If you want to write functions that let you pick values with completion, check out Manuel and Corwin's posts for simple examples, or chmouel's post for a yasnippet version. Enjoy!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Sep 24 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 25 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Sep 27 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs meetup in person in Novosibirsk, Russia ichernyshovvv@gmail.com - Sept 27 20:00 - 23:00 Asia/Novosibirsk
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/310983729/ Thu Oct 2 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Oct 3 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Oct 3 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • [ANN]: MEEP modal editing now available on Melpa (Reddit)
  • automate your package refresh.
  • A minimal config for Emacs on macOS (@donaldh@hachyderm.io)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Manuel Uberti: Insert date at point
  • Corwin Brust: EmacsConf CFP ending and a completing-read example
  • Irreal: Extensibility In Lisp And Emacs
  • George Huebner: Speedier elisp-refs-* with Dumb Grep
  • GitHub - eshelyaron/semel: Semantic highlighting for Emacs Lisp (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • [Package] significant-other.el - Jump between related files (tests, components, etc.)
  • Magnus: Listing buffers by tab using consult and bufferlo
  • Irreal: Saving And Restoring Tab-sets
  • James Cherti: Emacs quick-fasd: Integrate Fasd for fast file and directory navigation
  • localauthor: Simple Document Tagging with 'doc-tags.el'
• TRAMP:
  • TIL remote-file-name-inhibit-delete-by-moving-to-trash for TRAMP
• Writing:
  • Schauderbasis - reformat paragraph (2021, @EFLS@mastodon.social)
• Org Mode:
  • Zettelkasten, Emacs, and Creative Thinking
  • Jeremy Friesen: Adding More Link Description Defaults
  • Jeremy Friesen: Generating Descriptions of org-insert-link
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Allow "independent" parent plain list checkboxes
  • Sacha Chua: Adding Org Mode link awesomeness elsewhere: my-org-insert-link-dwim - markdown, oddmuse, mastodon, web-mode
  • Fix Messy wide Org Mode Tables in 5 Minutes - phscroll Tutorial for Emacs Users (02:23)
  • How I read papers with Org-roam & Zotero #emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • I Wrote A Gnu Guile Script That Converts Mozilla Firefox Json Bookmarks Archive To An Org-Mode Format.
  • Sacha Chua: Getting a Google Docs draft ready for Mailchimp via Emacs and Org Mode
  • Org Social Relay (Reddit)
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: the next version of Denote will support custom identifiers
• Completion:
  • yasnippet to choose code block type and yank clipboard text into markdown block
• Coding:
  • Read local copy of HyperSpec with eww
  • dotemacs/testiere-mode.el - inline tests library for Common Lisp (@dotemacs@mastodon.xyz)
  • snSYNC.el - edit ServiceNow scripts in Emacs
  • Emacs flymake-ansible-lint: Real-Time Syntax and Style Checking for Ansible Playbooks and Roles Using ansible-lint (Release 1.0.4) (Reddit)
  • upcoming RacketCon talk "It Works: more adventures with Racket and Emacs" (@racketlang@functional.cafe)
  • Emacs UV Mode - Python Command VOD (55:14)
• Math:
  • calctape: Emacs adding-machine, tape calculator, column sum-mer
  • Emacs Speaks R: R's Tree Sitter Major Mode (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Entering dates in Emacs Calc (Irreal)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Custom Functions And Keybindings In Doom Emacs (18:37)
• AI:
  • Switch easily between gptel prompts in a directory
  • An electronic notebook with Emacs + gptel + mcp and claude-light (17:35)
  • Improving ACP traffic inspection (Reddit)
  • Generating a commit message using Magit and gptel
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Who knows what actors lurk in the heart of movies? The LLM knows.
• Community:
  • Still Using Emacs in 2025? Yes — And Here’s Why (Irreal)
  • Long term use.
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Julien about Emacs, functional package managers, Nix, Guix, and reproducibility (YouTube 01:24:40)
  • FrostyX/thanks: Say thanks to the authors of all your installed packages (Reddit)
  • Recomendando un par de blogs en español | Picando Código (@picandocodigo@mastodon.online)
• Other:
  • inhibit-mouse.el - Disable the mouse in Emacs (Release: 1.0.2) (Reddit, Irreal)
  • eldoc-mouse to show document for mouse hover. (Reddit, Reddit, YouTube, Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Obscure Emacs package appreciation: backup-walker
  • Another minor issue with my use of svg-analog-clock.el - YouTube (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: More discussion of librsvg and Rust vs C
  • Support 'RET' for visiting URLs in read-only buffers (bug#74792)
  • (register-preview-info): sort registers in preview buffer
  • Add hideable indicators for hideshow. (Bug#79294)
  • New mode 'minibuffer-nonselected-mode'
  • Fixes for csharp-ts-mode fontification (bug#79406)
  • New mode 'mouse-shift-adjust-mode' for S-<mouse-1>
  • * lisp/hl-line.el (global-hl-line-sticky-flag): New value 'all'.
  • New commands to apply changes to other working trees
• New packages:
  • buframe: Buffer-local frames (GNU ELPA)
  • crystal-point: Dynamic cursor color matching face at point (MELPA)
  • double-press: Double-press key dispatcher (MELPA)
  • ical-form: A widget form for editing ical events (MELPA)
  • mu4e-walk: Send email addresses for a walk (MELPA)
  • org-repeat-by-cron: An Org mode task repeater based on Cron expressions (MELPA)
  • tintin-mode: Major mode for editing TinTin++ config files (MELPA)

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