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• Emacs 30.0.92 pretest is available (Reddit, Irreal)
• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Oct 30 1030 America/Vancouver - 1230 America/Chicago - 1330 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 31 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Nov 1 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Nov 2 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Nov 5 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Wed Nov 6 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #14 2024 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/4e3c90f8-e673-40a9-8825-d3717ba8237e Thu Nov 7 1900 CET
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Nov 8 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsConf 2024 schedule Dec 7 and 8 (@sacha@social.sachachua.com)
• Beginner:
  • How to Install Emacs on macOS: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners (05:33)
  • TheMKat: Read documentation from the comfort of Emacs - man-pages, developer documentation and more
• Emacs configuration:
  • Quicker access to Emacs Info manuals (@spnw@gts.plexwave.org)
  • Summer Emacs: Universal Keybind
  • Charles Choi: Announcing Casual (Redux) and Reorganization (Irreal)
  • Emacs Twist - reproducible package and configuration management for Emacs (@arialdo@mastodon.online)
  • Bz01: Optional dependency loading in Emacs, a good idea?
• Emacs Lisp:
  • A fork of restclient with graphql support & graphql explorer/builder (YouTube, Reddit)
  • Emacs Lisp is pleasant after hash-table and list libraries and plenty of macros | Hacker News
• Appearance:
  • Function for toggling between wrapping and truncating of lines
  • A progress bar in the echo area (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: selected-window-accent-mode with window colour blending options
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: modus-themes version 4.6.0
• Navigation:
  • [New Package] empx.el is Extended xref.el forward and backward navigation, more ways to mark the current point.
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: beframe version 1.2.0
  • Emacs Treemacs auto-toggling in text and prog-modes. Author: @ichernyshovvv (@shegeley@fosstodon.org)
• Dired:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Hide another detail (Irreal, lobste.rs)
• Writing:
  • Minor modes for flagging poor grammar (@howard@pdx.sh)
• Org Mode:
  • Search other org headings with a link to the current one - org-ql (@Re420@tooting.ch)
  • Erik L. Arneson: Examining To-Do Lists in Org-mode
  • Emacs as your Intellectual HQ (01:02:48)
  • MOOC on reproducible research, includes a path for Emacs (French with French and English subtitles)
  • Deep linking with Org mode and Zotero (@spnw@gts.plexwave.org)
  • org-catch: A concise and more flexible alternative to org-capture (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Insert a link to an Org Mode heading from an org-refile prompt
  • You don't need org-alert, Emacs has it built-in (kinda) (Reddit)
  • hyperdrive-org-transclusion v0.3.0
  • TheMKat: How I blog with Emacs - Org-Mode, Jekyll, Github Actions and interesting tidbits
• Coding:
  • Magit amend commit author (@xenodium@indieweb.social)
  • woolsweater/gambol.el: Emacs text actions using LSP symbol information - Codeberg.org (@woolsweater@social.lol)
  • Andrea: A useful function to contribute to Scala Metals lsp server with Emacs (Reddit)
  • Prolog大好きおじさん　ver3.36で仕切り直しです。Emacsは無理かも。 (04:39)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mastodon.el 1.1.0: link cards, grouped notifications, lots of updates
  • Summer Emacs: ERC Flipping Buffers
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • [BLOG] #12 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]​] on Wed, Oct 9, 19:00 UTC+3
  • Irreal: What Keyboard Are You Using With Emacs
  • Keynote presentation by Hal Abelson and Gerald Sussman at the fourteenth RacketCon - YouTube (@hadi@fosstodon.org)
    • "The real thing I love is Emacs" - Gerald Sussman (Reddit)
  • Neovim Origin Story, An Emacs User's Perspective
  • Hofstadter on Lisp: Atoms and Lists, re-printed in Metamagical Themas. · GitHub (1983, lobste.rs)
• Other:
  • Using sort-regexp-fields to sort a list of device serial numbers (letters + numbers) by numerical part only
  • Revisitng and refactoring demo-it - demonstrations in Emacs, Part II (@howard@pdx.sh)
  • Code to modify PDF metadata (such as its outline and pagination) (Reddit)
  • trueroad/tr-emacs-ime-module: Emulator of GNU Emacs IME patch for Windows (tr-ime) (@aoetk@fedibird.com)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • "Final" version of tty child frames
    • Discussion of buffer synchronization as a user-visible feature
    • Comparing EIEIO with org-element plists, also this note
    • Why it's hard to implement truncate-string-to-pixel-width
    • Asking for ALPN support for GnuTLS connections
  • vc-git-log-edit-toggle-amend: Honor vc-allow-rewriting-published-history
  • Add delete-selection-local-mode.
  • cond*: Add support for Pcase patterns
  • Implement drawing text with DirectWrite on MS-Windows.
  • Improve drag and drop on MS-Windows (bug#3468)
  • vc-clone: Make interactive; call vc-guess-url-backend
  • Mark if-let and when-let obsolete
  • ; Update the NEWS entry to mention project-prompter correctly
  • Support modifying VC change comments for Git
  • Add 'native-compile-directory' (bug#73303)
  • Fix a race condition when running Eshell startup scripts
• New packages:
  • earl: Erlang distribution protocol implementation (MELPA)
  • visual-replace: A prompt for replace-string and query-replace (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, communick.news, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!