The Navigation category has a couple of interesting window configuration tips this week in case you prefer to work with just one window or have multiple windows with some of them dedicated to specific buffers.

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/315859503/ Tue Aug 11 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Aug 11 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Aug 12 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 13 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Aug 14 1800 Europe/Paris
  • OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Aug 15 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sun Aug 16 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Aug 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Aug 22 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • How to learn Emacs, like, for real
  • Emacs for NvChads
  • Emacs for Life [Leanpub PDF/iPad/Kindle]​ ($20+)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs Package Management with package-quickstart - DEV Community (JP, @gemmaro)
  • Tip about setting file-precious-flag by location with my-maybe-mark-file-precious (@tennoseremel@gts.skobk.in)
  • Emacs Config Gems - Part 3 - Melpa, UI, help, and many more
  • Emacs Config Gems - Part 4 - recycle bin, frame size, backups, autosave, autorevert, recentf
  • User Interface to Computer Applications Demonstrated in GNU Emacs (02:09:31) also available as separate videos, see video description
  • Dotfiles Season 1 Episode 4: Emacs Configuration (14:31)
  • Rate my Emacs config! (Reddit)
  • myn-macs (MY miNimal eMACS IDE setup for the lazy terminal wizard) (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Charlie Holland: Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros (Reddit)
  • [ANN] TextUI is now public: responsive Flex/Grid layout for widget.el interfaces (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Display Active Clock in Emacs Frame Title (Irreal)
  • paniash/modus-vague: The vague theme for emacs, built on top of modus themes. · GitHub (@paniash@mas.to)
• Navigation:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: the ‘speedbar’ built-in file explorer (Emacs 31) (YouTube 15:40, Reddit, Reddit, Irreal)
  • Chris Maiorana: Using ffap to jump to file includes in Emacs (YouTube 07:04)
  • Raymond Zeitler: Dedicate an Emacs Window to Its Buffer
  • James Cherti: single-window.el – Always Open Emacs Buffers in the Current Active Window (GitHub, Reddit)
  • Srijan Choudhary: Emacs: desktop-save-mode without the automatic restore (Irreal)
  • My Emacs workflow with project.el and tab-bar.el project-x.el (30:39)
• TRAMP:
  • Runbox.el - for shell/compile/eglot over TRAMP in local buffers (emacs-tangents, Reddit, @cidra@mastodon.uno)
• Dired:
  • Dave's blog: Run the file in Emacs’ dired - path
  • dired-z: zoxide-style directory jumping inside Dired (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Efficient Note-taking in Emacs with Howm (@qnnnp)
  • Reversible transpose-chars and transpose-words, and a dwim that transposes around "and" or "or" (@jameshowell@fediscience.org)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: conditionally expand abbrev-mode definitions (YouTube 14:34, Reddit)
  • Using remark to strip words in backtick quotes before write-good analysis (@howard@pdx.social)
  • How Prot Organizes Knowledge, Projects, and Tasks in Emacs (37:53)
  • benleis1/wikimode · GitHub (YouTube, Reddit, @benleis@mathstodon.xyz) - navigate Markdown and Org files like a wiki
• Org Mode:
  • Reviewing finished tasks from last week in org-agenda and emacs (Irreal)
  • Read a .docx in Emacs with its tracked changes and comments intact, as org-mode (Reddit)
  • How to Generate PDFs from Org Mode using ox-odt (26:03)
  • rlridenour/ox-rlr-slipshow: Emacs Org mode exporter to create Slipshow Markdown files. · GitHub (@randyridenour@zirk.us)
  • Org development:
    • ox: New hook that runs after include keywords, but before macros/babel
    • org: Rename statistics scope options
• Coding:
  • Managing Changes with ediff — Alex Carney (@alcarney)
  • Tip about using diff-hl-set-reference-rev (@glyph)
  • [[https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsGitBlameOverTime][Chris's Wiki :: blog/programming/EmacsGitBlameOverTime]] (lobste.rs)
  • The Emacs Cat: Debugging in Emacs
  • Xah Talk Show Ep811. Emacs: CSS toggle px rem (30:21)
• Math:
  • r-ts-mode now on Melpa
• Shells:
  • Eshell shared history (Reddit)
  • Zoxide in eshell (Reddit)
• Web:
  • Andros Fenollosa: EWW, the Emacs browser you underestimate (HN)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • martianh/mastodon.el 2.1.0: collections (@mousebot@todon.nl)
• Evil mode:
  • Disable mouse drag selection in evil mode (@aud@fire.asta.lgbt)
• Multimedia:
  • Charles Choi: Announcing now-playing.el, an Emacs interface for the macOS Music app (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Replace YouTube captions from Emacs Lisp
• LLMs:
  • kriyative / elisp-agent · GitLab (@kriyative@functional.cafe)
  • blog.fidelramos.net – Supply-chain hygiene for Emacs: LLM review of package upgrades (ES)
  • AGENTS.md - discussion about whether to include AGENTS.md in Emacs source code (HN)
• Community:
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat avec Richard Bonichon en français (YouTube, 01:57:39)
• Other:
  • How to Count Words In Emacs (01:09)
  • Emacs Arbitrary Code Execution Returns (Reddit)
  • bible-gateway package update: touch-typing verse memorisation, reading plans, transient menu, and more (Reddit)
  • graph-fa2 0.2.3 now available on MELPA - graph visualization
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: [PATCH] emoji on TUI emacs - Stefan Monnier via Emacs development discussions. Possible workaround for different composition widths?
    • Re: Discussion about why GNU/Linux system upgrades cause old programs to break - Eli Zaretskii Issues with compiling older versions
  • Show-all values for speedbar user options for hiding
  • Add `outline-occur' command and `display-buffer-default-alist' variable
• New packages:
  • bitbucket-devops: Bitbucket Cloud DevOps workflows (MELPA)
  • denote-smart-sluggify-title: Denoise denote titles to save filename length (MELPA)
  • graph-fa2: ForceAtlas2 pure-elisp background-cached engine (MELPA)
  • pimacs: Emacs Client for Pi (MELPA)
  • ronny-theme: A dark colorscheme inspired by Monokai (MELPA)

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!