• 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)

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):
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jan 29 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 30 0130 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 configuration:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: organise your init file (outline-minor-mode or Org literate config) (YouTube 24:53, Irreal)
  • First Configuration - Emacs Speedrun: Ep 02 (04:40)
  • Simple guide for emacs plugins (07:54)
  • Experimental XDG support · emacscollective/no-littering · Discussion #252 · GitHub (@ross@social.rossabaker.com)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • enhanced-evil-paredit - Prevent Parenthesis Imbalance when Using Emacs Evil with Paredit
  • Release 1.0.5: compile-angel.el - Speed up Emacs by Byte/Native-Compiling all Elisp files (Alternative to: auto-compile) (Reddit)
  • if-let, when-let 等 FOO-LET 宏的变化历史
  • Xah Talk Show 2025-01-23 Ep609 Emacs Lisp Coding, xah-increment-number (54:25)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs / highlight logical block at point · GitHub
  • James Dyer: Creating a small local elisp rainbow-mode solution
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: show-font version 0.2.0
  • brutalist-theme: Brutalist theme
• Navigation:
  • Keeping Emacs Windows Still: Sinister (Reddit) - paywalled, limited to Github sponsors
    • hkjels/mini-ontop.el: Prevent windows from jumping on minibuffer activation (Reddit)
    • stillness-mode: a mode to make your windows stay still! (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: beframe version 1.2.0
  • Emacs - Recursive Edit (22:51)
  • outline-indent: Folding text based on indentation (Alternative to origami and yafolding) - Release 1.1.1 (Reddit)
  • easysession.el - Easily persist and restore your Emacs editing sessions (Release 1.1.2) (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • james-stoup/org-mode-table-tutorial: A simplified guide to mastering Org Mode table functions (Reddit)
  • yibie/org-luhmann: Luhmann's numbering system for org-mode (Reddit)
  • yibie/org-numbering: A flexible and customizable numbering system for Org mode headings, supporting various international numbering schemes. (r/orgmode, r/emacs)
  • Org-Remarkのマニュアル #Emacs - Qiita (@qiita@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com)
  • project-org-todo-capture : utility package to TODO from an Emacs project.
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Exporting Org Mode Tables to LaTeX - Matt's Musings (Irreal)
    • Marcin Borkowski: org-use-sub-superscripts
    • Write, code and publish with Emacs Org Mode (2024) - example of org-tufte
• Denote:
  • Tips for getting Denote and Howm to work together (@jbaty@social.lol)
• Completion:
  • Enhancing icomplete-vertical-mode in Emacs: A Follow-Up (Reddit)
  • consult-dir–zoxide-dirs
• Coding:
  • gavv/transient-compile: Dynamic transient menu for compilation. (Reddit)
  • konrad1977/flycheck-overlay: A beautiful inline flycheck overlay for Emacs (Reddit)
  • DetachHead/basedpyright: pyright fork with various type checking improvements, improved vscode support and pylance features built into the language server (Reddit)
  • Setting up Basedpyright LSP with Emacs Eglot (27:13)
  • Tim Heaney: Roc programming
  • Christian Tietze: Using 2 Editors Because Xcode Is Dumb
  • Setting Up Emacs for Clojure Development
  • Noj v2 - getting started - from raw data to a blog post - YouTube - Clojure for data science (@daslu.bsky.social)
  • JJ-FZF 0.25.0: Major New Features - Emacs hook for auto-snapshots (@timj@social.tchncs.de)
  • 【TDDへの理解とEmacs】エンジニアの楽園 vim-jp ラジオ #28 (34:56)
• Shells:
  • [eshell-smart feature proposal] Preserve previous prompt
  • Thanos Apollo: Emacs As Your Terminal Emulator [Video]​ (YouTube 07:45)
• Web:
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Thinking About Opening URLs in Emacs, and Wayland, and Stuff
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mekeor/citeff: Emacs package for citing format=flowed mails - Codeberg.org (@mekeor@mastodon.catgirl.cloud)
  • How to set up Gnus in Emacs for Gmail in seven minutes #email #gnus #emacs #gmail #emacselements (08:11)
  • Jeremy Friesen: On Elfeed and Backups
• Multimedia:
  • xenodium/ready-player 0.26.1: improved metadata support for flac and ogg (@xenodium@indieweb.social)
  • Edit an open svg file in a separate buffer and update the view after the save
  • YeeTube: Emacs YouTube Front End
• AI:
  • Clojure visual-tools 30 - Workflow Demos 4: LLMs in Emacs for Clojure (01:39:50)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2025-01-22 / week 03
  • Of all Emacs features and possible ways to use, what were some of the hardest things to learn or get used to? (lemmy.ml)
  • Why I use emacs (for now) (06:06)
  • My Journey from IntelliJ IDEA to Minimal Configuration Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Of two minds about Emacs (Reddit)
