• Help wanted:
  • Emacspeak: update to support TCL 9?
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue May 6 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 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
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #5 2025 (v #~ivo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/5302f53d-05cd-437b-b885-80f07d307f31 Tue May 13 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed May 14 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu May 15 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Add missing prefix-key descriptions to Which-key
  • Christian Tietze: My Current Compilation Window Display Settings in Emacs via display-buffer-alist
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Emacs window management tweaking
  • My first Elisp code: a package for per-project commands (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs Buffer Local Functions (01:54) - fset-local
  • el-pa parallel multithreading on multicore, Emacs-to-Emacs TCP solution for Elisp (Reddit)
  • Emacs Package Development: The Emacs Reader (II: Making Overlays Centered and Zoomable) - 5/4/2025, 5:34:51 PM - Dyne.org TV
  • Ep651 emacs lisp coding, text processing (57:21)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs zoom!
  • Emacs Themes Gallery for your Daily Procrastination Needs
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 1.10.0
  • Creamy Emacs (@mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe)
• Navigation:
  • Automatically Create Parent Directories on Visiting a New File in Emacs - Iqbal Ansari
• Dired:
  • Rahul Juliato: Improving Dired in Emacs Solo: Git Status and File Icons (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • 1000 words: Warn if you use any word that is not in one of the 1000 or 2000 words in Brown corpus; helps with writing prose in simple English
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] file+olp+datetree accepting function to select target file
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Accept nil outline path for file+olp+datetree org-capture-templates target
  • TIL: using C-c C-x C-d in #emacs #orgmode shows the clock in column view
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Tip for using ox-clip to copy formatted text in Org Mode
    • federicotdn/verb: HTTP client for Emacs (lobste.rs)
    • Generate Beamer Slides From Org Mode
    • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: org-mode, dired, and journelly
    • kanban.el 0.2.5: special handling for links within the file: do not add the file as prefix (@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social)
    • Charles Choi: Announcing Scrim - An Org Protocol Proxy for Emacs on macOS (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Org development:
    • Merge branch 'km/from-emacs-master'
    • Backport commit 702cb123f from Emacs
    • ox-html: Always wrap exported src block with <code> tag
• Coding:
  • How do you run common development tasks (tests, checks, migrations, environment…)? - includes snippet for use with .dir-locals.el
  • Meta Redux: CIDER 1.18 ("Athens")
  • devcontainer.el - Adding support for Visual Studio Code-compatible devcontainers (https://containers.dev/) to Emacs (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Improving my Emacs-Jira integration
• Web:
  • emacs-websearch: duckduckgo is now supported (Reddit, Irreal)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • twtxt.el 1.0: stable and final version
• Doom Emacs:
  • Slackware-15.0: Doom Emacs Install (v02) (22:19)
• AI:
  • Augmentation / Replacement | olano.dev
  • Emacs in the Golden Age of LLMs
  • Peter Povinec: Towards Auto-Generated ERT Unit Tests
  • James Dyer: Ollama-Buddy 0.9.38: Unload Models, Hide AI Reasoning, and Clearly View Modified Parameters on each request
• Community:
  • Are there any non-programmers who use Emacs? (Irreal)
  • Detecting Emacs Package Synergy - Crafter Hours (02:20:58)
• Other:
  • 25 Useful Tips for Emacs (for beginners and advanced users) (@revrari@mastodon.social)
  • oantolin/scimago: Download Scimago data, look it up in Emacs with completion (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
  • View Disk Partition in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Intstalling Emacs with systemd-sysext - Alex Carney (@alcarney@mastodon.social)
  • Tanimoto, Steven L. Challenges for Livecoding via Acoustic Pianos Proceedings 2017, (ICLC 2017, Morelia, Mexico.) (@frescosecco@mastodon.social)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: master 6b11687555c: New user option native-comp-async-on-battery-pow
    • Re: Enabling native-comp when frequently rebuilding master on a laptop - issues with recompiling
  • Add line-column tracking for tree-sitter
  • New user option native-comp-async-on-battery-power
  • New this-command buffer display action alist entry
  • Allow selecting what to copy when installing a local package
  • Fix custom type of 'flymake-show-diagnostics-at-end-of-line'
  • New log-edit-maybe-show-diff option for log-edit-hook
• New packages:
  • gptel-magit: Generate commit messages for magit using gptel (MELPA)
  • jupyter-ascending: Edit Jupyter Notebooks in plain text (MELPA)
  • weather-scout: Display weather forecast from MET Norway (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Bluesky #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!