• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Mar 19 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 20 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Mar 22 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/306610734/ Sat Mar 22 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Mar 26 1030 America/Vancouver - 1230 America/Chicago - 1330 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 27 0130 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs 30:
  • emacs-mac v30 experimental build: seeking experienced contributors/testers
  • emacs-30.1-on-android-termux-vs-android-linux-terminal.txt — paste.sr.ht (@gnomon@mastodon.social)
  • Emacs 30 Now On Android - fossHQ
  • EmacsWiki: Emacs On Android
• Beginner:
  • Editing Files with Emacs (11:29)
  • GNU Emacs má 40 let (Tomáš Čech) (23:23)
  • Emacs என்பது யாதெனில் - அத்தியாயம் ஒன்று - Sakhil (01:00:55)
• Emacs configuration:
  • inhibit-mouse.el - A package for disabling the mouse in Emacs (Release: 1.0.1) (Reddit)
  • Dotfiles Check-Up: Emacs and Guix Tweaks - System Crafters Live! (01:38:38)
  • sss config: everfrost theme support (@sss_project@mastodon.social)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • New package raq.el: HTTP Library Adapter for Emacs, suport url.el and plz.el, and can be extended. (Reddit)
  • compile-angel - Ensure all Elisp files are both Byte and Native-Compiled (Alternative to: auto-compile) - Release 1.0.6 (Reddit)
  • tip about get-mru-window (most recently used)
  • Some problems of modernizing Emacs (incomplete - slides 0 to 6 only) (20:39)
• Appearance:
  • Tip about using consult-theme from the consult package to preview themes quickly
  • Announcing Calle 24 (Reddit, Irreal) - substitutes the default tool bar icons with those from SF Symbols, a library of images provided by Apple
  • tomorrow-night-deepblue-theme (Release 1.2.1): A deep blue Emacs theme, inspired by the Tomorrow Night theme
  • My Unique Emacs Theme Pack – Now Available for Download! (Reddit) - screenshots are in the Details heading
• Navigation:
  • Noether: global minor mode managing user-defined posframe Views (Reddit)
  • easysession.el 1.1.3: Persist and restore Emacs sessions including frames, tab-bar, buffers, indirect buffers, Dired, and window splits (Reddit)
  • The Emacs recursive narrow package #coding #programming (02:41)
  • A tutorial on 2 Columns in Emacs #emacs #coding #programming (11:32)
• Writing:
  • Hugo-Heagren/clever-cite: format quoted text as you kill/yank between buffers (@HugoHeagren@scholar.social)
  • quick-sdcv.el (Release 1.0.1): Turn Emacs into an offline dictionary with sdcv (Reddit)
  • Editing Overleaf Documents with Emacs | Valentin Boettcher (Reddit) - nice! live editing, might be useful for collaboration too
  • Chung-hong Chan: Miscellaneous talk #45 Quarto guy, Overleaf’s markdown mode?, Flymake, Mailing lists, CRAN - ESS also
  • Wherein I Explain Why Emacs Is The Best Tool For WordPress (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Meet Harper | A Grammarly Alternative for Neovim | Emacs, Obsidian, Zed, VScode and Helix (deez) (21:16)
• Org Mode:
  • Using Emacs Org mode to manage my appointments
  • Calendar.org (Reddit)
  • Org-anizing My Fragrance Collection with Emacs – literatelisp.eu (@theesm@social.tchncs.de)
  • Sacha Chua: Remove open Org Mode clock entries
  • a template for writing OWL ontologies as Org Mode documents, with supporting functions and scripts
  • org-expose-emphasis-markers: A new package used to automatically show hidden emphasis markers at point in org mode when `org-hide-emphasis-markers` is on. (Reddit)
  • Seam: personal wiki system based on Org mode (@spnw@gts.plexwave.org)
  • Using an Org-mode README on SourceHut (@tiang@mastodon.social)
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Denote is becoming many packages
• Coding:
  • using hideshow minor mode in all programming modes so you can toggle code sections (@dotemacs@mastodon.xyz)
  • Announcing Casual Make (Reddit, Irreal)
  • eglot-inactive-regions - eglot extension to dim inactive preprocessor branches - release: 0.6.4 (Reddit)
  • I found an easy way to make code comments appear in other mode's syntax
  • A story of mystery involving LS, clangd and a very easy fix
  • flymake-bashate.el (1.0.2) - A Flymake backend for bashate: Real-time style checking for Bash shell scripts
  • Bozhidar Batsov: neocaml: a new Emacs package for OCaml programming
  • swyddfa/esbonio.el: Integrating the esbonio language server into Emacs (@alcarney@fosstodon.org)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • twtxt.el updates: notifications, user interface, fixes (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• AI:
  • gptel 0.9.8 released (tool-use, support for "reasoning" output, dry-run options and more) (Reddit)
  • gptel-aibo update: new complete at point
  • GitHub - rajp152k/fabric-gpt.el: Fabric Prompts for emacs gpt.el
  • Aidermacs v1.0 Released. Available Now on Melpa and Non-GNU Elpa! (Reddit) (also 0.5.0 discussion)
  • James Dyer: Ollama-Buddy 0.8.0 - Added System Prompts, Model Info and simpler menu model assignment
  • James Dyer: Ollama-Buddy 0.7.1 - Org-mode Chat, Parameter Control and JSON Debugging
  • claude-code.el (Reddit)
  • lizqwerscott/mcp.el: An Mcp client inside Emacs (Reddit) - model context protocol servers
  • Introducing forge-llm: Generate PR descriptions automatically with LLMs in Emacs Forge
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-03-11 / week 10
  • Eric MacAdie: 2025-03 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • Irreal: From Neovim to Emacs
• Other:
  • Bible Verse of the Day as Emacs dashboard footer
  • gtd-E: new GTD app (Reddit)
  • SYD-EMACS(1): sandboxed editor environments (@alip@mastodon.online)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Improving the Tools menu
    • Re: Semantic: update or remove?
