• Emacs 30:
  • Emacs 30.0.91 pretest is available (Reddit, Irreal, lemmy.ml)
  • Why Emacs Is the Best: 10 Key Advantages – Tristan's Zettelkasten (@tristanC@functional.cafe) - includes notes on upgrading to Emacs 30
• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, September 28, 2024
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Sep 18 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Sep 25 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 26 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF: Emacs Hangout: Potpourri (Hybrid) https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/303385779/ Thu Sep 26 1800 America/Vancouver - 2000 America/Chicago - 2100 America/Toronto – Fri Sep 27 0100 Etc/GMT - 0300 Europe/Berlin - 0630 Asia/Kolkata - 0900 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Sep 28 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • The Emacs Newbie Project (@summeremacs@fashionsocial.host, emacs-devel)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs and kmonad (keyboard manager with multi-tap functionality and s-exps config)
  • Minimal ~/.emacs.d - Emacs Starter Kit with Better Defaults and Optimized Startup (Release 1.1.0) (Reddit)
  • rexim's Emacs Config
  • waymondo's Emacs Config
  • galahad's Emacs Config
  • funk443's Emacs Config
  • jokem59/personal-configs · GitHub
  • ektaynot's Doom Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Spiffing up those echo messages (Reddit) - displaying SVGs in the echo area
  • Lightning Talk: Latest from GNU Emacs (05:35) Andrea Corallo, European Lisp Symposium
  • Ep585, Emacs Lisp, Find and Replace in a Dir, and Undo All (01:25:55)
• Appearance:
  • How to show row (line) numbers in Emacs - TuxeduTV
  • How to change theme in Emacs - TuxeduTV
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: show-font version 0.1.0
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: cursory version 1.1.0
  • [auto-dark] 0.13 - Support multiple themes (breaking-changes) (Reddit) - multiple themes, changed default way, added examples
  • The Modus Operandi theme on Emacs 30 is so elegant
  • El paquete adaptive-wrap para Emacs (@GK_S@mastodon.social)
• Navigation:
  • beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer tweaks from e3d3
  • pivaldi/nefle: Emacs package to search the nearest file from a given file-system location (@pi@emacs.ch)
  • La función Dedicated Windows en Emacs (@GK_S@mastodon.social)
  • Emacs 30.1 highlight - intuitive tab line (Reddit)
• TRAMP:
  • Short video on TRAMP (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: dired-preview version 0.3.0
• Writing:
  • Chris Maiorana: Introducing a Word Diff Counter in Emacs (Irreal)
  • Silently save personal dictionary after inserting a new word: (setq ispell-silently-savep t)
• Org Mode:
  • Why and How I use "Org Mode" for my writing and more (2022, Reddit, Irreal)
  • Insert a screenshot image in latex-mode with the help of org-download (@mmonga@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Conditional tangling in org mode based on tags · GitHub (@zondo@mathstodon.xyz)
  • How I use :dbconnection in org files (@eslr@mastodon.social)
  • A quick hack to convert org/org-roam links from ID to filename with optional pandoc conversion to other formats
  • Irreal: Babel and Python
  • Guide to creating a multilingual website with org-publish (@len@toot.si)
  • Org-zettel-ref-mode release 0.3.1 (Reddit) - More elegant names for overviews, improved sync
  • Conversion script: Logseq to org roam (Reddit)
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: consult-denote version 0.2.0
• Coding:
  • Announcing Casual Symbol Overlay (Reddit, Irreal)
  • csr-maker.el: Make CSR requests for SSL certs (@trevdev@fosstodon.org)
  • Unlock the Power of Tree-sitter in Emacs with Combobulate (13:29)
  • Magnus: Followup on secrets in my work notes
  • emacs-blame Update 0.2, New feat: support highlight all lines with the same commit information. (Reddit)
  • ~akagi/vc-pijul (@fd9a@fosstodon.org)
  • A function that checks if a file is committed to Git
• Shells:
  • #175 - Add menus for eat - akib/emacs-eat - Codeberg.org (@rudi@hachyderm.io)
  • Save shell history per project.el (@tristanC@functional.cafe)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Andrea: Adding utilities to open urls to emacs-slack
  • Sacha Chua: Combining Mastodon timelines using mastodon.el
• Evil mode:
  • Sanel Zukan: evil-mode in terminal without Alt/Meta
• EXWM:
  • Firefox in my EXWM (YouTube 01:04, Reddit) - includes some commands
• Fun:
  • Emacs on the Scene (Reddit, Irreal)
• AI:
  • meain/yap: Your Assistant for Prompting LLMs (@meain@toot.community)
  • Speech Dictation Mode for Emacs (Reddit, HN)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Trying Emacs as a Neovim User // Just Chatting (01:35:29)
  • Part Four of My Battles with Emacs
  • Genuine Question, aren't some things better in other apps? (long discussion on Reddit)
• Other:
  • eee.el: Extended Emacs With External Tui application (Reddit)
  • Extending ekg with structured data
  • Anand Tamariya: The Oval Editor (Emacs) (YouTube 02:06, Reddit)- combine text with formatting and drawings
  • I got Emacs to run in iTerm on Mac!
