• Emacs 29.0.90 pretest is available (Reddit)
• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, April 22, 2023
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Apr 14 1800 Europe/Paris
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Apr 14 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Apr 15 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Apr 15 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): Springtime coffee.el https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/292525837/ Sat Apr 15 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Apr 16 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • London Emacs Hacking: Emacs London Meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/292808528/ Mon Apr 17 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/GMT - 2000 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Tue Apr 18 0200 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Apr 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Apr 22 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Testing different Emacs distros easy way in Emacs 29/30
  • tripleee's Simple modular Emacs startup file management library
  • My basic keybinding setup for Emacs with evil-mode and Kmonad to avoid using pinkies
  • fingers.el: Modal editing minor mode for Emacs
  • vidbina's Emacs Config
  • jackkamm's Emacs Config
  • rdbeni0's Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Nicolas Martyanoff: Making IELM More Comfortable (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
  • shell-maker: Make your own shell in 15 lines of elisp (batteries included) (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs, Irreal)
  • Eask: A package development tool for your Elisp packages; Eask is an alternative to Cask, makem.sh, and Eldev (Reddit)
  • clj2el: transpile clojure to elisp
• Appearance:
  • Nordic-Night: A darker, higher-contrast, and more colorful take on the Nord theme (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Emacs | The Best Screenplay App Is Not a Screenplay App (Fountain Mode) (11:03)
  • Nidish96/cart.el: speed up inserting and editing graphical objects using Tikz/Pgf on latex documents/(beamer) presentations (@Nidish96)
• Org Mode:
  • How I org in 2023 (lobste.rs)
  • UOMF: How I'm Working With Tasks and My Emacs Org-mode Agenda
  • Org Log: My thoughts on journalling with Org mode (HN)
  • Dig My Grave: Leveraging the Triple Back-tick in Org Mode // Take on Rules (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Sorting Org Tags using Org Mode!
  • org-hyperscheduler screencast - YouTube (Reddit)
  • notes-list: Emacs notes list
  • Guide to Org Cite
  • iPhone tricks 175 - Running Emacs and org file on iPhone! (01:00)
  • Quick recap of the state of Org mode apps for Android
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • nbcorg: A jupyter notebook to orgmode exporter for nbconvert
    • I wrote a script to convert koreader highlights to org mode (Reddit)
    • How to Generate a Single html-file with Embedded Images
    • Unwound Stack: indie-org.sh - demonstration site for indieweb publishing
    • Sacha Chua: Using Org Mode tables and Emacs Lisp to create Minecraft Java JSON command books
  • Other apps:
    • Captee for macOS released - sharing as Org or Markdown (Irreal)
    • Flat Habits 1.1.4 released (org based file store) iOS (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • lisp/org.el: Allow limiting inline image width
    • org-agenda: Rename sorting "priority" to "urgency"
• Coding:
  • sideline.el: Show information on the side
  • A small package for overlays (variable usage and method/function usage)
  • GitHub - nilninull/cli-gist.el: Display Github Gist in Emacs
  • How to insert pairs without fancy packages in Emacs (04:14)
  • Haskell workflow using Emacs and SSH for CS 357 (04:24)
• Shells:
  • Making Shell Scripts Executable Just-in-Time
• Doom Emacs:
  • Simple command to navigate multi-file literate configs
• AI:
  • https://github.com/xenodium/chatgpt-shell does DALL-E babel also (/r/orgmode, /r/orgmode also, lobste.rs, Irreal)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Support Emacs Maintainers
  • Jeremy Friesen: Responding to "Things Your Editor Should Have"
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: comments on the Rubber Duck Show of 2023-03-16
• Other:
  • Chiacchierata Live con Nicola di @NFVblog : Emacs, distro Linux minimali, Gentoo ed altro!
  • Irreal: Emacs Docs
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • GNUstep builds paused until someone can update the build steps
    • concerns about LanguageTool
    • error recovery in parsers
    • info on how dragging and dropping files works
    • CVEs and Emacs releases (Re: Emacs 28.3 Release)
  • Extend ignored-return-value warning to more functions (bug#61730)
• New packages:
  • cats: Monads for Elisp (MELPA)
  • dired-gitignore: A minor mode to hide gitignored files in a dired buffer (MELPA)
  • environ: API for environment variables and env files (MELPA)
  • nerd-icons: Emacs Nerd Font Icons Library (MELPA)
  • org-tidy: A minor mode to tidy org-mode buffers (MELPA)
  • switchy-window: A most-recently-used window switcher (GNU ELPA)
  • tabgo: Jump to tabs, avy style (MELPA)
  • wgrep-deadgrep: Writable deadgrep buffer and apply the changes to files (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!