• Upcoming events:
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/295467663/ Wed Nov 1 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Nov 2 0030 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Paris (virtual, in French) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Thu Nov 2 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Nov 3 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #12 2023 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/b292e3d3-2c53-4c00-b86a-f1bbff4c97b5 Thu Nov 2 1900 CET
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Nov 3 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Nov 4 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Nov 3 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2000 Europe/Berlin – Sat Nov 4 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Nov 4 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1000 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Nov 5 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 1000 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1530 Asia/Kolkata - 1800 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Nov 10 1800 Europe/Paris
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #11 2023 (#online) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/e4748f47-63cc-4891-8c11-ce288c3b9f4b Fri Nov 10 2000 CET
• Emacs configuration:
  • goofansu's Doom Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • The conception and depiction of lines in Emacs (Advanced Topic) (Irreal)
• Appearance:
  • Charles Choi: Customizing the Emacs Tools Menu (Irreal)
  • New package: mini-echo.el (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 1.4.0
  • Get Emacs to Look like the Pulsar/Atom Editor (02:12)
• Navigation:
  • Wai Hon: Options to Replace String in Large Scale
  • Can Emacs do this? – Yes, Emacs can do this (Reddit) - visual-regexp
• Writing:
  • Dictionary Integrations | starbreaker.org
  • Overleaf vs. Emacs for two-way LaTeX-PDF navigation (04:43)
• Org Mode:
  • Share your org-mode agenda theme/screenshot (elisp included to auto-generate based on sample org file)
  • org-ql-open-link (new command offers links in matching Org entries with completion and opens the selected one directly) (Reddit)
  • Release v0.7.3 · alphapapa/org-ql (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: #EmacsConf backstage: automatically updating talk status from the crontab
  • Sacha Chua: #EmacsConf backstage: coordinating captioning volunteers using a backstage area (Org and TRAMP)
  • Org development:
    • org-clock-out-removed-last-clock: New variable to be used by `org-clock-hook'
• Coding:
  • Emacs Goodies - #24 Json Pretty (02:09)
  • Getting Started with OCaml (in Emacs) (14:55)
  • Reloading a changed python file in emacs python shell (04:00)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Open in Xcode at line number (Reddit, Irreal)
• Shells:
  • Eric MacAdie: Starting the Transition to Eshell
  • Andrey Listopadov: You don't need a terminal emulator
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Script in Elisp to generate a unified RSS feed with several feeds (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • Listen To Internet Radio With Emacs And Eradio (09:25)
• Fun:
  • James Dyer: Digital Art Using Artist Mode #1 (YouTube, 02:22)
• AI:
  • Ellama moved to llm library and now supports proprietary LLMs as well as open source
  • Ollama on Emacs with Ellama (Reddit)
  • gptel 0.5.0: with multi/local LLM support (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Eric MacAdie: 2023-10 Austin Emacs Meetup
• Other:
  • third-time: Third Time support for Emacs. See https://ift.tt/vwXVPo2 (Reddit)
  • A literate Org document on building Emacs from source - conditionally for RedHat or Debian (Reddit, HN)
  • Sacha Chua: #EmacsConf backstage: autopilot with crontab
  • Redumping with pdumper
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • proposal for inline completion mechanism
      • difference between company and corfu, dependency on popon which is in NonGNU ELPA (and blocks corfu from going into ELPA or core)
      • also more about company vs corfu
    • recent texinfo behavior change re: non-ASCII characters
    • continuation of cl-lib discussion, what's missing in elisp
      • difficulty of using cl-lib
    • disabling native compilation
  • Add 'server-eval-args-left' to server.el (documentation fix)
  • Add 'case-symbols-as-words' to configure symbol case behavior
  • Add easy customization for dir-locals files (Bug#66702)
  • Remove highlighting trailing whitespace from cperl-mode
  • Enable DND handlers to receive more than one URI at a time
  • cperl-mode.el: Make commands and options for Perl info pages obsolete.
  • Add toggle-window-dedicated command and mode-line-window-dedicated
  • Prefer HTTPS in `M-x webjump´
  • Add a new Eshell special reference type for markers
  • Make NSM warn if DH key exchange has less than 2048 bit primes
  • Warn about 3DES when network-security-level is medium
  • Remove gmane.org support from nnweb
• New packages:
  • chip8: A CHIP-8 emulator (MELPA)
  • flymake-eask: Eask support in Flymake (MELPA)
  • kanagawa-theme: Retro elegant theme (MELPA)
  • mini-echo: Echo buffer status in minibuffer window (MELPA)
  • perspective-project-bridge: Integration of perspective.el + project.el (MELPA)
  • surround: Easily add/delete/change parens, quotes, and more (MELPA)

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