• Upcoming events:
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Aug 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Aug 24 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 28 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 29 0030 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Emacs Tutorial - Part 1
• Emacs configuration:
  • tray: Transient menus for a wide variety of things [eventually, maybe]​
  • James Cherti: dir-config.el – Automatically find and evaluate .dir-config.el Elisp files to configure directory-specific settings (Github, Reddit)
  • ~johnhamelink/nix (master): home/modules/emacs/config.el - sourcehut git (@johnhamelink@emacs.ch)
  • yantar92's Emacs Config
  • scfrazer's Emacs Config
  • ptrv's Emacs Config
  • jixiuf's Emacs Config
  • Thaodan's Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • nano-read: Alternative read functions for GNU Emacs - displays info on the right side
  • akib/emacs-popon: "Pop" floating text "on" a window
  • Ep575, Emacs Lisp, Command to Add HTML Attribute (01:08:01)
• Appearance:
  • James Dyer: Integrate Pywal Colors into Selected-Window-Accent-Mode for Wallpaper Accent Matching in Emacs
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ‘ef-eagle’ and ‘ef-owl’ are added to the ‘ef-themes’ (lobste.rs)
• Navigation:
  • Tip about using environment variables for named shortcuts in find-file
• Dired:
  • find-dired-by-size
  • Alvaro Ramirez: The dired abstraction (Reddit, lobste.rs)
• Writing:
  • jabbrv: Automatic Journal Title Abbreviation Package for LaTeX
• Org Mode:
  • james-stoup/emacs-org-mode-tutorial: A primer for users trying to make sense of Org Mode (@AndyScott@fosstodon.org)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Opening all links in an Org subtree
  • Implementing headline-local variables
  • corg.el - Auto-complete for block headers and their parameters (babel source blocks and Org dynamic blocks) (Reddit)
  • ~zondo/org-autoexport - Emacs package for auto-export of org files on save (@zondo@mathstodon.xyz)
  • eugeneandrienko/palm-sync-daemon: Simple synchronization between Palm device and OrgMode files (@evgandr@mas.to)
  • Org development:
    • org-toggle-inline-images-command: New command for C-c C-x C-v binding
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Add reference to undocumented feature added in Org 9.7
    • etc/ORG-NEWS (Alignment of image previews can be customized): Add missing entry
• Coding:
  • How to Setup Emacs for Web Development (18:05)
  • CIDER tip - persist REPL history to a file
  • Using LLDB on Emacs (dap-mode & dap-lldb & lldb-vscode) for macOS - 3D Real-Time Composition by hiroakit
  • I wrote a short vc-mode tutorial (Reddit)
  • How to specify git merge strategy in magit
  • Jonas Bernoulli: Forge 0.4.0 and 0.4.1 released (Reddit)
• Math:
  • nfdn: Contextual Interfaces in Casual Calc (HN)
• Shells:
  • Lambda Land: Fancy lightweight prompts for Eshell and Zsh
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • transient menu for mastodon (@holgerschurig@emacs.ch)
• Multimedia:
  • [Experimental] Transient interface for barebones ffmpeg conversions
  • theesm/mediathek.el: Search and play "Mediathek" videos. - Codeberg.org (@thees@emacs.ch)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Eric MacAdie: 2024-08 Austin Emacs Meetup - Doom Emacs, input methods, regex, calling commands
  • İsmail Efe: Why Use Emacs? (Reddit)
  • What is or why Emacs? | The Art Of Not Asking Why (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Lifetime benefits of using Emacs (@genegoykhman@mastodon.social, Irreal)
• Other:
  • Copying text out of diffs (@pkal@commenting.onthe.incoherenceofthe.net)
  • TIL Emacs registers - this is a god send for my day job! (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Emacs Way Of Reading Novels and Books Via Epub Version 2024_08_06_03:27:38
  • Alex Popescu: Emacs Optionally Saving Desktop on Exit With Confirmation
  • Gene Goykhman: Upgrading to Emacs 29.4 on Apple Silicon Macs
  • Portals in Emacs (lobste.rs) - another way to launch and manage processes
  • eva: Emacs-based Virtual Assistant (Reddit)
  • Chrome-Emacs is now available for Firefox
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Help wanted with MSDOS and Windows 98 ports as well; issues with unexec, portable dumping
      • maintenance burden of old platforms
      • experience report from Solaris - switched to portable dumper
  • Add abnormal hook to determine which tabs to auto-widen
  • Improve SHR/EWW support for 'visual-wrap-prefix-mode'
  • Drop fallback code in date-to-time, update documentation
• New packages:
  • dir-config: Automatically find and evaluate .dir-config.el (Flexible dir-locals alternative) (MELPA)
  • gleam-ts-mode: Major mode for Gleam (MELPA)
  • org-autoexport: Auto-export org file on save (MELPA)
  • plz-event-source: Plz Event Source (GNU ELPA)
  • poly-gams: Polymode for GAMS (MELPA)

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