• Help wanted:
  • F-Droid are in need of a new maintainer for their Emacs package.
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/305908631/ Wed Feb 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Thu Feb 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Feb 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Feb 8 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #2 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/36aa7507-8a4f-4ab4-bd1f-fa12b5d1accb Tue Feb 11 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Feb 12 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 13 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Feb 14 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • Brief thoughts from my adventure into Emacs (@rickwysocki@mas.to) - under the section "Building It Yourself" - minimizing dependencies
  • configuring emacs (04:13)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Kris Carta: RTFM or: how I'm (re-)learning to love documentation
  • Emacs Redux: Debugging Emacs Commands
  • yaitskov/ert-scope: isolate buffers and files created within a scope of ert test (Reddit)
  • If you have problems with parentheses randomly being deleted, come here - show-paren-context-when-offscreen
  • Obteniendo datos asíncronos de una API con Emacs Lisp | Getting data from an API with Emacs Lisp
  • Dibujando figuras con Emacs (@geekland@mastodon.social)
• Navigation:
  • Fix C-x 1 to maximize side windows instead of failing; toggle back if already maximized
  • Emacs Sticky Buffer
  • a winner mode replacement · Issue #2 · hoverwinter/kys · GitHub (Reddit)
  • my/find-files-with-fd; also, I spent an entire day implementing a function that's already provided by consult
  • Arialdo Martini: Emacs: a peek under Imenu’s hood (Reddit)
  • Watch consult-git-grep_with-file-pattern | Streamable
  • Projectile Introduces Significant Caching Improvements
• Writing:
  • Introduction to Emacs Writing Studio (25:28)
  • Emacs Writing Studio: Ideation (Taking fleeting and permanent notes) (17:22)
  • Emacs Writing Studio: Inspiration (Read e-books, manage a bibliography, surf the web and play music) (23:12)
  • IAST input method for Emacs - International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST)
• Org Mode:
  • Org mode and Spacemacs: The Absolute Minimum you need to know
  • My simple note taking system #emacs #orgmode #coding #programming #notes (05:39)
  • Stupidly Simple Notes Taking With Emacs - TuxeduTV
  • Jeremy Friesen: Seeking Inspiration from the Notes I've Taken
  • Prevent Org-todo from messing with windows - Coping Mechanism (@jbaty@social.lol)
  • (Update) org-supertag Implements Tag Completion
  • Nuke em! Quick search and replace #emacs #org #markdown (01:08)
  • lf-araujo/workbenchless: Single-file Emacs configuration for a powerful scientific Notebook system that works flawlessly over ssh. (Reddit)
  • Construyendo el website Hispa-Emacs.org enteramente desde Emacs - FTV
  • OrgMeetup meeting notes (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Syncing org-mode reading list to reMarkable tablet
  • Using Emacs and Org-Roam/Org-Node on Android (with Termux Extra Keys and Org-Node)
  • Erik L. Arneson: Configuring Orgzly Interaction with Directory Local Variables
  • nitincodery/org-dex: A browser extension that copies open tabs to your clipboard in org-mode format, ready to use with your org-capture template (Reddit)
• Denote:
  • Emacs Writing Studio (Exploring your Denote digital knowledge garden) (31:17)
  • Emacs Writing Studio (Create and manage literature notes with Citar-Denote) (28:13)
• Completion:
  • James Dyer: Copying completion candidate to the clipboard
• Coding:
  • User experience: eglot configuration - emacs-devel discussion on ideas for making eglot easier to configure
  • Java programming in Emacs using Eglot - YouTube (Reddit)
  • project-headerline: Customizable project headerline (Reddit)
  • Emacs: introduction to VC (version control framework)
  • piem - an Emacs tool for applying patches (01:07:18)
• Math:
  • Gene Goykhman: Quickly summing up the whole stack in Emacs Calc
• Shells:
  • [eshell-smart feature proposal] Preserve previous prompt includes code
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Mu4e configuration diagram
• Evil mode:
  • Little trick on improving evil C-i and C-o (jump back/forward)
• Multimedia:
  • ahihi/sapf.el: Emacs major mode for sapf (@ahihi@anticapitalist.party) - sound as pure form
  • A tour of Ready Player Mode (Reddit)
  • Announcing Casual Image (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Sacha Chua: Improving subed-vtt parsing; using dedicated windows in Emacs; training my intuition
• Fun:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: aLtCaPs version 1.3.0
• AI:
  • Introducing my package gptel-aibo: AI Writing Assistant for Emacs
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2025-01-29 / week 04
  • Irreal: The Experiences Of A Non-technical Emacs User - logistics, Org Mode
  • Why I still use Emacs (09:40)
  • Returning to the Church (of Emacs) (20:55) (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Interview With DistroTube - YouTuber, Opensource Advocate, Emacs User (01:44:50, Reddit)
  • All hail our new overlords /u/mickeyp, /u/github-alphapapa, and /u/Psionikus! - Reddit mods
  • Emacs wird 2025 vierzig! - The editor GNU Emacs will be forty years old in 2025.
  • La Comunidad GNU Emacs - Retrospectiva: Orígenes - Pasado, Presente y Futuro - FTV
  • 1era Hispa Emacs Conf 2025 - FTV (@libretics@mast.lat)
• Other:
  • Package of the ancien world: records-mode
  • log-buffer: Buffers for displaying logs and debugging (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: ketchup.el - alternative to Pomodoro timers
  • Scraping Emacs Package Listings into SQLite - Real World Scheme Programming #2 (11:12)
  • My experience with Emacs (2022)
  • "New" emacs nightly build for Fedora
  • [FIX] Compiling with tree-sitter in Fedora 41
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Tips on understanding the igc branch
    • Re: [PATCH v3] Stop highlighting Python2 keywords. - gradually deprecating Python 2
    • A note that the pointer property overrides the cursor shape determined from other sources
    • FreeDOS patches?
  • ; time-stamp: documentation, tests, NEWS
  • Add auto save timer to save-place (bug#75837)
  • New user option 'Buffer-menu-human-readable-sizes'
  • Add new user option bookmark-bmenu-type-column-width
  • Merge branch 'scratch/no-purespace' into 'master'
  • Add new variable tab-bar-format-tab-help-text-function
  • Add treesit-simple-indent-override-rules
  • Add treesit-add-simple-indent-rules
  • Add new user option tab-bar-define-keys
  • Add abnormal hook tab-bar-post-undo-close-tab-functions
  • Hideshow support for tree-sitter in hs-minor-mode (bug#75609)
• New packages:
  • pif: Prevent Initial Flash of Light (MELPA)
  • stillness-mode: Prevent windows from jumping on minibuffer activation (MELPA)

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