• Help wanted:
  • Re: Safe evaluation of macros (was: bug#77341: [PATCH] ; (find-function- - looking for volunteers to help improve trusted-content on Windows
• Emacs 30:
  • The new JSON parser is fast
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Apr 11 1800 Europe/Paris
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Apr 16 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Use GNU Emacs : The Plain Text Computing Environment (Reddit, Irreal)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Goodbye setq, hello setopt! (Reddit)
  • Emacs Config From Scratch, Part 1: Foundations (2023)
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Emacs Startup Time Doesn’t Matter
  • Marie K. Ekeberg: Github Actions workflow for my Emacs config?! - Why would I even do that?
  • salvari/emacs30_elpaca_public: My new configuration for Emacs using Elpaca as package manager - Codeberg.org (@salvari@mastodon.gal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Listful Andrew: Slug — Create friendly slugs for your URLs and filenames (Emacs package)
• Appearance:
  • eee.el Updated: Now with nerd-icons Support for Enhanced Visuals in ee-find and ee-rg
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: stylistic refinements to the “tinted” Modus themes
• Navigation:
  • TIL C-x C-f: you can just start typing ~/ without deleting the old path
  • Emacs 31: New window commands (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Taming emacs buffers using side windows (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Emacs Redux: Essential Flyspell (Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Back to pomodoros - but only in the morning
  • (udpate) org-supertag update to 3.0: add AI backend, support bidirectional tag relation
  • The Struggle of Syncing Plain Text with Databases: My Journey with org-supertag
  • Org Mode tips from oantolin, including kbd custom link type for keyboard macros
  • Git Links in Org (@ablatedsprocket@hachyderm.io)
  • Org Mode and Hurl (Reddit)
  • Nth Brains with Emacs Org Roam (33:43)
  • ob-duckdb - execute duckdb source blocks (first time making a package).
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Journelly vs Emacs: Why Not Both?
• Completion:
  • Complement corfu, vertico, and completion-preview with prescient.el sorting (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Configuring Language Servers Dynamically
  • Enhance vc-dir in Emacs with Magit-like Unpulled/UnpushedRecent Headers
  • Forge v0.5.0 released, with support for Github discussions
• Math:
  • Chung-hong Chan: Fixing a sore point of ESS: `ess-indent-with-fancy-comments`
• Web:
  • Sacha Chua: Using Emacs Lisp to batch-demote HTML headings for my static site
  • Chris Maiorana: Spin up a simple web server from Emacs
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Trials and Visions of Internet Relay Chat [in Emacs and elsewhere]​ (Reddit)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Doom Emacs icon
• EXWM:
  • EXWM setup (@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social)
• Fun:
  • nethack-el updated for v3.6.7 (testers wanted)
  • minesweeper - Play minesweeper inside Emacs - sourcehut hg (Reddit)
  • game-2048 - Play a block-sliding game inside Emacs - sourcehut hg
• AI:
  • My first Emacs package Relysium - Bring joy to your coding with LLM
  • James Dyer: Ollama-Buddy 0.9.17: Claude Support, Asynchronous Operations and Responses to Registers
• Community:
  • emacs.social - new Mastodon instance (Reddit, @runlevelrobot@social.lol)
  • The way I work in 2025 | skybert.net (@skybert@hachyderm.io)
  • Why I use Emacs (13:20)
  • Lispy Gopher Climate 2025 04 02 ramin_hal9001 #emacs #unix #lisp #philosophy #live #interview - Community Video (1:00:32, @screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org, show notes)
• Other:
  • FYI: Mituharu's Mac port is getting updates (Reddit)
  • stripspace.el - Ensure Emacs Automatically Removes Trailing Whitespace Before Saving a Buffer, with an Option to Preserve the Cursor Column (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • [PATCH] proposal for message-mode email completion enhancements - might need cross-package coordination?
    • Re: Semantic: update or remove? - CEDET components and features
  • ; Note existing binding of vc-git-stash-delete-at-point
  • Add bindings for vc-git-stash-delete-at-point, vc-git-stash-delete
  • Teach VC-Dir to automatically add and remove marks on other lines
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce new input methods (bug#77026).
  • Restrict symbol prettification to displayable glyphs
  • Optionally display function docstring in eldoc
  • Disable desktop-restore-frames by default on Android
  • Add repeat-map for Python indentation commands
  • Add 'project-customize-dirlocals'
  • Add cl-with-accessors
• New packages:
  • circom-mode: Major mode for editing Circom circuit (MELPA)
  • fretboard: Visualize guitar scales and chord shapes on a fretboard (MELPA)
  • fsrs: Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler (MELPA)
  • pache-dark-theme: High-contrast theme based on Gruvbox (MELPA)
  • pink-bliss-uwu-theme: Pink color theme (MELPA)
  • vue3-mode: Syntax highlighting for modern Vue.js 3 (MELPA)
  • wallabag: Save and manage articles with wallabag (MELPA)

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