• [2024-03-19 Tue] Update: Emacs APAC meeting is actually at 1300-1400 IST (one hour earlier)
• Help wanted:
  • ivy-posframe looking for new maintainer (@Mehrad@fosstodon.org)
  • Looking for Emacs users in Hamburg for meetups
• Upcoming events:
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Mar 20 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 21 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) - note time change https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Mar 23 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0730 Etc/GMT - 0830 Europe/Berlin - 1300 Asia/Kolkata - 1530 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Mar 27 1030 America/Vancouver - 1230 America/Chicago - 1330 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 28 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): Emacs Lisp Hacking Night: Org Mode (Hybrid) https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/299740714/ Thu Mar 28 1800 America/Vancouver - 2000 America/Chicago - 2100 America/Toronto – Fri Mar 29 0100 Etc/GMT - 0200 Europe/Berlin - 0630 Asia/Kolkata - 0900 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Introduction to GNU Emacs (54:27)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Structuring an Emacs configuration
  • chaosemer/init-dir
  • Project-specific packages
  • Accepting your own solutions to your own problems (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: My Dotfile
  • public/emacs_settings.org · master · JTR / Taonah (@jtr@fosstodon.org)
  • haplo's Emacs Config
  • shaleh's Emacs Config
  • broquaint's Emacs Config
  • Wai Hon's Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Arialdo Martini: Emacs: Let's surround! - Prompt the user for inputs (Reddit)
  • Wrote my first function :) - highlight-word
  • m-buffer-el: List Oriented Buffer Operations for Emacs
  • Declaring Lisp function types
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 1.6.0
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: modus-themes version 4.4.0
  • `lsp-treemacs-nerd-icons` - Nerd Icons for `lsp-treemacs`
  • Gruvbox theme Emacs logo (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Arthur A. Gleckler: narrow-to-focus (Irreal)
  • replace-from-region: Perform `query-replace-regexp', but getting FROM string from region
  • diff-so-fancy: Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs. 🎉
• Hyperbole:
  • ANNOUNCE: GNU Hyperbole package major release 9 (V9.0.1) released
• Dired:
  • Dired-auto-readme is now available via Melpa
• Writing:
  • Some meow configuration for friendlier LaTeX editing (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Ace Maths tool for training basic math skills - Org Mode document with Javascript, tangle and detangle - @ArneBab@rollenspiel.social
  • A meow-state for speedy org structure navigation (Reddit)
  • orgtbljoin: Enrich an Org-table with a reference table
  • orgtblfit: Do regression fitting on Org Mode tables
  • [Blog] Org, AWK, and Anki (Reddit)
  • Jeremy Friesen: Completion at Point for Org Macros
  • Org-roam causes less complications than Denote (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • ob-calc.el: Add support for tables in Calc source block :var
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Fix typo
    • org-export: Do not strip link type by default during export
• Completion:
  • Emacs Recipes With Yasnippet | Mark's Project Blog (@mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)
  • 2024-03-15 Emacs: Completion And Function Bundles
• Coding:
  • dape: Debug Adapter Protocol for Emacs - Version 0.9 (Reddit)
  • Let's talk about Clojure editors and IDEs: Emacs, IntelliJ IDEA Cursive, VSCode Calva, Vim (11:41)
  • Jeremy Friesen: An Emacs Function for Wrapping Ruby Functions
  • Robe 0.8.4 released (Reddit) - Ruby 3 compatibility, etc.
  • RPM Treesitter grammar parser packaging for Emacs, Vim and co
  • Committing a partial changeset in Emacs | On coding and tools (@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social)
• Web:
  • EWW Redirecting reddit to old.reddit.com automatically
• Fun:
  • Spotted Emacs in a comic - Emacs Cultural References in the Wild
  • GC-geiger: Make a click sound when emacs does garbage collection (Reddit)
• AI:
  • Release Version 0.8.0 · gptel (LLM client for Emacs) (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Things you do in Emacs that will make non-Emacs users go WOW? (Irreal)
  • How do you collaborate/interact with the non-emacs users in your life?
  • A little vent about people who are trying to change Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • GNU Emacs sessions streaming on Twitch, Sundays (@shakthimaan@mastodon.social)
  • emacs@groups.io: Emacs users group Slovenia
  • emacs_si: Spletna stran slovenske skupnosti, ki se dobiva na temo emacsa
  • Telegram Channel Emacs (español) A nosotros nos gusta Emacs, y hablamos en español ;) (Reddit)
• Other:
  • Emacs Mode Specific Commands 2024_03_17_06:27:52 (04:28)
  • lentic-server: A literate web server for Emacs
  • The revised edition of the howm manual.
  • Anand Tamariya: Data Visualization with GNU Emacs (YouTube 00:50, Reddit)
  • Gijs Hillenius: Blog - Gopher - Elpher
  • boox-attach.el · GitHub (@lucasvreis@mathstodon.xyz) - insert last figure drawn on Boox tablet into an Org note as SVG
  • Introducing Chrome-Emacs: Elevate Your Live Coding Experience in Online Editors
• Emacs development:
  • An alternate pattern-matching conditional for Elisp
  • Continued work on faster JSON parsing
  • * lisp/tab-bar.el (tab-bar-select-restore-windows): New defcustom.
  • Document and announce 'marker-last-position'
  • Further adjustments for restoring killed buffer windows (Bug#68235)
  • * lisp/textmodes/flyspell.el (flyspell-check-changes): New user option.
  • Add user option to disable JavaScript in xwidget webview
• New packages:
  • bril-mode: Major mode for Bril text format (MELPA)
  • dired-auto-readme: Auto-display README file in Dired buffers (MELPA)
  • dired-hist: Traverse Dired buffer history: back, forward (MELPA)
  • elisa: Emacs Lisp Information System Assistant (MELPA)
  • mpdired: A dired-like client for Music Player Daemon (GNU ELPA)
  • sops: SOPS encrypt and decrypt without leaving the editor (MELPA)
  • sqlite-mode-extras: Extensions for sqlite-mode (MELPA)

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