• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (IRL - Octo) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Feb 6 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/298320311/ Wed Feb 7 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto – Thu Feb 8 0030 Etc/GMT - 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0600 Asia/Kolkata - 0830 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Feb 9 1800 Europe/Paris
  • Emacs users group Slovenia (virtual) https://emacs.si/ Sat Feb 17 1130 America/Vancouver - 1330 America/Chicago - 1430 America/Toronto - 1930 Etc/GMT - 2030 Europe/Berlin – Sun Feb 18 0100 Asia/Kolkata - 0330 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Embark – Key Features and Tweaks (Reddit)
  • Repeat-mode is awesome, share you useful configs
  • karthink's list of keymaps and their single-key shortcuts for repeating commands
  • Trying out Meow, an emacs-native modal editing package
  • Switching to the meow modal editing system from evil (2021, Reddit, lobste.rs)
  • starenka Emacs Config (geared towards Python users)
  • zach-delong's Emacs Config
  • L-Colombo's Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Marcin Borkowski: From the kill ring to a register revisited
  • Lección 8: Dinámicos | Curso de UI Emacs Lisp
• Appearance:
  • I just wanted Emacs to look nice - using 24-bit color in terminals (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • Ruslan Bekenev: Emacs: which-function-mode (Irreal)
  • My Emacs Eye Candy
• Navigation:
  • Comparing files easily in Emacs (2:07, Reddit)
  • Quickly change multiple instances with iedit (Irreal)
  • Emacs search, ignoring punctuation or spaces between words: M-s w - word-search-forward
  • James Dyer: Winner Undo to Tab Bar History
  • What kinds of buffers do you wish you could bookmark?
• Writing:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: abbreviations with abbrev-mode (quick text expansion) (26:23, YouTube)
  • My thoughts on howm, an Emacs Note-taking library, and its possible alternatives
• Org Mode:
  • My Emacs org-mode / org-roam config as a student | maplet
  • Karl Voit on Org Mode – The Informed Life (2023)
  • Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (Reddit)
  • stefanv/org-link-github: Shorthand github links for org-mode
  • Yi Tang: Blog in Emacs - Work with Images
  • Jeremy Friesen: Adjusting My Time Tracking Again
  • org-merge-driver, a merge driver specialized for the Org syntax, looks really neat! Found on Worg but just wanted to share an instance of usage (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • org-footnote-new: Add an option to create new anonymous labels
    • org: Fontify whole table rows with `org-table-row' face
    • ox-latex: Remove org-latex-line-break-safe
• Denote:
  • Emacs Note Taking Recommendation: Denote (re-edit) (04:17)
• Coding:
  • Exploring Emacs (Prelude) … for web development (01:10:25)
  • An Emacs plugin for Vite (Reddit) - JS web development
  • Verilog & Emacs (24:48)
  • Emacs for Rust Development | January 2024 Edition (12:40)
  • Flycheck 33 released today, first release for the project in many years after being abandoned by maintainer (Reddit)
  • Tree-Sitter: Superior Syntax Highlighting in Emacs (Reddit)
  • I love Magit Forges
• Multimedia:
  • emacs mpv playlist with urls from the clipboard using a hotkey (46:58)
• EXWM:
  • There are new maintainers for EXWM project
  • Tory Anderson: Getting docked triple-monitor setups on exwm at start of work
• Fun:
  • they are surely not joking when they say emacs can do every thing - steam.el game launcher
  • New package: chromecast.el
  • Drew's blogsite – Reading CBZ Manga in emacs
  • GNU Emacs: Magnifier Tool (00:24, Reddit)
• AI:
  • LLM Experiments, Part 2: Structured workflows with org-mode (Reddit) - interesting idea about using LLMs to generate subtasks and estimates
  • Using LLM's to fill the semantic search gap (Reddit)
  • Demo of `kagi-translate` in Emacs
  • Emacs manuals loaded into custom GPT (@leo@twit.social)
  • Using GPT in Emacs the simple way (10:50)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • What is it that makes using emacs fun for you?
  • Sacha Chua: 2024-02-04 Yay Emacs: community plumbing, streaming setup, Emacs News highlights, transcript export (1:07:18, YouTube)
• Other:
  • Looking ahead to Emacs 30 [LWN.net]​
  • If you would like a new feature in Emacs v30 - what would it be?
  • More totally evident but super useful emacs features I might keep ignoring?
  • The original magic Emacs garbage collection hack (Reddit, HN)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • cond* and pcase compatibility, and plan
    • Ideas for improving discoverability
  • New function 'sort-on'
  • Increase `emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column` to 72
  • Introduce a global variant of visual-wrap-prefix-mode
  • Eliminate lazy bytecode loading
  • derived.el: Delete old code (bug#68625)
• New packages:
  • activities: Save/restore sets of windows, tabs/frames, and their buffers (GNU ELPA)
  • denote-explore: Explore Denote files (MELPA)
  • ebib-sidecar: Sidecar to show formatted reference of current Ebib Entry (MELPA)
  • haproxy-mode: Major mode for editing HAProxy config files (MELPA)
  • rom-party: Rendition of jklm.fun's "Bomb Party" game (MELPA)
  • selected-window-accent-mode: Accent Selected Window (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker 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!