• Beginner:
  • An Emacs Series for Beginners using evil-mode and org-mode on vanilla Emacs
• Emacs configuration:
  • What simple key re-mapping has transformed your life?
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: custom functions for various tasks – YouTube (36:24)
  • ethan-wspace: the definitive emacs customizations for people who are OCD about whitespace
  • ft-leader – A simple leader key using your existing bindings (Reddit)
  • What Emacs Configurations/Plugins would you consider essential?
  • Kaligule’s personal emacs config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs-Lisp Basics | Syntax, Variables, Functions and Lists | Switching to Emacs #6.1 – YouTube (17:00)
  • ERT: Emacs Lisp Regression Testing (Reddit)
  • TIL elisp has iterators
• Emacs development:
  • Emacs 27.1-RC1 is out (Reddit, Reddit 2, HN, Irreal)
  • Copr RPM builds of GNU Emacs 27.1 (pretest)
  • Irreal: Update On My 27.1RC1 Experience
  • If gnus-visual is nil, don’t fontify patches and the like
  • Avoid duplicate Edebug symbols when using ‘cl-flet’ (Bug#41989)
  • Make the “All” setting for large-newsgroup-initial in Gnus work
  • Add the new function dns-query-asynchronous
  • Use a new method to determine when to auto-stop image animations
  • Make eww use the XDG download directory
• Appearance:
  • Make Your Emacs Frame Fit Flush On macOS – Wisdom And Wonder
  • Emacs: No modeline
  • {ANN} treemacs-all-the-icons release
• Navigation:
  • Yet another poor man’s back-link (Reddit) – can be used with or without Org
• Org Mode:
  • Discussion: Using emacs/org-mode to manage life
  • {ANN} Org-Calories.el, a package to log your calorific intake and outake {ALPHA}
  • Tracking my diet with Emacs and org-mode
  • Some Org Mode Customizations | Org-Bullets and Evil-Org | Switching to Emacs #5.2 – YouTube (11:20)
  • A really simple Scrivener type view for org mode file
  • org-fc: Spaced Repetition System for Emacs org-mode
  • How to integrate YASnippet and Yankpad with Org-Capture
  • Worg community manual small tweaks
  • org-todoist: Sync TODOs between emacs org-mode files and Todoist
  • dayone: Converter from dayone json export format to orgmode friendly text
  • A Tour of Org Roam – YouTube
  • Convert .org to .docx with citations
  • Blogging with Emacs and Org Mode
  • My org-to-html publishing setup with custom scripts
  • Moving LinuxIndya.com to Org Mode (Emacs) and publish using GitLab – YouTube (17:22)
  • Grant Rettke: Is It Impossible To Print Org-Mode Files With Unicode To PDF? – org-utf-to-xetex
• Coding:
  • logstash-conf.el: Emacs major mode for editing logstash configuration files
  • sharper.el: sharper dotnet CLI wrapper, using Transient
  • C++ in spacemacs using clangd & lsp-mode
  • Emacs + LSP = Heaven – YouTube (8:25)
  • {ANN} parinfer-rust-mode – an intuitive editor mode to manage parens for lisps.
  • {ANN} New MELPA package: geiser-gauche adds Gauche Scheme support to the Geiser Scheme-interaction mode
  • Emacs Rocks! Episode 11: swank-js
  • Emacs for Statisticians (Part 1) | Sergio Olmos – analyzing data on remote servers
• Other:
  • GitHub-like Markdown preview with Emacs – Bits and Bobs
  • Exwm-laptop: Command-line solutions to laptop functions | Tech.ToryAnderson.com
  • Emacs: An Odyssey. Here I declare my Dot Emacs Bankruptcy. | Kaifiyat (Reddit)
  • Inside Emacs #1 ♦ iedit-mode ✔ multiple-cursors ✔ ivy-go-to-char ✔ replace-string (2:40, Reddit, Github)
  • Switch from Vim to Emacs series – YouTube
  • Hacking on my emacs human computing interface (3:44:19, streamed)
  • sequed: DNA sequence editor and alignment viewer for emacs
  • bannedit: Emacs minor mode to highlight words from a ‘banned words’ list.
  • Considering Evil (63 comments)
  • YASnippet list my email questions please! – modifying snippets based on context
  • How to get a fabulouser dictionary for your Emacs
• New packages:
  • describe-hash: Help function for examining a hash map
  • dired-lsi: Add memo to directory and show it in dired
  • eradio: A radio player frontend for vlc
  • evil-tex: Useful features for editing TeX in evil-mode
  • geiser-gauche: Gauche scheme support for Geiser
  • hybrid-reverse-theme: Emacs theme with material color scheme
  • jenkinsfile-mode: Major mode for editing Jenkins declarative pipeline syntax
  • olc: Open location code library
  • org-ml: Functional Org Mode API
  • treemacs-all-the-icons: all-the-icons integration for treemacs
  • typo-suggest: Don’t make typos with the help of helm and company
  • xenops: A LaTeX editing environment for mathematical documents

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file and emacs-devel.

• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs Configuration: Literate form, geared towards macOS
• Emacs Lisp:
  • (with-emacs: What you Need to Know About Hooks (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Long discussion on opaque objects and Emacs documentation
  • Discussion on outline headings in emacs-lisp libraries
  • Update and improve documentation of project.el commands
  • bug-reference auto-setup for IRC, implementation for ERC
• Appearance:
  • Different use of colors than syntax highlighting
• Navigation:
  • ANN: windswap – like windmove, but swap windows with their neighbours
  • Exploring large projects with Projectile and Helm Projectile
  • Atomic Buffers: Combine two buffers and treat them as one, for example, a source buffer and a REPL buffer
  • Emacs: outline-minor-mode and imenu – YouTube (17:26)
• Org Mode:
  • Back to basics: org-mode agenda
  • {ANN} Elgantt: gantt chart/calendar for orgmode
  • Authorized King James Version in ORG format – including italicized words (Reddit)
  • {LWN.net} Managing tasks with Org mode and iCalendar {LWN.net}
  • org-vcard: Export and import vCards from within GNU Emacs’ Org mode. (Reddit)
  • Linking Headings With org-super-links (Poor-Man’s Zettelkasten) (Reddit)
  • Writing a new org-mode exporter back-end – Imperfect Software
  • John Herrlin: Learn AWK with Emacs org-drill
  • Emacs contact management for mu4e with org-mode and helm
• Coding:
  • Emacs – 18 – JavaScript with Tide, Prettier and RJSX mode – YouTube
  • DAP Mode: Emacs client/library for Debug Adapter Protocol is a wire protocol for communication between client and Debug Server
  • Read Rust documentation inside Emacs with rustdoc-to-org! (Reddit)
  • The Artificery: RDD with shadow cljs, deps, emacs and cider
  • js2hl 0.0.1 is published
• Mail and news:
  • mu-wizard: Easily setup mu4e accounts on Emacs (Reddit)
  • Simple composition of HTML emails in Emacs using Markdown
• Community:
  • Emacs Makes Amending Configurations Simple (Reddit)
  • Emacs Berlin remote Meetup, Wednesday, July 29th, 2020, 18:30 CEST
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
• Other:
  • Ways Emacs Has Changed What I Do
  • And here it comes again: another .emacs.d bankruptcy… moving to Doom!
  • Manuel Uberti: Paper Emacs
  • My {Emacs} Writing Setup (Reddit)
  • ytdl: An Emacs interface for youtube-dl
  • ghelp: Emacs generic Help. Unlike Emacs Help, ghelp works for more major-modes and is extensible with backends.
  • Coding with Emacs and e2wm, a brilliant Emacs windows manager – Yuri Ardila – Personal Blog
  • Irreal: A Shortcut Manager for My Emacs-centric Workstation
  • Transitioning to GUI’d Emacs on macOS
• New packages:
  • acme-theme: A color theme based on Acme & Sam from Plan 9
  • chronometrist-goal: Adds support for time goals to Chronometrist
  • clojure-essential-ref: Cider-doc to “Clojure, The Essential Reference”
  • clojure-essential-ref-nov: Cider-doc to “Clojure, The Essential Reference” (EPUB)
  • company-ledger: Fuzzy auto-completion for Ledger & friends
  • company-manually: A company backend that lets you manually build candidates
  • dmacro: Repeated detection and execution of key operation
  • feed-discovery: Discover feed url by RSS/Atom autodiscovery
  • grugru: Rotate text at point
  • helm-icons: Helm icons
  • most-used-words: Display most used words in buffer
  • parinfer-rust-mode: An interface for the parinfer-rust library
  • saveplace-pdf-view: Save place in pdf-view buffers
  • sis: Switch native or OS input source (input method) smartly
  • teco: Teco interpreter
  • undersea-theme: Theme styled after undersea imagery
  • unisonlang-mode: Simple major mode for editing Unison

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file and emacs-devel.

