• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Mar 19 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 20 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Mar 22 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/306610734/ Sat Mar 22 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Mar 26 1030 America/Vancouver - 1230 America/Chicago - 1330 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 27 0130 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs 30:
  • emacs-mac v30 experimental build: seeking experienced contributors/testers
  • emacs-30.1-on-android-termux-vs-android-linux-terminal.txt — paste.sr.ht (@gnomon@mastodon.social)
  • Emacs 30 Now On Android - fossHQ
  • EmacsWiki: Emacs On Android
• Beginner:
  • Editing Files with Emacs (11:29)
  • GNU Emacs má 40 let (Tomáš Čech) (23:23)
  • Emacs என்பது யாதெனில் - அத்தியாயம் ஒன்று - Sakhil (01:00:55)
• Emacs configuration:
  • inhibit-mouse.el - A package for disabling the mouse in Emacs (Release: 1.0.1) (Reddit)
  • Dotfiles Check-Up: Emacs and Guix Tweaks - System Crafters Live! (01:38:38)
  • sss config: everfrost theme support (@sss_project@mastodon.social)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • New package raq.el: HTTP Library Adapter for Emacs, suport url.el and plz.el, and can be extended. (Reddit)
  • compile-angel - Ensure all Elisp files are both Byte and Native-Compiled (Alternative to: auto-compile) - Release 1.0.6 (Reddit)
  • tip about get-mru-window (most recently used)
  • Some problems of modernizing Emacs (incomplete - slides 0 to 6 only) (20:39)
• Appearance:
  • Tip about using consult-theme from the consult package to preview themes quickly
  • Announcing Calle 24 (Reddit, Irreal) - substitutes the default tool bar icons with those from SF Symbols, a library of images provided by Apple
  • tomorrow-night-deepblue-theme (Release 1.2.1): A deep blue Emacs theme, inspired by the Tomorrow Night theme
  • My Unique Emacs Theme Pack – Now Available for Download! (Reddit) - screenshots are in the Details heading
• Navigation:
  • Noether: global minor mode managing user-defined posframe Views (Reddit)
  • easysession.el 1.1.3: Persist and restore Emacs sessions including frames, tab-bar, buffers, indirect buffers, Dired, and window splits (Reddit)
  • The Emacs recursive narrow package #coding #programming (02:41)
  • A tutorial on 2 Columns in Emacs #emacs #coding #programming (11:32)
• Writing:
  • Hugo-Heagren/clever-cite: format quoted text as you kill/yank between buffers (@HugoHeagren@scholar.social)
  • quick-sdcv.el (Release 1.0.1): Turn Emacs into an offline dictionary with sdcv (Reddit)
  • Editing Overleaf Documents with Emacs | Valentin Boettcher (Reddit) - nice! live editing, might be useful for collaboration too
  • Chung-hong Chan: Miscellaneous talk #45 Quarto guy, Overleaf’s markdown mode?, Flymake, Mailing lists, CRAN - ESS also
  • Wherein I Explain Why Emacs Is The Best Tool For WordPress (Reddit)
  • Meet Harper | A Grammarly Alternative for Neovim | Emacs, Obsidian, Zed, VScode and Helix (deez) (21:16)
• Org Mode:
  • Using Emacs Org mode to manage my appointments
  • Calendar.org (Reddit)
  • Org-anizing My Fragrance Collection with Emacs – literatelisp.eu (@theesm@social.tchncs.de)
  • Sacha Chua: Remove open Org Mode clock entries
  • a template for writing OWL ontologies as Org Mode documents, with supporting functions and scripts
  • org-expose-emphasis-markers: A new package used to automatically show hidden emphasis markers at point in org mode when `org-hide-emphasis-markers` is on. (Reddit)
  • Seam: personal wiki system based on Org mode (@spnw@gts.plexwave.org)
  • Using an Org-mode README on SourceHut (@tiang@mastodon.social)
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Denote is becoming many packages
• Coding:
  • using hideshow minor mode in all programming modes so you can toggle code sections (@dotemacs@mastodon.xyz)
