• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) – Wed Jan 27 1230H EST / 1730H UTC / 1830H CET / 2300H IST / Thu Jan 28 0130H +08 – https://emacs-berlin.org/
  • EmacsSF: discussion of emacs, org-mode, org-roam and similar packages – Wed Jan 27 2130H EST / Thu Jan 28 0230H UTC / 0330H CET / 0800H IST / 1030H +08 – https://www.meetup.com/Emacs-SF/events/275889079/
  • EmacsNYC: Lightning Talks – Mon Feb 1 1900H EST / Tue Feb 2 0000H UTC / 0100H CET / 0530H IST / 0800H +08 – https://emacsnyc.org/2021/01/23/monthly-online-meetup-lightning-talks.html
  • Emacs Paris (virtual) – Tue Feb 2 1130H EST / 1630H UTC / 1730H CET / 2200H IST / Wed Feb 3 0030H +08 – https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/
• Emacs configuration:
  • [ANN] Reliable package-upgrade (without broken byte-code) (Reddit)
  • Emacs configuration created for heavy Orgmode users among non-programmers. (Reddit)
  • emacs-noob: A curated emacs set up intended to decrease the learning curve
  • tycho garen: Open Source Emacs Configuration Improvements
• Emacs Lisp:
  • pair-tree.el: An Emacs Lisp cons cell explorer (Reddit)
  • Defining Functions and Commands – Learning Emacs Lisp #3 (LIVE 1/22, 9:15 am PST) (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Add a mechanism for buffer-local thing-at-points
  • Make Message respect header removal instructions more
  • * lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el (named-let): New macro
  • Add option remember-text-format-function
  • Add option remember-diary-regexp
  • * lisp/startup.el: Fix bug#45857, bug#30994, and bug#45913.
  • Add ‘perl-non-scalar-variable' face to perl-mode
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Modus themes 1.1.0 for GNU Emacs
  • A theme configuration helper (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • ido-grid-mode: displays the ido prospects in a grid in the minibuffer
• Org Mode:
  • (17) Making Spacemacs as A Text Editor for Writers | For Beginners | Spacemacs Basics – YouTube (25:12, April 2020)
  • Using Emacs for College Assignments (Reddit)
  • org: Speed-up org-mode
  • org-expex : Awesome hassle-free LaTeX beauty for linguists.
  • Installing LaTeX themes on your machine/Emacs org-mode – DEV Community (Irreal)
  • org-simple-timeline: Org-mode html export of vertical/horizontal Timelines
  • clip2org: Convert Amazon Kindle's “My Clippings.txt” to a format usable in Org mode
  • OMDb client for Emacs and org-mode (Simple movie/show metadata aggregator) (Reddit)
  • John Herrlin: Learn RxJava with Emacs Org mode
  • voicenotes2org: A Python script which converts WAV files to Org using Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • org-tracktable: Track your writing progress in an org-table
  • I can do org captures from the Android share menu!
  • org-linker-edna: Create org-edna dependencies (:TRIGGER: and :BLOCKER: properties)
  • Tablas para cálculos en org-mode
• Coding:
  • GNU Emacs as a lightweight C IDE
  • Andrea: Emacs as your code-compass: find collaborators you should (chit) chat with
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Extensions for Emacs’ vc-git (Reddit)
  • How do you solve merge conflicts?
  • Lightweight external command integration in Emacs via compilation mode – Massimiliano Mirra
  • emacs-run-command: Efficient and ergonomic external command invocation for Emacs (Reddit)
  • emacs-refactor: language-specific refactoring in Emacs
  • A Gentle introduction to CEDET
• Mail and news:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: mu4e icons
  • Emacs version of mutt-wizard: mu-wizard, easily setup mu4e (Reddit)
  • Compose and Send Email with Emacs (Reddit) – mu4e
  • Setting up Emacs as Mail Client (for several Accounts, including Gmail) (Reddit)
  • New Gnus backend for Maildir (Reddit)
  • Trying to give rmail some deserved love, so I wrote a post with some usage tips! (Reddit)
• EXWM:
  • Gaps for EXWM (Reddit)
  • My new emacs desktop, thanks to EXWM (Reddit)
  • exwm-background: Put X windows, or other EXWM workspaces, behind a transparent EXWM workspace, a nice alternative to alt-tabbing between two windows, or using split windows
• Community:
  • I use emacs for just…
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
• Other:
  • Have you writer's ambitions? Write a little, write everyday, and let Emacs be your coach! (Reddit)
  • consulting spotify – Using the async API of consult to query spotify
  • adoc-mode Wiki. adoc-mode is an Emacs major mode for editing AsciiDoc files
  • shrface 2.6.3 now can be used as archiving web pages.
  • Play/Download crossword puzzles in Emacs (Reddit, HN)
  • Emacs Application Framework now supports Windows!
  • I just started to use the native-comp branch, and I really surprised!
  • Using test blocks in eev
• New packages:
  • compiler-explorer: Compiler explorer client (godbolt.org)
  • crossword: Download and play crossword puzzles
  • ct: Color Tools – a color api
  • eglot-fsharp: fsharp-mode eglot integration
  • flymake-nasm: A flymake handler for asm-mode files using nasm
  • i-ching: The Book of Changes
  • mu4e-marker-icons: Display icons for mu4e markers
  • org-tag-beautify: Beautify Org Mode tags
  • ox-timeline: HTML Timeline Back-End for Org Export Engine
  • pair-tree: Visualize a list
  • quelpa-leaf: Quelpa handler for leaf
  • repology: Repology API access via Elisp
  • run-command: Run an external command from a context-dependent list
  • sudo-utils: Sudo utilities

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file and emacs-devel.