- vc-jj: VC backend for the Jujutsu version control system (GNU ELPA)
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