• Help wanted:
  • One month to go: Please submit proposals for EmacsConf 2023
  • Adding refactoring capabilities to Emacs
• Emacs 29:
  • First look at Emacs 29 (32:02)
• Upcoming events:
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Aug 25 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Aug 26 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Aug 26 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Aug 26 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Aug 27 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 30 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 31 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Sep 1 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • James Dyer: No Bell For Me
  • How can I define transient color per command, like hydra? | Tech.ToryAnderson.com (Irreal)
  • Zach Cast Ep. 1: Emacs Config for LaTeX and Rust (02:00:01)
  • Cleaning Up My Emacs Config - Configuring Emacs 06 (23:01)
  • Derek Taylor / Configuring Emacs
  • starbreaker's Emacs Config
  • Steve Yegge's Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Mike Zamansky: Learning Elisp 7 - regular expressions (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Cool your heels, Emacs: TL;DR: Sometimes Emacs needs a timeout: Notes on Throttling, Debouncing etc
  • native-comp-elisp-benchmarks: A repo of elisp-benchmarks with native compilation
  • GNU Emacs IELM, Interactive Emacs Lisp Mode (01:43)
  • Demonstration movie of Emacs Lisp programming in GNU Emacs lisp-interaction-mode (06:49)
  • Emacs Lisp programming with JavaScript Canvas API in Termux on Android smartphone (01:12)
• Appearance:
  • James Dyer: Fun With Emacs Theming Using Alpha Background on Wayland
  • Emacs Goodies - #3 Glasses Mode (05:08)
  • Jelly cursor demo (X)
• Navigation:
  • Occur tips
  • Jump to specific places in Emacs (00:58)
• Org Mode:
  • Charles Choi: Tuning Emacs to Write Prose in Org and Markdown (Irreal)
  • whatacold: Emphasize Text By Dragging Mouse in Org-mode (Irreal)
  • A (start) on adding transient support to org-mode
  • org-timeblock: Interactive day-view calendar for orgmode tasks (Emacs) (01:15)
  • Org-Babel snippet to list org-roam nodes chronologically and as hyperlinks
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Org-mode - Org-publish or Custom HTML? (08:55)
    • Emacs Is Great - EP 11, org-mode detangle
    • Using org-mode as an SQL playground
  • Org development:
    • lisp/org-colview.el: Add new commands to move column view table row
    • org-export-smart-quotes-alist: Turn into a custom option
    • org-store-link: Never allow link duplicates in `org-stored-links'
• Completion:
  • Tutorial on Cape: How to add completion functions to completion-at-point-functions and how to use cape's built-in completion utilities
• Coding:
  • dwim-coder-mode: DWIM keybindings for C, Python, Rust, and more (Reddit)
  • emacs29 intelephense
  • Jeremy Friesen: Emacs Functions to Navigate Ruby Files by Method Comments
  • GNU Emacs running SLIME, Superior Lisp Interaction Mode (02:29)
  • flutter.el — Tools for working with Flutter SDK
  • My flutter emacs config (Reddit)
  • Tree-sitter:
    • tree-sitter performance is highly variable - including updated performance after patch, emacs-devel discussion
    • remi-gelinas/nix-ts-mode: An Emacs major mode for editing Nix expressions, powered by tree-sitter. (@sanityinc@hachyderm.io)
    • tree-sitter iXML - invisible XML (@ndw@mastodon.social)
• Math:
  • Math-Intensive Reports with GNU Emacs and Calc, Part 1 and Part 2
• Spacemacs:
  • Configuring Spacemacs: A Tutorial - Tristan Hume (2015)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Installing emacs-plus and Doom on a Macbook Air M1 using Homebrew (09:36)
  • The Doom Modeline Package for Emacs (06:23)
• Multimedia:
  • Emacs eww send youtube invidious links to mpd with pinch (19:10)
• Fun:
  • Jeremy Friesen: Emacs Proto Package for Random Tables
  • Jeremy Friesen: Further Into My Random Table Emacs Proto Package
  • Jeremy Friesen: Adding Optional Dice Roll Prompting to my Emacs Random Table
  • Jeremy Friesen: Adding Rudimentary Handling of Math Operands in Random Table Package
• Community:
  • My Emacs Journey (2021)
  • RE: Red Meat Friday: Why Vim? | starbreaker.org
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
• Other:
  • Emacs server tip: store the size and position of the last frame
