• Help wanted:
  • [ANN] Re: Join the Org Mode project as the Worg maintainer (Reddit)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Apr 30 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu May 1 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri May 2 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/306966612/ Wed May 7 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Thu May 8 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri May 9 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/307404994/ Sat May 10 1100 America/Los_Angeles
• Beginner:
  • Emacs Crash Course - 5 part series - From Vanilla to Custom (Reddit)
  • How to (actually) learn Emacs (10:54)
  • Install and Basic Config of Emacs on a Chromebook in Only 10 Minutes! (Without Elisp) (10:50)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Evan Moses: Separating work and personal config
  • By-host configs in Doom. Custom starting window sizes. | hi, it's mike ʕ•ᴥ•ʔﾉ (@mph@social.lol)
  • Basics of the Emacs Straight Package Manager #coding #programming #reupload (09:14)
  • emacs-config 3.0.1.0 released. Cleanups and workarounds (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs Package Development: The Emacs Reader (I: Introduction) - Dyne.org TV
  • Maintain Emacs histories with the ring package (overview) (07:17)
  • How to fix two buglets in Ramin Honary's Emacs analog clock - YouTube (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
• Appearance:
  • FYI: mode-line-collapse-minor-modes
  • Amit Patel: Emacs per-project colors
  • TAONAW - switching themes based on OS
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: show-font version 0.3.0
• Navigation:
  • TIL xref-go-back
  • imarko/man-index: An Emacs command to quickly navigate to keywords within a man page. - Codeberg.org (@zrzz@fosstodon.org)
  • Hot key to quickly jump out of parens #emacs #coding #programming #reupload (01:08)
• TRAMP:
  • Using SUDO in Emacs with Tramp (@revrari@mastodon.social)
• Writing:
  • blogging capture tool to markdown · GitHub (@mph@social.lol)
  • Tim Heaney: Typst
  • Gauging interest in (developing) a Typst table/grid editing package
  • sinhala/emacs-sinhala-wijesekara: Emacs සඳහා විජේසේකර ආදාන-ක්‍රමය - Codeberg.org
    • 0xd9a/test-emacs-sinhala-singlish-test - Codeberg.org
  • overleaf-connection.el v1.0.0-rc1 (looking for testers)
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs OrgMode Trivialities Emphasis Markers And Timer 2025_04_25_02:38:13 - YouTube (@unixbhaskar@mastodon.social)
  • Stupidly Simple Notes Taking With Emacs - fossHQ
  • How I org with spacemacs · (2016)
  • Christian Tietze: Keep .org File Outline Items Sorted Alphabetically (Irreal)
  • Assembling Org Mode Files with Transclusion - System Crafters Live! (01:58:45)
  • GitHub - Clement-Jean/codetabs.el: Horizontally tabbed code blocks for org mode (Reddit)
  • Editing the ends of emphasized text with hidden emphasis markers
  • Introducing tagger and tagger-emacs-wrapper (Reddit)
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Allow entering time/date range for :time-prompt capture template property (was: org-capture-fill-template %T drops end time)
  • Hugo posting in Emacs | hi, it's mike ʕ•ᴥ•ʔﾉ (@mph@social.lol)
  • Charles Choi: Announcing Scrim - An Org Protocol Proxy for Emacs on macOS
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: A month with Journelly
  • [BLOG] #17 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]​] on Wed, Apr 9, 19:00 UTC+3 - meeting notes
• Denote:
  • Journaling with Journelly and Denote | Timothy J B Welch (@Cthimothy@dice.camp)
• Coding:
  • Small .bashrc (and elisp) tricks to 'auto activate' python virtual environments
  • Commodore 64 Assembly, part 1: Hello World and basic Emacs setup
  • I made a mode for Grafana Alloy config. Hope somebody else finds it useful. (Reddit)
  • Unch revuelto de cosas mías (@Notxor@masto.es)
  • Flycheck 35 is out! (Reddit)
  • How to Get Tree-sitter to Work in Emacs in 6 Minutes #coding #programming #syntax (06:01)