      • Re: Semantic: update or remove? - more thoughts on tree-sitter and the Emacs ecosystem
    • Re: Markers in a gap array - sorted array with gap
  • Make marking conflicted files as resolved upon saving opt-out
  • ; Add NEWS entry for java-ts-mode-method-chaining-indent-offset
  • ; etc/NEWS (remember-prefix-map): Suggest a key reserved to users.
  • New project-save-some-buffers command
  • Add a new command `speedbar-window'.
  • dired-copy-filename-as-kill: Support project-relative names
  • Make turn-on-flyspell/turn-off-flyspell obsolete
  • Improve tramp-*-with-sudo commands
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce the larger number of sub-processes on w32.
  • New configure option –with-systemduserunitdir
  • Allow control of indicating empty rectangular selections
  • Turn 'remember-mode' into a minor mode
  • diff-apply-buffer now considers the region and can reverse-apply.
  • Fix capitalization ELisp -> Elisp
  • Automatically document when setopt is needed
  • New user option follow-mode-prefix-key
  • Remove variable aliases obsolete since Emacs 23.2
  • New user variable `exchange-point-and-mark-highlight-region`
• New packages:
  • aider: Interact with Aider: AI pair programming made simple (MELPA)
  • company-forge: Company backend for assignees and topics from forge (MELPA)
  • denote-journal: Convenience functions for daily journaling with Denote (GNU ELPA)
  • denote-markdown: Extensions that better integrate Denote with Markdown (GNU ELPA)
  • denote-org: Denote extensions for Org mode (GNU ELPA)
  • denote-sequence: Sequence notes or Folgezettel with Denote (GNU ELPA)
  • denote-silo: Convenience functions for using Denote in multiple silos (GNU ELPA)
  • indexed: Cache metadata on all Org files (MELPA)
  • jira: Emacs Interface to Jira (MELPA)
  • ob-aider: Org Babel functions for Aider.el integration (MELPA)
  • org-expose-emphasis-markers: Automatically show hidden org emphasis markers (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, 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!

• Emacs 30:
  • How to Get Started with Emacs 30.1 on Linux (@derdreschi85@mastodon.social)
  • GNU Emacs 30.1 läuft auf Android (@hgdrn@nrw.social)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #3 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/333236a9-d51f-4646-9630-4d42a820f1f0 Tue Mar 11 1900 CET
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Mar 14 1800 Europe/Paris
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Mar 19 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 20 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Mar 22 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore announcement
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/306610734/ Sat Mar 22 1100 America/Los_Angeles
• Upcoming events:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Live @ 2025-03-15, 14:00 Europe/Athens: ‘Ask Me Anything’ about Emacs, Linux, and Life in general
• Emacs configuration:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Persisting variables across Emacs sessions revisited
  • Building Your First Emacs Config | Sophie Bosio (@bignose@fosstodon.org)
  • minimal-emacs.d - A Customizable Emacs init.el and early-init.el that Provides Better Defaults and Optimized Startup (Release 1.2.0) (Reddit)
  • peregrinator's literate Emacs configuration
  • my auto-bootstrapping emacs config, powered by straight.el
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Grant Rettke: Refactoring a Simple Example of Simultanously User-Friendly and Debuggable Code
  • el-job: An async library for some high-performance needs (Reddit)
  • How to extract the Filename from an Emacs buffer and include it in a Yasnippet (06:10)
• Appearance:
  • Charles Choi: Announcing Calle 24 - use SF Symbols for icon bar
  • Installing color scheme in Emacs (06:27)
• Navigation:
  • Navigating between points with registers
  • Better registers in Emacs #coding #programming #emacswiki (06:17)
  • Nested projects in Eglot (@donaldh@hachyderm.io) - project-rootfile-try-detect
  • [Release v2.0.0] Disproject: Dispatch project commands with Transient
• Dired:
  • Jack Baty: Toggle hidden files in Dired buffers
  • Marcin Borkowski: Applying some modification to selected files in a directory
• Org Mode:
  • Collecting and Categorizing Web Links in Org-mode | Plain DrOps (@spacecadet@masto.plaindrops.de)
  • (Update) org-supertag 2.5: A new way think about Tag system (r/emacs, r/orgmode)
  • Thanos Apollo: Emacs Note Taking & Journaling using org-gnosis [Video]​ (YouTube)
  • Sacha Chua: Getting an Org link URL from a string; debugging regex groups
  • My First Emacs Lisp Code - org-create-and-open-file-link
  • The Emacs Cat: Using Emacs Org Mode for Reproducibility Testing
  • Loving Emacs Writing Studio (Irreal)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • My static website is generated from Org Mode, and I'm quite pleased with how it turned out
    • /home/lucio.albenga.es - Como crear y publicar tu sitio web con Emacs y Org Mode (@victorhck@mastodon.social)
    • one.el - static site generator for Emacs Lisp programmers (HN)
    • org-embd: An Emacs package for embedding various content in Org-mode (Reddit)
    • (update) org-zettel-ref-mode 0.5.4: Improved highlight mechanism and Improved sorting functionality
    • chenyanming/paw_org_protocol: Emacs Org Protocol Factory (Reddit)
• Denote:
  • Jack Baty: Denote and Howm, sitting in a tree
  • Jack Baty: Denote-search, a simple search utility for Denote
  • Emulating Howm Notes with Denote and Consult - System Crafters Live! (01:39:32)
  • Blogging using Denote and Hugo (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Amit Patel: Emacs Tree-sitter custom highlighting, part 2
  • Amit Patel: Emacs Tree-sitter custom highlighting, part 3
  • Andrey Listopadov: Dynamic font-lock for Fennel
  • Erlang shell in Emacs (01:19)
• Math:
  • esquellington/LatexInComments: Emacs package to render LaTeX math blocks in code comments as overlays (@ocivitf@mastodon.gamedev.place)
• Shells:
  • Mickey Petersen: Replacing tmux and GNU screen with Emacs (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Jack Baty: Using Gnus for email
  • seanfarley/message-view-patch: Colorize patch emails in mu4e and gnus (@csantosb@sigmoid.social)
  • Irreal: The Power Of Elfeed
  • twtxt.el update: threads, long feeds, fixes (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Evil mode:
  • Much Ado about Emacs 008 - Bicycle For Your Mind - evil-mode, general
• EXWM:
  • gemini://sdf.org/sinza/log/20250304-still-happy-with-emacs.gmi - Emacs, Debian, and Exwm (@sinza@bitbang.social)
  • Emacs, czyli edytor tak wszechstronny, że może zostać Window Managerem - „Hakki” | JL 2024 (24:23)
• AI:
  • DeepSeek, Open Router, Kagi, and Perplexity now supported by chatgpt-shell (Reddit)
  • Speaking to Claude via Whisper and asking it to write an Emacs function (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Ollama-Buddy V0.5.1 - Session/History/Role Management, Real-Time Token Tracking and More!