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • The role of the last_marked array in understanding rare crashes during GC
  • Allow 'kill-region' to kill the last word when there is no region (actually kill-region-dwim)
  • Provide a modified xref backend for TeX buffers
  • New commands unix-word-rubout, unix-filename-rubout
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce the improvements in w32 GUI dialogs.
  • Make the grep buffer editable
  • Improve accuracy of character categories
  • Update Emacs sources for Unicode 16.0
  • Allow to disable symbolic links check in Dired
  • Add Ediff feature for copying all differences
  • Allow comments to organizer in icalendar event replies (Bug#72831)
• New packages:
  • astute: A minor mode to redisplay `smart' typography (MELPA)
  • codex-theme: Codex theme, a simple high contrast theme (MELPA)
  • elysium: Automatically apply LLM-created code-suggestions (MELPA)
  • geiser-overlay: Overlay Scheme evaluation results (MELPA)
  • glass-tty-theme: Reverse video-like theme for the Glass TTY VT220 font (MELPA)
  • kanagawa-themes: Elegant theme inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa (MELPA)
  • on: Hooks for faster startup (MELPA)
  • org-node-fakeroam: Stand-ins for org-roam-autosync-mode (MELPA)
  • py-vterm-interaction: A mode for Python REPL using vterm (MELPA)
  • show-font: Show font features in a buffer (GNU ELPA)

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

• EmacsConf 2024 call for participation - submit by Sept 20, 2024 (coming soon!)
• Upcoming events:
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://bbb.emacsverse.org/b/iho-h7r-qg8-led Wed Sep 11 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Sep 13 1800 Europe/Paris
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Sep 18 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Testing Transient Menus - Charles Y. Choi
  • How I achieved my buffer local dynamic keybindings setup
  • Irreal: More On Upgrading Builtins
  • Using the guix package manager for a cross-distro, reproducible emacs environment (Reddit)
  • strawhatguy's el-get based Emacs Config
  • ~abcdw/rde: rde: keyboard: Add feature-emacs-cua - sourcehut git (@abcdw@fosstodon.org)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Quick tip on using profiler-start and profiler-report to analyze runtime behavior
• Appearance:
  • hbdh-mode – highlight region by de-highlighting other texts
  • Tomorrow Night Deepblue Emacs theme (Release 1.2.0) (Reddit)
  • Rocking a new Emacs icon courtesy of Emacs Plus –with-savchenkovaleriy-big-sur-curvy-3d-icon
• Dired:
  • my-dired-goto-first-file
• Org Mode:
  • Charles Choi: Announcing Casual Agenda (Irreal, r/orgmode, r/emacs)
  • org-edna - keeping regular repeated tasks from going to NEXT state when marked done (@srijan@indieweb.social)
  • Release v0.8.9 · org-ql (Reddit)
  • Setting up a static site with emacs org-mode
  • orgrr 0.9.2 adds orgrr-compile-sequence (@laotang@mastodon.social)
  • org-zettel-ref-mode 0.3
  • Using text-to-speech in emacs-reveal
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Anki bookmarks - Anki and Org
  • Sich und seine Daten (mit Org-mode) organisieren
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Denote version 3.1.0
• Coding:
  • Andrea: How to setup python-lsp-server with lsp-mode using pipx
  • pivaldi/php-fh: Emacs package that provides highlighting of PHP functions in php-mode (@pi@emacs.ch)
  • emsg-blame: A simple, fast, asynchronous, customizable display, view of git blame commit in Emacs. (Reddit)
  • New project danderzei/emacs-data-studio: Emacs configuration for data analysis (@danderzei@aus.social)
• Shells:
  • Using vterm with emacs project.el
• Web:
  • Spookfox v 0.5.0 - inject JS into any open browser tab from Emacs