  • Emacs Goodies - #4 Shadowfile (10:42) automatic file copying
  • yomikun: A mode for reading japanese - An attempt to bring yomichan/migaku features to emacs
  • kaniyam Emacs in Tamil (01:23:42)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Edits to the Widget Manual
    • quick tip on how to see the code for functions in Emacs: gdb, disassemble
    • How to cross-compile Emacs for Windows on a Unix system (sorta works)
    • Keeping an eye on the 2038 Unix timestamp problem
  • Allow fetching URL at point without switching to it
  • New user option pcomplete-remote-file-ignore
  • Add command to start Emacs with specific packages
  • Introduce support for Desktop Notifications on Haiku
  • Add 'compile' builtin command for Eshell
• New packages:
  • boa-ide: Mode for boa language files (MELPA)
  • boa-mode: Mode for boa language files (MELPA)
  • dot-env: Dotenv functionality (MELPA)
  • eff: Show symbols in Executable File Formats (MELPA)
  • expreg: Simple expand region (GNU ELPA)
  • flycheck-hl-todo: Display hl-todo keywords in flycheck (MELPA)
  • org-project-capture: Repository todo capture and management for org-mode (MELPA)
  • symbols-outline: Display symbols (functions, variables, etc) in outline view (MELPA)
  • ursa-ts-mode: Tree-sitter support for Ursa (MELPA)
  • verilog-ts-mode: Verilog Tree-Sitter Mode (MELPA)
  • yasnippet-capf: Yasnippet Completion At Point Function (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, kbin, programming.dev, communick.news, lemmy, 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 29:
  • Update: MSI Installer for GNU Emacs 29.1 for Windows
  • Gnu Emacs acaba de publicar su versión 29.1
  • Emacs 28 Antinews (GNU Emacs Manual) (lobste.rs)
• Help wanted:
  • [Final call] Please help collecting statistics to optimize Emacs GC defaults
• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs London Meetup, Tue, Aug 22, 2023, 7:00 PM | Meetup
  • Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, August 26, 2023
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Aug 16 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Aug 18 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Aug 19 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Aug 19 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Aug 20 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London Meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/294668548/ Tue Aug 22 1900 Europe/London
• Emacs configuration:
  • The Age-Old Question: When to Declare "Configuration Bankruptcy"?
  • I can't decide when to use elisp, use-package, and the customize interface in my configuration
  • Configurar Emacs con use-package (0x0006) (31:23)
  • lunarymacs: casouri's Emacs configuration
  • jimenezrick's Emacs Config
  • aadi58002's Emacs Config
  • bunnylushington's dot-emacs-v29
  • Miranda's Emacs configuration
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Isa Mert Gurbuz: Elisp editing/development tips
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: pulsar version 1.0.0 - temporarily highlight the current line
  • My Emacs eye candy
  • James Dyer: Emacs 29.1 Transparency Alpha On Sway
  • Standard Themes (Reddit, communick)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 1.3.0
• Navigation:
  • jac: Just Another buffer Cloning method
  • Iggaak: Emacs minor mode: narrow to a certain number of lines
  • Optimising Deft for Emacs
• Writing:
  • Zotra is now on MELPA: The power of Zotero in Emacs
• Org Mode:
  • org-mode clock tables and spreadsheets
  • Org-mode - In search of perfect clock time report (08:41)
  • csv2orgclock: Converting CSV clock logs to Org Mode
  • Emacs Org Mode Variables Tweak
  • confluence_upload.sh: Upload org-mode files directly to a Confluence server, using its API
  • [Emacs/iOS users] How would you pay to fund a polished iOS org agenda app? (Irreal)
  • Org development:
    • ob-sqlite: Use a transient in-memory database by default
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Fix typo
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Clarify that `org-element-property' can be used with deferred
    • org-make-tags-matcher: Add starred property operators, fix quoting
• Completion:
  • A brief tutorial on capf-autosuggest: fish like completion in Emacs (02:13)
  • snippets: The Doom Emacs snippets library
• Coding:
  • sqlcl-shell: Emacs interaction with Oracle SQLcl
  • How Magit improved my workflow and my Git knowledge