  • Announcing Casual Make (Reddit, Irreal)
  • eglot-inactive-regions - eglot extension to dim inactive preprocessor branches - release: 0.6.4 (Reddit)
  • I found an easy way to make code comments appear in other mode's syntax
  • A story of mystery involving LS, clangd and a very easy fix
  • flymake-bashate.el (1.0.2) - A Flymake backend for bashate: Real-time style checking for Bash shell scripts
  • Bozhidar Batsov: neocaml: a new Emacs package for OCaml programming
  • swyddfa/esbonio.el: Integrating the esbonio language server into Emacs (@alcarney@fosstodon.org)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • twtxt.el updates: notifications, user interface, fixes (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• AI:
  • gptel 0.9.8 released (tool-use, support for "reasoning" output, dry-run options and more) (Reddit)
  • gptel-aibo update: new complete at point
  • GitHub - rajp152k/fabric-gpt.el: Fabric Prompts for emacs gpt.el
  • Aidermacs v1.0 Released. Available Now on Melpa and Non-GNU Elpa! (Reddit) (also 0.5.0 discussion)
  • James Dyer: Ollama-Buddy 0.8.0 - Added System Prompts, Model Info and simpler menu model assignment
  • James Dyer: Ollama-Buddy 0.7.1 - Org-mode Chat, Parameter Control and JSON Debugging
  • claude-code.el (Reddit)
  • lizqwerscott/mcp.el: An Mcp client inside Emacs (Reddit) - model context protocol servers
  • Introducing forge-llm: Generate PR descriptions automatically with LLMs in Emacs Forge
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-03-11 / week 10
  • Eric MacAdie: 2025-03 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • Irreal: From Neovim to Emacs
• Other:
  • Bible Verse of the Day as Emacs dashboard footer
  • gtd-E: new GTD app (Reddit)
  • SYD-EMACS(1): sandboxed editor environments (@alip@mastodon.online)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Improving the Tools menu
    • Re: Semantic: update or remove?
      • Re: Semantic: update or remove? - more thoughts on tree-sitter and the Emacs ecosystem
    • Re: Markers in a gap array - sorted array with gap
  • Make marking conflicted files as resolved upon saving opt-out
  • ; Add NEWS entry for java-ts-mode-method-chaining-indent-offset
  • ; etc/NEWS (remember-prefix-map): Suggest a key reserved to users.
  • New project-save-some-buffers command
  • Add a new command `speedbar-window'.
  • dired-copy-filename-as-kill: Support project-relative names
  • Make turn-on-flyspell/turn-off-flyspell obsolete
  • Improve tramp-*-with-sudo commands
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce the larger number of sub-processes on w32.
  • New configure option –with-systemduserunitdir
  • Allow control of indicating empty rectangular selections
  • Turn 'remember-mode' into a minor mode
  • diff-apply-buffer now considers the region and can reverse-apply.
  • Fix capitalization ELisp -> Elisp
  • Automatically document when setopt is needed
  • New user option follow-mode-prefix-key
  • Remove variable aliases obsolete since Emacs 23.2
  • New user variable `exchange-point-and-mark-highlight-region`
• New packages:
  • aider: Interact with Aider: AI pair programming made simple (MELPA)
  • company-forge: Company backend for assignees and topics from forge (MELPA)
  • denote-journal: Convenience functions for daily journaling with Denote (GNU ELPA)
  • denote-markdown: Extensions that better integrate Denote with Markdown (GNU ELPA)
  • denote-org: Denote extensions for Org mode (GNU ELPA)
  • denote-sequence: Sequence notes or Folgezettel with Denote (GNU ELPA)
  • denote-silo: Convenience functions for using Denote in multiple silos (GNU ELPA)
  • indexed: Cache metadata on all Org files (MELPA)
  • jira: Emacs Interface to Jira (MELPA)
  • ob-aider: Org Babel functions for Aider.el integration (MELPA)
  • org-expose-emphasis-markers: Automatically show hidden org emphasis markers (MELPA)

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