• Emacs 29:
  • A few new things in Emacs 29 (Reddit, HN)
  • Irreal: Vivek Haldar on Emacs 29
• Upcoming events:
  • Mastering Emacs Book Club (Reddit)
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Dec 28 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Dec 29 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Jan 3 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Wed Jan 4 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/290200609/ Wed Jan 4 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto – Thu Jan 5 0030 Etc/GMT - 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0600 Asia/Kolkata - 0830 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Paris (virtual, in French) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Thu Jan 5 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Jan 6 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • You are invited to the First Congress for Attribution-Based Economics! (Jan 14 1pm US/Eastern)
• Beginner:
  • On using Emacs for data work with R (Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • [ANN]: vc-use-package (Reddit)
  • Replacing packages with more "stripped down" packages
  • What is the "best" GNU Emacs set up one could have just using built-in features?
  • Chung-hong Chan: Advent of emacs #23: How I do many things with C-q in emacs
  • Chung-hong Chan: Advent of emacs #20: How I do context separation in emacs
  • Emacs config tour stream! Christmas 2022 (01:32:58)
  • Entorno de desarrollo de Sherblog en Emacs - Sherblog
  • junkw's Emacs config for Emacs 28
  • smashedtoatoms' Emacs Config
  • Irreal: Why Emacs Keys Are So Unergonomic
  • EmacsWiki: Moving The Ctrl Key (HN)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Chung-hong Chan: Advent of emacs #21: How I do emacs command creation in emacs
  • Chung-hong Chan: Advent of emacs #24: How I approach emacs
• Appearance:
  • True Emacs Transparency (Like in NVIM) (05:09)
• Navigation:
  • project-rootfile.el: Extension of project.el to detect project root with root file (e.g. Gemfile).
  • emacs-iwindow: Interactively manipulate windows
  • Emacs rip-grep automatically switch to results buffer (03:46)
• Dired:
  • Tidying up Dired
• Writing:
  • emacs-lorem-ipsum: Add lorem ipsum filler text to Emacs
  • GitHub - agzam/wiktionary-bro.el: Browse Wiktionary entries in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Some Advice for Browsing Wiktionary in Emacs
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs | Org Mode Basics For Beginners (09:24)
  • Emacs | Never Lose a File Again?
  • The unnumbered habits of a questionably effective person · Curious Musings
  • Project Management with Org-mode and Projectile
  • James Dyer: Quick Bash Scripts Augmenting Org Files
  • Sacha Chua: Comparison-shopping with Org Mode
  • Org-mode - Publishing using org for 3 years (08:52)
  • GNU Emacs package: rcd-org-export.el — use Org to export Org
  • D.V.F.P.: Converting from Org Mode to Markdown GFM (Irreal)
  • Sacha Chua: Collect my recent toots in an Org file so that I can refile them
• Denote:
  • Managing a bibliography of BiBTeX entries with Denote (Mastodon)
  • Creating Quarto Files with Denote (Reddit)
• Completion:
  • [ANN] Vertico 1.0 and Marginalia 1.0
  • Expanding Text using abbrev and skeletons
  • Emacs Abbrevs (01:04)
• Coding:
  • yaml-pro v0.3: Tree-sitter support
  • Emacs 29: Install Tree-Sitter parser modules with a minor mode (Reddit)
  • Plug go-mode's gofmt to the new go-ts-mode (built-in go mode which uses tree-sitter) in emacs
  • Eglot for JavaScript (Japanese)
  • 74. На примере комментариев взаимодействие JQuery Ajax + Django 4 в IDE Emacs. (03:02:13)
• Math:
  • T. V. Raman: AsTeR: Spoken Math On The Emacspeak Audio Desktop
• Shells:
  • Why use EShell? (Reddit)
  • Nicolas Martyanoff: Clearing the Eshell Buffer (Reddit)
  • sticky-shell: Minor mode that displays the latest shell-prompt in a header
• Web:
  • emacs-websearch: query predefined search engines (websearch-custom-engines) with interactive selection. Provides many features NOT in engine-mode
• Chat:
  • mastodon-alt-tl.el: Mastodon alternative timeline
• Multimedia:
  • eev and videos
• Fun:
  • emacs-ansilove: Display buffers as PNG images using ansilove inside GNU Emacs. Ansilove is a ANSI and ASCII art to PNG converter
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Emacs User Survey – 2022 Results (HN)
  • Manuel Uberti: My 2022
  • Kisaragi Hiu: 2022 review
  • Chung-hong Chan: Advent of emacs #25: How I write a postscript in emacs
  • Expanding the Craft in 2023 - System Crafters Live! (01:54:05)
  • I tried 10 code editors (10:28)
• Other:
  • Learn two ways to perform a string replacement with visual feedback
  • Use Emacs to read English classic books efficiently (Reddit)
  • Chung-hong Chan: Advent of emacs #22: How I do ebook reading in emacs
  • Emacs and turtle graphics
  • Sacha Chua: Using Emacs and Python to record an animation and synchronize it with audio
  • emacs-xrandr - a package to parse xrandr output and config xrandr
  • Nicolas Martyanoff: Investigating a FFAP issue in Emacs
  • GitHub - dleal-mojotech/edie: An Emacs-based desktop environment. (Mastodon)
  • Haiku R1/beta 4 and Emacs
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: MinGW build on master fails with Error 127 - building with MinGW64 on MS Windows < 10 no longer safe/recommended
    • cl-lib warnings (was: bug#60102: Move gv-expander of substring to cl-lib - compiler warnings about cl-lib are harder to get; should cl-lib be preloaded?
    • progress on native comp in Debian
    • [PATCH] [debbugs] Add mu4e support. (2017)
    • Re: bug#60144: 30.0.50; PGTK Emacs crashes after signal - details about input events and signals
  • Redisplay "invisible" frames that are actually visible on modern X
  • New user option 'ruby-method-params-indent'.
• New packages:
  • adwaita-dark-theme: A dark color scheme inspired by Adwaita (MELPA)
  • binky-mode: Jump between points like a rabbit (MELPA)
  • citar-denote: Minor mode to integrate Citar and Denote (MELPA)
  • consult-codesearch: Consult interface for codesearch (MELPA)
  • define-scratch: Define new commands to make scratch buffers (MELPA)
  • denote-refs: Show links and backlinks in Denote notes (NonGNU ELPA)
  • dired-rsync-transient: Transient command for dired-rsync (MELPA)
  • erk: Elisp (GitHub) Repository Kit (MELPA)
  • khoj: Natural, Incremental Search for your Second Brain (MELPA)
  • org-incoming: Sort incoming PDFs into your org files (MELPA)
  • pyconf: Set up python execution configurations like dap-mode ones (MELPA)
  • simplecov: Colorize untested ruby code (MELPA)
  • snap-indent: Simple automatic indentation (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 emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!