  • How to use Pylance in Emacs - Lemmy
  • treesitter-context : A package to show code context
  • Extending Emacs 29 sqlite-mode (cell navigation + edit) (Reddit)
  • Extending sqlite-mode (cell navigation + edits) (Irreal)
  • justl-mode release v0.13 (Reddit)
  • KarimAziev/igist: Work seamlessly with GitHub gists from Emacs. (communick)
  • bigquery-mode: GNU Emacs Major Mode for Editing and Executing BigQuery Scripts
  • sql-bigquery: Emacs SQL Mode Support for BigQuery
• Math:
  • literate-calc-mode.el: 🧮 Literate programming for M-x calc
• Shells:
  • 15 Useful Emacs Eshell Tips (12:18)
  • Eric MacAdie: Example of Eshell Use and Thoughts On Eshell
  • I created a WIP major mode for PowerShell (Reddit)
• Web:
  • Ewnium - The Emacs EWW version of Vimium plugin (Experimental!!!) (Reddit)
  • Preview HTML files with Dirvish and Xwidgets in Emacs
• Multimedia:
  • mpv and ffmpeg screenshots with the timecode in the filename and emacs tips (01:15:39)
• AI:
  • Discussion of whether an llm package should be in GNU ELPA or NonGNU ELPA
  • uniteai: Your AI Stack in Emacs: Voice-to-text, Local LLM, and GPT, +more. Uses `lsp' underneath (Reddit)
  • gpt-dictionary-sentence · GitHub
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • This is the story of how I came to use Emacs and other things (Reddit, lobste.rs)
  • communick.news: A welcome to new members and a call to help to make this place even better
  • Minutes of Org Meetup on Wed, Aug 9, 19:00 UTC+3
  • Eric MacAdie: 2023-08 Austin Emacs Meetup
• Other:
  • A Complete Tutorial on using DIFF in Emacs for File Comparison (18:56)
  • Emacs Goodies - #2 Midnight Mode (07:11, Reddit) - kills buffers periodically
  • GNU Emacs in a snap
  • Sorting in Emacs (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
  • Compilar Emacs desde el código fuente
  • Writing GNU Emacs extensions by Bob Glickstein | Open Library (1997)
  • calfw-blocks: Visual enhancements for the Emacs Calendar Framework (calfw)
  • Compiling GNU Emacs 30 on Debian 12 (Reddit)
  • Raise an Emacs window or run Emacs · GitHub using xdotool
  • James Dyer: Saving My Favourite Wallpapers (styli.sh and some Emacs Lisp)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • More explanation of Emacs's performance challenges and why shrinking the C core isn't necessarily the goal
    • Intricacies of expand-file-name, primitive functions, and find-file-name-handler
    • working around glibc bug, help wanted looking at the original bug in glibc
    • Opportunities to improve Emacs performance - regexp search, marker processing
  • * etc/NEWS (cl-print-ellipsis): Mention `backtrace-ellipsis`
  • Improve kill-ring-deindent-mode
  • New global minor mode `kill-ring-deindent-mode'
  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'savannah/master' into master-android-1
  • Enable visiting FIFOs as files
  • Make Emacs 21 compat aliases easy-mmode-* obsolete
• New packages:
  • anki-editor-view: Open anki-editor notes from Anki (MELPA)
  • binky: Jump between points like a rabbit (MELPA)
  • project-tasks: Efficient task management for your project (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, kbin, programming.dev, communick.news, lemmy, 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 29:
  • Emacs 29.1 released [LWN.net]​
  • Emacs 29.1 Released - No Longer Chokes On Very Long Lines - Phoronix
  • Emacs 29.1 mit neuen Features
  • Emacs 29 released! (12:29)
• Upcoming events:
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2023-07/msg00536.html Wed Aug 9 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 10 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Aug 11 1800 Europe/Paris
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Aug 11 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Aug 12 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Aug 12 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Aug 13 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Aug 16 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Formation Emacs Boost - paid training courses in EN and FR, in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain (Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Sticking closer to stock, finally made emacs click (Irreal)
  • podiki's Emacs Config
  • jcs-emacs: Emacs configuration works across all OSs
  • rileyrg's Emacs Customisation: Org Babel based emacs customisations.