  • Alvaro Ramirez: DeepSeek, Open Router, Kagi, and Perplexity join the chat
  • demajh/emacs_ai_extensions: AI extensions for Emacs. (Reddit)
  • What AI chat I currently use in emacs (05:13)
  • Aidermacs in Action: Emacs AI Pair Programming w/ Aider & Ediff (02:11, Reddit)
• Community:
  • How I use Emacs
• Other:
  • Jack Baty: I went a little nuts with Remember mode in Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • The role of the Escape key in Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Irreal: Is Emacs Privacy Friendly?
  • janestreet/ecaml: Writing Emacs plugin in OCaml (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • Solved! Terminal Emacs screen tearing/corruption with Unicode characters | Adam Compton
  • Plain Text Supremacy With Emacs (02:46) - Download a transcript from youtube and transform it using jq
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • What Questions are Worth Asking Emacs-Newcomers?
    • File sharing (macOS and GNU/Linux) - continued discussion
    • context-menu-mode and S-<down-mouse-1>
    • Re: master 02681b0fbf0 1/2: Don't claim that xftfont is being considered - Xft vs Cairo
    • Re: master a5f8ce9f1ea: Re-port to 32-bit systems without alignment prim - Restoring Sun C 5.8 support?
    • Re: alert.el status? - Help wanted to get alert.el working with Android
    • Treesit ranges and embedding for GNU LilyPond - starting work on treesit-based major mode for LilyPond, Scheme-related challenges
  • Make second arg to defvar-local optional
  • Restore find-function-mode-map (bug#76700)
  • Allow changing theme settings without reloading it
  • VC: New hook to strip CVS template lines when committing
  • Let repeated windmove override motion restrictions interactively
  • Add static-when, static-unless like static-if
  • mouse-face properties on tab-bar tab captions (bug#76394)
  • Add shell-mode bookmark support for local and remote shells (bug#65039)
  • Add new user option to exclude projects from being remembered
  • New user option checkdoc-arguments-missing-flag
  • Make byte-compile-cond-use-jump-table obsolete
  • Add ns-click-through option to control activation click handling
  • Don't accept strings in package-(install|upgrade)
• New packages:
  • aidermacs: AI pair programming with Aider (MELPA)
  • amber-glow-theme: A warm and inviting theme (MELPA)
  • berry-theme: A vibrant berry-colored theme (MELPA)
  • bilibili: Watch videos of BiliBili (哔哩哔哩) in org mode (MELPA)
  • c2-mode: Major mode for C2 programming language (MELPA)
  • calle24: Emacs Toolbar Support for SF Symbols (MELPA)
  • cond-star: Extended form of `cond' construct (GNU ELPA)
  • denote-journal-capture: Better Integration for Denote Journal and Org Capture (MELPA)
  • denote-project-notes: Link Denote notes to a project (MELPA)
  • ember-twilight-theme: Ember Twilight theme (MELPA)
  • gnome-dark-style: Sync theme with GNOME color-scheme (GNU ELPA)
  • marron-gold-theme: A rich marron-gold theme (MELPA)
  • noether: A modeline which plays hide and seek (MELPA)
  • ox-beamer-lecture: Beamer Lecture Back-End for Org Export Engine (MELPA)
  • roseline-theme: Roseline theme (MELPA)
  • sexy-theme: Sexy color theme (MELPA)
  • sixcolors-theme: Just another theme (MELPA)
  • solarized-gruvbox-theme: Solarized Gruvbox theme (MELPA)
  • spider-man-theme: A Vibrant Spider-Man Inspired Theme (MELPA)
  • thankful-eyes-theme: Theme for color blindness and visual impairments (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, 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!

