• Help wanted:
  • Looking for Emacs users in Pennsylvania to start a meetup (@jameshowell@emacs.ch)
  • ada-mode: Looking for someone to take over maintenance (emacs-devel)
  • making play-sound async
• Upcoming events:
  • M-x Research: 9th talk on (e)lisp https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jan 10 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 11 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jan 12 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/298331938/ Sat Jan 13 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jan 17 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 18 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Como Instalar Emacs No Seu Windows Pc Em 2024 (01:53)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Is evil-mode worth committing to as a vimmer learning emacs?
  • Minimum settings I use (2023) / 私が使う最小設定（2023年）
  • marcuskammer's Emacs Config
  • skx's Emacs config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • 5 ways to get text from an Emacs buffer (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Tony Zorman: Parentheses-Aware Yanking
  • J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: Code is data - beginner's overview of Emacs Lisp's funcall and apply
  • UI en Emacs, creando un buscador | Programador Web Valencia - widgets
  • Lección 5: Botones | Curso de UI Emacs Lisp
  • Release v0.7 · alphapapa/makem.sh (Reddit) - can run from subdirectory; makefile-like script for linting and testing Emacs Lisp packages
• Appearance:
  • Smooth scroll-up/down (C-v / M-v) & recenter (C-l) commands with pixel-scroll (YouTube, Reddit)
  • Irreal: One Last Time With Marking The Active Window
    • James Dyer: My first emacs package - selected-window-accent-mode (Reddit)
    • James Dyer: Improvements to Selected Window Accent
    • Sacha Chua: Highlight the active modeline using colours from modus-themes
  • Nano Emacs: org-margin mode
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-rosa is the new member of the ef-themes
• Navigation:
  • JasZhe/window-stool: Emacs package that provides code context/breadcrumbs similar to context.vim and topsy. Like a stepping stool for your window. (Reddit)
  • Proof of concept: window tabs (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs Org mode features you may not know (Reddit)
  • Converting Org Files to Canvas Quizzes | Randy Ridenour (@randyridenour@emacs.ch)
  • Eric MacAdie: Org Commands I Frequently Use (Irreal)
  • Jeremy Friesen: Current Workflow for Lore24 Writing
  • First "literate" C program with Emacs + Org-mode - YouTube (29:19)
  • Adding Simple Org-Mode features to Programming Modes in Emacs (12:36, Reddit)
  • Gijs Hillenius: Note-to-self: Org Tree Slide Mode, and Whiteroom Mode
  • lilac: A Literate Programming tool for Orgmode targeting HTML output
  • Jeremy Friesen: Emacs Macros Continue to Amaze Me (Irreal)
  • Peter J. Jones: Archiving in Org Mode (Irreal)
  • Sacha Chua: Using consult and org-ql to search my Org Mode agenda files and sort the results to prioritize heading matches
  • Sacha Chua: Using an Emacs Lisp macro to define quick custom Org Mode links to project files; plus URLs and search
  • SpacemacsとObsidianの融
  • obsidian-org-mode: Add Org Mode support to Obsidian.
  • Org development:
    • Merge branch 'bugfix'
    • Backport commit 8e1c56ae4 from Emacs
    • org-agenda-search-headline-for-time: Ignore all the timestamps in headings
    • Revert "Obsolete `org-src-associate-babel-session' and related functionality"
    • org-element-cache: Provide Elisp API to store user data inside the cache
    • lisp/org-indent.el: Add hook to run after it initializes a buffer
• Denote:
  • Taking Notes With the Emacs Denote Package
  • Jeremy Friesen: Advising Denote Function for Removing Diacritics from String (Irreal)
  • Jeremy Friesen: Leveraging Denote's Signature for Multiple Purposes
  • my/denote/url demo - asciinema.org (@bram85@emacs.ch)
• Coding:
  • Emacs Goodies - #34 SQL Shell Mode (06:35)
  • Emacs Goodies - #33 SQLite Mode - YouTube (4:25)
  • Tim Heaney: Fennel
  • Tim Heaney: Emacs configuration - Fennel, parinfer
  • Emacs lsp-mode performance booster (Reddit)
  • Basic "Reverse" Literate Programming in Emacs with Outshine and Polymode (7:54, Reddit)
  • Learning git with "Try it!"s (and eev) (YouTube)
  • Emacs in tamil part 9 - VC Git - YouTube (@goldayan@clj.social)
  • @robert@toot.kra.hn: quick Python development tips
  • Creating dynamic task runners for your npm scripts in Emacs
  • flajann2/schlau-compile: Schlau Compile extension for Emacs (Reddit) - compile with f5 key using the root of your git project
  • makefile-executor.el (Reddit)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Cyber Angel Emacs (my personal Doom Emacs configuration) (Reddit)
  • Doom Emacs: The Basic Concept and Installing on Windows - YouTube (9:25)
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: EmacsConf backstage: making lots of intro videos with subed-record
• Fun:
  • How To React To How To Type Blimpy In Emacs (6:14, Reddit)
• AI:
  • Integrate Emacs with any LLM - an intro to the gptel package - YouTube (14:25)
  • Brewing coffee with emacs, ekg, and the Aeropress (9:37, Reddit) - using a large language model together with ekg.el (Emacs Knowledge Graph) to take notes
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • ELPA and Emacs Zine: Shutdown of EAEZ
  • DistroTube: Stepping Away To Work On Some Other Projects - YouTube
  • 2024-01-01 Emacs News discussed on HN, aww shucks =)
• Other:
  • emacs-pe/honcho.el: run and manage long-running services (@carcosa@emacs.ch)
  • Contacts management with Emacs in 2024 : emacs (HN)
  • Gijs Hillenius: Combining Emacs and Asciinema
  • ~swflint/random-ask - Randomly ask the user specific questions for productivity data collection - sourcehut git (Reddit)
  • Learn irregular English verbs in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Yi Tang: GPG in Emacs - Functions to Decrypt and Delete All
  • My experience with Emacs GUI on WSL2 Ubuntu
  • Emacs notifications on Linux and Android
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Translating Emacs manuals is of strategic importance
      • challenges
      • also discussion about process, proposal (@jchelary@emacs.ch)
      • Translation of the Org mode manual
      • po4a
      • Gestionnaire de tickets pour la traduction française de la documentation Emacs
      • documentation_emacs: Projet OmegaT de traduction de la documentation Emacs - documentation_emacs - La forge Chapril (Reddit)
  • Support more metadata properties in completion-category-overrides (bug#68214)
  • Make 'advice-remove' interactive
  • eval.c: Add new var `lisp-eval-depth-reserve`
  • New special form `handler-bind`
  • Support display-sort-function in completion-category-overrides (bug#68214)
  • Document 'etags-regen-mode' in the Emacs user manual
  • New feature: etags-regen-mode
  • ; Add 2024 to copyright years
• New packages:
  • biblio-gbooks: Google Books backend for biblio.el (MELPA)
  • ivy-hoogle: Search Hoogle using ivy (MELPA)
  • kagi: Kagi API integration (MELPA)
  • mu4e-crypto: Encrypt and decrypt emails for mu4e with GnuPG (MELPA)
  • ob-base64: Org-babel for base64 content (MELPA)
  • tabby-mode: Minor mode for the Tabby AI coding assistant (MELPA)
  • templ-ts-mode: Major mode for editing Templ files (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, kbin, programming.dev, lemmy, communick.news, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links and thanks to people who e-mailed me things to add. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!