• Help wanted:
  • Request for an LLM package to describe images, which is good for accessibility
  • emacs-devel needs help with MS Windows support
    • also macOS (@christoph@muenster.im)
    • Some discussion of the challenges with supporting Emacs on non-free operating systems
• Upcoming events:
  • 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
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://bbb.emacsverse.org/b/iho-h7r-qg8-led Wed Aug 14 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 15 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Emacs Tutorial: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners (@machaddr@mastodon.sdf.org)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs packages: How the pieces fit together
  • Efficient Emacs configuration and startup with minimal-emacs.d (Reddit)
  • Refactoring my Emacs Config
  • Hoagie's corner of the internet - Emacs config: big or small (Irreal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Mouse Events on SVG Images in Emacs [2022]​
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Lin version 1.1.0
• Navigation:
  • James Cherti: easysession.el – Easily persist and restore your Emacs editing sessions (Github, Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: How to make Emacs not scroll from the current position
• Writing:
  • Surrealism Mode is a writing tool that stops you from editing your words (@kakafarm@emacs.ch)
• Org Mode:
  • I'm using Orgmode as a makeshift CRM. It's so good.
  • Enable real idletime for Org Mode on Ubuntu (2011)
  • Rustic: Enhanced Org Babel integration
  • emacsomancer/org-roam-daily-reflection: comparing N org-roam dailies at M intervals (years, months, fortnights, weeks, days) (@emacsomancer@types.pl, Reddit)
  • orgrr 0.9, changes under the hood (@laotang@emacs.ch)
  • Hack: automatically installing the development version of org on new machine
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: sort Luhmann-style signatures with ‘denote-sort-dired’
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: exclude directories in Denote’s Org dynamic blocks (09:56 YouTube)
• Completion:
  • James Dyer: Efficient File Searching in Emacs: Leveraging completing-read with Customizable Methods
• Coding:
  • Emacs Debugging with Dape (2023)
  • cider-eval-and-reload-browser - @mykhaylo@fosstodon.org
  • Composing Kubectl Commands in Style with Kubed (@eshel@emacs.ch)
  • eshelyaron/kubed: Kubernetes, Emacs, done!
• Shells:
  • adapting eshell/make to other compilation tools
• Web:
  • jao: eww to org
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • bram85/elfeed-export: Export the Elfeed database to more generic data formats. (@bram85@emacs.ch)
• Multimedia:
  • Emacspeak and EMPV coolness - playing an audio book in one ear and using the other ear for something else
• Fun:
  • Jeremy Friesen: Releasing v0.8.0 of random-table.el
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Discussion of Reddit alternatives - IRC, Mastodon, federated news aggregators, …
  • J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: Systems and community - quotes from 1983-1984
• Other:
  • beancount-txn-elisp (Reddit, HN)
  • T. V. Raman: Emacspeak — A Speech Odyssey
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Text Dimensions Are Hard
  • Running Emacs with wsl2-xrdp (2021)
• Emacs development:
  • Add support for variable-pitch fonts in 'visual-wrap-prefix-mode'
  • Remove misspelled rx category `chinse-two-byte`
  • Improve window/buffer handling code
  • "Separate" tree-sitter parser list for indirect buffers
• New packages:
  • outline-indent: Outline and fold text using indentation (MELPA)
  • vsh-mode: Alternate PTY interface for complex terminal sessions (MELPA)

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