• Multimedia:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Seek and you shall find - ready-player-mode (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Rounding all timestamps in an srt file
• Fun:
  • LuminousMyrrh/Letters: Simple ASCII Emacs banner which creates on startup (Reddit)
• AI:
  • Announcing elysium - Automatically apply AI-generated code-changes in Emacs! (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Interview With Prot - Philosopher, Writer and Emacs Contributor (Reddit)
    • Protesilaos Stavrou: I talked with Gavin Freeborn about Emacs, philosophy, life, and politics
  • Emacs.ch (Mastodon instance) will shut down on December 9, 2024 (Reddit, communick.news)
  • Irreal: 🥩 Red Meat Friday: Should You Replace Emacs With An “AI Editor”?
  • Dan Weinreb’s Rebuttal to Stallman’s Story About The Formation of Symbolics and LMI (2007)
• Other:
  • Extending ekg with structured data - YouTube (Reddit)
  • Portals in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Emacs as your ultimate reading environment: Is it possible?
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: logos version 1.2.0
  • James Dyer: New Package arscript-mode - ArtRage scripts
  • Protecting against malicious dependencies with Flatpak - some notes on controlling Emacs's access
  • smilefjes.el: Emacs package to check the Norwegian Mattilsynets report on restaurant cleanliness, hygienic factors etc.
  • HOWM manual (HN)
  • Use Emacs in GUI mode on Android (using Termux and Termux X11)
• Emacs development:
  • some notes on Gnulib and MinGW Re: MinGW build on master broken by Gnulib update
  • php-ts-mode-run-php-webserver can now accept a custom php.ini file
  • New command `project-find-file-in-root'
• New packages:
  • casual-symbol-overlay: Transient UI for Symbol Overlay (MELPA)
  • haskell-ts-mode: A treesit based major mode for haskell (NonGNU ELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #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:
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Sep 3 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #12 2024 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/ae9730f1-bb73-4621-a4b1-f31ee395c8c9 Thu Sep 5 1900 CET
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Sep 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Sep 13 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • Updating Built-In Emacs Packages (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Doom is too much
  • It's fine to use plain Emacs and a simple config
  • Never have an error in your init file again: A function that runs a seperate emacs process and checks for errors on save in .emacs
  • 💻 Faster Emacs Init (2023)
  • Emerging from dotemacs bankruptcy the hard way: Prelude (post 1 of 6) (Reddit)
  • Shell script to look up default Emacs keybindings (Reddit)
  • bharathpalavalli's literate Emacs Config
  • dawranliou's Emacs config targeting emacs master build on OSX.
  • Gabriel's config
  • domsch1988's Emacs Config
  • enzuru's Emacs Config
  • skyler544's Emacs Config
  • zyd's Emacs Config
  • Artawower's Emacs Config
  • theschmocker's Doom Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Gene Goykhman: Speeding up Emacs Lisp functions by disabling garbage collection (Irreal)
  • I implemented a splay tree in Emacs Lisp (Reddit)
  • Writing Emacs Lisp compiler intrinsics
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 1.8.0
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: pulsar version 1.1.0 - supports function aliases, more commands; pulsar-pulse-region
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: fontaine version 2.1.0 - font configurations: fontaine-toggle-preset
  • An Emacs icon for macOS Sonoma
• Navigation:
  • emacs-projtree: A project file explorer.
