• Help wanted:
  • Re: MPS: Win64 testers? - MPS branch and UCRT-specific maintenance
    • and in general, the MS Windows port for Emacs
• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jul 31 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 1 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Aug 2 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/302002457/ Wed Aug 7 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Aug 8 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Aug 9 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: use-package essentials (Reddit, Alex Popescu, Irreal)
  • Sharing .emacs files between computers
  • Irreal: 🥩 Red Meat Friday: Minimal Configs
    • Emacs configuration is personal, like… stickers? | The Art Of Not Asking Why (@jtr@fosstodon.org)
  • [AO VIVO] Configurando o Emacs do zero - parte 5 (01:18:10)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Ep566, Emacs Lisp Coding, add twitter cards to files (01:13:46)
  • Ep564, Emacs Lisp Coding, highlight duplicate links in html (01:09:40)
• Appearance:
  • Preview Font Features (Emacs) (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Announcing Casual Bookmarks (Reddit, Irreal)
  • James Cherti: outline-indent.el – Indentation based Folding and Outlining in Emacs (Github)
• Dired:
  • How to compress files to ZIP archives directly from Dired - dired-do-compress
  • James Dyer: Sending Dired Directories to Meld for Directory Comparison
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: combine dired-preview with ready-player
• Writing:
  • Review of Emacs Writing Studio book (work in progress)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs macOS native emoji picker (revisited) (Reddit) - simpler way is, ns-do-show-character-palette
• Org Mode:
  • Literate Programming Writ Large (@howard@emacs.ch)
  • Never Miss a Task Again - Tagging Org Mode TODOs by Context (Reddit, @daviwil@fosstodon.org, @publicvoit@graz.social, Irreal)
  • [SUMMARY] #9 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]​] on Wed, July 10, 19:00 UTC+3 - Ihor Radchenko
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Denote backlinks buffer can now toggle its details
• Completion:
  • Alex Popescu: Key Binding and Function to Jump to Emacs Completions Buffer (Irreal)
• Coding:
  • Essential tips for developing with Clojure - api server mock - moclojer (@avelino@clj.social)
  • IDE convergence | Simon Dobson (@simoninireland@mastodon.scot)
  • testrun update - toggle verbosity, running test in current directory (@t0yv0@vmst.io)
  • Virtual format: format code in buffers without modifying them (Reddit)
  • Alex Schroeder: 2024-07-23 Eglot for Go, Perl and Markdown
  • Essential tips for developing with Clojure - api server mock - moclojer
• Shells:
  • ffmpeg incantation to speed up video between two points, written as a dwim-shell-command
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • How to disable images in Face and X-Face header fields in Gnus
• Doom Emacs:
  • workspaces in doom emacs [en-US and BGM]​ (17:36)
  • [Emacs] Instalação do Doom Emacs e projetos (02:01:21)
• Fun:
  • Understanding schema therapy in psychology as Emacs modes
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Vimmer tries Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • On the Origin of Emacs in 1976 (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
• Other:
  • Marcin Borkowski: New things in new Emacs - kill-ring-deindent, replace-regexp-as-diff, macros, web info
  • The Emacs 29 Edition of Mastering Emacs is out now (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
  • Native Compiled Emacs Unburdened By What Can Been (sic) (03:02, Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Add support for Tifinagh script
  • Tramp's method "kubernetes" supports now optional namespace
  • bug#72241: 31.0.50; [PATCH] Use a dedicated buffer for `doc-view-open-text'
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Fix header level.
  • Delete defgroup "wp" obsolete since Emacs 26
  • (error): Remove support for old calling convention
• New packages:
  • act-mode: Major mode for the ACT programming language (MELPA)
  • casual-bookmarks: Transient UI for Bookmarks (MELPA)
  • cursor-undo: Undo Cursor Movement (GNU ELPA)
  • easysession: Easily persist and restore your editing sessions (MELPA)
  • helix-theme: Color theme inspired by Helix editor's default colors (MELPA)
  • nixfmt: Reformat Nix using nixfmt (MELPA)

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