• Emacs 30:
  • Emacs 30 Now On Android (12:19)
  • GNU Emacs 30.1 Released With Android Support, Emacs Lisp Native Compiler By Default (Reddit)
  • Irreal: Emacs 30.1 Update
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/306023632/ Wed Mar 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Thu Mar 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Mar 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Mar 8 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #3 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/333236a9-d51f-4646-9630-4d42a820f1f0 Tue Mar 11 1900 CET
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Mar 14 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • [ANN] "bray" lightweight modal editing now available on MELPA (Reddit)
  • My Emacs Config (Irreal)
  • SSS - Supreme Sexp System v1.3.7 - upgraded to Emacs 30 💜 - loving what a beautiful piece of software Emacs has become - and it is a big part of my Lisp machine of 2025
  • Rewriting My Emacs Config [Tamil]​ (01:07:07)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs Redux: Debugging Errors in Emacs (Irreal)
  • Eric MacAdie: I Made An Emacs Package - using the elisp repo kit (erk) to make a package that works with numbers and strings
  • C-c-c-conjecturing, and dealing with recursion in Emacs, practical evolutions of different methods with long-tailed operations (Reddit)
  • Xah Talk Show 2025-02-26 Ep620 emacs lisp coding (25:06)
• Appearance:
  • Peter J. Jones: Automatic Theme Switching in Emacs
  • minor mode for hiding redundant punctuation
  • Toggling symbol highlighting in Emacs with unique colors for each symbol using built-in functions (Reddit)
  • Emacs: Highlighting Codetags Like TODO, FIXME, BUG, NOTE… (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Amit Patel: Emacs Tree-sitter custom highlighting, part 1 (HN, lobste.rs)
  • The Golden Ratio Package in Emacs (06:51)
  • tanrax/thankful-eyes-theme.el: Emacs theme with a contrast ready for colour blind or visually impaired people. (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Navigation:
  • Christian Tietze: Preview Mass Text Replacements with Emacs 30.1 replace-regexp-as-diff
  • touchpad-scroll-mode - Smooth momentum-based scrolling (Reddit)
  • The winnow package: Separating the grain from the chaff #emacs #coding (03:20) - winnow results from compilation/grep
• Dired:
  • Workaround fix for dired-movement-style bug https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=76596 · GitHub (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
• Org Mode:
  • Creating healthier habits finally worked out (@anonimno@social.tchncs.de)
  • Review template for Performance Evaluation (template in German) (@anonimno@social.tchncs.de)
  • org-mode: expand item in current agenda view
  • Org mode capture template for creating Howm TODOs - Baty.net (@jbaty@social.lol)
  • One-Octet: Org-mode: Petites astuces vol 1
  • Who needs Obsidian when you have Emacs and Org in Android
  • shg/org-inline-anim.el: Inline playback of animated GIF/PNG for Org
  • (Update) org-supertag 2.5: A new way think about Tag system (Reddit)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Sacha Chua: Working with smaller chunks of thoughts; adding anchors to paragraphs in Org Mode HTML export
    • Blogging using Emacs Org Roam and Hugo
    • Grant Rettke: Org2Blog v1.1.(14-18) Updates Overview (Reddit)
    • orgmode-to-gemini-blog: Génération de capsules gemini et blog html à partir d'articles en fichiers Orgmode. - orgmode-to-gemini-blog - La forge Chapril
  • Why and How I use "Org Mode" for my writing and more (2022, HN, Irreal, previously on HN)
  • Org development:
    • ox-latex: Export PDF metadata using hyperref according to org-export-with-…
    • Respect `org-file-link-type' in `yank-media' and DND handlers
    • ox-latex: Improve handling of unnumbered sections in TOC
    • org-store-link: Do not query about store function when INTERACTIVE? is nil
• Completion:
  • corfu + completion-preview-mode
  • Comparison of vertico, ivy, consult, counsel, marginalia, ivy-rich, embark, ivy-occur
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Jeremy Friesen: Reorganizing My RSS Feed Reading - sort Org entries by elfeed tag priority, filter
  • mastodon.el 1.1.11: mastodon-view, alerts, fixes
  • twtxt update - Markdown to Org, centred column, new logo, text helper (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Multimedia:
  • Watch YouTube With Emacs Elfeed and GNU EMMS | bardman's website (@hispaemacs@fosstodon.org)
• AI:
  • James Dyer: Ollama Buddy - Now On MELPA! (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Ollama Buddy Version 0.2.1 - Same prompt to multiple LLMs and choose best answer!
• Community:
  • Bi-Weekly Tips, Tricks, etc. Thread — 2025-02-26 / week 08 - org sorting, eww-pdf-next/prev-page, stretching
  • Nominate Side-Bar Link Updates! - Reddit
  • My 10 Years with Emacs | Plain DrOps (@spacecadet@masto.plaindrops.de)
  • Oh man, I wish abo-abo would actively maintain ivy again. ivy/abo-abo appreciation thread
• Other:
  • Emacs no tiene curva de aprendizaje (@maxxcan@mastodon.social)
  • CVE: Emacs: shell injection vulnerability in gnu emacs via custom "man" uri scheme (@LorenzoAncora@ieji.de)
  • theesm/pandoc-convert.el: Convert buffers from one format to another using pandoc. - Codeberg.org (@theesm@social.tchncs.de)
  • theesm/confluence-tools.el: A collection of my personal tools for an emacs-centric confluence workflow (@theesm@social.tchncs.de)
  • The role of the Escape key in Emacs (Reddit)
  • mostlymaths.net | SyncTeX and pdf-view-mode for emacs
  • Use whisper(voice) in emacs!
