2025-02-17 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Feb 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 20 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Feb 22 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Feb 26 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 27 0130 Asia/Singapore
- Beginner:
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- Org Mode requests: [FR] org-read-date-style
- Recurring checklists using org mode in emacs (Reddit, HN)
- Irreal: Using Emacs For Research Notes
- New literature notes package (Reddit) - citar-org-mode
- Org dynamic block for calculating sprint points (@trevdev@fosstodon.org)
- Organizing my Emacs config with Org-Babel
- Import, export, and integration:
- (Released) Org-headline-card, convert org-mode headlines and their contents into beautiful visual cards. (Reddit)
- (Update) org-supertag: Enhanced the org-supertag-node-add-reference Command
- A Few More Thoughts on Literate Programming (2022, Reddit)
- Fizzbuzz battle: Orgmode versus THE REPL for lazy lisp series, an emacs story | by screwlisp | Feb, 2025 | Medium (@screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)
- how to blogpost directly from emacs | visd0m.dev (@screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org) - ox-hugo, GitHub actions
- Maintaining a youtube list as an org-table: yt-playlist
- org-reminders : An Emacs plugin for interacting between macOS Reminders and org mode.
- Show Emacs org-timer countdown in macOS menubar (@charlbotha.com)
- Comments via Mastodon (@noctuaminervae@toot.si) - and moderation in Org Mode
- Denote:
- Coding:
- My personal emacs slime useage examples | by screwlisp | Feb, 2025 | Medium (@screwlisp@me.dm)
- VHDL-LS toml generator (Reddit)
- Demo of how to set up Emacs dap-mode for Swift debugging
- Emacs Major Modes for Power BI · A #dataOp ramblings
- Norm: XPath server
- Magit now natively supports adding icons in the status buffer
- On Jujutsu and Magit · Antoine Martin (lobste.rs)
- Mail, news, and chat:
- Spacemacs:
- Doom Emacs:
- AI:
- writing elisp with ellama (Reddit)
- Ollama Buddy Updates! - Individual models can be assigned to individual commands + more!
- Aidermacs: Aider AI Pair Programming in Emacs (Reddit)
- Copilot-chat v2 is here
- gptel-fn-complete.el (formerly gptel-manual-complete) updates
- Using ChatGPT via gptel to make my Emacs nutrition tracker smarter (05:58)
- Emacs Lisp Live Code | quick gemini API integrration (35:58)
- Community:
- TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: More Emacs would be nice, but… (Irreal, follow-up)
- A veces todo nos lleva a Emacs y por qué adoro el blog de Irreal (@maxxcan@mastodon.social)
- Live Interview With Kent Pitman Recorded! - screwlisp - Medium (@screwlisp@me.dm) - Emacs history
- Глупая война между Vim и GNU Emacs (22:46)
- Other:
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
- #76120 - [PATCH] Expose the native sharing dialog (macOS) - GNU bug report logs - Philosophical considerations regarding proprietary OS features
- Notes on process for getting FTP access to upload Emacs binaries
- Re: igc: Info manual for MemoryPoolSystem - kludge for easy access to local info
- Make the rx `eval` form use lexical binding when active
- vc-revert-file: Support reverting directories
- Add mhtml-ts-mode.
- New functions oddp and evenp
- completing-read-multiple: CRM indication and prompt customization
- (smerge-refine-exchange-point): New command
- Teach gnus/message about international Re: variants
- Bind sieve-refresh-scriptlist to 'g' in sieve-mode
- Add optional PREDICATE argument to read-directory-name
- Change the project-switch-project prompt to include the dir name
- New command project-find-matching-file
- Mark package-x.el as obsolete
- Add go-work-ts-mode for Go workspace files
- image-dired: Add extra keybinds for navigation
- Eliminate bookmark-maybe-historicize-string duplicates
- Don't warn for packages without a footer line
- Set process-adaptive-read-buffering to nil by default
- emacs-devel:
- New packages:
- hatty: Query positions through hats (MELPA)
- ob-pic: Org babel functions for pic language (MELPA)
- org-gnosis: Roam-like Knowledge Management System (GNU ELPA)
- package-x: Package extras (GNU ELPA)
- perl-ts-mode: Another Major mode for Perl (MELPA)
- radio: Listen to Internet radio (NonGNU ELPA)
- sideline-eglot: Show eglot information with sideline (MELPA)
- treesit-fold: Code folding using treesit (NonGNU ELPA)
- typst-ts-mode: Tree Sitter support for Typst (NonGNU ELPA)
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