  • Configurar Emacs usando emacs-lisp
  • Dired, Neotree and True Transparency - Configuring Emacs 05 (23:36)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Mike Zamansky: Learning Elisp 5 - Rot13 parts 2 and 3 (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Mike Zamansky: Learning Elisp - Rot13 conclusion (Irreal)
• Appearance:
  • James Dyer: Simplifying My Modeline (Irreal)
  • TIL about `glasses-mode`o^o
• Navigation:
  • meain/evil-textobj-tree-sitter now supports builtin treesit and works without evil-mode
• Org Mode:
  • James Dyer: Showing Org Agenda For The Year
  • Rickard Sundin's collection of recipes to build a simple website using org-publish
  • The Emacs Cat: Org Mode: Exporting Clock Tables (Irreal)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Plotting ASCII art charts from Org mode tables
  • Andrea: An easier way to try out Clojure libraries with ob-clojure and cider (Reddit)
  • Phil Newton: Updated Pocket highlights bookmarklet
• Completion:
  • One-Octet: Emacs: Yasnippet (in French)
  • yasnippet-capf: A basic completion at point function for yasnippets
• Coding:
  • Small TUTO to start to use emacs centaur with cpp.
  • Erik L. Arneson: Configuring Emacs 29.1 for Go Development
  • emacs-vs, a collection of emacs packages, aims to port Visual Studio and VSCode functionalities/plugins to the Emacs world. (Reddit)
  • Irreal: REPL Driven Programming (communick.news)
  • CC Mode is moving from sourceforge to savannah (due to privacy statement change; also uses mercurial instead of git)
• Shells:
  • I created a WIP major mode for PowerShell (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Use only one password in .authinfo with mu4e and smtpmail-send
• Doom Emacs:
  • Emacs(Doom) | Установка | Первые шаги | Выбор пакетов (01:05:10)
• Fun:
  • Emacs Goodies - #1 Type Break Mode (09:19)
• AI:
  • lepisma/matplotllm: LLM Assisted data visualization system in Emacs (Reddit)
  • emacs-gpt (01:05)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • A lit'l SVG "Made with Emacs" button
• Other:
  • What's new in Emacs 30? (8:00, Reddit, Irreal)
  • Emacs is My New Window Manager (2015? HN, Irreal)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs 29s sqlite-mode (HN, Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: sqlite-mode goodies
  • Climacs: Version 1 of the Climacs editor.
• Emacs development:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: contribute to GNU Emacs core (21:43 YouTube, Reddit, Irreal)
  • Android port of Emacs to be merged into the main tree (change, HN)
  • More discussion of thread-related challenges, opportunities to improve things like vc
  • How to set up conditional dependencies
  • Explanation of special cases for MinGW build of Emacs
  • Make Emacs 21 compat aliases easy-mmode-* obsolete
  • Mark Emacs 20 color support compat aliases obsolete
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce 'cjk-ambiguous-chars-are-wide' (bug#64420).
  • * lisp/emacs-lisp/advice.el (defadvice): Mark as obsolete

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

Ihor Radchenko is organizing a new virtual Org meetup on Aug 9. Check it out!

