• Help wanted:
  • Philip K.: Taking a Break from Emacs Development - packages looking for maintainers
  • Help with Android port? (+ gnulib question)
• Upcoming events:
  • 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
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jan 13 1800 Europe/Paris
  • The First Congress for Attribution-Based Economics https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/zrgtu5/you_are_invited_to_the_first_congress_for/ Sat Jan 14 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Sun Jan 15 0200 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • positron-solutions/transient-showcase: Example forms for transient UI's in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Lambda Land: Make an Emacs Buffer Open the Way You Want
  • Removing the wretchedness of confirmation in Emacs (04:21)
  • kaushalmodi's emacs configuration
  • dan's usability-oriented Emacs config files
  • guilhermecomum's Emacs Config
  • Folgert Karsdrop's Literate Emacs Configuration1 (Reddit)
  • Emacs from scratch (27:51, Mastodon, Irreal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • [ANN] alphapapa/plz.el: v0.3 release (HTTP library for Emacs) (Reddit)
  • elisp-regex-dsl: Readable regular expressions DSL for Emacs Lisp
  • Some of my plugins which will be published to MELPA - range-pattern, random-generators, generators
  • lambdas in emacs lisp (10:06)
  • [ANN] elisp-autofmt full file re-formatting (on save), available on Melpa (Reddit)
  • Elisp Repo Kit (Reddit)
  • Xah Talk Show 2023-01-01 Auto Format Emacs Lisp Code (55:21)
  • Xah Talk Show 2022-12-30 Advent of Code Day 5 B, in Emacs Lisp, Live Coding (01:47:21)
  • Advent of Code but in Emacs Lisp
• Appearance:
  • Christian Tietze: How to Use SF Symbols in Emacs (for Tab Numbers) (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: modus-themes version 4.0.0
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: note for MELPA or Git users of the Modus themes ahead of version 4
• Navigation:
  • Irreal: Regex Search and Replace in Emacs
  • quick-buffer-switch: Quick switch to file or dir buffers.
  • Nicolas Martyanoff: Replacing Projectile by Project
  • cursor movement in 2 windows for manually diffing two files (Mastodon)
  • Emacs: Managing and resizing windows (05:50)
• Writing:
  • Manuel Uberti: LaTeX footnotes and Tempel
  • Here's my distraction free writing setup. GPD P2 Max 2022 netbook, with Olivetti mode, and Fountain mode. (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Implementing The PARA Method in Org-mode (Reddit)
  • My Exocortex using org-roam and org-publish (Reddit)
  • Christian Tietze: Better org-mode Agenda display-buffer-alist Settings
  • Org-mode - My ten most used features (14:35)
  • Org-mode - Include feature will improve your life (08:49)
  • hokreb/notmuch-calendar-x: An emacs hack for adding invitations received by notmuch to org file (Reddit)
  • zettel2: Emacs helpers for note organization
  • Emacs | Org Mode to Latex Standard Manuscript Format (For Real This Time) (08:41, Irreal)
  • Org-mode - Publishing using org for 3 years
  • org-lorenz-attractor: Let's explore the shape of the Lorenz attractor with Python in Org mode/Emacs. Because why not.
  • [OC] Evaluate Chess Portable Game Notation inside org-babel (Reddit)
  • (do (macroexpand 'net)) - defining a derived export backend (Mastodon)
  • Org development:
    • oc-csl: Improve LaTeX bibliography formatting
• Denote:
  • emacs-denote-refs: Show links and backlinks in Denote notes
• Completion:
  • ivy compliant vertico config · GitHub (Mastodon)
  • gists/outline-minor-mode-eshell.el - set outline-regexp to the prompt, and then use consult-outline (Mastodon)
  • consult-codesearch.el: Consult interface for codesearch
  • helm-codesearch.el:helm interface for codesearch
• Coding:
  • My first major mode: `kotlin-ts-mode` (Reddit)
  • dorking around with emacs-codeql (Mastodon)
  • ts-docstr: A document string minor mode using tree-sitter
  • tsx-ts-helper-mode: A helper mode for tsx-ts-mode (Reddit)
  • Building tree-sitter languages for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Starter guide on writing major mode with tree-sitter
• Shells:
  • quickly run commands in eshell, M-x "compile", "recompile" style
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • [script] Unread mail count (mu/mbsync) in polybar (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • Had my first real "emacs as an extensible editor" moment yesterday (Reddit) - Lilypond
• AI:
  • Setting up GitHub Copilot in Emacs (Reddit)
  • I Made a ChatGPT-like Client For Emacs - AND SO CAN YOU! (16:15, Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • What does emacs and elisp has as an advantage over nvim and lua?
  • 5 Reasons You Should Use Emacs (And 1 Reason Why You Shouldn't) (15:56, Irreal)
• Other:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs: Macro me some SF Symbols (Reddit, Reddit)
  • emacs-camera: Take picture with your camera (Reddit)
  • age.el: age encryption support for Emacs
  • emacs-define-scratch: Define new commands to make scratch buffers
  • Run Emacs in docker containers!
  • Eev: six videos with exercises about elisp hyperlinks (with subtitles)
  • Don't forget re-builder - YouTube (31:51, Irreal, Reddit)
  • 10 Useful EMACS TIPS (08:55)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Using the wisent parser-generator, as it creates faster parsers
    • Possible fallback when treesitter is not available Re: Need for "-ts-mode" modes
    • Trade-offs between having things in Emacs and using external libraries
      • and other considerations
      • including tool concerns
  • Update Modus themes to version 4 and add new themes
  • Add version tags and mention the new options in NEWS
  • * etc/NEWS: Mention some recently added byte-compiler warnings
  • * lisp/help.el: Use 'C-h C-q' to toggle 'help-quick' window (bug#60249).
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Move the paragraph with 'C-u RET' closer to the related section.
  • Add treesit-transpose-sexps (bug#60128)
  • Make last change of w32 GUI dialogs conditional and reversible
  • Improve support for Scheme R6RS and R7RS libraries (bug#54704)
• New packages:
  • elisp-autofmt: Emacs lisp auto-format (MELPA)
  • flycheck-deno: Flycheck for deno-lint (MELPA)
  • ksp-mode: Major mode for editing ksp files (MELPA)
  • ob-nix: Simple org-babel support for nix (MELPA)
  • org-ivy-search: Full text search for org files powered by ivy (MELPA)
  • ring-mode: A major mode for the Ring programming language (MELPA)
  • russian-techwriter: Input methods for Russian technical writers (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!