• Emacs 30:
  • Emacs 30.0.91 pretest is available (Reddit, Irreal, lemmy.ml)
  • Why Emacs Is the Best: 10 Key Advantages – Tristan's Zettelkasten (@tristanC@functional.cafe) - includes notes on upgrading to Emacs 30
• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, September 28, 2024
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Sep 18 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Sep 25 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 26 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF: Emacs Hangout: Potpourri (Hybrid) https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/303385779/ Thu Sep 26 1800 America/Vancouver - 2000 America/Chicago - 2100 America/Toronto – Fri Sep 27 0100 Etc/GMT - 0300 Europe/Berlin - 0630 Asia/Kolkata - 0900 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Sep 28 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • The Emacs Newbie Project (@summeremacs@fashionsocial.host, emacs-devel)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs and kmonad (keyboard manager with multi-tap functionality and s-exps config)
  • Minimal ~/.emacs.d - Emacs Starter Kit with Better Defaults and Optimized Startup (Release 1.1.0) (Reddit)
  • rexim's Emacs Config
  • waymondo's Emacs Config
  • galahad's Emacs Config
  • funk443's Emacs Config
  • jokem59/personal-configs · GitHub
  • ektaynot's Doom Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Spiffing up those echo messages (Reddit) - displaying SVGs in the echo area
  • Lightning Talk: Latest from GNU Emacs (05:35) Andrea Corallo, European Lisp Symposium
  • Ep585, Emacs Lisp, Find and Replace in a Dir, and Undo All (01:25:55)
• Appearance:
  • How to show row (line) numbers in Emacs - TuxeduTV
  • How to change theme in Emacs - TuxeduTV
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: show-font version 0.1.0
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: cursory version 1.1.0
  • [auto-dark] 0.13 - Support multiple themes (breaking-changes) (Reddit) - multiple themes, changed default way, added examples
  • The Modus Operandi theme on Emacs 30 is so elegant
  • El paquete adaptive-wrap para Emacs (@GK_S@mastodon.social)
• Navigation:
  • beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer tweaks from e3d3
  • pivaldi/nefle: Emacs package to search the nearest file from a given file-system location (@pi@emacs.ch)
  • La función Dedicated Windows en Emacs (@GK_S@mastodon.social)
  • Emacs 30.1 highlight - intuitive tab line (Reddit)
• TRAMP:
  • Short video on TRAMP (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: dired-preview version 0.3.0
• Writing:
  • Chris Maiorana: Introducing a Word Diff Counter in Emacs (Irreal)
  • Silently save personal dictionary after inserting a new word: (setq ispell-silently-savep t)
• Org Mode:
  • Why and How I use "Org Mode" for my writing and more (2022, Reddit, Irreal)
  • Insert a screenshot image in latex-mode with the help of org-download (@mmonga@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Conditional tangling in org mode based on tags · GitHub (@zondo@mathstodon.xyz)
  • How I use :dbconnection in org files (@eslr@mastodon.social)
  • A quick hack to convert org/org-roam links from ID to filename with optional pandoc conversion to other formats
  • Irreal: Babel and Python
  • Guide to creating a multilingual website with org-publish (@len@toot.si)
  • Org-zettel-ref-mode release 0.3.1 (Reddit) - More elegant names for overviews, improved sync
  • Conversion script: Logseq to org roam (Reddit)
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: consult-denote version 0.2.0
• Coding:
  • Announcing Casual Symbol Overlay (Reddit, Irreal)
  • csr-maker.el: Make CSR requests for SSL certs (@trevdev@fosstodon.org)
  • Unlock the Power of Tree-sitter in Emacs with Combobulate (13:29)
  • Magnus: Followup on secrets in my work notes
  • emacs-blame Update 0.2, New feat: support highlight all lines with the same commit information. (Reddit)
  • ~akagi/vc-pijul (@fd9a@fosstodon.org)
  • A function that checks if a file is committed to Git
• Shells:
  • #175 - Add menus for eat - akib/emacs-eat - Codeberg.org (@rudi@hachyderm.io)
  • Save shell history per project.el (@tristanC@functional.cafe)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Andrea: Adding utilities to open urls to emacs-slack
  • Sacha Chua: Combining Mastodon timelines using mastodon.el
• Evil mode:
  • Sanel Zukan: evil-mode in terminal without Alt/Meta
• EXWM:
  • Firefox in my EXWM (YouTube 01:04, Reddit) - includes some commands
• Fun:
  • Emacs on the Scene (Reddit, Irreal)
• AI:
  • meain/yap: Your Assistant for Prompting LLMs (@meain@toot.community)
  • Speech Dictation Mode for Emacs (Reddit, HN)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Trying Emacs as a Neovim User // Just Chatting (01:35:29)
  • Part Four of My Battles with Emacs
  • Genuine Question, aren't some things better in other apps? (long discussion on Reddit)
• Other:
  • eee.el: Extended Emacs With External Tui application (Reddit)
  • Extending ekg with structured data
  • Anand Tamariya: The Oval Editor (Emacs) (YouTube 02:06, Reddit)- combine text with formatting and drawings
  • I got Emacs to run in iTerm on Mac!
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • The role of the last_marked array in understanding rare crashes during GC
  • Allow 'kill-region' to kill the last word when there is no region (actually kill-region-dwim)
  • Provide a modified xref backend for TeX buffers
  • New commands unix-word-rubout, unix-filename-rubout
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce the improvements in w32 GUI dialogs.
  • Make the grep buffer editable
  • Improve accuracy of character categories
  • Update Emacs sources for Unicode 16.0
  • Allow to disable symbolic links check in Dired
  • Add Ediff feature for copying all differences
  • Allow comments to organizer in icalendar event replies (Bug#72831)
• New packages:
  • astute: A minor mode to redisplay `smart' typography (MELPA)
  • codex-theme: Codex theme, a simple high contrast theme (MELPA)
  • elysium: Automatically apply LLM-created code-suggestions (MELPA)
  • geiser-overlay: Overlay Scheme evaluation results (MELPA)
  • glass-tty-theme: Reverse video-like theme for the Glass TTY VT220 font (MELPA)
  • kanagawa-themes: Elegant theme inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa (MELPA)
  • on: Hooks for faster startup (MELPA)
  • org-node-fakeroam: Stand-ins for org-roam-autosync-mode (MELPA)
  • py-vterm-interaction: A mode for Python REPL using vterm (MELPA)
  • show-font: Show font features in a buffer (GNU ELPA)

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