2025-06-09 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Christian Tietze: Emacs Carnival 2025-06: Take Two (EmacsWiki, Reddit, @ctietze@mastodon.social) shared topic for writing
- Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Jun 10 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #6 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/2aee6b90-4a76-4fb4-93f5-aa503e475ea7 Tue Jun 10 1900 CET
- OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jun 11 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jun 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jun 13 1800 Europe/Paris
- EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/307759219/ Sat Jun 14 1100 America/Los_Angeles
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jun 18 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- Escola de verán de Enxeñería Sen Fronteiras – Banco de Reciclaxe Electrónica de ESF Galicia - 14 de julio (@raivenra@mastodon.social)
- Beginner:
- Emacs configuration:
- Repeat Mode, now with hints
- abougouffa/emacs-vim-file-locals: Set Emacs editor options from Vim modeline (Reddit)
- Emacs Redux: Little known macOS keybindings
- My emacs-mac macOS keybindings – Paul Jorgensen (Irreal)
- casual 2.5.3 - bugfixes (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
- lakkiy's Emacs Config
- Emacs: Mi fichero configuración 2024 – El Blog de Lázaro
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- Dired:
- Org Mode:
- Denote:
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Tree-sitter powered code completion (Reddit)
- Emacs HDF5 Viewer Mode with a dired-like interface - hierarchical data format
- clojure-ts-mode 0.5 (@batsov.net on Bluesky) font-lock custom def-likes, font-locking JS in ClojureScript, tree-sitter completion
- Emacs Org Mode as the Ansible Control Tower – Tom's IT Cafe (@TomsITCafe@mastodon.social)
- Web:
- Mail, news, and chat:
- Multimedia:
- uniline - new version drawing package
- SDL2 and Emacs (Reddit) - see discussion for screenshot
- Compressing mp4 files while keeping better quality with dwim in Emacs
- AI:
- Community:
- Other:
- How to sort lines of text with Emacs - philnewton.net (2021)
- Announcing Casual Timezone (Reddit, Irreal)
- Tracking your finances with Reckon, Ledger and Emacs
- Personal Finance Management using Ledger CLI
- Irreal: Why Does Emacs Take So Long To Load
- my/update-calendar-location-from-corelocationcli – Paul Jorgensen
- Emacs Lucid vs GTK: Debunking the Lightweight Myth (03:50)
- How I Fixed Emacs Performance Issues on Raspberry Pi Zero 2
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel: Benchmarking buffers vs strings for process filters, more discussion, might be good to prefer buffers
- ; Document recent VC changes regarding file removal
- Add option for not highlight parens inside comments or strings
- Add optional inherit argument to 'face-all-attributes' (bug#77945)
- VC: Deprecate log-incoming and log-outgoing backend functions
- ; * etc/NEWS: Call out incompatible change in 'date-to-time'.
- New packages:
- esb: Emacs Simple Bookmark (MELPA)
- evil-keypad: Modal command dispatch for evil-mode (MELPA)
- nerd-icons-grep: Add nerd-icons to grep-mode (MELPA)
- ob-llm: Use `llm' as an Org Babel language (MELPA)
- scallop-mode: Major mode for editing Scallop programming language (MELPA)
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