  • Binary Reverse-Engineering with Emacs (08:29, Reddit)
  • johannes-mueller/devcontainer-mode: Rudimentary support for devcontainer in emacs (@johmue@chaos.social, Reddit)
  • Unwound Stack: eglot-finding-sub-projects
  • my/copy-short-commit-hash
  • TIL: track changes in Emacs with highlight-changes-mode • tommorris.org (@tommorris@mastodon.social)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Alternative headers view for mu4e (Reddit)
  • Jack Baty: Consolidating my email handling in Emacs
  • rtrppl/hotsky: Fetches links from Bluesky feed, sorts them by frequency, and presents them in an Orgmode buffer in Emacs. (@laotang@mastodon.social)
• Evil mode:
  • Wrote an Emacs package to better integrate Evil and god-mode (Reddit)
• AI:
  • bajsicki/gptel-org-tools: Tooling for LLM interactions with org-mode. Requires gptel and org-ql. - Codeberg.org
  • (within parens…): Emacs Lisp Programming with DeepSeek: A New Widget (@marcoxa@mastodon.social)
  • Ep647 emacs install ai chatbot interface gptel (ollama, deepseek, chatgpt) (50:51)
  • Emacs/Org-mode and ChatGPT (24:19)
  • James Dyer: Ollama-Buddy 0.9.35: Grok, Gemini Integration and Enhanced Sessions
  • ChatGPT Emacs Integration Course (Reddit) ($119)
• Community:
  • Emacs Weekly Tips, Tricks, or Questions - Lemmy.World - SES (Simple Emacs Spreadsheets)
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-04-22 / week 16
  • I Joined The Craftering (@trevdev@fosstodon.org)
  • @emacsnews@emacs.social (@runlevelrobot@emacs.social)
  • Talk with Theena (Multidisciplinary Artist) | Writing Professionally | Neovim Emacs LaTeX Org Mode (2 hour video)
  • Emacs' Undeserved Reputation (Reddit)
• Other:
  • The Emacs Cat: Emacs Time Stamp (Irreal)
  • TIL global-auto-revert-mode
  • divyaranjan/emacs-reader: An all-in-one ebook reader for all formats in Emacs, backed by MuPDF. - Codeberg.org
  • An Emacs + Nix Workflow | Max's Blog - direnv, lorri
  • Sorting Strings in a Line in Emacs (Reddit, Irreal) sort-regexp-fields
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: OpenLibrary, LibraryThing, Books and Emacs
  • Much Ado About Emacs 009 - general.el, defalias, recursive-narrow, bufferfile (@macosxguru@fosstodon.org)
  • Matt Maguire: Plain Text Accounting with Emacs, also part 2
  • The Emacs widget toolkit | Aleksandr Petrosyan
  • tusharhero/tinee: This Is Not Emacs Everywhere, in the sense that it's not as featureful as Emacs-everywhere, and hence tinee. - write in Emacs, send to other apps; only for Wayland right now
  • Swankful Software-Individuals (@screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)
  • A Better Meta Key for Emacs (Reddit) - using ; as meta if held down
  • Emacs pinky solution -> use your thumbs! With this keyboard layout (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Emacs hacking 00 - Avoid RSI and "emacs pinky" once and for all. (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • RFC: let's make term.el possible
    • Re: Next steps for igc feature branch
      • also, possible issues when it comes to installing the MPS library
    • Re: Vectorization, SIMD - auto-vectorization
    • Re: Trust API - working out how trust should work with buffers, maybe regions
      • experience from org-confirm-babel-evaluate
  • Flymake: Experimental 'fancy' flymake-show-diagnostics-at-end-of-line
  • Mark vc-dav.el as obsolete (bug#77626)
  • Add "forward history" support for some debuggers
  • mode-line-modes-delimiters: New option
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Document deletion of block comment variables.
  • Revert addition of electric-block-comment-mode & follow-up commits
• New packages:
  • jjdescription: Major mode for editing Jujutsu description files (MELPA)
  • ob-bigquery: Babel Functions for BigQuery Databases (MELPA)
  • org-hide-drawers: Hide drawers in Org using overlays (MELPA)
  • termint: Run REPLs in a terminal backend (MELPA)

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