• Help wanted:
  • Looking for testers: Nix (Flakes) integration for Eshell (Github)
  • Re: Status of xwidgets support
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • 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
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/306101614/ Sat Feb 15 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Feb 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 20 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Feb 22 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Tool Time Session 1: Emacs Basics (2020, Reddit)
  • Emacs Tamil Introduction (01:21:28)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Rebuilding my Emacs setup and some beginner tips (04:03:17)
  • Location-Based Themes in Emacs | Epsilon Clue (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Running one own's commands
  • Hydrogen Framework for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Elpaca Updates
  • Development Environments With Emacs, Nix, and Direnv | tdback.net (@tdback@social.tdback.net)
  • Personalizando Emacs - iAgosto Blog (@agosto182@mast.lat)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • A Beginner's Guide to Extending Emacs (implementing a completion backend for reStructuredText) (Reddit)
  • Elisp Cheatsheet for Python Programmers (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Introduzione al Emacs Lisp (32:51, @nfvblog@mastodon.cloud)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Redux: Clean Unloading of Emacs Themes (Irreal)
  • NANO Emacs, minimal version in 256 lines (Reddit)
  • kickingvegas/calle24: Calle 24 - Proxy Emacs image assets with SF Symbols (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
• Navigation:
  • Quickly delete all lines containing a string #emacs #coding #programming (02:47)
  • Meta Redux: Projectile Introduces Significant Caching Improvements (Reddit, Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • One and a half-hour advanced course on Org Mode (8 videos in one) #emacs #orgmode #org (01:32:15)
  • Interaktive Berechnungs-Formulare mit Org-Mode und Python (@petervennemann@nrw.social)
  • Emacs org-modeを使ったタスク管理一例(2025年) | DevelopersIO (@dev_classmethod@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com)
  • Programación literaria en Emacs. 2ª Parte. (@maxxcan@mastodon.social)
  • howm meets org-drill: Note-taking tool with flashcards combined (HN)
  • Follow up on emails with mu4e and org capture
  • auto latest commits in org files · GitHub (@DarkBuffalo@mastodon.social)
  • My edited org-habit module (Reddit) - uses glyphs
  • (Update) org-supertag 2.2.9: Added Tag Content Viewer (Github) also, nested tags
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Chris Maiorana: From Emacs To Microsoft Word (And Beyond, Really) (YouTube 11:35, Irreal)
    • Tory Anderson: snippets that defy orgmode tangling
• Coding:
  • TIL sgml-tags-invisible when editing HTML
  • Navigating Typescript in Emacs with tide-nav.el (Reddit)
  • Magit v4.3.0 released (Irreal)
• Shells:
  • Using Emacs as Terminal Multiplexer on Windows
• Web:
  • Jeremy Friesen: Quick Switch Default Browser
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mastodon.el 1.1.9: filtered notifications, tag group timelines
  • Karl Voit / tootsnoop · GitLab - archive Mastodon stats, sample usage in Org babel block (@publicvoit@graz.social)
• AI:
  • James Dyer: Ollama Buddy - Local LLM Integration for Emacs (Reddit)
  • RAGmacs - Pt. 1: Retrieving Deep Value in Emacs (09:43)
  • The Augmented Software Engineer - Ep.15 - Emacs/Local (02:25) - ollama
• Community:
  • Eric MacAdie: 2024-02 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • Emacs en Español - Delta Chat (@cr0n0s@social.tchncs.de)
  • 02 - Text Editing Approaches - Vim and Emacs - History (39:49)
• Other:
  • Much Ado about Emacs 007 - Bicycle For Your Mind (@macosxguru@fosstodon.org) - org headers, quick window, marked 2, check parens
  • akib/emacs-ednc-popup: Show EDNC notifications using child frame popups - Codeberg.org (Reddit)
  • DarkBuffalo/kimai.el: Kimai time-tracking application - report last month's activities in Org format (@DarkBuffalo@mastodon.social)
  • Properly Installing Emacs on Windows #emacs #windows #coding #programming (19:22)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: Widgets that a GUI toolkit should have for Emacs. - thoughts on immediate-mode toolkits
    • Starting work on translation of GNU Emacs Manual to Chinese (emacs-devel)
    • CL packages in Emacs Lisp revisited - namespaces
    • igc: Some benchmarks
  • ansi-osc-directory-tracker respects remote files
  • Refresh package list without blocking
  • Eliminate savehist duplicated symbols
  • Prioritize split along the longest edge by default.
  • New function insert-special-event and special event sleep-event
  • Make it configurable to highlight Python 2 builtins
  • Merge branch 'master' of git.sv.gnu.org:/srv/git/emacs
  • Don't use obsolete In-Reply-To format in messages (Bug#64454)
  • Add inhibit-auto-revert macro
• New packages:
  • a68-mode: Major mode for editing Algol 68 code (GNU ELPA)
  • auth-source-xoauth2-plugin: authentication source plugin for xoauth2 (GNU ELPA)
  • autorevert-tail-truncate: auto-revert-tail your files with RAM control (GNU ELPA)
  • erlang-ts: Major modes for editing Erlang (MELPA)

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