  • Emacs frames are not coming into the foreground on macOS - dolzhenko.me (@dsdolzhenko@fosstodon.org)
  • James Dyer: Installing Emacs 30.1 On Arch and SUSE
  • My Microjournal Rev.2.ReVamp (r/emacs)
• Emacs development (including last week's commits):
  • Add auto-margin enable/disable to term
  • New commands to convert ASCII to fullwidth characters and back
  • Mark echistory.el as obsolete
  • Provide tool-tip display delays on TTY frames
  • Save IELM input history on "C-c C-c"
  • Read GUI events from non-main Lisp threads on Android
  • Make 'completion-preview-sort-function' a defcustom
  • Add :continue-only directive to bind-keys and use-package
  • Add tramp-cleanup-bufferless-connections (bug#76417)
  • Make cl-gensym obsolete in favor of built-in gensym
  • Add Obsolete-since header to hashcash.el
  • Drop hashcash support from Gnus and Message mode
  • Make cl-declare obsolete
  • Move buffer related functions from ert-x.el to ert.el
  • Optionally have 'display-buffer' reuse windows of indirect buffers
  • Mark cdl.el as obsolete
  • Optionally inhibit implied resizing while frame is made (Bug#76275)
  • Implement new user option 'quit-window-kill-buffer' (Bug#76248)
  • Mark kermit.el as obsolete
  • New macros incf and decf
  • Make 'text-property-default-nonsticky' buffer-local when set
  • Merge branch 'master' of git.savannah.gnu.org:/srv/git/emacs
  • recentf.el: Add verbosity option
  • define-ibuffer-op opstring active-opstring functions (bug#76222)
  • Make yank-media auto select the best mime type
  • New user option checkdoc-allow-quoting-nil-and-t
  • New variable 'treesit-aggregated-outline-predicate' (bug#76398)
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce MS-DOS updates.
  • 'strokes-mode' no longer demands the presence of a mouse
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Move cl-lib related entries to proper section.
  • Make cl-locally obsolete
  • Add markdown-ts-mode
  • (lexical-binding): Allow changing the default value (bug#74145)
  • Add MPD stats viewer to 'mpc' (Bug#76350)
  • New functions plusp and minusp
  • Rename treesit-add-simple-indent-rules
  • Rename treesit-simple-indent-modify-rules and fix docstring
  • Make the rx `eval` form use lexical binding when active
• New packages:
  • consult-gh-with-pr-review: "pr-review" Integration for consult-gh (MELPA)
  • denote-search: Search the contents of your notes (GNU ELPA)
  • mode-line-keyboard: Keyboard in mode line for touch screens (MELPA)
  • org-daily-reflection: Concurrent display of org(-roam) dailies (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Bluesky #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, communick.news, 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!

• Emacs 30:
  • Emacs 30.1 released (Reddit, lobste.rs, HN, lemmy.ml, Irreal, LWN)
  • Emacs 30.1 RC1 is available (Reddit, Irreal, lemmy.ml)
  • What's New in Emacs 30.1? (Reddit, HN)
  • J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: Emacs 30.1 released including which-key
  • Tim Heaney: Emacs 30
  • What's New in Emacs? (Feb 2025) - System Crafters Live! (01:47:02)
  • Rahul Juliato: Compiling Emacs 30.1 from the source on Debian
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • 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
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/306023632/ Wed Mar 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Thu Mar 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Mar 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Mar 8 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Emacs From Scratch Tamil [ep1]​ (01:28:42)
• Emacs configuration:
  • vifon/lazy-guard: Emacs config validator - Codeberg.org
  • Using same .emac.d/ on different hosts: Recipe for gitignoring ignore potentially host-specific files
• Emacs Lisp:
  • What you need to know about variables in Emacs
  • Emacs Skeletons: The Missing Manual - EINVAL: Valid solutions for invalid problems
  • Benjamin Slade: C-c-c-conjecturing, and dealing with recursion in Emacs (more excursus)
  • Lambda Calculus and Lisp, part 2 (recursion excursion) (Reddit)
  • Introduzione al Emacs Lisp
• Appearance:
  • Making tab line tabs pretty
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: fontaine version 3.0.0
  • I made my Emacs look like Vscode and now I feel like a sinner (Reddit)
  • Ruslan Bekenev: Emacs: glasses-mode (Irreal)
  • Re: Structured color specifications to simplify color themes (was: [elpa - emacs-devel discussion, Prot will work on stuff
• Navigation:
  • Peter Povinec: Speed Dialing Your Favorite Files (Reddit)
  • Emacs: ediff basics
  • (Released) float-narrow-indirect, provides floating window support for narrow-indirect operations (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: dired-preview version 0.4.0 (lemmy.ml)
• Writing:
  • Charles Choi: macOS Native Emoji Picking in Emacs from the Edit Menu (Irreal)
  • Cognitive joy tooling #3: Closing the creation-application gap of my knowledge base using auto-segmentation, colors, and semantic search | lgmoneda (@brunoarine@hachyderm.io)
• Org Mode:
  • ASCII Line Art with Orgmode and Python (@petervennemann@nrw.social)
  • ASCII Line Art with Orgmode and SvgBob (@petervennemann@nrw.social)
  • Migrando mi sistema de notas a Emacs | ~/srmorita (@srmorita@rebel.ar)
  • Comprehensive 12 Part Org-Agenda Course in One #emacs #coding #scheduling #org (01:34:06)
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] org-read-date-style
  • Import, export, and intogration:
    • The auto-org-md package #org #markdown #coding #programming #emacs (01:03)
    • Blogging with Emacs, Hugo, and Github Pages (03:41)
    • (Release) Chrome version of Copy as Org-mode (Reddit)
    • Matt Maguire: Org Mode Beamer Presentations
    • Use org-download to download image links in an org-mode file.
    • Bookmarklets (and Custom URL Schemes) Are Criminally Underrated | silly business - note that the current org-protocol documentation is at Protocols (The Org Manual)
• Completion:
  • The M-x menu is probably the least talked about feature of Emacs.