  • Release 1.1.0 - easysession.el – Easily persist and restore your Emacs editing sessions (Reddit)
  • Sum of non contiguous regions in a buffer, feat Embark, Multiple Cursors and benchmark-init - YouTube (0:45, Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Setting the right dictionary for ispell/flyspell based on input method
  • Insert a screenshot image in latex-mode with the help of org-download · Snippets · GitLab
• Org Mode:
  • pprevos/emacs-writing-studio: Emacs configuration for authors who research, write and publish articles, books and websites (Reddit, Protesilaos, Irreal)
  • Improving my org-capture workflow with shortcuts for moving from inbox to todo - toggling TODO
  • OrgMeetup #10 notes (@yantar92@emacs.ch)
  • Magnus: Improving how I handle secrets in my work notes (Reddit)
  • Tekki/ob-cobol: Org-Babel support for evaluating COBOL code. (@tekki@swiss.social)
  • First literate R program with Emacs + Org-mode (08:13)
  • Release v0.6 · alphapapa/org-make-toc (Automatic tables of contents for Org-mode files)
  • Embedding Mastodon comments with org-static-blog and Emfed (@jameshowell@emacs.ch)
  • org-zettel-ref-mode 0.2 released
  • If you use Orgzly, take a look at Orgzly Revived (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • agentultra/hiedb-mode - lightweight mode to use with haskell-mode to query hiedb databases (@agentultra@types.pl)
  • Emacs setup | C++ Programming Language
  • Emacs: Maintaining proper indentation in indentation-sensitive languages such as Python or YAML (Reddit)
  • flymake-bashate.el: A Flymake backend for bashate, a Bash style checker
  • More vc tips: editing hunks, C-x r t, git blame, etc.
• Shells:
  • James Dyer: Streamlining eshell with popper, capf-autosuggest, and Enhanced Autocompletion
• Fun:
  • A poem about Emacs
• AI:
  • Ben Simon: gptel: Mindblowing integration between Emacs and ChatGPT
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Just found the 1st exact date when Emacs got announced on the Earth (Reddit)
• Other:
  • How Emacs undo works (2017) (@floppy@fosstodon.org)
  • Symbol Selector (Reddit) - selecting symbols from a symbol font
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: tmr version 1.0.0 - timers
  • emacs-calendar - download Google Calendar ICS and turn into diary (@nicksiv@mastodon.social) - example of using icalendar-import-file
  • Emacs server with tiling window manager - using multiple emacsclients instead of multiple windows/frames
  • Using Emacs in a Terminal (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Emacs + Termux on Android: Code, Org-mode and Agenda, Dired, Magit and more…
  • Don't blame Emacs (pointless rambling) - sometimes it's the hardware
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • More thoughts on child frames on ttys
    • Profiling: profiler.el for Lisp, perf for C code
  • Adds NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription to Info.plist.in
  • New macro `with-work-buffer'.