• Emacs 29:
  • Emacs 29.1 released (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs, Irreal)
  • Mickey Petersen: What's New in Emacs 29.1? (Reddit, lemmy, Irreal)
  • What's new in Emacs 29 - Some Great New Features (12:19, Irreal)
  • Emacs Redux: Emacs 29.1 Released (programming.dev)
  • package.el from Emacs 29 added feature for easily upgrading packages. I just wrote a small wrapper script for it. (Reddit)
  • Erik L. Arneson: Installing Emacs 29.1 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Upcoming events:
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/294639359/ Wed Aug 2 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Aug 3 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Aug 4 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Aug 4 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Aug 5 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Aug 5 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/294960498/ Sat Aug 5 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Aug 6 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2023-07/msg00536.html Wed Aug 9 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 10 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Aug 11 1800 Europe/Paris
• Beginner:
  • たのしむ、Emacs: 修飾キーのきほん (06:25)
  • たのしむ、Emacs: カーソル移動系コマンド (07:25)
  • たのしむ、Emacs: テキスト編集コマンド (09:37)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Configurar Emacs usando emacs-lisp (0x0005) (43:54)
  • define a custom keybinding in emacs (01:49)
  • Magnus: Making keymaps prettier with general.el
  • Devil v0.6.0 released: Now easier to type M- than C-M- (example: , m x becomes M-x) (Reddit,)
  • 21天学会Emacs之第十四天：精选Emacs插件和我的Evil工作流 (21:31)
  • Viper: Built-in Vi Keys for Emacs - My Tweaks (08:13)
  • John Wiegley's literate Emacs configuration
  • slk500's Emacs Config
  • pprevos' Emacs configuration
  • Unixbhaskar's Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Mike Zamansky: Learning Elisp 4 - Rot13 part 1 (communick.news, Irreal)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: write a custom mode line (41:54, YouTube, Reddit, Irreal, Invidious)
  • indent-bars: fast, configurable indentation guide bars using font-lock and stipple patterns (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Window Commander: A minor mode for switching to windows or performing actions on them using IDs assigned to them automatically
• Writing:
  • Custom has: filter · emacs-citar/citar Wiki · GitHub
  • 0066. Emacs, howm, самоучитель (03:26)
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs and Pomodoro - My Workflow (07:13)
  • Jeremy Friesen: Dynamic Org Agenda List Based on Denote Keywords
  • Jeremy Friesen: Implementing Changes to Org-Mode Time Tracking
  • Jeremy Friesen: Revisiting My Org-Mode Time Tracking and Laying out a Different Direction
  • rolodex.org - This package provides a way to easily reference contacts in various org files (Reddit)
  • Tory Anderson: Tangling on org segment to a file with given permissons
  • org-timeblock: Get Google calendar view into your agenda timeline (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • ox: New option `org-export-expand-links'
• Coding:
  • GitHub - buzztaiki/lice-el: License And Header Template
  • Mickey Petersen: Combobulate: Editing and Searching with the new Query Builder (Reddit) - tree-sitter
  • Unwound Stack: Emacs as a Rust IDE
• Shells:
  • Terminal Velocity: Eshell, vterm, and Eat - System Crafters Live! (01:52:08)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Email configuration for Emacs (r/emacs, r/planetemacs) - Mail-in-a-box, isync, mu4e
  • Tony Zorman: Notmuch: Warn on Empty Subjects
• Doom Emacs:
  • doom-meow: A meow module for Doom Emacs (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • James Dyer: Shrinking Media With The Help Of Emacs
  • filktex support
  • Viewing Videos in EWW(!?) (Emacs 29.1 required)
  • Search Youtube with w3m or Emacs eww using Invidious (01:00:45)
• AI:
  • Khoj AI: Chat Offline with your Second Brain using Llama 2 (Reddit, HN)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: A cure for JavaScript fatigue? - chatgpt-shell
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • System Crafters Newsletter: Issue #1 (Reddit) site; sorting Org tasks, filling; devil
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: my Free Software Foundation “working together” page
• Other:
  • romkan.el: Romaji/Kana conversion library for Emacs. (HN)
  • Introduction to ekg, the Emacs Knowledge Graph (Feb 2023, Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs: scan this QR/bar code (Reddit, Irreal)
  • On Emacs GUI libraries (Reddit)
  • A bad Emacs hair day (Reddit)
  • Android Emacs now appears to be stable
  • Tinylisp and Multi-threaded Emacs
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Continued discussion re: concurrency via isolated process/thread, goals and challenges
    • Follow up on LaTeX filter performance
  • Drop duplicate vietnamese-tcvn coding system
  • New user option 'image-dired-thumb-naming'
  • notifications: Allow to use Icon Naming Specification for app-icon
  • New option 'image-dired-thumb-naming' (bug#61394)
  • New user option 'uniquify-dirname-transform'
  • Fix build –with-sound on NetBSD and OpenBSD
• New packages:
  • buildbot: A Buildbot client for emacs (GNU ELPA)
  • company-spell: Autocompleting spelling for Company (MELPA)
  • igist: List, create, update and delete GitHub gists (MELPA)
  • nezburn-theme: A low contrast color theme for Emacs (inspired by zenburn). (MELPA)
  • term-project: Terminal management for project.el (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, kbin, programming.dev, communick.news, lemmy, 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 29:
  • Emacs 29.1 RC1 is out
  • What's New in Emacs 29 - Some Great New Features (Reddit)
  • Irreal: Emacs 29.1 RC1
• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jul 26 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 27 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Jul 28 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Jul 29 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Jul 29 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Jul 30 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/294639359/ Wed Aug 2 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Aug 3 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Aug 4 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/294960498/ Sat Aug 5 1100 America/Los_Angeles
• Emacs configuration:
  • What emacs packages do you guys use?