  • Call for volunteers — r/emacs moderation
  • The DIY FOSS cyborg – Dustycloud Brainstorms (lobste.rs)
  • The 7 Best Text Editors I Have Used #coding #emacs #neovim #acme #programming #emacselements (13:10)
  • twtxt, la red social en texto plano, descentralizada y minimalista | Podcast República Web (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Other:
  • A platform that moulds to your needs (Reddit, lobste.rs, Irreal)
  • Made a fun elisp tool to display key-chords and highlight keys of the current command on virtual keyboards
  • An Emacs Wall Clock (Reddit)
  • chenyanming/nov-web: Read epub in web by injecting the javascript and css into the epub file. (Reddit)
  • Yi Tang: Setup ssh-agent Systemd Service for Emacs
  • Emacs 30.0.93 pretest is now available for Android via F-Droid (Reddit, lemmy.ml)
  • Benjamin Slade: Guix, XIM, Emacs, Multi_key, Shft+SPC
  • the-emacs-problem (2005) (Reddit, Irreal)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Improving prefix map names - suggestion for package maintainers: name prefix maps
  • In Elisp manual document new functions for changing window layouts
  • Display separators on tty menus with display table entries
  • Add 'treesit-forward-comment' with 'forward-comment-function'
  • ibuffer: Display column titles in header line
  • ibuffer: New defcustom `ibuffer-human-readable-size'
• New packages:
  • kql-mode: Major mode for highlighting KQL (MELPA)
  • locs-and-refs: Define locations and references for text files and buffers (MELPA)
  • minuet: Code completion using LLM (MELPA)
  • typespec-ts-mode: Major mode for TypeSpec (using tree-sitter) (MELPA)
  • xmltokf: Functional wrappers around xmltok (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):
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jan 29 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 30 0130 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Programming in Emacs | Utah.edu
• Emacs configuration:
  • I wrote a simple "profile" switcher/manager for emacs. - symlink script as an alternative to --init-directory
  • Configuring emacs is actually easy (12:07)
  • redguardtoo/elpa-mirror: Create local emacs package repository (Reddit)
  • Emacs and XDG sitting on a tree (Reddit, Irreal)
  • csh/dotfiles: My public configuration files. - Codeberg.org (@kolev@babka.social)
  • Mi configuración personal en Emacs | Hanabi Factory (@indymnv@fosstodon.org)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • New package for testing buffer display and minibuffer interaction with ERT. (Reddit)
  • Xah Talk Show 2025-01-16 Ep607 Emacs Lisp, HTML Ruby Markup Chinese, Jump to String (41:40)
• Appearance:
  • nova - SVG Frames
• Navigation:
  • Finding Text in Files Ergonomically - Announcing recent-rgrep (Reddit)
  • Tip for project-forget-project to ignore TRAMP
• Dired:
  • Experimenting with audio metadata dired overlays (Reddit)
  • rtrppl/cleandesk: Rapid file & folder management for Dired/Emacs. (@laotang@mastodon.social) - added treeview in Org
• Writing:
  • Short elisp snippet to run TeX commands just in region or buffer
• Org Mode:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Org todo and agenda basics (YouTube 45:28)
  • View Only the Day, With Org Agenda | Janusworx (@jason@toots.dgplug.org)
  • Forking from a Step in a Stacked Habit // Take on Rules (@takeonrules@dice.camp) - considering structure for managed business objectives
  • More problems with my projects and meetings in org-mode | The Art Of Not Asking Why (@jtr@fosstodon.org)
  • mastering emacs note-taking in a week (as an engineering student) (15:10)
  • Taking org-agenda documentation to the next level - saving copies of org-agenda
  • Annoncing LTE - Large Table Edition in Org and Markdown buffers
  • Happy to release: Org-supertag 2.0.0 (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: A minor Org Clive improvement - going up the headings to find the one to export to the blog
  • Triggering Orgzly sync on Android when Org file changes (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Org development:
    • org-(export,icalendar)-with-timestamps: active-exclude-diary option
    • ox-man: Add support for #+DATE: keyword
    • org-element-create: Ignore nils in CHILDREN
• Denote:
  • John Rakestraw | Taking note in emacs: a move to denote (@johnrakestraw@mastodon.online)
• Completion:
  • Simple prototype (insert and evaluate elisp) inline autosuggesting for eshell, comint and in-buffer (using dabbrev)
  • Taming Slurm with Yasnippet - plantarum.ca (@plantarum@ottawa.place)
• Coding:
  • A Modern and Extensible IDE for Guile Scheme - YouTube (@danielsz.bsky.social) - nREPL
  • tarides/ocaml-eglot: An overlay on Eglot for editing OCaml code using LSP (@xvw@merveilles.town)
  • A Simpler Way to Deal with Java Sources in CIDER | Meta Redux (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • creates missing test file with skeleton namespace declaration · 7de1c210f4 - jasalt/.emacs.d - Codeberg.org (@jasalt.bsky.social) - for phel
