• Important updates:
  • Update: MSI Installer for GNU Emacs 29.3 for Windows
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs 29.3 emergency release
  • Irreal: Emacs 29.3 Is Available
  • Emergency bugfix release: Org mode 9.6.23 (Reddit)
• Help wanted:
  • Test readers might be needed for Emacs book - @danderzei@aus.social
• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Apr 2 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/299015525/ Wed Apr 3 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Apr 4 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #6 2024 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/db14a364-8a55-41d5-a1a4-189ac7c33772 Thu Apr 4 1900 CET
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Apr 5 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Apr 12 1800 Europe/Paris
• Beginner:
  • 3. Basic Editing Commands - Part II (29:26)
• Emacs configuration:
  • pkw/emacs.d (@pkw@mastodon.sdf.org)
  • facundoolano's Emacs Config based on Prelude
  • emacs initial setup (01:23:16)
  • acdw's Emacs Config
  • sebasmonia's keyboard and Emacs configuration (Reddit)
  • Emacs備忘録（２０２４年版
  • [pdf] Intelligently Recommending Key Bindings on Physical Keyboards with Demonstrations in Emacs
  • Designing keybindings to be easy to learn and resistant to forgetting even when the set of commands is large
• Evil mode:
  • Status update on my move away from Evil mode (@jbaty@social.lol)
  • Is It "WRONG" To Learn Emacs With The Evil Bindings
  • Evil No More: Kicking the Habit - System Crafters Live! (02:01:11)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Badges inspired by Common Lisp logos
• Navigation:
  • Release v0.7 · activities.el (Reddit)
  • Custom Tabline next/prev
  • Current progress on tabline customization (07:24)
• Hyperbole:
  • Hyperbole, howm, and 0000-00-00-000000.txt (@jbaty@social.lol)
• Writing:
  • Grabbing Papers from Pubmed in Emacs (05:32)
  • [mp4] olp-auto-mode-tikz-circle
  • cc-isearch-menu 1.4.0: toggling a search mode will enter you into editing mode and keep the menu (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode Fundamentals Volume 2: Headlines, Cycling, Visibility (07:27)
  • Org Tables - From Zero to Hero (19:11, Reddit)
  • org-yaap - get notifications of scheduled tasks and deadlines (@grinn@emacs.ch)
  • RSS Feed Generation with Emacs-Lisp - parsing Org entries
  • Hugo Cisneros Org mode Config
  • Smooth animations for Org Tree Slide (currently in near full re-write)
  • Literate programming using LSP and org-mode(alpha)
  • CFEngine: The agent is in 35 - Automatic grouping of hosts using select_class (@nickanderson@fosstodon.org) - demonstrating literate programming in Org Mode
  • Creating BPMN models from pseudocode (1/4): first model (16:05), part 2 (10:28), part 3 (08:56), part 4 (10:12)
  • My Org+Pandoc Workflow (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Org development:
    • Prioritize underline over subscript inside parenthesis
    • org-latex-to-mathml/html-convert-command: Prevent shell expansion
    • Consistently combine markup and the containing element faces during fontification
    • lisp/ox-html.el: Add avif support for html export inline images
• Denote:
  • Jiewawa: Blogging with Denote and Hugo
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: consult-denote developer preview
• Completion:
  • Embark/Vertico tip: switch to multiform/grid display - @ctietze@mastodon.social
  • yasnippet-treesitter-shim
• Coding:
  • How do you all use emacs to investigate a codebase these days?
  • Prebuilt #treesitter grammars for Emacs and Neovim in #openSUSE
  • Python Practice with Emacs - notes and config
• Math:
  • Interface between httpgd and Emacs/ESS version 2 (04:27)
  • Calc Cheat Sheet · Sundaram Ramaswamy (Reddit)
  • Announcing Casual - An opinionated porcelain for Emacs Calc (Reddit, Irreal)
  • [mp4] calc-preview
  • [mp4] prog-preview-3 - LaTeX preview in comments
  • Charting Hope: Exploring Child Mortality Rates [part 1]( with gnuplot, Emacs, and gawk) (55:00)
  • Plastic Recycling Data Analysis (with Gnuplot, Emacs & Arch Linux) (31:08)
  • Analyzing Plastic Waste Recycling with Emacs, Gnuplot, and GAWK (http://ourworldindata.org) (44:31)
• Shells:
  • M. Rincón: Eat Evil
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Gijs Hillenius: znc and rcirc and authinfo.pgp
• Multimedia:
  • Release v0.9 · listen.el (audio/music player for Emacs) (Reddit)
• AI:
  • ob-dall-e-shell.el: Org babel functions for DALL-E evaluation
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Irreal: Red Meat Friday: Multiple Editors
  • Why use Emacs
  • Coming back to Emacs after a year or so, loving it - includes a script for creating journal entries from Emacs and putting them in Obsidian
  • Emacs (Slovenia) Zapisnik sestanka čet 7. 3. 2024
• Other:
  • emacs-communinfo/communinfo.el - community-maintained Info-url-alist (@mekeor@mastodon.catgirl.cloud)
  • Taking notes in Emacs (@p0nt1ff@emacs.ch)
  • Ben Simon: out-of-band is officially out-of-bounds | Reviving emacs oauth2 with Google APIs
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel and other discussions:
    • Re: Hundreds of ELPA packages updated today? - possible explanation: Atom feed
    • Note about different types of overlays - cursor face highlights, rectangle overlays
    • pkal's autoblog: JSON parsing update (also emacs-devel
    • Windows installer bug when uninstalling - removes all versions
    • Coordinating how Tramp releases can be integrated into Emacs
  • Update JSON parser test and docs
  • * etc/NEWS: Mention a JSON codec improvement.
  • Faster JSON parsing
  • (scheme-syntax-propertize-sexp-comment): Handle nested sexp-comments
  • scheme.el: Enable dealing with regular expression literal
  • Add global minor mode 'global-completion-preview-mode'
  • Fix the new PEG library
  • Add peg.el as a built-in library
  • Always enable native JSON support and remove Jansson references
  • Add use-package-vc-prefer-newest user option
  • Remove `sort-on` (bug#69709)
  • New `sort` keyword arguments (bug#69709)
  • Add `value<` (bug#69709)
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce new feature of Proced. (Bug#69784)
  • cl-preloaded.el: Fix the type lattice
• New packages:
  • claude-shell: Integration with Anthropic's Claude LLM (MELPA)
  • eglot-luau: Luau language server integration for eglot (MELPA)
  • eshell-atuin: Integrate eshell with atuin, a shell history tool (MELPA)
  • lazy-ruff: Integration with the Ruff Python linter/formatter (MELPA)
  • oauth2-auto: Automatically refreshing OAuth 2.0 tokens (MELPA)
  • org-linenote: A package inspired by VSCode Linenote (MELPA)
  • projection-dape: Projection integration for `dape' (MELPA)
  • wordcount-section: Universal Sidecar Section to show Word Counts (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. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!