  • starbreaker's Emacs configuration as a literate program created with Org Mode.
  • Built a webpage tangling together my literate config (config, HTML)
  • goofansu/rune/config.org
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Listful Andrew: Democratize can now import shortdoc, bringing demos of native Emacs functions
  • How to programmatically re-write your Elisp code with ‘el-search’ and ‘el-search-refactor’ (Or) How to De-‘dash’, De-‘s’ and De-‘f’ your Elisp Libraries (lemmy)
  • Emacs self-insert-command and quoted-insert. Hot Lispy tip. (02:24)
  • Emacs Lisp Cheat Sheet for Clojure Developers (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: introduction to the ef-themes Maris variants
• Navigation:
  • Charles Choi: Moving Text Elegantly in Emacs (Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • How I organize my life in org-mode - column view
  • Data Analysis with Emacs Org Mode: Tables and AWK Source Blocks (Reddit)
  • org-agenda is great with org-roam
  • One-Octet: Org-mode: Écrire une lettre
  • James Dyer: Defining Categories in Org Files for Hugo
  • Marcin Borkowski: Org Clive - a new Org-mode-based blogging engine
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Denote version 2.0.0
• Coding:
  • Andrea: scala-cli-repl: a Scala REPL based on scala-cli (Reddit)
• Math:
  • Show R plots on a separate buffer | Fred Gruber
• Web:
  • nicolas-graves/ibrowse.el: Interact with your browser from Emacs (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • lem.el - client library and UI for Lemmy (lemmy)
• Multimedia:
  • chordpro-mode.el - Major mode for ChordPro lead sheet file format (Reddit)
  • Emacs - text mode to edit svg images (05:49)
• AI:
  • TabNine Chat now available on Emacs
  • GPT-Commit in Action: Real-world Examples and Benefits | Infinite Adventures (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Eric MacAdie: 2023-07 Austin Emacs Meetup
• Other:
  • SqrtMinusOne/biome: Bountiful Interface to Open Meteo for Emacs (Reddit) - weather forecasts
  • Emacs Multithreading: How Hard Could It Be? (Reddit, Irreal)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Trying to understand why TeXLive 2023 runs filter functions more in Emacs
    • Coding systems vietnamese-vscii and vietnamese-tcvn - duplicates?
    • Different concurrency approaches Re: Concurrency via isolated process/thread
      • also asynchronous IO
    • Re: Licensing issue: Emms has been offered support to read the metadata for SNES SPC files. OK with Emacs?
    • LSP vs Emacs indentation [Was: bug#64784: 30.0.50; Eglot: Lisp error: (w
  • * etc/NEWS: Announce the new option 'mouse-prefer-closest-glyph'.
  • Add inhibit-remote-files and without-remote-files
  • Custom var python-interpreter-args (bug#64397)
  • Expose the ``cancellation'' of touch events to Lisp
• New packages:
  • chordpro-mode: Major mode for ChordPro lead sheet file format (MELPA)
  • flycheck-buf-lint: Flycheck checker for protobuf with buf.build (MELPA)
  • tabnine: An unofficial TabNine package with TabNine Chat supported (MELPA)
  • teleport: Integration for tsh (goteleport.com) (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, kbin, programming.dev, communick.news, lemmy, 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:
  • Need help to generate logs for webkit bugs to bring video capability to Emacs!