  • Document 'cond*'
• New packages:
  • casual-agenda: Transient UI for Agenda (MELPA)
  • constants: Enter definition of constants into source code (GNU ELPA)
  • evangelion-theme: A dark colour scheme inspired by Neon Genesis Evangelion (MELPA)
  • flymake-bashate: A Flymake backend for bashate, a Bash scripts style checker (MELPA)
  • org-node: Link org-id entries into a network (MELPA)
  • otpp: One tab per project, with unique names (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #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:
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 28 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 29 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Sep 3 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #12 2024 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/ae9730f1-bb73-4621-a4b1-f31ee395c8c9 Thu Sep 5 1900 CET
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Sep 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Can Casual Suite Improve Emacs UI? - System Crafters Live! (01:48:38, Reddit)
  • Generate all fundamental Emacs key bindings in Org format (@pi@emacs.ch)
  • Quick and dirty way to disable all keybindings or set all to self-insert-command
  • Hydrogen Framework for Emacs
  • ~jordigh/dotemacs log - sourcehut hg (@JordiGH@mathstodon.xyz)
  • bmp/forgemacs: Personal Emacs configuration (@bmp@mastodon.sdf.org)
  • axyz's early-init.el
• Emacs Lisp:
  • EmacsWiki: Why Does Elisp Suck (long discussion on HN)
  • Aprendendo Emacs Lisp - Corte 01: Sobre a série + Como estudar (26:55)
  • Aprendendo Emacs Lisp - Corte 02: Uma história de hackers (09:15)
  • Emacs Lisp - corte 03: Um passeio rápido pela linguagem (35:40)
  • Ep576, Emacs Lisp Coding, Toggle Theme, Print List, Gun Emoji (56:50)
• Appearance:
  • James Dyer: Syncing Tab Bar To Theme
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: modus-themes version 4.5.0
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: my major mode to show a font (show-font.el) (Irreal)
  • Anand Tamariya: Variable Font in Emacs (Reddit)
  • UI Tweak - SVG Frames, follow-up
• Navigation:
  • Emacs setup for workspace/perspectives/persp-projectile/ibuffer (YouTube, @null_a@emacs.ch)
• Org Mode:
  • Isa Mert Gurbuz: Announcement: corg.el – Seamless auto completion for org-mode block headers
  • Alex Popescu: TIL Emacs Orgmode org-link-set-parameters
  • blk: text navigation on your terms (Reddit)
  • Starter site template for Org Mode + ox-hugo (@shom@fosstodon.org)
  • I wrote a package to help me read efficiently and deeply. Is it a bad idea? - org-zettel-ref-mode
• Denote:
  • Org-roam to Denote Migration Script
• Completion:
  • Helm 4.0 released (and no release notes) (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Maciej Barć / xgqt-elisp-lib-tailscale (@xgqt@emacs.ch)
  • Magit tip: add multiple remote push URLs by separating them with commas
  • ~puercopop/jujutsushi - A emacs interface to jujutsu - supports vc.el (@PuercoPop@mastodon.social)
• Shells:
  • Fancy lightweight prompts for Eshell and Zsh (Reddit)
  • Asynchronously set PATH in Emacs
• Doom Emacs:
  • Why I love doom emacs! (11:06)
• Fun:
  • I have commissioned an artist to draw an Emacs dragon
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Bill Wear: Why I'm in Sync with Emacs (HN)
  • My cycles of love and hate with Emacs
  • Mastodon thread about gems in Emacs
• Other:
  • unison-sync-mode for one- or two-way remote file syncing of projects with unison. (Reddit)
  • Gnosis (γνῶσις) | Spaced Repetition System for GNU Emacs | Thanos Apollo
  • Emacs: Edit keyboard macros
  • Заметки на Emacs/Linux/Android
  • Using Emacs and Termux on and Android 6 eInk ebook instead of a laptop. (r/emacs, r/planetemacs)
• Emacs development:
  • EmacsWiki page for Emacs 30 (HN, @pkal@commenting.onthe.incoherenceofthe.net)
  • emacs-devel:
    • Tip for file encoding fallbacks
    • Differences between the Emacs NS port and the Carbon port
    • Rough plan for adding child frames for TTYs
  • Fix handling of 'min-width' display property
  • Allow customizing partial-completion to be more like substring
  • Add command to copy contents in a diff-mode buffer
  • Fix two issues with 'window-deletable-p'
  • Add abnormal hook to determine which tabs to auto-widen
• New packages:
