• Upcoming events:
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/299015530/ Wed May 1 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu May 2 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Thu May 2 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri May 3 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #8 2024 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/7350dff6-e688-4e84-8aad-4c734b4ed61f Thu May 9 2000 CET
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri May 10 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • licht1stein/context-transient.el: Context specific transient menus for Emacs (@mykhaylo@fosstodon.org)
  • Define git-repo-specific transient menus (@mykhaylo@fosstodon.org)
  • Elpaca update log live preview
  • Keymacs, a program to generate Emacs keybindings (lemmy.ml)
  • Emacs And Vim Inflate Them For The Sake Of Usefulness? - comparing startup times
  • t0yv0's Emacs Config - nix flake, consult, major-mode-hydra
  • dchrzanowski's Emacs Config: snippets, evil, development, etc.
  • tttuuu888's Emacs Config: async, evil, org, development, etc.
  • Emacs config showcase (11:24)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: spacious-padding version 0.5.0
  • emacs_bgex: Background extension for X, an unofficial patch for Gnu Emacs. Specify an image or color for the background and a different background for each buffer instead of per frame.
  • ultra-scroll-mac: Scroll emacs-mac like lightning. a smooth-scrolling package for emacs-mac. It provides highly optimized, pixel-precise smooth scrolling which can readily keep up with the very high event rates of modern trackpads and high-precision wheel mice.
  • most-faces.el — A List of Most Available Faces
  • unsp-theme.el — Theme unspecifying most face attributes
  • dingo-theme (@zyd@emacs.ch)
  • Emacs Theme: Tomorrow Night Deepblue, a beautiful theme with a deep blue background
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 1.7.0
• Navigation:
  • Delete a neighbor window even in complex configurations; current window gets space when possible
• Dired:
  • TIL: copy the timestamp of a file in Dired with T M-n
• Writing:
  • Ten 典: A tiny Emacs library to let you list definitions and search them like like a wiki for plain-text documents
  • Academic writing using Emacs, Zotero, and Gnuplot (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Double Your Productivity With Emacs Org-Mode (24:15, Reddit)
  • Irreal: Alphabetical Lists In Org Mode
  • Org Mode Fundamentals Volume 8: Footnotes (11:48)
  • Org Mode Fundamentals Volume 9: Hyperlinks and Internal Links (11:37, Reddit, Irreal)
  • org-refile-attach.el: Move attachments when refiling org nodes
  • Some of you saw my quickroam.el two weeks ago - now see the fully grown org-node.el, the bizarro org-roam! (Reddit)
  • org-mode experiments (WIP) (Reddit) - More appearance tweaks
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • hamacs/elisp/ox-confluence.el at main · howardabrams/hamacs · GitHub (@howard@emacs.ch)
    • Adding Details/Summary to Hugo Org-Mode Posts | Notes (@hl@social.lol)
    • Emacs Org Babel Package Provides Various Facilities 2024_04_27_16:49:17 (09:18)
  • Org development:
    • ox-html: Use non-number footnote names as link anchors
    • lisp/org-colview.el: Add link parameter to colview dynamic block
    • lisp/org-colview.el: Add formatter parameter to colview dynamic block
    • oc-biblatex: Allow native biblatex options in CITE_EXPORT
    • ob-lua: Support all types and multiple values in results
    • ob-exp: Preserve header arguments in source block after processing
    • ox-latex: New option to customize LaTeX footnote command
• Completion:
  • consulting spotify in a better way
• Coding:
  • Better XML Editing for Emacs (@jnpn@mastodon.social)
  • Setting up C/C++ development environment in Emacs
  • Do not upgrade tree-sitter, or else Emacs crashes
  • Hierarchical treesitter based imenu-list with java
• Math:
  • Anand Tamariya: Alternatives in GNU Emacs (0:14, YouTube) - Stock heatmap with circle packing
• Web:
  • Tumblr: martianh/tumblesocks: fork of https://github.com/gcr/tumblesocks.git with some tiny fixes to un-break things (@teledyn@mstdn.ca)
  • [mp4] consult-web-full-async-demo.mp4
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • rcirc-sqlite update: rcirc-sqlite-register (@mattof@emacs.ch)
  • Atom backend for Gnus merged - Lemmy
  • Howard Abram's configuration for Elfeed using feeds in an Org file (@howard@emacs.ch)
• Fun:
  • Emacs Philosophy « Blog « extrema.is (lemmy.ml) - a song
  • Anand Tamariya: Analyzing 3 Body Problem in GNU Emacs
• AI:
  • kagi 0.5: define-kagi-fastgpt-prompt, embed prompts and responses inside Org, no-cache
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • For what is GNU Emacs Useful? (1991, Irreal)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Re: what keeps you coming back to Emacs? (Irreal)
  • Ask HN: Any fun ways to learn Emacs? | Hacker News
  • James Dyer: My Emacs Key Workflow Moments Over The Last 30 Years (Reddit)
  • İsmail Efe: Hobbies
  • Vimmer tries Emacs (HN)
  • The Evolution of Lisp (Reddit)
  • Lucid Energize Demo VHS, 1993 - Looking at the past and seeing the future (Reddit)
  • Become a sponsor to emacs-lsp
• Other:
  • Ask HN: What are your best Emacs tips? | Hacker News
  • Evan Moses: Emacs Tidbit: rectangle-number-lines (Irreal, lobste.rs)
  • Q: SVG Image Map
  • Voice recognition with Emacs (Reddit)
  • sharpwin: An emacspeak server written in C# intended to be as async as reasonable, fast and responsive
  • rksm/bookstack-editor: Programatically sync & edit bookstack wikis (@robert@toot.kra.hn)
  • OpenMeteo client update: adding new API features: weather forecast, solar radiation, previous runs, historical weather data (@sqrtminusone@emacs.ch)
  • keepass.el: Retrieve passwords to the kill ring from KeePass
  • Marcin Borkowski: Emacs everywhere (Reddit, Irreal)
• Emacs development:
  • A new GC method (MPS) is WIP (Reddit, HN)
  • Declare the variable `rx-constituents` obsolete.
  • Add `drop` as alias for `nthcdr`
  • Adapt eww to touch screens, mice and text conversion
  • Use a dedicated type to represent interpreted-function values
  • Add support for colored and styled underlines on tty frames
  • Gnus: Add back end for Atom feeds (nnatom)
• New packages:
  • colorful-mode: Preview any color in your buffer in real time (GNU ELPA)
  • evil-lispops: Operations for editing lisp evilly (MELPA)
  • mise: Support for `mise' cli (MELPA)
  • org-web-track: Web data tracking framework in org mode (MELPA)
  • pkl-mode: Major mode for editing Pkl files (MELPA)
  • scala-repl: Scala REPL Mode (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!