• Help wanted:
  • Treesit next steps
  • Volunteers to try out other bugtracking workflows
• Upcoming events:
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/295467656/ Wed Sep 6 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Sep 7 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Paris (virtual, in French) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Thu Sep 7 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Sep 8 1800 Europe/Paris
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Sep 8 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Sep 9 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Sep 9 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 Sep 10 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2023-08/msg00591.html Wed Sep 13 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 14 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • T. V. Raman: Emacs Ergonomics: Dont Punish Your Finger Tips
  • Hassle-Free Emacs Setup: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide (Part 1) 🔥 (16:31)
  • scamx: A modal editing mechanism for emacs (Reddit)
  • Emacs "god" mode - an alternative to evil-mode (04:14)
  • Emacs Modified for (macOS|Windows)
  • Crafted Emacs Update for August and Another New Teammate — Bowmansarrow
  • scottstav's Emacs Config
  • skangas' Emacs configuration
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Mike Zamansky: Learning Elisp 9: writing a function header - defun, save-excursion, eros-mode (Reddit, Irreal)
  • What influence does case-fold-search have on searches in Emacs Lisp? (02:16)
  • Learn Emacs Lisp One Sexp At A Time | minibuffer.tonyaldon.com (Reddit, Irreal)
    • How to search for regexp in buffers in Emacs Lisp? | re-search-forward (02:16)
    • How to replace regexp in buffers in Emacs Lisp? | replace-regexp (02:15)
    • How to list files in a given directory in Emacs Lisp? | directory-files-and-attributes - dolist (02:19)
    • How to insert strings in a given buffer in Emacs Lisp? | with-current-buffer - get-buffer-create (2:17, Reddit)
    • How to turn a function into a command in Emacs Lisp? interactive (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: How I keep track of new Emacs packages
• Appearance:
  • James Dyer: My Evolving Modeline (Irreal)
  • Settings for transparent notes on top of a presentation in Emacs 29
  • whame/fontify-patch: Fontify Emacs buffers that contain patch diffs (Reddit)
  • elastic-modes: spaceship-mode and tabble-mode: text/code alignment for variable-width fonts
  • Introducing the Naga-Blue theme (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Release v0.3 · alphapapa/burly.el (Save and restore frames and windows with their buffers) (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • My Task Management using Emacs and Org-mode (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
  • Charles Choi: Addendum - Defining Repeating Org Agenda Tasks
  • org-memento: (WIP) An opinionated framework for time management with Org mode
  • orgmode-balance: Script that gives feedback on how you are doing in your Org-mode todos (2013)
  • [ANN] org-timeblock: Multi-day views
  • org-du: Visualizing Emacs Org-mode heading lines using du and xdu
  • devcarbon-com/entable: Small emacs package for easy header <–> table conversion. (Reddit)
  • Andrea: An easier way to try Cljs libraries with shadow-cljs ob-clojure and cider
  • Org Flashcards
  • Delighted by org svg preview
  • Howto for TTS with Emacs-Reveal
  • ‎Xenodium Ltd. Apps on the App Store for Emacs Org Users
• Completion:
  • Switching from helm to vertico and friends (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • with-editor-export-editor
• Coding:
  • Isa Mert Gurbuz: Announcement: swagg.el – Swagger UI, inside Emacs (working with OpenAPI definitions)
  • Emacs VHDL Mode 3.39 released (Reddit) - VHDL-2019, Emacs 28/29 support
• Web:
  • Select a firefox window and sends Control R when calling the function
• Fun:
  • 🥩How to type "blimpy" in Emacs?🥩 (2:55, Reddit, HN)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • ELPA and Emacs Zine (August 2023) mockup (emacs-devel, Reddit)
    • mailing list
    • This Month in Org experiences, community draft example from Julia
  • Shocked to find Professor Steven Pinker employ Emacs as his word processing tool.
• Other:
  • Emacs Goodies - #7 Proced Mode - YouTube (Reddit)
  • Introduction to yomikun, an emacs package for Japanese learners
  • Kisaragi Hiu: Emacs 29 pgtk woes (Reddit)
  • Mastering Emacs [LWN.net]​ (Irreal)
  • It's not perfect, but I was able to install and use Doom Emacs on my S6 Lite. (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Emacs upstream commit feed
  • emacs-devel:
    • makeinfo performance with extensions (and why texinfo 4.13)
    • debbugs moderation
    • emacs-devel image, explanation of some kinds of replies (relatable, also long discussion about email, anonymous subscription, etc.) - continue on emacs-tangents
    • planning releases, cadence and feedback
    • note about how searching emacs-devel only goes back to 2021 or so
    • documenting along the way in order to simplify releases
    • compatibility layer for refactoring to allow for other providers?
  • Announce user option tramp-completion-multi-hop-methods
  • New conditional compilation macro static-if. (clarification)
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Tell users they don't need to change 'eshell-prompt-regexp'.
  • Display the exit code if the last command failed in Eshell
  • Obsolete treesit-block/sexp/sentence/text-type-regexp
  • Make url-gateway-broken-resolution obsolete
  • Make checkdoc warn if not using lexical-binding
  • Make Makefile browser obsolete
  • Rename 'package-vc-allow-side-effects' to better fit its use
  • * lisp/tab-bar.el: Add tab-bar-tab-name-format-functions (bug#65554)
• New packages:
  • auto-sort-mode: Automatically sort lines between two delimiters (MELPA)
  • compile-multi-embark: Integration for `compile-multi' and `embark' (MELPA)
  • defcapture: A convenience macro for the Doct DSL (MELPA)
  • difftastic: Wrapper for difftastic (MELPA)
  • duplexer: Handle conflicts between local minor modes and reuse rules (MELPA)
  • koopa-mode: A major mode for Microsoft PowerShell (MELPA)
  • noir-ts-mode: tree-sitter support for Noir (MELPA)
  • swagg: Swagger UI (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!