• Emacs 30 and Emacs 31:
  • Emacs 30.0 pretest packages for Fedora (Reddit)
  • Build Emacs 31 for Windows · GitHub (@ldbeth@mastodon.sdf.org)
• Upcoming events:
  • 200ok: EmacsConf 2024: Join Us in Lucerne for a Celebration of Free Software!
  • 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
  • EmacsSF: Emacs Hacking: Packaging (Hybrid) https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/304301979/ Thu Nov 7 1800 America/Vancouver - 2000 America/Chicago - 2100 America/Toronto – Fri Nov 8 0200 Etc/GMT - 0300 Europe/Berlin - 0730 Asia/Kolkata - 1000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Nov 8 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsSF: coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/304301988/ Sat Nov 16 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2000 Europe/Berlin – Sun Nov 17 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs Notes: Enable completions for `Font Family’ field in `M-x customize-face RET’
  • Essential Emacs Packages for Efficient Software Development and Text Editing (Reddit, HN)
  • Minimal ~/.emacs.d - Better Vanilla Emacs Defaults and Optimized Startup (Release 1.1.1) (Reddit)
  • Much Ado about Emacs 001 - god-mode, doom-modeline, M-RET in Org Mode
  • Don't bind M-O in terminal Emacs
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Command alternatives (Irreal)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Persisting variables across Emacs sessions
  • Interactively browse lisp objects (even self-referencing ones) with data-debug
  • As I run into it: Symbol’s value as variable is void. Emacs Lisp lexical binding - YouTube
  • GNU Emacs comes with a book-length introduction to computer programming | Hacker News
  • A little fun lisp thing: "evaluatable pseudocode"
  • Xah Talk Show 2024-10-29, Ep594, Emacs Lisp Coding, Command to Search YouTube (01:03:15)
• Appearance:
  • The 8 colors I use in emacs (12:53)
  • Emacs 31 can use Direct-Write for font-rendering on Windows
• Navigation:
  • Intro to Bookmarks (Reddit)
  • shortcuts-mode for accessing last 10 buffers
  • Announcing auto-tab-groups: Effortless Tab Group Management for Emacs
  • Dedicated compilation frame
• Org Mode:
  • How to add custom sections to the agenda (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Generate Current Year tag in an Org Capture Template (Irreal)
  • Sacha Chua: Org Mode: Prompt for a heading and then refile it to point
  • TIL about org-table-header-line-mode
  • Hacking on org-graph-view: View Org files as Graphviz graphs with outline structure and links between nodes (WIP) (Reddit)
  • Basic Obsidian Dataview functionality unlocked - org-ql dynamic block
  • Emacs - Org mode (Tamil) (03:05)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Sacha Chua: Org Mode: Format Libby book highlights exported as JSON
    • Irreal: TSV To Table
    • emacs-various/org-latex-export-memoir.el (@tennoseremel@lor.sh)
    • Sacha Chua: Yay Emacs 7: Rewriting and copying custom Org Mode links
  • Org Roam:
    • Org Roam: The Best Way to Keep a Journal in Emacs
    • Diving back into Org-roam | Baty.net (@jbaty@social.lol)
  • Org development: NEWS entry for the new argument of org-babel-comint-async-register
• Denote:
  • Denote Project Tasks (@purplg@fosstodon.org)
• Coding:
  • "SHELL = emacs" in a makefile (Reddit)
  • emacs-sideline/sideline-flymake: Show flymake errors with sideline - works well with eglot for LSP dev (@kris@todon.eu)
  • shadow-css for personal use - Emacs, Browser, Clojure, REPL Screencast (02:06:51)
  • Java: Create a Kafka producer and consumer in Emacs (16:48)
  • Adopting Gomponents for Work Project // Take on Rules (@takeonrules@dice.camp) - includes tip on using scopeline
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mastodon.el 1.1.5: bugfixes, read less
  • Hacking on Mastodon Emacs Package to Narrow Viewing // Take on Rules (@takeonrules@dice.camp)
• Multimedia:
  • muu - Emacs turned into a music player!
• AI:
  • [Discussion] AI assisted programming in Emacs
  • gptel: a simple LLM client for Emacs | Hacker News
  • A Guide to Self-Hosted LLM Coding Assistants - Semaphore
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Compilation of the most highly voted tips from all the "Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c." threads (Reddit)
  • Deeply, thank you for C-h t, Emacs devs
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: ‘Ask me anything’ live stream on 2024-10-31 at 14:00 Europe/Athens about Emacs or life in general (YouTube, 02:33:21)
  • Quotes from RacketCon 14 keynote
  • Irreal: Who Created Emacs
• Other:
  • Creating Info Manuals And Adding Them Into Emacs (2023)
  • How to install and use files with pdf-view-mode
  • Fixing pdf-tools after updating poppler
  • inhibit-mouse.el - Deactivate mouse input in Emacs (Reddit, related emacs-devel)
  • Unified way to toggle input methods in X11 and Emacs
  • Emacs Lisp was used to calculate hard-coded DST data for Africa/Casablanca and Asia/Gaza because their DST is based on Ramadan (@citizen428@chaos.social)
    • Also, note about the Calendrical Calculations book
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Summary of yank-media thread so far
    • Proposal for detecting physical keyboard events (ex: double or triple-tap on shift)
    • Note that Perl does not distribute info manuals any more
    • Breaking change proposal: Default lexical-binding to t
    • string-pixel-width and avoiding relative :align-to
  • Add support for range objects in Eshell "for" loops
  • Mark IDLWAVE as obsolete
  • Add support for 'yank-media' on MS-Windows
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce 'greek-polytonic'. (Bug#73909)
  • New `tmm-menubar' shortcut display style
  • Fix and improve behavior of 'eshell/clear'
• New packages:
  • claudia: Claude AI integration (MELPA)
  • coc-dc: A Clash of Clans damage calculator (MELPA)
  • dumber-jump: Jump to definition for 50+ languages without configuration (MELPA)

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