• Security:
  • Structurally fixing command injection bugs
• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Mar 29 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 30 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Mar 31 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Apr 1 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Apr 1 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Apr 2 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #4 2023 https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/2c9a7e59-16d7-410c-857b-208dad75a489 Mon Apr 3 1900 CET
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Apr 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Apr 7 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Apr 8 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Apr 8 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Apr 9 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Revisiting Emacs init.el (05:23)
  • Non-evil users: what modifiers do you use on emacs?
  • northyear's Emacs Config
  • Carh's Basic emacs configuration for Clojure and some languages
  • zsxh's Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Andrea: Moldable Emacs: what is the public API of this Elisp buffer?
  • Magnus: Making an Emacs major mode for Cabal using tree-sitter
  • Andrey Listopadov: Implementing a protocol-based Fennel REPL and Emacs client
• Appearance:
  • Emacs ef-themes (by Prot) (05:49)
• Navigation:
  • sentex.el - regex-based sentence movement commands (formerly segment.el)
  • Essential Movement and Editing Shortcuts in Emacs - EP5 (10:41)
• Writing:
  • Jinx - Enchanted just-in-time spell-checker [GNU ELPA]​
  • Marcin Borkowski: Using a thesaurus from within Emacs (Irreal)
  • LaTeX package documentation via `texdoc` with `completing-read` support
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs Tutorial 6 - Introducing: org-mode
  • Org Novelist: A system for writing novel-length fiction using Emacs Org mode. (Irreal)
  • Reflecting on my history with org-mode in 2023 ·
  • Simple project I created: org context clues (Reddit)
  • org-aggregate: Aggregates tables in Org mode (Reddit)
  • Insert link from consult-org-headings with embark
  • Marcin Borkowski: Manually entering clocking data
  • org-inline-clocking-buttons: Clock In/Clock Out buttons per org heading to simplify clocking in whether on a phone or a desktop.
  • khalorg: Export and import org agenda items to a Khal calendar.
  • awesome-org-roam - A curated list of awesome Org-roam resources
  • Org-noter is under new maintainership with the first MELPA update since 2019
  • Orgzly auto syncronisation for sync tools like syncthing
  • Use braindump4000 to convert your org-mode database to an obsidian vault for mobile access with the Obsidian app (Reddit)
  • VS Code Org Mode is an extension for Visual Studio Code inspired by the venerable Org mode for Emacs
  • Org development:
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Announce :async header in ob-shell.el
    • lisp/org-clock.el: Add support for logind
• Completion:
  • cape-yasnippet: Yasnippet Completion at Point Extension
  • Tassilo Horn: A read-buffer-function also suggesting recent files
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: restart MCT development
• Coding:
  • ‎From vanilla Emacs to Java IDE in 5 minutes
  • spdx.el: Insert SPDX license header
  • Tory Anderson: moving injected styles to a static .css file
  • Meta Redux: Bad nREPL: 10 Things You Hate About nREPL
  • Manuel Uberti: CIDER and Clojure LSP
  • Jeremy Friesen: Using Built-in Emacs 29 Treemacs Package to Get Qualified Ruby Function Name
  • Jump around huge code bases in Emacs without LSP or TAGS (Reddit)
  • Better Magit Diffs [with delta and difftastic]​
  • Git graph - 2
• Shells:
  • miri.el - browse atuin shell history in emacs
• Web:
  • spookfox v0.3.0: Switch firefox tabs like switch-to-buffer and use common-lisp to extend Firefox side of spookfox (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mu/mu4e 1.10 released
  • Stream VOD: affiliate-mode Emacs Lisp Twitch Integrations - LLLL Colonq Lab Sessions (02:58:40)
• Evil mode:
  • M. Rincón: Evil and the Built-In Tree Sitter (Reddit)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Irreal: State of Doom Emacs
• Multimedia:
  • James Dyer: Trimming ArtRage Playback Scripts using Emacs
• AI:
  • Why Emacs is the best platform for LLMs (Irreal)
  • GitHub announces a bunch of new GPT-4 powered coding assistants. What should and could Emacs and open-source community do?
  • I asked the AI overlords for an over the top Emacs icon 😅 (Reddit)
  • Search with llama (Reddit)
  • 50 line elisp script for querying ChatGPT 3.5
  • Alvaro Ramirez: A ChatGPT Emacs shell (lobste.rs)
  • chatgpt-shell.el now with experimental DALL-E support (Reddit, lobste.rs, lobste.rs)
  • C3PO.el Unleash the power of the Force using ChatGPT inside Emacs. (Reddit)
  • Yet Another ChatGPT Facade (Reddit)
  • leafy-mode: Emacs minor-mode built on top of org-mode for working with ChatGPT (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Emacs maintainer Eli Zaretskii wins the Award for the Advancement of Free Software from the FSF (Reddit)
  • Philip K.: A Webzine on ELPA packages
  • Irreal: Curl and Its Developer
• Other:
  • Let's read the Emacs source code - YouTube (Reddit)
  • Creating Info Manuals And Adding Them Into Emacs (Reddit)
  • There is a new guy on Youtube making some Emacs videos. Here he shows how to compile Emacs 29 on Ubuntu.
  • New blog post: my current build command for Windows (Reddit)
  • If your Emacs takes a ridiculous amount of time to launch on Windows - exclude from Windows Defender
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Tree sitter: Should *-ts-modes derive from a common base?
    • Re: eglot-test-diagnostic-tags-unnecessary-code fails with certain clang
    • built-in sqlite support in 29 - still time for changes?
      • Discussion of sqlite3 and sexps
      • Downsides of closql
    • Problem with indentation blinking with treesitter
    • How to log errors during compilation
    • How to debug Emacs when it starts using lots of CPU
  • Add option to register packages as projects
  • Connection-local variables are applied in buffers visiting a remote file
  • * etc/NEWS: Mention that \x without hex digits is an error.
  • New user option remote-file-name-inhibit-auto-save
• New packages:
  • auto-header: Automatically find the right headers (GNU ELPA)
  • fleetish-theme: A take on the JetBrains Fleet theme (MELPA)
  • jinx: Enchanted Just-in-time Spell Checker (GNU ELPA, MELPA)
  • jsdoc: Insert JSDoc comments (MELPA)
  • latvian-holidays: Latvian holidays for the calendar (MELPA)
  • ob-drawtiming: Functions for drawtiming evaluation in org-babel (MELPA)
  • openpgp: Client for keys.openpgp.org (GNU ELPA)
  • orgmdb: An OMDb API client with some convenience functions (MELPA)
  • site-lisp: Manage site-lisp directories (GNU ELPA)
  • sway-lang-mode: Major mode for sway (MELPA)
  • xref-union: Combine multiple Xref backends (GNU ELPA)

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!