• Emacs Carnival 2025-08: Your Elevator Pitch for Emacs - Take on Rules (@takeonrules@dice.camp, Irreal)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/308826076/ Thu Aug 7 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Aug 8 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Aug 8 1800 Europe/Paris
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #8 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/660761d6-862d-43a1-9fb4-955d4e3e1066 Tue Aug 12 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Aug 13 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 14 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • James Dyer: View-Mode - Emacs's Hidden Modal Editing Gem?
  • Some global submap keybindings (VC, vundo, browse-url-at-point)
  • A Transient for Help
  • How I would manually generate my current default emacs setup (usually it is in an init file) (05:05)
  • Rahul Juliato: Emacs Kick 0.3.0: Floating Docs, Snappy Completion, and Corfu Goodness (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • vecdb: A package for vector search (YouTube 09:32)
  • Videos on using Emacs Lisp and Eshell for system administration (code, Reddit for video 1, 2, 3)
  • snippets/elisp-native-modules/ppm-overlay at master - drawing on top of a PPM image (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Building log verbosity control UI for Ares/Arei Guile Scheme IDE (01:37:36)
• Appearance:
  • buffer-background – change your buffer background colors interactively (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • File too long? Show some love for follow-mode 🥰 (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Charles Choi: Unleashing the Editing Superpower of Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Randy Ridenour: Emacs Writing Experience (@randyridenour@zirk.us)
  • Jeremy Friesen: On Writing in Emacs
• Org Mode:
  • Marcin Borkowski: org-copy-visible
  • Jeremy Friesen: On Organizing My Notes
  • Emacs Org mode as a word processor: Emacs Writing Studio (18:08, Reddit)
  • (Released) org-workbench: A thinking exploration space for temporarily organizing ideas and concept (Reddit, Irreal)
  • (Update) org-supertag: logseq-style query block, embed-block
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Mark Tomczak: Screenshots into emacs org files in Windows
    • Dealing with APIs, JSONs and databases in org-mode | isamert.net (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
    • Whisper Engine - static site publishing from Org Mode (@TomsITCafe@mastodon.social)
    • (Update) org-luhmann: exporting heading as org-mode links (Reddit) also Reddit discussion about workbench
    • Jakub Nowak: Exporting Wikis with Orgmode
  • Org development:
    • lisp/ox-html.el: Use time element for timestamps in fancy html5
• Denote:
  • TAONAW: Denote with a different root directory on Linux only
  • Zac Romero: Searching Denote Notes With p-search
• Completion:
  • Modern Emacs Part 1: Consult, Marginalia, Vertico, Orderless and Embark - VOD (01:20:50)
• Coding:
  • eglot + pyright made simple thanks to uvx! (Reddit)
  • fj.el updates: improvements to PR reviews, syntax highlighting, cycle views, comment and close issue, unwatch, list
  • kn66/lsp-installer.el - installs language servers (Reddit)
• Math:
  • How to adjust numbers in the journal with Emacs Calc - General - Plain Text Accounting forum (@simonmic@fosstodon.org)
  • Listful Andrew: CFrac — Convert from/to continued fractions (Emacs package)
• Fun:
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: In a genre of speaking
• AI:
  • [New Package]⚡️ gptel-watch — Auto-complete your thoughts with GPT when you type lines like "AI!" (Reddit)
  • Don't Generate, Retrieve and Transform (GPTel Tools Published) (Reddit)
  • GitHub - steveyegge/efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs (Reddit, programming.dev)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-07-29 / week 30
  • Stackoverflow developer survey 2025 - Emacs doesn't make the list of most popular Dev IDEs (Reddit) - Emacs was not on the list of options; write-in only
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Deep dive with @linkarzu about Emacs, NeoVim, Linux, keyboards, and philosophy (YouTube 02:24:27, Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Rudy about Emacs for game development, Lisp hacking, and learning (YouTube 01:47:10)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Diego about Emacs use, head of engineering, industry’s state, and combat sports
• Other:
  • Emacs: The MacOS Bug (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • Emacs: A Deep Dive into Its Internals (05:09)
  • Perfect Speech to Text in Emacs - YouTube (2:19)
• Emacs development:
  • Add 'other-window-backward' for a default binding (bug#78803)
  • Improve region deletion handling in python.el
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Move read-directory-name entry; a compatible change.
  • tab-line: Add close button for modified tabs (bug#79046)
  • Add support for AUTH=PLAIN to imap.el
  • cperl-mode.el: Support syntax of Perl version 5.42
• New packages:
  • magit-prime: Prime cache before Magit refresh (MELPA)

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