  • Yet one more trick to speed up xcodebuild from Emacs (factor 10x) (Reddit) - block developerservices2.apple.com
  • Emacsair! A walk through the Magit interface (@bignose@fosstodon.org) (2017)
  • Tip on setting magit-diff-refine-hunk to t or all to make reading diffs better
  • Reviewing GitHub PRs in Emacs (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Emacs is the best text editor | abarry.us - vterm recommendation
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • pivaldi/notmuch-multi: Prettified Emacs Notmuch UI For Multiple Accounts (@_PI_@fosstodon.org, Reddit)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Hyprland + DOOM Emacs workflow (10:58)
• Multimedia:
  • elisp-tikz: make tikz diagrams from elisp (@mostlypat@mastodon.sdf.org)
  • sndd.el demo, some frog sounds from emacs (00:27)
  • hella-sounds.el, evented audio sfx in emacs (01:40)
• Fun:
  • Matt-Int/hexmap.el: Emacs package for drawing hex maps (@matt1126@mstdn.social)
• AI:
  • Semantic Search and On-Device ML in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Tech Demo: Completing functions using gptel
  • minuet-ai.el, code completion using OpenAI, Claude, Codestral, Deepseek, and more providers.
  • Use LLMs to Read and Summarize GitHub Notifications inside Emacs (02:21)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2025-01-15 / week 02 - do not edit; smart-dash; beginning of line; compile; find-sibling-file-search
  • your reason to switch to emacs/ or was it your first editor??
  • What are your favourite Emacs lectures?
  • Why is there so little video content online from competitive programmers using Emacs?
  • How does the Emacs community protects itself against supply chain attacks ?
  • Sacha Chua: Changing planet.emacslife.com
• Other:
  • Much Ado about Emacs 006 - Bicycle For Your Mind (Reddit) - minibuffer, ^M, outline, reveal-in-osx-finder, cycle-spacing, transients
  • Creating a New Website for Emacs Packages in Guile | Real World Scheme Programming (18:07)
    • Scraping Emacs Package Repositories - Crafter Hours (02:32:11) - in Scheme
  • Arranging Elementary Objects in GNU Emacs: Dynamic Knowledge Structuring in RCD Notes and Hyperscope (00:22)
  • Going Back to Graphical Emacs? - System Crafters Live! (01:54:56)
  • Srijan Choudhary: 2025-01-15-001 - C-tab, C-S-tab, C-iso-lefttab
  • Tools to Focus (@howard@pdx.sh)
  • Is there a market for a emacs handheld (PDA)
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: WordPress Statistics for Emacs
  • Nix Overlay for Emacs builds with new experimental concurrent GC on branch 'feature/igc'
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • scratch/igc renamed to feature/igc [was: scratch/igc as a feature branch
    • the beginnings of dtrace support (description) anyone have a dtrace client they like?
    • Some notes on Android Java GC memory barriers and MPS on Android
    • Planning for the change for lexical-binding defaults
  • Make NSM warn for RSA key exchange on medium severity
  • Make NSM warn for TLS 1.1
  • Make NSM warn for DH key exchange on medium severity
  • Property definition-type becomes find-function-type-alist
  • (cl-block, cl-return-from): Fix bug#75498
  • (asm-mode): Fix bug#75542
  • Improve usability and documentation of Iroquoian input methods
• New packages:
  • avy-act: Commands that let avy act from a distance (MELPA)
  • motion-selection-mode: A minor mode to add a text editing grammar (MELPA)
  • trope-mode: Major mode to edit TV Tropes format ".trp" files (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Bluesky #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, kbin, 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):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #1 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/cb726f44-8b7f-44f7-91a5-fc9d3f9ad7a9 Tue Jan 14 1900 CET
  • Talk by Andrew Tropin - Arei/Ares: A modern, extensible IDE for Guile Scheme https://www.meetup.com/guix-social/events/304634420/ Thu Jan 16 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Jan 17 0200 Asia/Singapore (@futurile@mastodon.social)
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jan 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 16 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • HispaEmacs Día 1 https://hispa-emacs.org/ Fri Jan 17 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Jan 18 0100 Asia/Singapore (@hispaemacs@fosstodon.org)
  • HispaEmacs Día 2 https://hispa-emacs.org/ Sat Jan 18 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Sun Jan 19 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Jan 25 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs Redux: Ensure all packages are installed by default with use-package (Irreal)
  • Emacs Redux: Emacs and XDG sitting on a tree (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • How's Casual working for you? · kickingvegas/casual · Discussion #139 · GitHub (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • #YayEmacs 8: which-key-replacement-alist (01:00)