  • Emacs Counsel M X Is A Bloody Good Way To Find Commands 2025_02_23_16:29:00 (07:00)
  • Simple Functions for Making Hippie-Expand More Intuitive to Use
• Coding:
  • which language is one for which emacs is godly at?
  • herbertjones/nushell-ts-mode (@nnungest@fosstodon.org)
  • Release CIDER 1.17 ("Cologne") · clojure-emacs/cider · GitHub (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • Scala Development with Emacs (Reddit)
  • New release for ts-fold and treesit-fold
  • Norm: XPath server 0.0.2
  • James Dyer: Why I Switched from Magit to VC-Mode (and How It Works for Me) (Irreal)
• Shells:
  • Made a start on a little elisp to open a Kitty terminal and execute the program from the current buffer.
• Web:
  • Want to post code on a web page? Here's a cute snippet to quickly "entitify" it.
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: HTML, but not too HTML (Irreal)
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Inserting Images Automatically in ewp - Wordpress
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • I think I have to go back to Mu4e - Baty.net (@jbaty@social.lol)
  • Turning Markdown files into emails - Baty.net
• Multimedia:
  • Watch YouTube with Emacs Elfeed and GNU EMMS (01:20)
• Fun:
  • Bad Apple! Played In Emacs (03:43)
• AI:
  • Tool Use + Translation RAG in Emacs Using GPTel and a Super Crappy LLM (Reddit)
  • gptel-aibo updates
  • RAGmacs - Pt. 2: Re-Tooling Emacs With GPTel (09:32)
  • Vibe coding in Emacs (13:12)
  • The ChatGPT Shell Package #emacs #ai #coding #programming #openai #llama (08:25)
• Community:
  • What Questions are Worth Asking Emacs-Newcomers?
  • "I would be SO happy to kick emacs to the kerb!" (Reddit) - unhappiness about performance; profiling tips in comments
• Other:
  • advanced emacs: revert-buffer-function (03:57)
  • buffer-terminator (Release 1.1.1): Automatically terminate unused buffers to enhance Emacs' performance by reducing open buffers, thereby minimizing active modes, timers, processes… (r/emacs, r/planetemacs)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Inserting Ledger transactions even faster
  • Emacs Application Framework - This is amazing!
  • Emacs Athena on OpenBSD (@mostlypat@mastodon.sdf.org)
  • Использование Emacs под Windows (@zeppelin@lor.sh)
• Emacs development: (savannah.gnu.org is down for me right now, so no updates)
• New packages:
  • bray: Lightweight modal editing (MELPA)
  • denote-agenda: Integrate Denote and Org-Agenda (MELPA)
  • gptel-aibo: An AI Writing Assistant (MELPA)
  • gptel-fn-complete: Complete the function at point using gptel (MELPA)
  • lithium: Lightweight modal interfaces (MELPA)
  • ollama-buddy: Ollama Buddy: Your Friendly AI Assistant (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Bluesky #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, communick.news, 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!

• 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:
  • Lesson on Controlling Emacs Windows (Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Etenil/emacs-substrate: Bare-bones emacs configuration starter (@etenil@toot.cat)
  • viglioni/lauremacs at new-lauremacs (@laura.viglioni.com)
  • orzechowskid/duomacs at next (@danorz.com)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Irreal: Elisp Abstraction
  • Xah Talk Show 2025-02-16 Ep614 emacs lisp coding, keyword parameters (01:01:10)
• Appearance:
  • Mark Tomczak: Unstick Terminals in Emacs
  • Emacs Redux: Customizing Color Themes
  • Anand Tamariya: Emacs Font is wider
  • I have created some Emacs themes and would love your feedback to finalize and submit them. Your critique on which looks good would be highly appreciated.
• Navigation:
  • Marcin Borkowski: isearch-forward-thing-at-point (Irreal)
  • Composiphrase: Composable editing language like Vim, but moreso (@willghatch@mastodon.social)
  • An emacs macro to transform DTOs (@chamook@hachyderm.io)
  • Projectile 2.9 released! (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Introduction to Emacs Writing Studio - YouTube (@danderzei@aus.social)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] org-read-date-style
  • Recurring checklists using org mode in emacs (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
  • 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:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: I am in the process of splitting Denote into many packages
• 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:
  • twtxt.el update: viewing profiles
• Spacemacs:
  • Is spacemacs the best emacs distro? (25:57)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Installing Doom Emacs on Windows #emacs #doomemacs #keybinds (10:29)
• 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:
  • Arthur A. Gleckler: LLM Unlock - using pass to store secrets
  • calibredb.el new update: support folder metadata
  • Inferior lisp emacs unicode lookup. EDIT: I GOT LEARNED SOME EMACS | by screwlisp | Feb, 2025 | Medium (@screwlisp@me.dm)
  • guile on emacs+termux fails to run. this was my solution - Brasil
• 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
• 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)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Bluesky #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, communick.news, 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!