• Upcoming events:
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jul 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Jul 21 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Jul 22 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Jul 22 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Jul 22 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Jul 23 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jul 26 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 27 0030 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emerging from dotemacs bankruptcy the hard way: package management (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Tips: enhance vim insert mode with many Emacs keybindings
  • my cool new emacs (11:39)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Mike Zamansky: Learning Elisp 2 - variables (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Mike Zamansky: Learning Elisp 3 - functions (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Emacs Notes: Augment output of "C-h f" (describe-function) with usage examples
• Appearance:
  • Zachary Kanfer: Automatially Balance Your Emacs Windows (Irreal)
• Navigation:
  • An Emacs package that goes back to the Dinosaurs: Avy (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Charles Choi: Using Ediff in 2023
  • T. V. Raman: Ergonomic Buffer Selection On The Emacs Audio Desktop
• Dired:
  • Alex Bennée: dired-rsync 0.7 released
• Dired:
  • Emacs - Play videos and open files in any application (03:05)
• Org Mode:
  • Publishing Book with Emacs and OrgMode
  • Nano agenda (WIP) (Reddit)
  • One-Octet: Org-mode: Exportation PDF et le français
  • Org development:
    • org-store-link: Move already stored link to front by default
    • lisp/org-element.el: Add new timestamp property :range-type
• Coding:
  • susam/emacs4cl: A tiny DIY kit to set up vanilla Emacs for Common Lisp programming (Irreal)
  • What dev feature is available in emacs but not in the current mainstream IDEs ? (Irreal)
  • I started using some new feature in emacs, to replicate vscode (Reddit)
  • Visual Studio Code (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • oatmeal: "Build your own #TweetDeck with #Emacs…" - Emacs.ch
• Multimedia:
  • Watch YouTube Using Emacs | Yeetube.el Demo (02:24)
• Fun:
  • Playing Tetris in Emacs (03:07)
• AI:
  • Introducing GPT-Commit: An Emacs Package for AI-Generated Commit Messages
  • UniteAI: Interact with your AI Stack in your Editor (Reddit)
  • Using YASnippet to create prompt templates for Chatgpt-Shell (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: ChatGPT visits the Emacs doctor (Reddit, HN)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • On using Emacs for 20 years | Gabor Torok
  • Attracting new people - Lemmy
  • Crafter Q&A: Emacs, Guix, and more! - System Crafters Live (02:02:05)
  • Famous Programers with Repetitive Strain Injury (HN)
  • What do you all think about (setq sentence-end-double-space nil)? (Irreal)
• Other:
  • Emacs GUI library (Reddit, HN)
  • Access Your Password-Manager from Emacs on Linux Using KeePassXC
  • annotate.el 2.0.1 released - add annotations to arbitrary files without changing the files themselves (with export and import). (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Drawing ASCII art charts in Emacs buffers
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • New branch feature/named-lambdas.
    • Android update: new prebuilts that can access Termux files and program data
    • Suggestions for improving a define-widget that uses value-to-external and value-to-internal
    • Some limitations of emacs-async
    • Emacs for Android [LWN.net]​ (Reddit, HN)
  • cl-print: Allow expanding the contents of hash-tables
  • cl-print: Put buttons on ellipses
  • Port NaN, infinity handling better to VAX
  • Add support for explicitly-remote commands in Eshell
• New packages:
  • starhugger: Hugging Face/AI-powered text & code completion client (MELPA)
  • tiktoken: Count BPE Tokens (MELPA)
  • wildcharm-light-theme: Port of vim-wildcharm (light) colorscheme (MELPA)
  • wildcharm-theme: Port of vim-wildcharm colorscheme (MELPA)
  • yeetube: YouTube/Invidious Front End (MELPA)

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

Atelier emacs (Montpellier) met last week instead of this week. Sorry, I forgot to update the calendar!

• Help wanted:
  • Community improvements to the Emacs Widget Library manual?