  • Split Window Right Quality of Life Enhancements
  • My Emacs Configuration System. (Reddit)
  • otfrom/pembrokensis - Emacs config (@otfrom@functional.cafe)
  • A new year a new rewrite of my emacs config (01:14:38)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Macro to expand and run a macro (@HaraldKi@nrw.social)
  • Listful Andrew: Sparkly — Create multiline sparks ▁▂▆▄▃▇▅ (Emacs package)
  • Listful Andrew: Sparkly Stats — Stats and sparks from daily data (Emacs package)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: custom Oxford University calendar weeks
• Appearance:
  • ultra-scroll v0.2: scroll emacs like lightning ⚡🖱️⚡
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: the next Fontaine version will use a custom theme
• Navigation:
  • Recursive project search in Emacs (17:57)
• Org Mode:
  • Taking control of your life with org mode | Alberto Raimondi (2021, @bignose@fosstodon.org)
  • Pomodoros with org-timer · Stéfan's blog (@stefanv@fosstodon.org)
  • Treemap visualization of an Org Mode file (Reddit)
  • My Literate System Configuration Using Org + Nixos (Reddit)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Orgmunge v0.30 released
    • Using Emacs Lisp in Org-mode (@metalisp@fosstodon.org)
    • How to utilize org publish for a modern Website layout, including template and integrated css production; with a helping hand from R.
    • Charles Choi: Converting a Markdown Region to Org Revisited (Irreal)
    • The NEW (and only) org-protocol chrome extension you need - paw lets you highlight text and send to Org
    • Org Latex: standalone (@cnngimenez@mastodon.social)
    • Org Babel, Mermaid JS, and fixing "Failed to launch the browser process" on Ubuntu 24
  • Org development:
    • org-timer-done-hook: Run before the timer is stopped
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: denote-sequence.el will also support alphanumeric sequences
• Coding:
  • One Emacs Buffer, Many Major Modes (01:50)
  • eglot-selran gives you access to the language server's textDocument/selectionRange API (@HaraldKi@nrw.social)
  • mkdevenv: how I manage/use isolated development environments with TRAMP, GNU Make, and Containerfiles (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • transient for ncspot control in the eat terminal (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • #YayEmacs 9: Trimming/adding silences to get to a target; subed-record-sum-time (YouTube)
  • Automatically correcting phrasing and misrecognized words in speech-to-text captions by using a script
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2025-01-08 / week 01 - electric-parens, helpful, finding files,
  • Corwin Brust - Emacs, Pedagogy, Sysops, Game dev - interview - Community Video (@screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)
  • Trying emacs and a life lesson (08:41)
  • Devtherapy Episode #6 - NIka Otiashvili | დაზეპირებული OOP ცუდია, SDL, Emacs, Neovim, Indie თამაშები (01:49:38)
• Other:
  • James Dyer: Ediff Comparing Regions (Irreal)
  • emacs & passwords - how are people managing their passwords these days?
  • Mike Zamansky: Extracting Emails (with Emacs) (YouTube, 17:57, Reddit, Irreal)
  • Bozhidar Batsov: macOS No Longer Ships with Emacs (HN)
  • Native graphical Emacs on Android | Martin's Blog (@mstempl@mastodon.social)
  • Hacky way to launch a new Emacs client frame as a virtual terminal, using a DE/WM shortcut
  • zsh function for launching a function in Emacs and focusing on it - @chmouel@fosstodon.org
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: scratch/igc: Keeping a TODO list?
  • New symbol property 'definition-type' used by 'find-function'.
  • bibtex-string-file-path and bibtex-file-path are lists of directories
  • ibuffer: Add the "Recency" column
  • Add new file window-x.el
  • Have 'split-window' optionally resurrect deleted windows
  • Use the treesit thing 'list' with symbol property 'treesit-thing-symbol'
  • Fix documentation of Iroquoian input methods
  • Improve docstring of image-dired-show-all-from-dir
• New packages:
  • acton-mode: Major mode for editing Acton source code (MELPA)
  • comint-histories: Many comint histories (MELPA)
  • hl-printf: Minor mode for highlighting "printf" format specifiers (MELPA)
  • lte: Large Table Edition in Org and Markdown buffers (MELPA)
  • pdf-meta-edit: Edit PDF metadata (MELPA)
  • turtles: Screen-grabbing test utility (MELPA)

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• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jan 8 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 9 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jan 10 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/305422188/ Sat Jan 11 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jan 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 16 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Setting default font via .Xdefaults Increases startup performance
  • Irreal: 🥩 Red Meat Friday: Where Should Your Configuration Live?