• Help wanted:
  • Looking for testers: Nix (Flakes) integration for Eshell (Github)
  • Re: Status of xwidgets support
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #2 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/36aa7507-8a4f-4ab4-bd1f-fa12b5d1accb Tue Feb 11 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Feb 12 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 13 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Feb 14 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/306101614/ Sat Feb 15 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • 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
• Beginner:
  • Tool Time Session 1: Emacs Basics (2020, Reddit)
  • Emacs Tamil Introduction (01:21:28)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Rebuilding my Emacs setup and some beginner tips (04:03:17)
  • Location-Based Themes in Emacs | Epsilon Clue (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Running one own's commands
  • Hydrogen Framework for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Elpaca Updates
  • Development Environments With Emacs, Nix, and Direnv | tdback.net (@tdback@social.tdback.net)
  • Personalizando Emacs - iAgosto Blog (@agosto182@mast.lat)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • A Beginner's Guide to Extending Emacs (implementing a completion backend for reStructuredText) (Reddit)
  • Elisp Cheatsheet for Python Programmers (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Introduzione al Emacs Lisp (32:51, @nfvblog@mastodon.cloud)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Redux: Clean Unloading of Emacs Themes (Irreal)
  • NANO Emacs, minimal version in 256 lines (Reddit)
  • kickingvegas/calle24: Calle 24 - Proxy Emacs image assets with SF Symbols (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
• Navigation:
  • Quickly delete all lines containing a string #emacs #coding #programming (02:47)
  • Meta Redux: Projectile Introduces Significant Caching Improvements (Reddit, Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • One and a half-hour advanced course on Org Mode (8 videos in one) #emacs #orgmode #org (01:32:15)
  • Interaktive Berechnungs-Formulare mit Org-Mode und Python (@petervennemann@nrw.social)
  • Emacs org-modeを使ったタスク管理一例(2025年) | DevelopersIO (@dev_classmethod@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com)
  • Programación literaria en Emacs. 2ª Parte. (@maxxcan@mastodon.social)
  • howm meets org-drill: Note-taking tool with flashcards combined (HN)
  • Follow up on emails with mu4e and org capture
  • auto latest commits in org files · GitHub (@DarkBuffalo@mastodon.social)
  • My edited org-habit module (Reddit) - uses glyphs
  • (Update) org-supertag 2.2.9: Added Tag Content Viewer (Github) also, nested tags
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Chris Maiorana: From Emacs To Microsoft Word (And Beyond, Really) (YouTube 11:35, Irreal)
    • Tory Anderson: snippets that defy orgmode tangling
• Coding:
  • TIL sgml-tags-invisible when editing HTML
  • Navigating Typescript in Emacs with tide-nav.el (Reddit)
  • Magit v4.3.0 released (Irreal)
• Shells:
  • Using Emacs as Terminal Multiplexer on Windows
• Web:
  • Jeremy Friesen: Quick Switch Default Browser
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mastodon.el 1.1.9: filtered notifications, tag group timelines
  • Karl Voit / tootsnoop · GitLab - archive Mastodon stats, sample usage in Org babel block (@publicvoit@graz.social)
• AI:
  • James Dyer: Ollama Buddy - Local LLM Integration for Emacs (Reddit)
  • RAGmacs - Pt. 1: Retrieving Deep Value in Emacs (09:43)
  • The Augmented Software Engineer - Ep.15 - Emacs/Local (02:25) - ollama
• Community:
  • Eric MacAdie: 2024-02 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • Emacs en Español - Delta Chat (@cr0n0s@social.tchncs.de)
  • 02 - Text Editing Approaches - Vim and Emacs - History (39:49)
• Other:
  • Much Ado about Emacs 007 - Bicycle For Your Mind (@macosxguru@fosstodon.org) - org headers, quick window, marked 2, check parens
  • akib/emacs-ednc-popup: Show EDNC notifications using child frame popups - Codeberg.org (Reddit)
  • DarkBuffalo/kimai.el: Kimai time-tracking application - report last month's activities in Org format (@DarkBuffalo@mastodon.social)
  • Properly Installing Emacs on Windows #emacs #windows #coding #programming (19:22)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: Widgets that a GUI toolkit should have for Emacs. - thoughts on immediate-mode toolkits
    • Starting work on translation of GNU Emacs Manual to Chinese (emacs-devel)
    • CL packages in Emacs Lisp revisited - namespaces
    • igc: Some benchmarks
  • ansi-osc-directory-tracker respects remote files
  • Refresh package list without blocking
  • Eliminate savehist duplicated symbols
  • Prioritize split along the longest edge by default.
  • New function insert-special-event and special event sleep-event
  • Make it configurable to highlight Python 2 builtins
  • Merge branch 'master' of git.sv.gnu.org:/srv/git/emacs
  • Don't use obsolete In-Reply-To format in messages (Bug#64454)
  • Add inhibit-auto-revert macro
• New packages:
  • a68-mode: Major mode for editing Algol 68 code (GNU ELPA)
  • auth-source-xoauth2-plugin: authentication source plugin for xoauth2 (GNU ELPA)
  • autorevert-tail-truncate: auto-revert-tail your files with RAM control (GNU ELPA)
  • erlang-ts: Major modes for editing Erlang (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Bluesky #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, communick.news, 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!

• Help wanted:
  • F-Droid are in need of a new maintainer for their Emacs package.