  • arscript-mode: Major mode for editing arscript files (MELPA)
  • consult-gh: Consulting GitHub Client (MELPA)
  • lox-ts-mode: Major mode for Lox using tree-sitter (MELPA)
  • password-store-menu: A better, more complete UI for password-store (MELPA)
  • phpinspect: PHP parsing and code intelligence package (GNU ELPA)
  • roc-ts-mode: Roc programming language mode (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #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:
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Aug 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Aug 24 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 28 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 29 0030 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Emacs Tutorial - Part 1
• Emacs configuration:
  • tray: Transient menus for a wide variety of things [eventually, maybe]​
  • James Cherti: dir-config.el – Automatically find and evaluate .dir-config.el Elisp files to configure directory-specific settings (Github, Reddit)
  • ~johnhamelink/nix (master): home/modules/emacs/config.el - sourcehut git (@johnhamelink@emacs.ch)
  • yantar92's Emacs Config
  • scfrazer's Emacs Config
  • ptrv's Emacs Config
  • jixiuf's Emacs Config
  • Thaodan's Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • nano-read: Alternative read functions for GNU Emacs - displays info on the right side
  • akib/emacs-popon: "Pop" floating text "on" a window
  • Ep575, Emacs Lisp, Command to Add HTML Attribute (01:08:01)
• Appearance:
  • James Dyer: Integrate Pywal Colors into Selected-Window-Accent-Mode for Wallpaper Accent Matching in Emacs
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ‘ef-eagle’ and ‘ef-owl’ are added to the ‘ef-themes’ (lobste.rs)
• Navigation:
  • Tip about using environment variables for named shortcuts in find-file
• Dired:
  • find-dired-by-size
  • Alvaro Ramirez: The dired abstraction (Reddit, lobste.rs)
• Writing:
  • jabbrv: Automatic Journal Title Abbreviation Package for LaTeX
• Org Mode:
  • james-stoup/emacs-org-mode-tutorial: A primer for users trying to make sense of Org Mode (@AndyScott@fosstodon.org)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Opening all links in an Org subtree
  • Implementing headline-local variables
  • corg.el - Auto-complete for block headers and their parameters (babel source blocks and Org dynamic blocks) (Reddit)
  • ~zondo/org-autoexport - Emacs package for auto-export of org files on save (@zondo@mathstodon.xyz)
  • eugeneandrienko/palm-sync-daemon: Simple synchronization between Palm device and OrgMode files (@evgandr@mas.to)
  • Org development:
    • org-toggle-inline-images-command: New command for C-c C-x C-v binding
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Add reference to undocumented feature added in Org 9.7
    • etc/ORG-NEWS (Alignment of image previews can be customized): Add missing entry
• Coding:
  • How to Setup Emacs for Web Development (18:05)
  • CIDER tip - persist REPL history to a file
  • Using LLDB on Emacs (dap-mode & dap-lldb & lldb-vscode) for macOS - 3D Real-Time Composition by hiroakit
  • I wrote a short vc-mode tutorial (Reddit)
  • How to specify git merge strategy in magit
  • Jonas Bernoulli: Forge 0.4.0 and 0.4.1 released (Reddit)
• Math:
  • nfdn: Contextual Interfaces in Casual Calc (HN)
• Shells:
  • Lambda Land: Fancy lightweight prompts for Eshell and Zsh
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • transient menu for mastodon (@holgerschurig@emacs.ch)
• Multimedia:
  • [Experimental] Transient interface for barebones ffmpeg conversions
  • theesm/mediathek.el: Search and play "Mediathek" videos. - Codeberg.org (@thees@emacs.ch)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Eric MacAdie: 2024-08 Austin Emacs Meetup - Doom Emacs, input methods, regex, calling commands
  • İsmail Efe: Why Use Emacs? (Reddit)
  • What is or why Emacs? | The Art Of Not Asking Why (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Lifetime benefits of using Emacs (@genegoykhman@mastodon.social, Irreal)
• Other:
  • Copying text out of diffs (@pkal@commenting.onthe.incoherenceofthe.net)
  • TIL Emacs registers - this is a god send for my day job! (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Emacs Way Of Reading Novels and Books Via Epub Version 2024_08_06_03:27:38
