• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #5 2025 (v #živo) 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
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed May 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat May 24 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, May 24, 2025
• Emacs configuration:
  • A few tweaks to Emacs (without elisp) to make it nicer (03:45)
  • Hiding Buffers in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Opening the Emacs Initialization File, or First Impressions Matter (Reddit, Irreal)
  • New Emacs Distribution: Nox Emacs
  • James Dyer: Discovering Treasures in Emacs-solo
  • dotfiles/.spacemacs at main · basteez/dotfiles (@basteez.bsky.social)
  • jjba23/sss: Supreme Sexp System - SSS 2.3.15 (@sss_project@mastodon.social)
  • minimal-emacs.d - init.el and early-init.el with Better Emacs Defaults and Faster Startup (Release: 1.2.1) (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Enhancing Git Diff for Emacs Lisp: Better Git Diff of Elisp function or macro definitions (Reddit, Irreal)
• Appearance:
  • Colourless themes for Emacs
• Navigation:
  • Hoagie's corner of the internet - Emacs: toggle narrowing (Reddit, Irreal)
  • TIL sr-speedbar for navigation (@lhp@mastodon.social)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Emacs' windows navigations and some Emacs zen (Irreal)
    • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: window management, terminology
• TRAMP:
  • Tip: TRAMP supports Gnome online accounts, so you can use it for Nextcloud files
• Org Mode:
  • My Exobrain - This is how I'm keeping my Org-mode files organized (Reddit, @jworthe@fosstodon.org)
  • Consistent Technical Documents Using Emacs and Org Mode Applying Literate Programming to Technical Writing
  • Jack Baty: Set point at first heading when opening Org mode file
  • Org-mode: Select a heading for link with completion, but use ID property for link heading text as default description · GitHub
  • (release) org-include-inline
  • catsup: pomodoro timers, Org (@caranmegil@mastodon.social)
  • On Orgmode and Obsidian: PTPL 151 · Why the Openest of Open Formats Isn’t the One for Me - Ellane W
  • @noctuaminervae is the new Worg maintainer (@bzg@floss.social)
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Adding custom indices for Texinfo export (and maybe unaffiliated dual-value keywords?)
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Accept nil outline path for file+olp+datetree org-capture-templates target
• Completion:
  • Tim Heaney: Magic completions in rust-analyzer
• Coding:
  • Tip: jq-interactive lets you run and edit dynamic searches across the current json buffer (@choffee@mastodon.me.uk)
  • Improving Frappe Developer Experience in Emacs | Ruthra Kumar (33:46)
  • A New Way to Edit Jupyter Python Notebooks in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Coloring Git output in Magit
  • Introducing nix-flakes.el: A Simple Emacs Package for Managing Nix Packages
• Shells:
  • Shell Scripts in Emacs: The Cyber Ghost’s Shortcut to Flow – Tom's IT Cafe (@TomsITCafe@mastodon.social)
  • Tip: sh-execute-region
• Doom Emacs:
  • IT'S ALIVE !! Doom Emacs On Windows (23:12)
• Fun:
  • dynasty-reader.el: Read MANGA comics in Emacs
• AI:
  • Control Emacs with Model Context Protocol (MCP) (04:05, (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-05-06 / week 18
  • Emacs Elements channel is back!
• Other:
  • emacs — Matt Gemmell (@mattgemmell@mastodon.scott)
  • Jeremy Friesen: Migrating to Linux: Getting Emacs Installed (@takeonrules@dice.camp)
  • orgrr update: orgrr-super-compile-sequence (@laotang@mastodon.social)
  • The Emacs widget toolkit | Aleksandr Petrosyan (HN)
  • BSAG » All the editors (@bsag@social.lol)
  • Progress on Emacs Lisp interpreter in Scheme
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: Failure building Emacs master on MSYS2 [MSYS2 PKG]​ - x86_64-pc-cygwin seems to be the future
    • Third-Party url.el replacement or wrapper packages
    • Re: Failure building Emacs master on MSYS2 [MSYS2 PKG]​ - msys supposed to be used only to build tools required to build packages using Autoconf
  • Fall back `eww-switch-to-buffer' to `eww'
  • New vc-async-checkin user option
  • Recenter for the calendar (bug#78205)
  • Derived types (i.e. 'cl-deftype') can now be used as method specializers
  • lisp/register.el (register-read-with-preview-traditional): Use PRED
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Add 'comment-setup-function'.
• New packages:
  • bookmarks-menu: Add a Bookmarks menu to the menu bar (MELPA)
  • cuckoo-search: Content-based search and saved-searches for Elfeed (MELPA)
  • jsonp: Resolve JSON pointers in ELisp objects (MELPA)
  • tomlparse: A straight-foward tree sitter based parser for toml data (MELPA)

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