• Emacs 29:
  • Update: MSI Installer for GNU Emacs 29.1 for Windows
  • Gnu Emacs acaba de publicar su versión 29.1
  • Emacs 28 Antinews (GNU Emacs Manual) (lobste.rs)
• Help wanted:
  • [Final call] Please help collecting statistics to optimize Emacs GC defaults
• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs London Meetup, Tue, Aug 22, 2023, 7:00 PM | Meetup
  • Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, August 26, 2023
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Aug 16 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 Aug 18 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Aug 19 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Aug 19 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 Aug 20 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London Meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/294668548/ Tue Aug 22 1900 Europe/London
• Emacs configuration:
  • The Age-Old Question: When to Declare "Configuration Bankruptcy"?
  • I can't decide when to use elisp, use-package, and the customize interface in my configuration
  • Configurar Emacs con use-package (0x0006) (31:23)
  • lunarymacs: casouri's Emacs configuration
  • jimenezrick's Emacs Config
  • aadi58002's Emacs Config
  • bunnylushington's dot-emacs-v29
  • Miranda's Emacs configuration
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Isa Mert Gurbuz: Elisp editing/development tips
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: pulsar version 1.0.0 - temporarily highlight the current line
  • My Emacs eye candy
  • James Dyer: Emacs 29.1 Transparency Alpha On Sway
  • Standard Themes (Reddit, communick)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 1.3.0
• Navigation:
  • jac: Just Another buffer Cloning method
  • Iggaak: Emacs minor mode: narrow to a certain number of lines
  • Optimising Deft for Emacs
• Writing:
  • Zotra is now on MELPA: The power of Zotero in Emacs
• Org Mode:
  • org-mode clock tables and spreadsheets
  • Org-mode - In search of perfect clock time report (08:41)
  • csv2orgclock: Converting CSV clock logs to Org Mode
  • Emacs Org Mode Variables Tweak
  • confluence_upload.sh: Upload org-mode files directly to a Confluence server, using its API
  • [Emacs/iOS users] How would you pay to fund a polished iOS org agenda app? (Irreal)
  • Org development:
    • ob-sqlite: Use a transient in-memory database by default
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Fix typo
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Clarify that `org-element-property' can be used with deferred
    • org-make-tags-matcher: Add starred property operators, fix quoting
• Completion:
  • A brief tutorial on capf-autosuggest: fish like completion in Emacs (02:13)
  • snippets: The Doom Emacs snippets library
• Coding:
  • sqlcl-shell: Emacs interaction with Oracle SQLcl
  • How Magit improved my workflow and my Git knowledge
  • How to use Pylance in Emacs - Lemmy
  • treesitter-context : A package to show code context
  • Extending Emacs 29 sqlite-mode (cell navigation + edit) (Reddit)
  • Extending sqlite-mode (cell navigation + edits) (Irreal)
  • justl-mode release v0.13 (Reddit)
  • KarimAziev/igist: Work seamlessly with GitHub gists from Emacs. (communick)
  • bigquery-mode: GNU Emacs Major Mode for Editing and Executing BigQuery Scripts
  • sql-bigquery: Emacs SQL Mode Support for BigQuery
• Math:
  • literate-calc-mode.el: 🧮 Literate programming for M-x calc
• Shells:
  • 15 Useful Emacs Eshell Tips (12:18)
  • Eric MacAdie: Example of Eshell Use and Thoughts On Eshell
  • I created a WIP major mode for PowerShell (Reddit)
• Web:
  • Ewnium - The Emacs EWW version of Vimium plugin (Experimental!!!) (Reddit)
  • Preview HTML files with Dirvish and Xwidgets in Emacs
• Multimedia:
  • mpv and ffmpeg screenshots with the timecode in the filename and emacs tips (01:15:39)
• AI:
  • Discussion of whether an llm package should be in GNU ELPA or NonGNU ELPA
  • uniteai: Your AI Stack in Emacs: Voice-to-text, Local LLM, and GPT, +more. Uses `lsp' underneath (Reddit)
  • gpt-dictionary-sentence · GitHub
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • This is the story of how I came to use Emacs and other things (Reddit, lobste.rs)
  • communick.news: A welcome to new members and a call to help to make this place even better
  • Minutes of Org Meetup on Wed, Aug 9, 19:00 UTC+3
  • Eric MacAdie: 2023-08 Austin Emacs Meetup
• Other:
  • A Complete Tutorial on using DIFF in Emacs for File Comparison (18:56)
  • Emacs Goodies - #2 Midnight Mode (07:11, Reddit) - kills buffers periodically
  • GNU Emacs in a snap
  • Sorting in Emacs (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
  • Compilar Emacs desde el código fuente
  • Writing GNU Emacs extensions by Bob Glickstein | Open Library (1997)
  • calfw-blocks: Visual enhancements for the Emacs Calendar Framework (calfw)
  • Compiling GNU Emacs 30 on Debian 12 (Reddit)
  • Raise an Emacs window or run Emacs · GitHub using xdotool
  • James Dyer: Saving My Favourite Wallpapers (styli.sh and some Emacs Lisp)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • More explanation of Emacs's performance challenges and why shrinking the C core isn't necessarily the goal
    • Intricacies of expand-file-name, primitive functions, and find-file-name-handler
    • working around glibc bug, help wanted looking at the original bug in glibc
    • Opportunities to improve Emacs performance - regexp search, marker processing
  • * etc/NEWS (cl-print-ellipsis): Mention `backtrace-ellipsis`
  • Improve kill-ring-deindent-mode
  • New global minor mode `kill-ring-deindent-mode'
  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'savannah/master' into master-android-1
  • Enable visiting FIFOs as files
  • Make Emacs 21 compat aliases easy-mmode-* obsolete
• New packages:
  • anki-editor-view: Open anki-editor notes from Anki (MELPA)
  • binky: Jump between points like a rabbit (MELPA)
  • project-tasks: Efficient task management for your project (MELPA)

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