  • Alex Popescu: Emacs Optionally Saving Desktop on Exit With Confirmation
  • Gene Goykhman: Upgrading to Emacs 29.4 on Apple Silicon Macs
  • Portals in Emacs (lobste.rs) - another way to launch and manage processes
  • eva: Emacs-based Virtual Assistant (Reddit)
  • Chrome-Emacs is now available for Firefox
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Help wanted with MSDOS and Windows 98 ports as well; issues with unexec, portable dumping
      • maintenance burden of old platforms
      • experience report from Solaris - switched to portable dumper
  • Add abnormal hook to determine which tabs to auto-widen
  • Improve SHR/EWW support for 'visual-wrap-prefix-mode'
  • Drop fallback code in date-to-time, update documentation
• New packages:
  • dir-config: Automatically find and evaluate .dir-config.el (Flexible dir-locals alternative) (MELPA)
  • gleam-ts-mode: Major mode for Gleam (MELPA)
  • org-autoexport: Auto-export org file on save (MELPA)
  • plz-event-source: Plz Event Source (GNU ELPA)
  • poly-gams: Polymode for GAMS (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #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:
  • Continued need for people who can help take care of the MS Windows port
• Upcoming events:
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://bbb.emacsverse.org/b/iho-h7r-qg8-led Wed Aug 14 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 15 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Aug 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Aug 24 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 and Use Emacs in Linux (@linuxtldr@noc.social)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Marcin Borkowski: How to require confirmation before launching an Emacs command (Irreal)
  • Irreal: Suggestions For A Slow Emacs
  • Chris Maiorana: Control-Excess: The Elegant Simplicity of Vanilla Emacs
  • Shout out to this starter-kit: Minimal-Emacs
  • Configuración de Emacs Vanilla - Hardlimit (@salvari@mastodon.gal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: copy file to many directories
  • Ep572, Emacs Lisp, Validate Matching Brackets (02:24:46), part 2 (01:08:56)
• Appearance:
  • Anand Tamariya: Faux Bold and Italic (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ‘standard-themes’ version 2.1.0
• Navigation:
  • Alex Popescu: Fantastic Configuration for Emacs view-mode
• Writing:
  • Using Emacs with LaTeX on FreeBSD - Zoltan Kiraly (@hnygd@mastodon.africa)
  • The Best Emacs Microfeature fill-paragraph (Reddit, Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • Find your tasks instantly when you need to - 5 Custom Org Agenda Views for Productivity (33:40, Reddit)
  • Quickly adding org-edna blockers from the kill ring (@MenacingMecha@mastodon.gamedev.place)
  • Fix: Better org-agenda custom view if you're using org-roam (Reddit)
  • Russell Adams [ML:Org mode] (2024) Speedup on large file after reconfiguring whitespace-mode (Reddit)
  • Refactoring Emacs Config using Org
  • Jeremy Friesen: Exporting Org Mode Elfeed Links (Irreal)
  • Generación de Sitio Web con Emacs (17:22)
  • Org development:
    • org-mode-flyspell-verify: Do not disable flyspell inside LOGBOOK drawers
    • ob-R, ob-julia: Obey babel working dir conventions with session
    • org-cancel-repeater: Cancel all the repeaters
• Completion:
  • Emacs Commands Explanation Via Marginalia Annotation 2024_08_12_04:10:20 (07:23)
• Coding:
  • Jonas Bernoulli: Magit 4.0 released (Reddit, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, Irreal)
  • Haskell Emacs workflow (01:24)
  • Magnus: Removing symlink question - vc-follow-symlinks, vc-handled-backends
• Math:
  • Contextual Interfaces in Casual Calc (Reddit, Irreal)
• Shells:
  • My Eshell Setup (Reddit)
  • Eshell Quality Improvements (15:36)
• Web:
  • Nicolas Martyanoff: Controlling link opening in Emacs (lobste.rs)
• Multimedia:
  • James Dyer: Ready Player Mode with a little elisp Tweak
  • Ready Player Mode - Downloading/updating album artwork metadata experiment
  • James Dyer: Ready Player Mode different Utilities for Video and Audio!
• Community:
  • My Notes On Emacs & Lisp In The Stack Overflow Developers Survey 2024 – literatelisp.eu (@thees@emacs.ch)
  • abcdw offering community pair programming sessions (interactive dev with Guile and Emacs, etc.)
