• EmacsConf is next weekend!
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Thu Dec 4 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Dec 5 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/311893360/ Thu Dec 4 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Dec 5 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Dec 5 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Dec 6 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsConf https://emacsconf.org - Dec 6 - 7
  • Emacs.si (in person): Skupni ogled Emacs konference 2025 https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/b4137a21-8783-4bc5-993e-929c5ddf43bc Sat Dec 6 1445 Europe/Ljubljana
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #12 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/37459eb7-b2f8-4df3-a2ce-fd0204274af5 Tue Dec 9 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Dec 10 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Dec 11 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Dec 12 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • minimal-emacs.d - Emacs init.el and early-init.el that provide enhanced defaults and optimized startup (1.3.1) (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Bending Emacs - Episode 6: Overlays (Reddit, YouTube 11:58, lobste.rs)
• Appearance:
  • PGTK and Windows Emacs builds now offer tooling for reacting to desktop themes (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • basics of emacs macros (and interactive regex replace) (19:34)
  • scrollpanel: a better minimap for Emacs (@cehteh@social.tchncs.de)
  • [Experimental] hs-indent-fold.el - Click-to-fold via indentation highlighting (leaving fringe/margin free) (Reddit)
  • 2 commands for every cracked #emacs nerd 🔥🤓#linux (01:14) - exchange-point-and-mark, mark-whole-buffer
  • kirigami.el, a unified method to fold and unfold text in Emacs, has been added to MELPA (Release 1.0.0) (Reddit)
• Hyperbole:
  • GNU Hyperbole Q&A Session at EmacsConf 2025, Sunday at 1:40pm ET
• Dired:
  • Rsync File Copying from Dired with Transient Menu (@ctietze@mastodon.social)
• Org Mode:
  • UOMF: Generate a List for the next Upcoming Recurring Meeting Instances (@publicvoit@graz.social)
  • Org-GTD v4 is in beta - looking for beta testers!
  • Package to insert multiple org-roam nodes using Helm (Reddit)
  • My Emacs Presentation Stack (Reddit)
  • orgit-file v0.3.0 - Revision-aware Org links to Git files with automatic web export (Reddit)
  • An Ode to Org Babel (@donaldh@hachyderm.io)
  • Lens_r | Literate Tests with Org Mode and Emacs Lisp
  • Quick tutorial to get started on Org Social | Andros Fenollosa (@lobsters@mastodon.social)
  • org-social.el 2.7: migration posts, boosting
  • Org development:
    • org-open-at-point-global: Support prefix argument
    • lisp/org.el: Remove deprecated show command
• Completion:
  • Update on Consult and Jinx - Jinx is a spell-checker
• Coding:
  • tb-indent: Convert space-based indentation file into a Tab-based indentation buffer
  • Managing TODO comments in source code files (Reddit)
  • Bringing Emacs Support to OCaml's LSP Server with `ocaml-eglot` (Reddit)
  • Using Magit to fix a commit | Dave’s Blog (@davemq@fosstodon.org)
• Shells:
  • Shell tip: C-c C-l to list shell history in separate buffer
  • Bending Emacs - Episode 7: eshell built-in commands (YouTube 12:00, Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Wasabi: WhatsApp from your beloved editor
• Fun:
  • LensPlaysGames/word-search-generator–emacs-lisp (@lens_r@mastodon.social)
• AI:
  • (new package) claude-code-ide-extras (Reddit)
  • No need to remember M-x command: a small elisp function to find and run M-x command with gptel and LLM
• Community:
  • Emacs Rules, Vim Drools? - Why I'm an Emacs Guy Now (13:55)
• Other:
  • Announcing Casual CSV (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: Suggestion: (re)move ~/.authinfo from auth-sources by default in favour of ~/.authinfo.gpg? - Michael Albinus - Emacs 31 won't create .authinfo by default, but default order of auth-sources will probably be the same
    • Re: Why don't we have a 'completion-command-overrides'? - Kristoffer Balintona might be a good option
  • hideshow.el: New commands 'hs-cycle' and 'hs-toggle-all'. (Bug#79877)
  • New display of outgoing revisions count in VC-Dir
  • Use treesit-extra-load-path for more values of treesit-auto-install-grammar
  • Add current subject to future history in `message-change-subject'
  • * lisp/cus-start.el: Make 'treesit-extra-load-path' customizable.
  • Add new commands 'merge-frames' and 'split-frame'
  • Make diff-revert-and-kill-hunk consider an active region
  • Make it easier to enable Abbrev mode by default
  • Make diff-apply-hunk consider an active region
  • Support `toolkit-theme-set-functions' on Android and execute hooks safely
  • New commands to rewind decentralized VCS branches
  • Default split-window-preferred-direction to 'longest'
  • New command alias vc-restore
  • Add `toolkit-theme' and 'toolkit-theme-set-functions'
  • The –script option now enforces lexical binding (bug#79760)
  • Show the diff buffer with replacements by typing 'd' in 'query-replace'
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Expand on showing warnings on first daemon frame.
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Mention the change about daemon startup warnings (bug#79783)
  • Fix `editorconfig-display-current-properties`
• New packages:
  • code-awareness: Code Awareness collaboration package (MELPA)
  • gdshader-mode: Major mode for Godot gdshader files (MELPA)
  • kirigami: A unified method to fold and unfold text (MELPA)
  • real-mono-themes: Real monochromatic color themes (MELPA)
  • sparkweather: Weather forecasts with sparklines (MELPA)
  • structurizr: Major mode for Structurizr DSL (MELPA)

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