• Upcoming events:
  • 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
  • Erlangen/Nueremberg: intro to Emacs (in German, in person) https://wwwcip.cs.fau.de/~oj14ozun/emacs/ Fri May 10 1400 Europe/Berlin
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri May 10 1800 Europe/Paris
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed May 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • smartrep.el: Support sequential operation which omit prefix key
  • Irreal: Should You Use Key Shortcuts or M-x
  • Avoiding Emacs Bankruptcy (lobste.rs)
  • GNU Emacs Which Key and Avy setup !! (34:59)
  • Better garbage collection config (@ThierryStoehr@framapiaf.org)
  • mkleehammer's Basic Emacs Keybindings (Reddit)
  • Aero Emacs: thornjad Spacemacs-based Emacs Config
  • darth-cheney's Emacs Config
  • Yet-another-emacs-config
  • James Dyer: How To Map RAlt to Ctrl for Emacs
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Easky is the interface to control Eask CLI, it's a package manager and sandbox tools to test and manage your elisp packages.
  • Xah Ep551 Emacs Lisp Coding, html text commands add related box (01:30:54)
• Appearance:
  • emacs-soothe-theme: Dark Colorful theme for Emacs, built for synesthesiacs with a taste for Skittles™
• Navigation:
  • mwim: `Move Where I Mean: Switch between various line positions, like moving to the beginning/end of code, line or comment.
  • Custom navigation minor mode (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: beframe version 1.1.0
• Dired:
  • nfdn: Announcing Casual Dired - an opinionated porcelain for the Emacs file manager (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode Fundamentals Volume 10: External Links (Part 1) (07:28)
  • org-refile into archive, preserving header structure (@sqrtminusone@emacs.ch)
  • Anand Tamariya: Alternatives in GNU Emacs - File Explorer (Reddit) - Org Mode links
  • Org-roam-bibtex - Quick Presentation (Reddit)
  • Macro Slides (00:43)
  • Irreal: Porting From Obsidian To Org Mode
  • Org development:
    • ob-latex: New custom option `org-babel-latex-process-alist'
    • org-element-timestamp-parser: Allow time in diary sexp timestamps
    • org-display-inline-images: Prioritize #+attr_org over other #+attr_…
    • org-ctags.el: Do not activate on load
• Denote:
  • Projekt Medusa: Denote | Plain DrOps a Hydra for Denote (lemmy.ml)
• Completion:
  • Magnus: Orderless completion in lsp-mode
• Coding:
  • Conner, define and run project specific commands
  • Marcin Borkowski: Pretty printing SQL
  • Emacs + Python + Hatch - HogLog (@jtmoulia@mstdn.social)
  • abl-mode: Simplify test-driven development of Python programs using virtual environments
  • Productive Emacs (CIDER): Debugging (2016)
  • ssh-config-mode: Mode for fontification of ~/.ssh/config
  • New package scala-repl in MELPA for Scala developers
  • Kyle Meyer: A Tour of Magit
  • bram85-magit-find-file-as-of - display a file at a certain moment
• Math:
  • Mathing in Emacs with Casual (Reddit, Irreal)
• Web:
  • Anand Tamariya: Alternatives in GNU Emacs - Tag Explorer (Reddit) Firefox bookmarks
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • How to Use Email within Emacs (2023)
  • bram85's elfeed configuration with custom functions, tags, relative dates, and read records
• Fun:
  • Jeremy Friesen: Creating an Emacs Helper Function for Incrementing a Game Clock Track
  • My husband has become a vim peasant - please advise
• AI:
  • OpenAI ChatGPT code completion emacs library (13:03)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Ask HN: What are your best Emacs tips? | Hacker News
  • Re: Why host Emacs packages on GitHub? (Microsoft VS Freedom) | Protesilaos Stavrou (HN)
  • I challenge anyone to beat my Elisp benchmark results! 13.33s
• Other:
  • ostseepinguin / hide-secrets-el - hides secrets in buffer (@SebasTEAan@emacs.ch)
  • T. V. Raman: Emacspeak 60.0 (DreamDog) Unleashed!
  • Irreal: Emacs Everywhere Revisited
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Tip for handling multiple patches attached to an email M-| git am or piem-am
    • Explanation of what the pdumper does
    • Explanation of bidi structures
    • Tip for debugging garbage collection with or without rr
    • Discussion of project-type abstraction
  • Retract lexical cookie source load warning
  • New variable 'project-files-relative-names'
  • Locate error source of ExceptionGroup in Python shell
  • Only issue lexical cookie warning for elisp files
  • Warn when loading .el files without lexical-binding declaration
  • Make the buffer displayed by tab-bar-select-restore-windows internal
  • Merge branch 'lisp-func-type-decls' into 'master'
  • New function 'python-shell-send-block' for python-mode
  • Support hints in the :repeat keyword of defvar-keymap for repeat-mode
  • * etc/NEWS (Function type declaration): Add entry.
• New packages:
  • casual-dired: Casual Dired (MELPA)
  • conner: Define and run project specific commands (MELPA)
  • context-transient: Context specific transients (MELPA)
  • mindstream: Start writing, stay focused, don't worry (MELPA)
  • org-bookmarks: Manage bookmarks in Org mode (MELPA)
  • xkb-mode: Major mode for editing X Keyboard Extension (XKB) files (MELPA)

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