  • I want to create a non-trivial package for emacs - discussion has some notes on help wanted, tips for picking an idea
• Other:
  • NANO read functions, taking advantage of margins
  • Irreal: What Does It Mean For Emacs To Be A Lisp Machine
  • Thanos Apollo: Rewriting Gnosis: 0.4.0 release - personal knowledge management
• Emacs development:
  • Explanation of what happens when there's a segfault in a shared library loaded by Emacs
  • Looking for metrics or experience reports on macOS build - unstable or okay?
    • Explanation of what the NS port and why it's unmaintained
  • Debugging tips for testing on Windows
• New packages:
  • kubed: Kubernetes, Emacs, done! (GNU ELPA)
  • plz-media-type: Plz Media Types (GNU ELPA)
  • ulisp-mode: Major mode for editing and evaluate uLisp (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #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:
  • Request for an LLM package to describe images, which is good for accessibility
  • emacs-devel needs help with MS Windows support
    • also macOS (@christoph@muenster.im)
    • Some discussion of the challenges with supporting Emacs on non-free operating systems
• Upcoming events:
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/302002457/ Wed Aug 7 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Aug 8 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Aug 9 1800 Europe/Paris
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://bbb.emacsverse.org/b/iho-h7r-qg8-led Wed Aug 14 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 15 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Emacs Tutorial: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners (@machaddr@mastodon.sdf.org)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs packages: How the pieces fit together
  • Efficient Emacs configuration and startup with minimal-emacs.d (Reddit)
  • Refactoring my Emacs Config
  • Hoagie's corner of the internet - Emacs config: big or small (Irreal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Mouse Events on SVG Images in Emacs [2022]​
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Lin version 1.1.0
• Navigation:
  • James Cherti: easysession.el – Easily persist and restore your Emacs editing sessions (Github, Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: How to make Emacs not scroll from the current position
• Writing:
  • Surrealism Mode is a writing tool that stops you from editing your words (@kakafarm@emacs.ch)
• Org Mode:
  • I'm using Orgmode as a makeshift CRM. It's so good.
  • Enable real idletime for Org Mode on Ubuntu (2011)
  • Rustic: Enhanced Org Babel integration
  • emacsomancer/org-roam-daily-reflection: comparing N org-roam dailies at M intervals (years, months, fortnights, weeks, days) (@emacsomancer@types.pl, Reddit)
  • orgrr 0.9, changes under the hood (@laotang@emacs.ch)
  • Hack: automatically installing the development version of org on new machine
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: sort Luhmann-style signatures with ‘denote-sort-dired’
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: exclude directories in Denote’s Org dynamic blocks (09:56 YouTube)
• Completion:
  • James Dyer: Efficient File Searching in Emacs: Leveraging completing-read with Customizable Methods
• Coding:
  • Emacs Debugging with Dape (2023)
  • cider-eval-and-reload-browser - @mykhaylo@fosstodon.org
  • Composing Kubectl Commands in Style with Kubed (@eshel@emacs.ch)
  • eshelyaron/kubed: Kubernetes, Emacs, done!
• Shells:
  • adapting eshell/make to other compilation tools
• Web:
  • jao: eww to org
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • bram85/elfeed-export: Export the Elfeed database to more generic data formats. (@bram85@emacs.ch)
• Multimedia:
  • Emacspeak and EMPV coolness - playing an audio book in one ear and using the other ear for something else
• Fun:
  • Jeremy Friesen: Releasing v0.8.0 of random-table.el
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Discussion of Reddit alternatives - IRC, Mastodon, federated news aggregators, …
  • J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: Systems and community - quotes from 1983-1984
• Other:
  • beancount-txn-elisp (Reddit, HN)
  • T. V. Raman: Emacspeak — A Speech Odyssey
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Text Dimensions Are Hard
  • Running Emacs with wsl2-xrdp (2021)
• Emacs development:
  • Add support for variable-pitch fonts in 'visual-wrap-prefix-mode'
  • Remove misspelled rx category `chinse-two-byte`
  • Improve window/buffer handling code
  • "Separate" tree-sitter parser list for indirect buffers
• New packages:
  • outline-indent: Outline and fold text using indentation (MELPA)
  • vsh-mode: Alternate PTY interface for complex terminal sessions (MELPA)

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