  • Ross A. Baker: Starter Emacs configuration (@ross@social.rossabaker.com)
  • GNU Emacs From Scratch | starbreaker.org (@bluesky.starbreaker.org)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • What's your day 1 sexp editing solution? (Reddit)
  • Listful Andrew: Exemplify-Align — Align examples' arrows (Emacs package)
  • Listful Andrew: Exemplify-Eval — Create arrowified examples from sexps (Emacs package)
  • Emacs Demo: Display Source in Help-buffer (2021) - the helpful package is handy too
• Appearance:
  • toggling between simplistic and default mode lines - mode-line/tenno-seremel-mode-line.el (@tennoseremel@lor.sh)
  • Emacs Theme Editor (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: spacious-padding version 0.6.0
  • Sky Watch | Emacs Themes: My Journey
  • Mito laser theme for Emacs.
• Navigation:
  • James Dyer: Emacs Quick Window Pt 4 - Further Tweaks
• TRAMP:
  • TRAMP with gokrazy.org devices (@zekjur@mas.to)
• Writing:
  • Precise Word Spacing in macOS Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Styling a Markdown one-line journal in Emacs
  • My holiday project: a Markdown Preview Language Server for live previewing of your Markdown writing in the browser.
• Org Mode:
  • The road to Emacs maximalism (HN)
  • Sort org-mode Todo items better (so high-priority, more-recently-scheduled items float to the top). · GitHub
  • ‎Revisiting my journaling habits in 2024 - org-todo, org-roam, org-roam-dailies
  • Distinguish Repeated Tasks in Org Agenda (Alex Popescu, Irreal)
  • (Released) org-supertag 1.0.0 Released: Unlock Workflows and Custom Commands with the New Behavior System (YouTube 4:08, Reddit)
  • emacsmirror/khalel: Import, edit and create calendar events through khal (@FrostyX@fosstodon.org)
  • Using Org Mode / Latex for Lesson Notes - Matt's Musings (Irreal)
  • Migrating my Blog from Wordpress to Org Mode - Matt's Musings
  • ‎Building a website with Org Mode (@julienxx@snac.nein.club)
  • Org development:
    • ob-tangle: Tangle BibTeX files with the standard .bib file extension
    • org-html-format-latex: Store LaTeX images alongside the HTML output
    • ob-tangle: source blocks without language can be tangled
    • org-datetree: Add additional tree types (e.g. quarter, month+week)
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: sequence notes with Denote (denote-sequence.el) (YouTube 24:19)
• Coding:
  • Dynamic highlighting of blocks using tree-sitter (Reddit)
  • Clojure visual-tools meeting 27 - Workflow Demos 1: Emacs, CIDER, VSCode Calva, Zulip (01:36:48)
  • Tiny package that allows to display typescript errors in a more human-readable format via lsp-mode (Reddit)
  • Using emacs-jupyter + jupyter kernel to send python code to a virtualenv (without a full jupyter) (Reddit)
  • portage-modes: Syntax highlighting when editing config files for Portage, the Gentoo Linux package manager (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Switch to magit or dired from zsh in the terminal
  • I built list of all (known) terminals - The Terminal Directory (Reddit)
• Web:
  • Anand Tamariya: Emacs: A non-intrusive browser
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • exitter: an Emacs X/Twitter client
  • mastodon.el: arbitrary tag group timelines
  • Discourse in emacs (soon)
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: Editing videos with Emacs and subed-record.el
  • Sacha Chua: Using image-dired to browse the latest screenshots from multiple directories
• AI:
  • Karthik Chikmagalur: Tool use with gptel: looking for testers! (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2025-01-01 / week 00, ispell, C-x C-x, use-package, completion
  • Why I Emacs - Kris Carta's personal blog
  • How I Emacs (#1) - Kris Carta's personal blog
  • Emacs 2024 Changes - Oliver Burn (@oliver@theblower.au)
  • This Time Is Going to Be Different. I Hope. - Emacs Long Term Review (07:50)
  • 【2025年最初のテーマはEmacs！？】エンジニアの楽園 vim-jp ラジオ #25 (33:25)
• Other:
  • 01: Getting Emacs & Native Dependencies (06:05, Reddit) - Nix
  • Shopping (Lists) with Emacs - Kris Carta's personal blog - AppleScript, Apple Reminders, Notion for meal planning (Irreal)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Killing all buffers visiting files in a certain directory
  • Compiling Emacs on Ubuntu (@vedang@fosstodon.org)
  • DarkBuffalo/kimai.el: Kimai Emacs Integration is an Emacs package that allows users to interact with the Kimai time-tracking application directly from Emacs. (@DarkBuffalo@mastodon.social)
  • Show HN: Emacs on a Kobo Clara BW ebook reader | Hacker News (HN)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: igc, macOS avoiding signals - MPS
    • Re: Tree-sitter maturity - abstract, mode-agnostic DOM?
