2025-06-23 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jun 25 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jun 26 0030 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Jun 28 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/307923518/ Wed Jul 2 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Thu Jul 3 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jul 4 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Marcin Borkowski: Making functions interactive
- ordered-set.el: library for insertion-order sets, now on MELPA
- Mouse Events on Images in Emacs (@hajovonta@mastodon.online)
- igb/elevenshtein: An elisp implementation to calculate the edit (Levenshtein) distance between two buffers. (@igb@mastodon.hccp.org) - also check out the string-distance function
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Adjusting my org-mode workflow
- Rapid Communications: Posting Org-Mode captures to Mastodon (@djfiander@code4lib.social)
- Sacha Chua: Thinking about time travel with the Emacs text editor, Org Mode, and backups
- Chris Maiorana: The Emacs For Writers handbook is available now (and ever) (YouTube 02:01, Irreal)
- Org-mode pour les études (Emacs) (21:38)
- Paul Jorgensen: Mousing around in orgmode
- Fault-tolerant Org Links
- New Package: org-table-highlight—Highlight Org Table Rows and Columns with Ease!
- Thanos Apollo: Major update for Gnosis: 0.5.0 release
- Emacs Micro Lesson 12 | Org mode subtree export (02:55)
- Sacha Chua: Run source blocks in an Org Mode subtree by custom ID (Irreal)
- Paul Jorgensen: Org Babel and AppleScript with a little vc-use-package
- Sacha Chua: Using Org Mode, Emacs Lisp, and TRAMP to parse meetup calendar entries and generate a crontab
- Orgmode integration with Linear.app
- Completion:
- Shells:
- Web:
- Evil mode:
- Fun:
- AI:
- GNU Emacs: Modify any clipboard by using AI and Large Language Models
- RAGmacs - Pt. 1: Retrieving Deep Value in Emacs
- James Dyer: Ollama-Buddy 0.13.1: Curl backend support and some optimizations
- chatgpt-shell.el, by Álvaro Ramírez (BALISP) (46:57)
- Fun with GPTel: ob-gptel integration with Org-babel
- ECA (Editor Code Assistant) - AI pair programming in any editor (Reddit)
- Claude Codeを使ったタスクの協働デモ - AWS技術調査からIaC実装まで | DevelopersIO (@dev_classmethod@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com)
- Community:
- Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-06-17 / week 24
- Take two on Emacs (Toma dos de Emacs)
- Emacs: Take 2 — Where Are The Wise Men? (@mikehoss@appdot.net)
- How did you start living inside Emacs permanently? (Irreal)
- Irreal: Becoming An Emacs Power User
- Irreal: Advice To A New Emacs User
- A Cult AI Computer’s Boom and Bust (shout-out to Emacs)
- Using Software Like Vim, Emacs and Xmonad Changes You (Hopefully For The Better!) (14:29)
- Other:
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
- report-emacs-bug vs. <package>-submit-bug confusion (was: bug#78823: [BU - discussion about suggesting package-specific bug reports
- Re: is there a diff-unite-hunks or similar? Help wanted with figuring out how to do this
- Optionally suppress recentf open file messages (bug#78666)
- (smerge-refine-shadow-cursor): New variable and face (bug#78806)
- Prettify package-menu (Bug#78794)
- Support strings for electric pairs (bug#78053)
- Use keyword :commit with full hashes for treesit-language-source-alist.
- emacs-devel:
- New packages:
- australia-holidays: Australian holidays for calendar (MELPA)
- buck: Client library for the Bitbucket API (MELPA)
- gogs: Client library for the Gogs API (MELPA)
- gtea: Client library for the Gitea API (MELPA)
- prompt-binder: Bind LLM prompts to key chords and editor context (MELPA)
- pubsub: A basic publish/subscribe system (MELPA)
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