• Upcoming events:
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://emacs.ch/@yantar92/111754123619904846 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
  • 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
  • Emacs users group Slovenia (virtual) https://emacs.si/ Sat Jan 20 1130 America/Vancouver - 1330 America/Chicago - 1430 America/Toronto - 1930 Etc/GMT - 2030 Europe/Berlin – Sun Jan 21 0100 Asia/Kolkata - 0330 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): Emacs Lisp Hacking Night Kickoff https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/298488691/ Thu Jan 25 1800 America/Los_Angeles
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Jan 27 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Where To Learn Emacs in 2024 (07:11) - YouTube channel recommendations, blogs
• Emacs configuration:
  • Dude, where's my Emacs? (Reddit)
  • Reinstalling Emacs Packages (Reddit)
  • Release v1.0.0 · deadblackclover/clover · GitHub (@deadblackclover@functional.cafe)
  • jeremyf's Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Finding an emacs 'bug' | JDs Work
  • Emacs Update Old Byte Complied File Fix 2024_01_09_18:03:29 - YouTube (@unixbhaskar@mastodon.social)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: customise mode line colours (34:11 YouTube)
  • Adding support for open-color in rainbow-mode
  • Was playing around with emacs' gtk code and got title bar color to sync with the theme (Reddit)
  • nano-agenda (rewrite)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 1.5.0
• Navigation:
  • GitHub - scroll-page-without-moving-point.el: Move the scroll in Emacs without moving the position cursor. (Reddit)
  • Elisp in Replacement String (Reddit, lobste.rs, Irreal)
  • Charles Choi: Highlighting with isearch (Irreal)
  • Update to isearch submode for searching with toneless pinyin - @Anoncheg@emacs.ch
  • Finding project files in Emacs (@jcf@mastodon.social)
  • Comparing Emacs Workspace Packages - System Crafters Live! (01:54:03)
• Writing:
  • havarddj/typst-preview.el: Typst live preview minor mode for emacs (Reddit)
  • Verb conjugation interface added to reverso.el (@sqrtminusone@emacs.ch)
  • Emacs | Easy Accent Marks (03:13)
• Org Mode:
  • Foraging with Org - Nothing Is Simple (@AblatedSprocket@emacs.ch)
  • How to include an imagemap with a plantuml diagram in Emacs Org Mode HTML export (@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social)
  • Daily Notes for 2024-01-11 | Mike Hall (@mph@social.lol) - a little story about literate configuration notes
  • William Denton: Basic citations in Org (Part 1)
  • William Denton: Basic citations in Org (Part 2)
  • Update to orgrr improves experience when movingnotes from one container to another (@laotang@emacs.ch)
  • Org-mode Türkçe Anlatım Bölüm 1 (14:51)
  • Org development:
    • org-fast-tag-selection: Limit the number of displayed tags
• Denote:
  • Una mirada a la toma de notas (@hispa@emacs.ch)
• Coding:
  • Yi Tang: Atomic Habit in Emacs - Keep Git Repos Clean
  • Christian Tietze: Emacs sqlite-mode to Open .sqlite Files Automatically (@xenodium@indieweb.social)
  • .dir-locals.el for use with the Emacs Eglot LSP client and python-lsp-server (pylsp) LSP server
  • acowley/emacs-lsp-booster-nix: Nix flake for the emacs-lsp-booster program (@acowley@mastodon.social) - improve LSP performance with faster JSON conversion
  • Debugging with Emacs and gdb (06:07)
  • Fix rust-mode panic links in Emacs (05:43)
  • Discord Channel for Emacs LSP
• Shells:
  • Emacs config for eshell (@sqrtminusone@emacs.ch)
• Web:
  • Browsing in Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
• Mail, chat, and news:
  • Mastodon.el: click to favorite/boost/reply - @rahguzar@emacs.ch
• Fun:
  • Drew's blogsite – The touch typing test text editor (@crmsnbleyd@emacs.ch) - emacs-monkeytype
• AI:
  • GitHub - atgreen/emacs-allow-lists-for-ai-services: How to implement an "allow list" for AI services in GNU Emacs
  • Christian Tietze: ChatGPT Shell: Confirm Before Closing and Split Compose Buffer
  • kagi 0.2 released: inserting summaries at point, choosing target language (@bram85@emacs.ch)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015, HN, Irreal)
  • Eric MacAdie: 2024-01 Austin Emacs Meeting
  • Norwescon 33 - Vernor Vinge Interview (@jameshowell@emacs.ch) - shows Emacs screenshot (also @mhd@tilde.zone)
  • Amiga Benchmark Modula 2 Manual 1988 (@wirthy@emacs.ch) - page 5 mentions Emacs
• Other:
  • Creating desktop applications using the Emacs core (Reddit, @andros@hostux.social)
  • Sacha Chua: Using Embark and qrencode to show a QR code for the Org Mode link at point
  • Sacha Chua: Animating SVG topic maps with Inkscape, Emacs, FFmpeg, and Reveal.js
  • Sacha Chua: Yay Emacs 2024-01-12: EmacsConf 2023 report, SVG animation, Embark, Org Mode links (43:07 YouTube)
  • falloutphil/emacs-fix-message-parser: Using QuickFix's C++ library to create an elisp API so we can decode FIX messages from Emacs. (Reddit) - Financial Information Exchange messages
• Emacs development:
  • Discussion about suggesting packages
  • Multithreaded Emacs (Reddit)
  • Corwin Brust: Emacs Devel: Design and Architecture - summary of emacs-devel discussions about multi-threading
  • progress on translating the SES manual to French
  • (js-json-mode): Don't derive from `js-mode` (bug#67463)
  • Hash-table documentation updates (bug#68244)
  • Set the 'name' prop in 'define-advice'
  • Make Compilation mode recognize Lua errors
  • Support :category in completion-extra-properties (bug#68214)
  • Support more metadata properties in completion-extra-properties (bug#68214)
  • cperl-mode.el: Make sure cperl-file-style is set buffer-local
• New packages:
  • jirascope: A Jira client (MELPA)
  • jmespath: Query JSON using jmespath (MELPA)
  • org-cite-sidecar: Sidecar to show references in Org Mode (MELPA)
  • scala-ts-mode: Scala Tree-Sitter Mode (MELPA)
  • sly-overlay: Overlay Common Lisp evaluation results (MELPA)

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