    • Re: "Final" version of tty child frames - note about maybe moving frame-at from Lisp to C, different platforms
  • Enable extra flags in 'go-ts-mode' test commands
  • Don't always enable xterm-mouse-mode (bug#74833)
  • Remove gnudoit support from browse-url.el
  • Provide more flexibility for definition of BibTeX entries.
• New packages:
  • romanian-holidays: Romanian holidays (MELPA)

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• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jan 3 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Jan 4 d0000 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jan 8 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 9 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jan 10 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • Repaying emacs configuration debt (@naiquevin@fosstodon.org)
  • inktvis75/lv-emacs: My Emacs Configuration (@inktvis75.bsky.social)
  • Embarkを使う15の方法 | Emacs JP
  • kcarta/.emacs.d: My personal Emacs config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Watching variable changes - add-variable-watcher
  • log101: AoC was a great opportunity to learn Emacs
  • dimiro1/xid.el: An implementation of the XID specification (https://github.com/rs/xid) for Emacs. (Reddit)
  • Dibujando figuras con Emacs (@Jose_A_Alonso@mathstodon.xyz)
• Appearance:
  • Boxes everywhere (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ‘standard-themes’ version 2.2.0
• Navigation:
  • Alex Popescu: easysession.el Emacs Package for Handling Sessions
  • Emacs를 위한 트리 레이아웃 파일 탐색기 Treemacs 기본 사용법 - (emacsian ohyecloudy)
• TRAMP:
  • Cleanup TRAMP connections prior to sleeping with Hammerspoon
• Writing:
  • mhayashi1120/Emacs-langtool: LanguageTool for Emacs (@st3fan@fedi.caliandroid.de)
  • Howm tip: howm-list-toggle-title
  • Trope-Mode: An Emacs major mode for the TV Tropes markup language (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [TASK] Rewriting org-pcomplete into capf backend (was: Completions Registry)
  • Emacs for Students of Life🖊📖 (29:12)
  • Emacs for writing prose - Applications - Doom Emacs Discourse (2022, Irreal)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: How I handled projects in Emacs org-mode in 2024
  • Task Repeaters in Org Mode (@al3x@hachyderm.io)
  • Using Emacs and Org-mode as a static site generator (@ogbe.net)
  • Meeting notes #14 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]​] on Wed, Dec 11, 19:00 UTC+3 (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Org 2 Web Site
  • Keyboard Macros in Your Presentations (Reddit)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: tone down Org citations on demand
    • James Dyer: Exploring Static Website Publishing with Org Publish
    • Recreating the Cortex Theme Journal in Emacs Org Mode | Mark's Project Blog (@mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)
    • Sacha Chua: Linking to Org Babel source in a comment, and making that always use file links
    • Making Tag Pages in an Org Mode Blog (@randyridenour@zirk.us)
    • Capturing slack messages directly into Emacs orgmode inbox (Reddit)
    • Adding macOS tags to my Org-Roam File Organization Workflow (06:51)
  • Org development:
    • ox-odt: Avoid putting forbidden characters into ODT xml
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Document fixes in the org-protocol bookmarklets
    • ob-calc: Format vector and matrix results as Org tables
    • Add new option `org-edit-keep-region'
    • ox-beamer: Add onlyenv to the beamer environments
    • ox-texinfo: Support numeric values of `toc' in `#+OPTIONS'
    • Add `yank-media' handler for LibreOffice Calc tables
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: sequence notes with new ‘denote-sequence.el’
• Completion:
  • You can press SPC in the M-x minibuffer instead of "-".
• Coding:
  • Karthik Chikmagalur: Fringe Matters: Finding the Right Difference - diff-hl
  • Alvaro Ramirez: symbol-overlay-mc now on MELPA (Reddit)
  • The Emacs Cat: Python Programming in Emacs (Irreal)
  • Hyprlang-ts-mode is now on Melpa
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: sxhkdrc-mode version 1.1.0
  • Meta Redux: State of CIDER Survey (2024)
• Web:
  • chmouel/isgd.el: is.gd url shortener interface to emacs (@chmouel@fosstodon.org)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Notmuch tip: M-RET (notmuch-tree-from-search-thread)
  • Quickly Switch Between HTML and Plain Text in mu4e - Top Bug Net (Irreal)
• AI:
  • TIL: If you've issues with wrapping long lines in gptel.el, just edit the system message and tell it to break lines but not code
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2024-12-25 / week 52 - setq-mode-local, default t binding, nameless
  • How I Emacs (#1) - Kris Carta's personal blog - six months in
  • Sacha Chua: EmacsConf 2024 notes (long HN discussion)
  • Sacha Chua: emacs.tv (Reddit)
  • XEmacs internals manual (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • lets make a midi controller with qmk - YouTube (@pulusound.fi)
• Other:
  • xFA25E/pueue: Emacs interface for Pueue (@jnpn@mastodon.social) - task manager
  • Ledger: query and insert an account
  • Ledger tip: (add-hook 'ledger-report-mode-hook 'compilation-minor-mode)
  • Embracing the eternal Sexp wisdom with the GNU - configuring your life, workflows and websites with Lisps, Guile Scheme, Guix, Emacs, etc. (Reddit, HN)
  • Much Ado About Emacs 005 - Bicycle For Your Mind - notes, scroll page without moving point
  • hyperdrive.el v0.5.2 bugfix release
  • Emacs using the lucid toolkit is blazingly fast
  • [ANN] MoC. Buffer Text to Video & Presentation Content, Elisp Replay, and Related Gizmos (Reddit)
  • EmacsConf 2024 Playlist | Playlist
  • Irreal: PSA: The GPG/Emacs Interaction Bug Is Fixed
  • Emacs using the lucid toolkit is blazingly fast (Irreal)
  • Introducing Candyshop - Simplify Your Emacs Workspace on OSX!