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/305908631/ Wed Feb 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Thu Feb 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Feb 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Feb 8 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #2 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/36aa7507-8a4f-4ab4-bd1f-fa12b5d1accb Tue Feb 11 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Feb 12 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 13 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Feb 14 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • Brief thoughts from my adventure into Emacs (@rickwysocki@mas.to) - under the section "Building It Yourself" - minimizing dependencies
  • configuring emacs (04:13)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Kris Carta: RTFM or: how I'm (re-)learning to love documentation
  • Emacs Redux: Debugging Emacs Commands (Irreal)
  • yaitskov/ert-scope: isolate buffers and files created within a scope of ert test (Reddit)
  • If you have problems with parentheses randomly being deleted, come here - show-paren-context-when-offscreen
  • Obteniendo datos asíncronos de una API con Emacs Lisp | Getting data from an API with Emacs Lisp
  • Dibujando figuras con Emacs (@geekland@mastodon.social)
• Navigation:
  • Fix C-x 1 to maximize side windows instead of failing; toggle back if already maximized
  • Emacs Sticky Buffer
  • a winner mode replacement · Issue #2 · hoverwinter/kys · GitHub (Reddit)
  • my/find-files-with-fd; also, I spent an entire day implementing a function that's already provided by consult
  • Arialdo Martini: Emacs: a peek under Imenu’s hood (Reddit)
  • Watch consult-git-grep_with-file-pattern | Streamable
• Writing:
  • Introduction to Emacs Writing Studio (25:28)
  • Emacs Writing Studio: Ideation (Taking fleeting and permanent notes) (17:22)
  • Emacs Writing Studio: Inspiration (Read e-books, manage a bibliography, surf the web and play music) (23:12)
  • IAST input method for Emacs - International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST)
• Org Mode:
  • Org mode and Spacemacs: The Absolute Minimum you need to know
  • My simple note taking system #emacs #orgmode #coding #programming #notes (05:39)
  • Stupidly Simple Notes Taking With Emacs - TuxeduTV
  • Jeremy Friesen: Seeking Inspiration from the Notes I've Taken
  • Prevent Org-todo from messing with windows - Coping Mechanism (@jbaty@social.lol)
  • (Update) org-supertag Implements Tag Completion
  • Nuke em! Quick search and replace #emacs #org #markdown (01:08)
  • lf-araujo/workbenchless: Single-file Emacs configuration for a powerful scientific Notebook system that works flawlessly over ssh. (Reddit)
  • Construyendo el website Hispa-Emacs.org enteramente desde Emacs - FTV
  • OrgMeetup meeting notes (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Syncing org-mode reading list to reMarkable tablet
  • Using Emacs and Org-Roam/Org-Node on Android (with Termux Extra Keys and Org-Node)
  • Erik L. Arneson: Configuring Orgzly Interaction with Directory Local Variables
  • nitincodery/org-dex: A browser extension that copies open tabs to your clipboard in org-mode format, ready to use with your org-capture template (Reddit)
• Denote:
  • Emacs Writing Studio (Exploring your Denote digital knowledge garden) (31:17)
  • Emacs Writing Studio (Create and manage literature notes with Citar-Denote) (28:13)
• Completion:
  • James Dyer: Copying completion candidate to the clipboard (Irreal)
• Coding:
  • User experience: eglot configuration - emacs-devel discussion on ideas for making eglot easier to configure
  • Java programming in Emacs using Eglot - YouTube (Reddit)
  • project-headerline: Customizable project headerline (Reddit)
  • Emacs: introduction to VC (version control framework)
  • piem - an Emacs tool for applying patches (01:07:18)
• Math:
  • Gene Goykhman: Quickly summing up the whole stack in Emacs Calc
• Shells:
  • [eshell-smart feature proposal] Preserve previous prompt includes code
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Mu4e configuration diagram
• Evil mode:
  • Little trick on improving evil C-i and C-o (jump back/forward)
• Multimedia:
  • ahihi/sapf.el: Emacs major mode for sapf (@ahihi@anticapitalist.party) - sound as pure form
  • A tour of Ready Player Mode (Reddit)
  • Announcing Casual Image (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Sacha Chua: Improving subed-vtt parsing; using dedicated windows in Emacs; training my intuition
• Fun:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: aLtCaPs version 1.3.0
• AI:
  • Introducing my package gptel-aibo: AI Writing Assistant for Emacs
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2025-01-29 / week 04
  • Irreal: The Experiences Of A Non-technical Emacs User - logistics, Org Mode
  • Why I still use Emacs (09:40)
  • Returning to the Church (of Emacs) (20:55) (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Interview With DistroTube - YouTuber, Opensource Advocate, Emacs User (01:44:50, Reddit)
  • All hail our new overlords /u/mickeyp, /u/github-alphapapa, and /u/Psionikus! - Reddit mods
  • Emacs wird 2025 vierzig! - The editor GNU Emacs will be forty years old in 2025.
  • La Comunidad GNU Emacs - Retrospectiva: Orígenes - Pasado, Presente y Futuro - FTV
  • 1era Hispa Emacs Conf 2025 - FTV (@libretics@mast.lat)
• Other:
  • Package of the ancien world: records-mode
  • log-buffer: Buffers for displaying logs and debugging (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: ketchup.el - alternative to Pomodoro timers
  • Scraping Emacs Package Listings into SQLite - Real World Scheme Programming #2 (11:12)
  • My experience with Emacs (2022)
  • "New" emacs nightly build for Fedora
  • [FIX] Compiling with tree-sitter in Fedora 41
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Tips on understanding the igc branch
    • Re: [PATCH v3] Stop highlighting Python2 keywords. - gradually deprecating Python 2
    • A note that the pointer property overrides the cursor shape determined from other sources
    • FreeDOS patches?
  • ; time-stamp: documentation, tests, NEWS
  • Add auto save timer to save-place (bug#75837)
  • New user option 'Buffer-menu-human-readable-sizes'
  • Add new user option bookmark-bmenu-type-column-width
  • Merge branch 'scratch/no-purespace' into 'master'
  • Add new variable tab-bar-format-tab-help-text-function
  • Add treesit-simple-indent-override-rules
  • Add treesit-add-simple-indent-rules
  • Add new user option tab-bar-define-keys
  • Add abnormal hook tab-bar-post-undo-close-tab-functions
  • Hideshow support for tree-sitter in hs-minor-mode (bug#75609)
• New packages:
  • pif: Prevent Initial Flash of Light (MELPA)
  • stillness-mode: Prevent windows from jumping on minibuffer activation (MELPA)

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