• Upcoming events:
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Jul 14 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Jul 15 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Jul 15 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Jul 16 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jul 19 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 Jul 22 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore (announcement)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Charles Choi: Surprise and Emacs Defaults (Irreal)
  • Magnus: general.el and two ways to define keybindings
  • App Launchers, Dashboard & Language Support - Configuring Emacs 04 (43:44)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Mike Zamansky: Learning Elisp 1 (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Finding a common prefix of a set of strings
  • plz.el v0.7 released (HTTP client library for Emacs Lisp) (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • News: right-aligned modeline (and more)
  • TIL: variable pitch mode - Lemmy
• Navigation:
  • New Package: Peek - create peek view below/above cursor point to show things
• Dired:
  • James Dyer: Dired Duplicate Here Revisited
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Duplicate this! (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: dired-preview version 0.1.0
  • Image dired to manage images in Emacs (03:00)
• Org Mode:
  • Building My BASB in Emacs - 2023 Capstone Report
  • Helpful function: delete-current-daily-note-and-goto-previous-one
  • Will Schenk: Updating date in org file (Updating #+date)
  • Emacs Org Lint Is A Tool To Check Org Files Syntax 2023_07_10_02:57:14 (06:16)
  • One-Octet: Org-mode: Dupliquer une note
  • One-Octet: Org-mode: Dynamic block (in French)
  • One-Octet: Org-mode: Index dynamique de documents Org-mode
  • Org development:
    • lisp/org.el: Add final hooks to S-/M-/S-M-cursor commands
• Coding:
  • Tweaking Emacs for Ruby Development in 2023 · John Hamelink (@johnhamelink, HN, lemmy)
  • prog-face-refine now on melpa! (Reddit)
  • env-commander.el – Per-directory env setup for shell commands
  • Heroku.el — Magit like interface for Heroku CLI
• Shells:
  • My emacs eshell configuration, aliases, and tweaks (Reddit, Irreal)
• Web:
  • Browsing the Web with Emacs (05:22, HN)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Managing email with Notmuch and Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • I connected Emacs Lisp to Twitch chat to improve their behavior (profanity warning) (20:39, Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • ~thanosapollo/yeetube.el - Emacs YouTube/Invidious Front-End (Lemmy)
• Fun:
  • xkcd-303-mode.el – Minor mode for explaining why you're not working (Reddit)
  • XCB Boomshine by wasamasa (lemmy)
• AI:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: chatgpt-shell v0.60.1 updates
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • From Lunar Phases to Yank-Pop (Reddit) - Mastering Emacs book club summary
• Other:
  • DarkBuffalo/gocryptfs.el: a tool to help you mount an encrypted folder using gocryptfs. (lemmy)
  • Useful resource Awesome Emacs (06:59)
  • Navigating the Emacs calendar (05:14, Irreal)
  • Display Analog Clock in Emacs (02:33)
  • Warum Emacs mein Lieblings Programm ist für Dokumente und programmieren #emacs #german (24:01)
  • 0x00. Shell, navigation & 0x01. Emacs & [Optional] Vagrant #alx #linux #softwareengineer #ubuntu (15:08)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Eshell manual is (hopefully) complete! (Irreal) - please take a quick look over to help make sure it's reasonably complete
    • Modifier keys using the toolbar for Android port of Emacs
    • Re: Concurrency via isolated process/thread
    • Explanation of difference between move_it_in_display_line_to and buffer_posn_from_coords Re: Moving point after character when clicking latter half of it
    • Parts of global state used in redisplay
    • Maybe add another argument to the interactive spec?
    • Philosophical benefits of Emacs Lisp clients that replace Web/Javascript clients, with examples
  • Add special '$GID' variable in Eshell
  • * etc/NEWS: Document changes to coding-system mnemonics.
  • New user option 'ediff-floating-control-frame'
  • Support right-align in mode-line
  • `remote-file-name-access-timeout' being 0 is equal to nil
  • Apply remote-file-name-access-timeout in desktop.el and recentf.el
• New packages:
  • corfu-candidate-overlay: Show first candidate in an overlay while typing (MELPA)
  • counsel-toki: Counsel support for toki pona dictionary lookup (MELPA)
  • dired-preview: Automatically preview file at point in Dired (GNU ELPA)
  • gpt-commit: Commit messages with GPT in Emacs (MELPA)
  • mess: Front-end for MAME MESS (MELPA)
  • prog-face-refine: Refine faces for programming modes (MELPA)
  • semantic-thrift: Thrift LALR parser (MELPA)

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