  • enthdegree/kobo-emacs: Steps to get emacs running on a Kobo Clara BW
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • SIGPROF + SIGCHLD and igc: igc garbage collector and signals (possible refactor)
      • idea on how to make a safer profiler
    • Re: Some experience with the igc branch: to fork or not to fork
      • documentation about garbage collection
      • issues doing reverse debugging on Windows
      • thinking about how to get a backtrace
      • figuring out what needs to be done in the signal handler and what can be done outside it
    • Re: igc, macOS avoiding signals: using tracing frameworks?
    • Discussion with MPS people
    • Re: Tree-sitter maturity: vendoring the grammars
  • Treesit support for show-paren-mode (bug#75122)
  • Add new variable 'up-list-function' for 'treesit-up-list'
  • Add new variable 'down-list-function' for 'treesit-down-list'
  • Add new variable 'forward-list-function' for 'treesit-forward-list'
  • Make browser windows pop up when browsing URLs on Wayland
  • Drop support form gnome-moz-remote from browse-url
  • New: treesit-explore, treesit-aggregated-simple-imenu-settings; treesit-explore-mode now supports local parsers
  • Add treesit-language-display-name
• New packages:
  • hyprlang-ts-mode: Major mode for editing hyprland configuration files (MELPA)
  • org-shortcut: Bindings for shortcut.com in org-mode (MELPA)
  • portage-modes: Major modes for editing Portage config files (MELPA)
  • selected-window-contrast: Highlight by brightness of text and background (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, kbin, 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:
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Allow SPC to scroll todo/tag selection menu - for users with huge accessible fonts (was: Transient: accessibility problems for users who need to use large fonts)
• Emacs updates:
  • Emacs 30.0.93 pretest is available (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Emacs 31 News Stream VOD (01:26:53)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Dec 25 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Dec 26 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Dec 28 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore (announcement)
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jan 3 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Jan 4 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • 🧠💻 Emacs User Meetup - 38C3 (@cabhan@social.tchncs.de)
• Emacs configuration:
  • How to Share Your Emacs Configuration Between Different Machines (and Architectures) with Native Compilation (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Bringing Emacs Introspection & Debugging to Casual Suite (Reddit)
  • callnum.el; Sort library call numbers (Reddit)
  • Kisaragi Hiu: Emacs: turning parsed XML/HTML nodes back into text (encoding/printing/writing it out)
• Appearance:
  • Change theme by sunrise and sunset with circadian package
  • konrad1977/neofusion-emacs: Emacs port for NeoFusion theme from Neovim (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: two new Standard themes (‘standard-light-tinted’ and ‘standard-dark-tinted’)
• Navigation:
  • Extending Built-In Emacs Bookmark Package (@takeonrules@dice.camp)
  • Rethinking Minibuffer Movement (Reddit)
  • Lisp expression replacements with query-regexp-replace (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Automatic fallback to /sudo: for local dired commands
• Writing:
  • Configuration for super-fast Latex input using AucTeX, CDLatex and a bit of YaSnippet. See karthinks.com/software/latex-input-for-impatient-scholars
  • Using Howm in Emacs for Notes and Tasks - System Crafters Live! (02:11:21)
• Org Mode:
  • New Package: org-ranker.el - sort org headlines by custom rules (Reddit)
  • Org-supertag v0.0.2 released - enhance tag system of org-mode (Reddit)
  • Emacs Org Attach Various Methods 2024_12_17_14:56:08 (04:04)
  • DSLiDE v0.6.0 Your slides now play keyboard macros (Reddit)
  • Thanos Apollo: Progress update on org-gnosis & a graphical interface addition.
  • What is desireable in an Org to HTML framework?
