Lots of discussion around Karthik's latest blog post Even More Batteries Included with Emacs (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs). Check it out!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jun 17 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Jun 20 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sun Jun 21 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/315192115/ Sat Jun 20 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jun 24 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jun 25 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Jun 27 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • How to Install a Package on Emacs From Melpa (04:09)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Replace shell-pop with built-in display-buffer-alist (Reddit)
  • salvari/emacs30_elpaca_public: My new configuration for Emacs using Elpaca as package manager - Codeberg.org (@salvari@mastodon.gal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Web scraping is getting harder all the time
  • [22] Integrating Emacs Reader with Canvas - Dyne.org TV (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
• Appearance:
  • halo.el: an experimental minor mode for keeping point centered and dimming distant lines (Reddit)
  • dimmer.el – after a hiatus, new development underway (Reddit) - dims inactive buffers; updates: reset when theme changes, handle child frames
  • Dave Pearson: Simplifying my mode line
  • Dave Pearson: It got darker - switched to a dark-mode
  • Inspired by nano-emacs: vertico-buffer-frame with nano-vertico (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • modernizing bookmark+ (Reddit)- trying to get in touch with Drew Adams
  • outline-indent, a modern Indentation-based Text Folding Mode for Emacs (Release 1.2.0) (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: flat Dired listing for REGEXP, optionally up to DAYS since last modification (Irreal)
• Writing:
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Emacs loves AsciiDoc (Irreal)
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v5.3.0 - adds blogmore-link-series
  • New, Fast, BibTex Formatter (Reddit) - Uses rust
• Denote:
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Meta Journal notes in Denote-Journal with Journelly
• Org Mode:
  • Sacha Chua: From DC Toedt: Copy Org Mode as Markdown
  • Raymond Zeitler: Creating a Reference to a Webpage in Org
  • A Day with Org-SuperTag — One Person's Complete Workflow
  • Org export dispatcher to Eisvogel LaTeX template
  • YAOB – Yet Another Org Blog · (interzone) (@cryptk)
  • Emacs Org-Roam: Gestione della Conoscenza a Grafi e Metodo Zettelkasten (06:39)
  • Org development:
    • ob-core: Obsolete `org-babel-remote-temporary-directory'
    • org-agenda-timerange-leaders: Allow functions as element values
• Coding:
  • James Dyer: The Hidden Git Stash Keys in Emacs VC Directory Mode
  • Configuring Emacs for Swift Development | Swift.org (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Common Lisp tree-sitter grammar with a major-mode and Sly powered semantic highlighting (Reddit)
  • Corrigindo divergências entre arquivos de configuração do emacs (01:37:06)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mu4e-based email automation package (Reddit)
  • Whatsappel - Run WhatsApp inside Emacs (Reddit)
• Doom Emacs:
  • doom emacs 项目拆分为core和modules, doom emacs 将进入快速发展期 (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • The World Cup… in emacs! ⚽️💻 (04:41, Reddit)
  • Emacs SVG Benchmark Reveals Gaming-Caliber Frame Rates (Reddit)
• AI:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: agent-shell 0.55 updates (lobste.rs, Reddit)
  • New Pi Emacs coding harness release has no trust issues! (Reddit)
  • EMCP - Emacs an an MCP server (Reddit)
  • Vibe Coding with Emacs' Built-In AI - System Crafters Live! (01:47:29)
• Community:
  • Joshua Blais on Doom Emacs, Vanilla Emacs, Guix, and 34-Key Keyboards (Reddit)
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs – It's Worth Revealing Oneself For
  • My Blog Now Has a Gemini Mirror (Reddit) - Rahul Juliato
• Emacs Carnival: Underappreciated Built-ins:
  • Even More Batteries Included With Emacs (Karthinks) (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • Yay Emacs 33: Sacha and Prot Talk Emacs: Built-ins (01:01:36)
  • Emacs carnival: rec mode, an all-text database system (lobste.rs)
• Other:
  • tanrax/emacs-gpu: GNU Emacs with a GPU-accelerated display backend · GitHub (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • Xah Talk Show Ep793. emacs, install Xah Fly Keys in WSL linux emacs (02:18:11)
  • Xah Talk Show Ep792. install emacs on wsl Windows Subsystem for Linux (01:47:31)
  • Sacha Chua: Yay Emacs 33: Sacha and Prot Talk Emacs: Built-ins (Prot)
  • Chris Maiorana: When tmux is your window manager (Irreal)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: master 1d91d9b717d: project-vc-dir: Use truenames - Dmitry Gutov - discussion of when to use symlinks and when to use truenames
    • Re: SDL terminal type - Lina - anyone interested in trying to port Emacs UI to SDL rendering?
  • Optional display of overlay-arrow in margin (bug#81109)
  • Revert "project-vc-dir: Use truenames"
  • Convert outline-search-function to defcustom
  • Add outline-search-from-regexp generic helper
  • 'work-buffer–release' kill locals silently and reset the buffer (bug#81111)
  • Set user options in file/directory locals like 'setopt-local' (bug#81120)
  • Add outline-show-entry-and-parents to reveal entry hierarchy
  • Mark vc-dir-show-outgoing-count obsolete
  • project-vc-dir: Use truenames
• New packages:
  • shexc-ts-mode: Tree-sitter major mode for ShExC (MELPA)
  • pure-light-theme: A light colored theme for e-ink color monitors (MELPA)
• Emacs updates:
  • Emacs 31.0.90 pretest packages for Fedora (Reddit)
  • Emacs 31.0.90 pretest packages for Android, via F-Droid (Reddit)
• Completion:

  [[https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsUnderstandingEmbark][Chris's Wiki

  blog/programming/EmacsUnderstandingEmbark]] (lobste.rs, lemmy.ml)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Bluesky #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!