• Help wanted:
  • Need help to generate logs for webkit bugs to bring video capability to Emacs!
• Upcoming events:
  • 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
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Jul 21 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Jul 22 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 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
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Jul 22 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 23 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jul 26 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 27 0030 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emerging from dotemacs bankruptcy the hard way: package management (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Tips: enhance vim insert mode with many Emacs keybindings
  • my cool new emacs (11:39)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Mike Zamansky: Learning Elisp 2 - variables (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Mike Zamansky: Learning Elisp 3 - functions (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Emacs Notes: Augment output of "C-h f" (describe-function) with usage examples
• Appearance:
  • Zachary Kanfer: Automatially Balance Your Emacs Windows (Irreal)
• Navigation:
  • An Emacs package that goes back to the Dinosaurs: Avy (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Charles Choi: Using Ediff in 2023
  • T. V. Raman: Ergonomic Buffer Selection On The Emacs Audio Desktop
• Dired:
  • Alex Bennée: dired-rsync 0.7 released
• Dired:
  • Emacs - Play videos and open files in any application (03:05)
• Org Mode:
  • Publishing Book with Emacs and OrgMode
  • Nano agenda (WIP) (Reddit)
  • One-Octet: Org-mode: Exportation PDF et le français
  • Org development:
    • org-store-link: Move already stored link to front by default
    • lisp/org-element.el: Add new timestamp property :range-type
• Coding:
  • susam/emacs4cl: A tiny DIY kit to set up vanilla Emacs for Common Lisp programming (Irreal)
  • What dev feature is available in emacs but not in the current mainstream IDEs ? (Irreal)
  • I started using some new feature in emacs, to replicate vscode (Reddit)
  • Visual Studio Code (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • oatmeal: "Build your own #TweetDeck with #Emacs…" - Emacs.ch
• Multimedia:
  • Watch YouTube Using Emacs | Yeetube.el Demo (02:24)
• Fun:
  • Playing Tetris in Emacs (03:07)
• AI:
  • Introducing GPT-Commit: An Emacs Package for AI-Generated Commit Messages
  • UniteAI: Interact with your AI Stack in your Editor (Reddit)
  • Using YASnippet to create prompt templates for Chatgpt-Shell (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: ChatGPT visits the Emacs doctor (Reddit, HN)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • On using Emacs for 20 years | Gabor Torok
  • Attracting new people - Lemmy
  • Crafter Q&A: Emacs, Guix, and more! - System Crafters Live (02:02:05)
  • Famous Programers with Repetitive Strain Injury (HN)
  • What do you all think about (setq sentence-end-double-space nil)? (Irreal)
• Other:
  • Emacs GUI library (Reddit, HN)
  • Access Your Password-Manager from Emacs on Linux Using KeePassXC
  • annotate.el 2.0.1 released - add annotations to arbitrary files without changing the files themselves (with export and import). (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Drawing ASCII art charts in Emacs buffers
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • New branch feature/named-lambdas.
    • Android update: new prebuilts that can access Termux files and program data
    • Suggestions for improving a define-widget that uses value-to-external and value-to-internal
    • Some limitations of emacs-async
    • Emacs for Android [LWN.net]​ (Reddit, HN)
  • cl-print: Allow expanding the contents of hash-tables
  • cl-print: Put buttons on ellipses
  • Port NaN, infinity handling better to VAX
  • Add support for explicitly-remote commands in Eshell
• New packages:
  • starhugger: Hugging Face/AI-powered text & code completion client (MELPA)
  • tiktoken: Count BPE Tokens (MELPA)
  • wildcharm-light-theme: Port of vim-wildcharm (light) colorscheme (MELPA)
  • wildcharm-theme: Port of vim-wildcharm colorscheme (MELPA)
  • yeetube: YouTube/Invidious Front End (MELPA)

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