• Upcoming events:
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/291143201/ Wed May 3 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu May 4 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Paris (virtual, in French) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Thu May 4 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri May 5 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 May 5 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat May 6 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat May 6 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 May 7 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 #5 2023 (v zivo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/c1ecfef6-f7c4-4df2-99ef-4a7fd78c8cd6 Wed May 10 2000 CET
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri May 12 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el: calm and civilized, actually https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/293234996/ Sat May 13 1100 America/Los_Angeles
• Emacs configuration:
  • D.V.F.P.: Emacs, portable configurazione with "use-package" and "straight"
  • Ross A. Baker's Emacs config
  • Pablo’s Emacs config
  • Wrote a custom mode-line with some help from chatgpt. Shaved some time off init time by removing doom-modeline.
  • kborling's Emacs config
  • My emacs config, with README.org index generated from init.el (Reddit)
  • Leaving Doom Emacs For GNU Emacs?
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs TIL: How to define an interactive function with multiple prompts
• Appearance:
  • Pair Programming Code Snippet (what I use to pair program)
  • [mp4] Pixel Scroll Precision Mode
  • James Dyer: Cursor Blinking Rate
  • nerd-icons.el: A Library for Nerd Font icons
  • nano-dialog: Emacs native dialog box
  • Hima - A minimal light theme with pretty colors
• Navigation:
  • Overriding project.el project root in Emacs
  • Aimé Bertrand: Custom functions No. 5 - Navigation (Irreal)
• Writing:
  • LaTeX previews in emacs (03:22)
  • emacs-powerthesaurus 0.4.0 is out
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs + Orgmode synergy (05:28)
  • MAXIMUM FOCUS | Org Mode Deep Work Log Updated and Improved! (Based On Feedback) (06:00)
  • Grant Rettke: Org mode: Table Data -> Code -> Results (Irreal)
  • Org ID, Org Attach & Better Folder Names · The Art of Not Asking Why
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Generating elisp org docs
  • Alternatives to Org (that I will not be using) – MacAdie Web Blog (Irreal)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Emacs | How To Create Beautiful HTML Documents With Org Mode (28:05)
    • postprocess_Org-mode_iCal_export: Adding reminder alarms (defined as Org-mode tags) to your iCalendar export file
    • zulip-helpers.el: Some helpers to post from my org-mode file to Zulip
    • How To automate GraphViz generate image from dot file using alpine
    • exchange2org: Connects to your Exchange server and extracts data in Org-mode format
    • Org-mode - Change beamer colours (07:15)
• Coding:
  • Emacs, Pyright & Eglot make an excellent Python IDE (11:04, Reddit)
  • GNU Emacs as a lightweight IDE - Assembly (Reddit) - CEDET
  • emacs lispy meow clojure programming screencast (01:31:24)
  • Git commits as a way to find related files
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Succumbed to mu
  • Quick mu4e notes
  • Irreal: Fixing Mu4e Forcing Opening In Full Frame
• Doom Emacs:
  • سری ویدیو های Emacs | نصب و راه اندازی doom emacs (05:57)
• AI:
  • chatgpt-shell on MELPA + feature rundown (Reddit)
  • chatgpt-shell siblings now on MELPA too (Reddit)
  • ChatGPT inline insertion in latest chatgpt-shell (C-u chatgpt-shell-prompt) (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • How to lock myself out of my config?
  • The Principles of System Crafting - System Crafters Live! (02:04:35)
• Other:
  • [ANN] svg-battery-indicator
  • New Package: say-region.el
  • Recording and screenshotting windows: the lazy way (Irreal) - Mac
  • [Guide] Compile your own Emacs to make it really really fast, on Windows
  • Custom-built Emacs vs Pre-built Emacs benchmarks (v30.0.50) and current Emacs performance on Windows
  • If you're having trouble getting Emacs-29 to run under SystemD in Fedora….
  • Build Your Own Bootable Emacs Environment
  • Restif1975/bel-compiler: A Bel compiler to Emacs Lisp bytecode
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Copy and paste from Emacs 29 to Thunderbird doesn’t work
    • Continued discussion of CVEs
    • Discussion of package.el and stability of core packages
  • New command 'tramp-cleanup-some-buffers'
  • eww: Provide completions for bookmarks and suggested URIs.
  • eww: Enable completion in URL/keyword prompt.
• New packages:
  • async-job-queue: Dispatch queue of async jobs to a fixed number of slots (MELPA)
  • bbww: Improved word-jumping functions (MELPA)
  • bind: Bind commands to keys (MELPA)
  • bitpack: Bit packing functions (MELPA)
  • blackjack: The game of Blackjack (MELPA)
  • dall-e-shell: Interaction mode for DALL-E (MELPA)
  • hima-theme: A minimal theme with pretty colors (MELPA)
  • nerd-icons-completion: Add icons to completion candidates (MELPA)
  • ob-chatgpt-shell: Org babel functions for ChatGPT evaluation (MELPA)
  • ob-dall-e-shell: Org babel functions for DALL-E evaluation (MELPA)
  • org-assistant: Org babel extension for Chat Assistant APIs (MELPA)
  • org-change: Annotate changes in org-mode files (MELPA)
  • projection: Project specific compilation commands (MELPA)
  • rewriting-pcase: Support for rewriting sexps in source code (MELPA)
  • treemacs-nerd-icons: Emacs Nerd Font Icons theme for treemacs (MELPA)
  • typst-mode: A major mode for working with Typst typesetting system (MELPA)

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