• Help wanted:
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Allow SPC to scroll todo/tag selection menu - for users with huge accessible fonts (was: Transient: accessibility problems for users who need to use large fonts)
• Emacs updates:
  • Emacs 30.0.93 pretest is available (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Emacs 31 News Stream VOD (01:26:53)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Dec 25 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Dec 26 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Dec 28 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore (announcement)
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jan 3 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Jan 4 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • 🧠💻 Emacs User Meetup - 38C3 (@cabhan@social.tchncs.de)
• Emacs configuration:
  • How to Share Your Emacs Configuration Between Different Machines (and Architectures) with Native Compilation (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Bringing Emacs Introspection & Debugging to Casual Suite (Reddit)
  • callnum.el; Sort library call numbers (Reddit)
  • Kisaragi Hiu: Emacs: turning parsed XML/HTML nodes back into text (encoding/printing/writing it out)
• Appearance:
  • Change theme by sunrise and sunset with circadian package
  • konrad1977/neofusion-emacs: Emacs port for NeoFusion theme from Neovim (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: two new Standard themes (‘standard-light-tinted’ and ‘standard-dark-tinted’)
• Navigation:
  • Extending Built-In Emacs Bookmark Package (@takeonrules@dice.camp)
  • Rethinking Minibuffer Movement (Reddit)
  • Lisp expression replacements with query-regexp-replace (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Automatic fallback to /sudo: for local dired commands
• Writing:
  • Configuration for super-fast Latex input using AucTeX, CDLatex and a bit of YaSnippet. See karthinks.com/software/latex-input-for-impatient-scholars
  • Using Howm in Emacs for Notes and Tasks - System Crafters Live! (02:11:21)
• Org Mode:
  • New Package: org-ranker.el - sort org headlines by custom rules (Reddit)
  • Org-supertag v0.0.2 released - enhance tag system of org-mode (Reddit)
  • Emacs Org Attach Various Methods 2024_12_17_14:56:08 (04:04)
  • DSLiDE v0.6.0 Your slides now play keyboard macros (Reddit)
  • Thanos Apollo: Progress update on org-gnosis & a graphical interface addition.
  • What is desireable in an Org to HTML framework?
  • How to mirror worg to a hyperdrive
  • How I use Emacs to publish "food" recipes
• Completion:
  • Rahul Juliato: Enhancing icomplete-vertical-mode in Emacs (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Meta Redux: State of CIDER Survey (2024)
  • Tree-sitter Changes in Emacs 30 (Reddit)
  • Run JUnit method or class at point (@skybert@hachyderm.io)
  • Трошки про Emacs (21:31) - Clojure
  • Using uv in Emacs | MClare Blog - python environment
  • Xah Talk Show 2024-12-21 Ep605. Run Code of Python JS Fsharp Etc in Emacs. Are You Based? (53:31)
  • Bases de Datos-SQLite en GNU Emacs - encuentro/taller - FTV (@hispaemacs@fosstodon.org)
• Math:
  • Ruslan Bekenev: Emacs: quick-calc
• Web:
  • TIL eww-copy-alternate-url
  • eww-readable + imenu = quickly jump to different headings in webpage (@marcc@fosstodon.org)
  • Adding HTML5 Display Block Elements to Emacs’ SHR (and EWW) Tag Rendering // Take on Rules (@takeonrules@dice.camp)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mastodon.el 1.1.8: adds support for link-hint, bugfixes
  • glenneth/discourse-emacs: A modern Emacs package for seamless Discourse forum integration. (@barocio@techhub.social)
• Multimedia:
  • emacs.tv (Hello emacs.tv, 1700+ videos)
  • Sacha Chua: subed.el: Tweaking subtitle times
• EXWM:
  • How to Use Emacs as a Desktop Environment in Linux with EXWM - Make Tech Easier
• AI:
  • llm version 0.20 released, with structured JSON output
  • chatgpt-shell: LaTeX rendering now turned on by default on LLM shell
  • lepisma/onnx.el: ONNX runtime for Emacs Lisp (Reddit) - optimized and portable ML on the edge, also interchange format for neural network models
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2024-12-18 / week 51
  • 00: Why You Want Programmable Tools (04:36, Reddit)
  • What can we learn from Neovim’s rise in popularity? (HN)
• Other:
  • James Dyer: Calculate Number Of Days Between Two Dates - calendar-count-days-region
  • glotlabs/gdrive: Google Drive CLI Client (@mousebot@todon.nl)
  • HTML Renderer (Emacs) - Masonry (Reddit)
  • HTML Renderer (Emacs) - colspan (Reddit)
  • Marie K. Ekeberg: 24 Emacs packages and utilities to try while counting down to Jul/Christmas/Holidays
  • positron-solutions/moc: Master of Ceremonies. Display & presentation utilities to make presentation packages more effective (Video, Reddit)
  • The Semantics and Broad Strokes of Buffer Parallelism
  • Andrey Listopadov: Extending Emacs with Fennel
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: Some experience with the igc branch next impediments for IGC branch
    • Merging scratch/no-purespace to remove unexec and purespace - discussion, preparing to merge
    • Re: Merging scratch/no-purespace to remove unexec and purespace - ideas
      • Re: Merging scratch/no-purespace to remove unexec and purespace - hints/guesses vs promises
  • * lisp/vc/smerge-mode.el (smerge-extend): New command (bug#74509)
  • Add support for the ':data' keyword for play-sound in MS-Windows.
  • 'seconds-to-string': new optional arguments for readable strings
  • Add more documentation for TTY child frames
  • NEWS entry for the removal of `redisplay-dont-pause'
  • NEWS entry for tty child frames
  • New treesit thing 'sexp-list' (bug#73404)
  • Delete support for the Conkeror web browser
  • New user option browse-url-transform-alist
  • Make font-lock face variables obsolete
  • Rename the property 'repeat-continue-only' to 'repeat-continue'
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Mention 'eager-display' for 'completion-category-overrides'.
  • unintern: Drop support for obsolete calling convention
  • all-completions: Drop support for obsolete calling convention
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Add 'completion-table-with-metadata' to "Lisp Changes".
  • * lisp/comint.el (comint-complete-input-ring): New command (bug#74694).
• New packages:
  • copilot: An unofficial Copilot plugin (MELPA)
  • dicom: DICOM viewer - Digital Imaging & Communications in Medicine (GNU ELPA)
  • kill-dollar-mode: Remove leading $ from shell-script-like text (MELPA)
  • moc: Master of Ceremonies (MELPA)
  • ocaml-eglot: An OCaml companion for Eglot (MELPA)
  • p4-ts-mode: Major mode for the P4_16 programming language (MELPA)
  • russian-calendar: Russian holidays and conferences. Updated 2024-11-22 (MELPA)
  • symbol-overlay-mc: Mark highlighted symbols with multiple cursors (MELPA)
  • uv-mode: Integrate uv with python-mode (MELPA)

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