• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Aug 27 0130 Vancouver / 0330 Chicago / 0430 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 1030 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • About to declare Emacs bankruptcy. Any advice for cool or new packages, defaults, or ideas I should use before I start building my init.el? Also interested in guides to using evil.
  • elpaca package manager, a better package manager (Reddit)
  • straight.el as a classic example of overengineering in emacs? - discussion includes comments on elpaca
  • Philip K.: Request for Comments: Emacs Package management from Source
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Working to overhaul Kurecolor (a toolbox of color commands and functions.) (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • [ANN] hl-indent-scope available on Melpa!
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: introduction to the ef-themes
• Writing:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: denote version 0.5.0
  • Citar 1.0, citar-org-roam, Doom biblio update
  • A workflow for reading, managing and discovering ML research papers with Emacs | Koustuv Sinha (July 2022, Irreal) - elfeed, Org, iPad
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs | Introduction to Writing In Org Mode (17:00)
  • [ANN] org-street, use OpenStreetMap to set LOCATION properties on Org entries (Reddit)
  • org-excalidraw: manage excalidraw drawings from org-mode (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Announcing Shell Underscore - Use the output of the last shell command in other commands
  • Seamless command-line utils (Reddit) joining images into a PDF with dwim-shell-command
  • Emacs as terminal multiplexer: Speed (6:16, Reddit)
• Mail and news:
  • Emacs Mu4E Email Interface Shortcuts 2022_08_09_12:49:06 (07:27)
• Fun:
  • Comics Builder in GNU Emacs
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • emacs and software monoliths
  • Unpopular opinion: actually, Emacs does fulfill the tenets of the UNIX philosophy (Reddit)
  • Philip K.: Notes on "Emacs fulfills the UNIX Philosophy"
• Other:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Copying the current location revisited
  • Yet another RSI thread
  • RSI? Code with your voice in emacs (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Should package.el support notifying on package security updates?
  • emacs-devel: Speedup of display of long and truncated lines
  • emacs-devel: Tree-sitter integration on feature/tree-sitter (severe performance issue)
  • emacs-devel: why Semantic and CEDET have been inactive
  • Emacs Multithreading: How Hard Could It Be? (4:13, Reddit)
  • (compiled-function-p): New function (bug#56648)
  • Further speedups of redisplay of long and truncated lines
  • Speed up display of long lines under 'truncate-lines'
  • Add new value `dont-save' to `deactivate-mark'
  • Make '$?' and '$$' variables more consistent in Eshell
  • gud.el: invoke 'perldb' with '-E' instead of '-e'
  • New debugging facility: backtraces from errors in Lisp called from redisplay
  • Avoid having language environments interpreted as sections
  • Add new user option electric-quote-replace-consecutive
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Mention the new 'js-json-mode'.
  • Do some NEWS tagging
• New packages:
  • consult-notes: Manage notes with consult (MELPA)
  • hl-indent-scope: Highlight indentation by scope (MELPA)
  • ligature: Display typographical ligatures in major modes (MELPA)
  • ouroboros: Ouroboros network mini-protocol (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, emacs-devel, and lemmy/c/emacs. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for links!