2025-07-07 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #7 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/0fb2dc00-8cea-4365-a6ca-ab1a3e76f0ee Tue Jul 8 1900 CET
- OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jul 9 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 10 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jul 11 1800 Europe/Paris
- EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/308773527/ Sat Jul 12 1100 America/Los_Angeles
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jul 16 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Dired:
- Writing:
- Emacs Writing Studio paperback now available (@danderzei@aus.social)
- Ep672 Make Spell Checking in Emacs Windows Work Again, Part 2 (41:40)
- Greg Newman: Emacs Carnival 2025-07: Writing Experience
- Erik L. Arneson: Writing Experience (Emacs Carnival)
- James Dyer: New Package! - Simply Annotate: A Lightweight Annotation System (Irreal)
- Org Mode:
- Markdown to Org: Ex-NeovimConf Speaker Converts Me | Theena Kumaragurunathan (07:41)
- Marcin Borkowski: Mass resetting Org mode checkboxes
- (Update) org-include-inline: fix overlay visibility on initial file load (Reddit)
- Jakub Nowak: Mixing Code Styles with org-babel
- UOMF: Linking Headings (updated 2025-06-23)
- 🧠 Org-Jupyter Emacs Kit (Reddit)
- Capturing an Org note via macOS Shortcuts (Reddit)
- [BLOG] #19 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]] on Wed, June 11, 19:00 UTC+3
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Announcing Flyover - modern aesthetic overlay for flymake and flycheck (Reddit)
- Greg Newman: TIL Speed up Magit on MacOS (Irreal)
- :screwlisps-knowledge/tangle common lisp asdf package markdown tangling and lisp pathnames (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
- eepitch-send leading to in-emacs common lisp image automata flocking (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
- Ep673 Format Python JavaScript Golang HTML CSS in Emacs, and Wolfram Language auto format (43:55)
- Shells:
- Fun:
- AI:
- chatgpt-shell can now link/atttach files with M-x chatgpt-shell-insert-local-file-link (@xenodium@indieweb.social)
- Planning sprint in Emacs with org-mode and gptel
- Greger.el: Agentic coding in Emacs (Reddit, HN)
- laurynas-biveinis/elisp-dev-mcp: Dev tools in Emacs MCP for agentic Elisp development with LLMs (Reddit)
- Building personalized micro agents
- Community:
- Other:
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel: Do we need safety abstractions over condition-variables? - long discussion about threads
- Add file notification handler for Tramp's "smb" method.
- Make elint obsolete (bug#78685)
- Revert "New command 'mode-line-invisible-mode'"
- Update NEWS with info about `fill-region-as-paragraph-function'
- New command 'mode-line-invisible-mode'
- ; * etc/NEWS: Announce check for Org in 'report-emacs-bug'.
- VC: New incoming & outgoing diff commands (bug#62940)
- New packages:
- ast-grep: Search code using ast-grep with completing-read interface (MELPA)
- eca: AI pair programming via ECA (Editor Code Assistant) (MELPA)
- flyover: Display Flycheck errors with overlays (MELPA)
- mantra: A system for scripting and parsing activity beyond macros (MELPA)
- mathsheet: Generate dynamic math worksheets (GNU ELPA)
- qso: Customizable, Dynamic Amateur Radio QSO Logging (MELPA)
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