Atelier emacs (Montpellier) met last week instead of this week. Sorry, I forgot to update the calendar!

• Help wanted:
  • Community improvements to the Emacs Widget Library manual?
• Upcoming events:
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Jul 14 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Jul 15 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Jul 15 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 Jul 16 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jul 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 Jul 22 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore (announcement)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Charles Choi: Surprise and Emacs Defaults (Irreal)
  • Magnus: general.el and two ways to define keybindings
  • App Launchers, Dashboard & Language Support - Configuring Emacs 04 (43:44)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Mike Zamansky: Learning Elisp 1 (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Finding a common prefix of a set of strings
  • plz.el v0.7 released (HTTP client library for Emacs Lisp) (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • News: right-aligned modeline (and more)
  • TIL: variable pitch mode - Lemmy
• Navigation:
  • New Package: Peek - create peek view below/above cursor point to show things
• Dired:
  • James Dyer: Dired Duplicate Here Revisited
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Duplicate this! (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: dired-preview version 0.1.0
  • Image dired to manage images in Emacs (03:00)
• Org Mode:
  • Building My BASB in Emacs - 2023 Capstone Report
  • Helpful function: delete-current-daily-note-and-goto-previous-one
  • Will Schenk: Updating date in org file (Updating #+date)
  • Emacs Org Lint Is A Tool To Check Org Files Syntax 2023_07_10_02:57:14 (06:16)
  • One-Octet: Org-mode: Dupliquer une note
  • One-Octet: Org-mode: Dynamic block (in French)
  • One-Octet: Org-mode: Index dynamique de documents Org-mode
  • Org development:
    • lisp/org.el: Add final hooks to S-/M-/S-M-cursor commands
• Coding:
  • Tweaking Emacs for Ruby Development in 2023 · John Hamelink (@johnhamelink, HN, lemmy)
  • prog-face-refine now on melpa! (Reddit)
  • env-commander.el – Per-directory env setup for shell commands
  • Heroku.el — Magit like interface for Heroku CLI
• Shells:
  • My emacs eshell configuration, aliases, and tweaks (Reddit, Irreal)
• Web:
  • Browsing the Web with Emacs (05:22, HN)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Managing email with Notmuch and Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • I connected Emacs Lisp to Twitch chat to improve their behavior (profanity warning) (20:39, Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • ~thanosapollo/yeetube.el - Emacs YouTube/Invidious Front-End (Lemmy)
• Fun:
  • xkcd-303-mode.el – Minor mode for explaining why you're not working (Reddit)
  • XCB Boomshine by wasamasa (lemmy)
• AI:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: chatgpt-shell v0.60.1 updates
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • From Lunar Phases to Yank-Pop (Reddit) - Mastering Emacs book club summary
• Other:
  • DarkBuffalo/gocryptfs.el: a tool to help you mount an encrypted folder using gocryptfs. (lemmy)
  • Useful resource Awesome Emacs (06:59)
  • Navigating the Emacs calendar (05:14, Irreal)
  • Display Analog Clock in Emacs (02:33)
  • Warum Emacs mein Lieblings Programm ist für Dokumente und programmieren #emacs #german (24:01)
  • 0x00. Shell, navigation & 0x01. Emacs & [Optional] Vagrant #alx #linux #softwareengineer #ubuntu (15:08)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Eshell manual is (hopefully) complete! (Irreal) - please take a quick look over to help make sure it's reasonably complete
    • Modifier keys using the toolbar for Android port of Emacs
    • Re: Concurrency via isolated process/thread
    • Explanation of difference between move_it_in_display_line_to and buffer_posn_from_coords Re: Moving point after character when clicking latter half of it
    • Parts of global state used in redisplay
    • Maybe add another argument to the interactive spec?
    • Philosophical benefits of Emacs Lisp clients that replace Web/Javascript clients, with examples
  • Add special '$GID' variable in Eshell
  • * etc/NEWS: Document changes to coding-system mnemonics.
  • New user option 'ediff-floating-control-frame'
  • Support right-align in mode-line
  • `remote-file-name-access-timeout' being 0 is equal to nil
  • Apply remote-file-name-access-timeout in desktop.el and recentf.el
• New packages:
  • corfu-candidate-overlay: Show first candidate in an overlay while typing (MELPA)
  • counsel-toki: Counsel support for toki pona dictionary lookup (MELPA)
  • dired-preview: Automatically preview file at point in Dired (GNU ELPA)
  • gpt-commit: Commit messages with GPT in Emacs (MELPA)
  • mess: Front-end for MAME MESS (MELPA)
  • prog-face-refine: Refine faces for programming modes (MELPA)
  • semantic-thrift: Thrift LALR parser (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, kbin, programming.dev, communick.news, 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!