  • How to mirror worg to a hyperdrive
  • How I use Emacs to publish "food" recipes
• Completion:
  • Rahul Juliato: Enhancing icomplete-vertical-mode in Emacs (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Meta Redux: State of CIDER Survey (2024)
  • Tree-sitter Changes in Emacs 30 (Reddit)
  • Run JUnit method or class at point (@skybert@hachyderm.io)
  • Трошки про Emacs (21:31) - Clojure
  • Using uv in Emacs | MClare Blog - python environment
  • Xah Talk Show 2024-12-21 Ep605. Run Code of Python JS Fsharp Etc in Emacs. Are You Based? (53:31)
  • Bases de Datos-SQLite en GNU Emacs - encuentro/taller - FTV (@hispaemacs@fosstodon.org)
• Math:
  • Ruslan Bekenev: Emacs: quick-calc
• Web:
  • TIL eww-copy-alternate-url
  • eww-readable + imenu = quickly jump to different headings in webpage (@marcc@fosstodon.org)
  • Adding HTML5 Display Block Elements to Emacs’ SHR (and EWW) Tag Rendering // Take on Rules (@takeonrules@dice.camp)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mastodon.el 1.1.8: adds support for link-hint, bugfixes
  • glenneth/discourse-emacs: A modern Emacs package for seamless Discourse forum integration. (@barocio@techhub.social)
• Multimedia:
  • emacs.tv (Hello emacs.tv, 1700+ videos)
  • Sacha Chua: subed.el: Tweaking subtitle times
• EXWM:
  • How to Use Emacs as a Desktop Environment in Linux with EXWM - Make Tech Easier
• AI:
  • llm version 0.20 released, with structured JSON output
  • chatgpt-shell: LaTeX rendering now turned on by default on LLM shell
  • lepisma/onnx.el: ONNX runtime for Emacs Lisp (Reddit) - optimized and portable ML on the edge, also interchange format for neural network models
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2024-12-18 / week 51
  • 00: Why You Want Programmable Tools (04:36, Reddit, Irreal)
  • What can we learn from Neovim’s rise in popularity? (HN)
• Other:
  • James Dyer: Calculate Number Of Days Between Two Dates - calendar-count-days-region
  • glotlabs/gdrive: Google Drive CLI Client (@mousebot@todon.nl)
  • HTML Renderer (Emacs) - Masonry (Reddit)
  • HTML Renderer (Emacs) - colspan (Reddit)
  • Marie K. Ekeberg: 24 Emacs packages and utilities to try while counting down to Jul/Christmas/Holidays
  • positron-solutions/moc: Master of Ceremonies. Display & presentation utilities to make presentation packages more effective (Video, Reddit)
  • The Semantics and Broad Strokes of Buffer Parallelism
  • Andrey Listopadov: Extending Emacs with Fennel
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: Some experience with the igc branch next impediments for IGC branch
    • Merging scratch/no-purespace to remove unexec and purespace - discussion, preparing to merge
    • Re: Merging scratch/no-purespace to remove unexec and purespace - ideas
      • Re: Merging scratch/no-purespace to remove unexec and purespace - hints/guesses vs promises
  • * lisp/vc/smerge-mode.el (smerge-extend): New command (bug#74509)
  • Add support for the ':data' keyword for play-sound in MS-Windows.
  • 'seconds-to-string': new optional arguments for readable strings
  • Add more documentation for TTY child frames
  • NEWS entry for the removal of `redisplay-dont-pause'
  • NEWS entry for tty child frames
  • New treesit thing 'sexp-list' (bug#73404)
  • Delete support for the Conkeror web browser
  • New user option browse-url-transform-alist
  • Make font-lock face variables obsolete
  • Rename the property 'repeat-continue-only' to 'repeat-continue'
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Mention 'eager-display' for 'completion-category-overrides'.
  • unintern: Drop support for obsolete calling convention
  • all-completions: Drop support for obsolete calling convention
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Add 'completion-table-with-metadata' to "Lisp Changes".
  • * lisp/comint.el (comint-complete-input-ring): New command (bug#74694).
• New packages:
  • copilot: An unofficial Copilot plugin (MELPA)
  • dicom: DICOM viewer - Digital Imaging & Communications in Medicine (GNU ELPA)
  • kill-dollar-mode: Remove leading $ from shell-script-like text (MELPA)
  • moc: Master of Ceremonies (MELPA)
  • ocaml-eglot: An OCaml companion for Eglot (MELPA)
  • p4-ts-mode: Major mode for the P4_16 programming language (MELPA)
  • russian-calendar: Russian holidays and conferences. Updated 2024-11-22 (MELPA)
  • symbol-overlay-mc: Mark highlighted symbols with multiple cursors (MELPA)
  • uv-mode: Integrate uv with python-mode (MELPA)

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