2025-06-02 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/307852772/ Wed Jun 4 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Thu Jun 5 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jun 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jun 11 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jun 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jun 13 1800 Europe/Paris
- EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/307759219/ Sat Jun 14 1100 America/Los_Angeles
- Emacs configuration:
- Tim Heaney: R programming in Emacs - learning more about use-package-expand-minimally
- jjba23/welkomscherm.el: Simple elegant welcome screen / dashboard for Emacs - Codeberg.org (@jjba23@mastodon.social)
- jjba23/sss: Supreme Sexp System - SSS v3.1.11: more modularized (@sss_project@mastodon.social)
- Help wanted: maintaining and hosting the Emacs Configuration Generator (HN)
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- TRAMP:
- Org Mode:
- Help wanted: feedback on better multilingual support for Org Mode - all-tex-fonts feature branch, trying to figure out babel font management challenge
- Benefits of writing textbook in Org Mode: view by unit or by assignment type
- bcardoso/org-backlinks - added support for arbitrary link types (@cryptk@mastodon.social)
- laertida/sync-docs.el: An Emacs package to publish org-mode files—including images and attachments—directly to Atlassian Confluence via its REST API. (Reddit)
- org-ics-import.el - Import iCalendar files to org agenda without external tools (r/orgmode, r/emacs)
- Meeting `verb.el` —HTTP Requests from within Org mode
- /home/lucio.albenga.es - How To Create and Publish Your Website With Emacs and Org Mode (@lfa@hostux.social)
- Building a blogging flow using Emacs and Emacs only (Reddit, @peregrinator@toot.cat)
- How I take notes in org-roam #emacs (07:23)
- Irreal: GitHub As A Notebook
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Setup Emacs for JavaScript Development with LSP (@tiang@mastodon.social)
- Emacs treesitter lexical analysis of javascript (01:44)
- glyph-venv.el · GitHub - creating direnv based on naming convention (@glyph@mastodon.social)
- Emacs eev and common lisp McCLIM (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
- emacs clkitten parenscript eev kitten of tutorial 2 (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
- Math:
- Mail, news, and chat:
- Evil mode:
- Multimedia:
- AI:
- gptel-autocomplete: Inline code completion using gptel (HN)
- eden v1.20: a simple ChatGPT client for Emacs that focuses on conversations
- Tiny Models, Local Throttles: Exploring My Local AI Dev Setup - nilenso blog (lobste.rs)
- Making the Prompt Dynamic in Requests to OpenAI Chat Completion API - Emacs Lisp | lesson 08 (08:33)
- Time To Format Chat Interactions With Markdown Mode - Emacs Lisp | lesson 09 (09:42)
- Agentic LLM use in Emacs using Model Context Protocol (MCP) (46:55)
- Community:
- Other:
- Emacs Redux: Let’s make keyboard-quit smarter (Reddit)
- nfdn: Announcing Casual Timezone (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
- divyaranjan/emacs-reader v0.2.7: better scrolling, global dark mode (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
- Emacs on Android is pretty good (Reddit)
- TrAPT 1.0 - transient for the apt package manager
- Matt Maguire: Plain Text Accounting with Emacs – Part 3
- James Dyer: Bank Buddy - Your Financial Analysis Companion for Emacs!
- drink-water.el: An Emacs package to remind you of the importance of Hydration (Reddit)
- bible-gateway: A BibleGateway Client for Emacs (Reddit)
- Alvaro Ramirez: Awesome Emacs on macOS (Reddit, lobste.rs, Irreal)
- Emacs development:
- New packages:
- beluga-mode: Major mode for Beluga source code (MELPA)
- bible-gateway: A Simple BibleGateway Client (MELPA)
- daselt: Module for the Daselt configuration scheme (MELPA)
- json5-ts-mode: Major mode for JSON5 (MELPA)
- mcp: Model Context Protocol (MELPA)
- ob-athena: Run AWS Athena queries from Org Babel (MELPA)
- polish-holidays: Polish holidays (MELPA)
- p-search: Emacs Search Tool Aggregator (MELPA)
- rasi-mode: Major mode for editing RASI configuration files (MELPA)
Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Bluesky #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!