• Beginner:
  • Let Emacs teach you Emacs! | Emacs Help System | Switching to Emacs #3 – YouTube (12:11)
  • Editing with Emacs part 2 – YouTube (12:11) – which-key, helm
  • Editing with Emacs part 3 – YouTube (12:46) – deleting and restoring lines, column number
• Emacs configuration:
  • nix-straight.el: Low-level Nix integration to straight.el
  • ccambiaghi’s Doom Emacs configuration
  • Emacs Configuration for Python/JavaScript, Terraform and blogging
  • My own (stupid) spacemacs clone
  • Alex Schroeder: Emacs everything
  • Making My XMonad And Emacs Configs More Readable – YouTube (12:19)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • A new and improved Emacs gnuplot DSL
• Emacs development:
  • Andrea Corallo: gccemacs Update 10 (July 16, 2020): Dynamic scope support and more optimizations (Reddit)
  • Allow adjusting the `W Q’ Gnus summary command interactively
  • Allow open-network-stream to use different TLS capability commands
  • bug-reference auto-setup for IRC, implementation for rcirc
  • Add support for a shr-max-width variable
  • Adjust naming convention for dependent Gnus sessions
  • Consistently stylize eldoc as ElDoc in more prose
• Appearance:
  • First {theme} – Galileo seamen. Tell me what you think about it (Reddit)
  • Acme-theme v1.0.0 now on MELPA! (Reddit)
  • Fancify Emacs! | Customization and Themes | Switching to Emacs #4 – YouTube (11:21)
• Navigation:
  • Dynamically filter directory listing with dired-narrow | Pragmatic Emacs
  • Emacs: Helm + Git Grep == Notational Velocity Clone (Reddit)
  • Donning the Helm! | Fuzzy Finding for Emacs | Switching to Emacs #2 – YouTube (13:11)
  • tufte-org-mode: An Org mode environment for producing Tufte-LaTeX books and handouts
• Org Mode:
  • Back to basics – a series (hopefully)
  • OrgMode E06S05: Tracking habits – YouTube
  • Emacs org block company completion (2019)
  • Polyglot Documentation with Org-mode – Oxford RSE (Irreal)
  • Export WordPress to Hugo Markdown or Org Mode with R
  • Emacs: mixed fonts for Org mode – YouTube (25:57)
  • Orgro update: inline and block LaTeX fragments (Reddit)
  • Tomar notas con org-roam – Notxor tiene un blog
• Coding:
  • Live Coding in Python v4.2 (Emacs) – YouTube (29:12)
• Community:
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
  • Brian Kernighan’s Programming Setup | Lex Fridman – YouTube (4:57)
• Other:
  • What is Emacs? | Opensource.com
  • You Should Try Emacs
  • Emacs: tools for “focused editing” (Reddit)
  • Seamless modal editing (Reddit)
  • Notes on Using Tmux with Emacs
  • Emacs – Productivity Tricks/Hacks – Yet Another Technical Blog
  • Emacs Redux: Running Emacs with systemd (Reddit)
  • Emacs Redux: Instant Access to Your Shell Init Files (Reddit)
  • Emacs Redux: Installing Emacs via Snap
  • Emacs Redux: Automatically Kill Running Processes on Exit
  • GNU Emacs pretest builds for Fedora (Reddit)
  • John DeRosa: lib-term vs. macOS vs. M-p
  • Irreal: Emacs Keybindings on macOS Redux
• New packages:
  • acme-theme: A color theme based on Acme & Sam from Plan 9
  • chronometrist-goal: Adds support for time goals to Chronometrist
  • clojure-essential-ref: Cider-doc to “Clojure, The Essential Reference”
  • company-manually: A company backend that lets you manually build candidates
  • dmacro: Repeated detection and execution of key operation
  • feed-discovery: Discover feed url by RSS/Atom autodiscovery
  • helm-icons: Helm icons
  • sqlite3: Direct access to the core SQLite3 API
  • sweet-theme: Sweet-looking theme
  • symbol-navigation-hydra: A symbol-aware, range-aware hydra
  • weyland-yutani-theme: Emacs theme based off Alien movie franchise
  • windswap: Like windmove, but swaps buffers while moving point

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file and emacs-devel.

Update 2020-07-17: Spanish translation by victorhck

2020-06-17a Why I love free software.png

Image description:

• (Image: shelves full of gifts) Text: Free software is like having more gifts than I can even imagine.
• (Image: building blocks) Text: Each gift is a building block that I can have fun with.
• (Image: me playing) Text: Whee!
• (Image: blocks with people in them, labeled “What if?” “I need…” “We did it!”) Text: More than that, each block is a glimpse into someone else’s life.
• (Image: blocks glued together) Text: I can combine things with bubblegum and string…
• (Image: hand with an outline) Text: … to make something that fits me so well.
• (Image: path with notes, with a stick figure in the distance) Text: I try to leave notes along the way.
• (Image: gift in outstretched hands) Text: Sometimes I can even make my own gift.
• (Image: two gifts on a shelf, with space between them) Text: There’s always space.
• (Image: A person picks up a note on a path and saying “Thanks!” There are lots of other paths that split off and explore other interesting Text: places.) Sometimes people find my things helpful…
• Image: (me picking up a note further down the path and also saying “Thanks!”) Text: … just as I find other people’s things helpful.
• (Image: “Free software” with wiggly lines surrounding it, growing outwards) Text: So, bit by bit, we grow.

You can see this image in context on the Free Software Foundation’s blog post about their summer fundraising campaign.

I just spent 40 minutes updating my blog index to include all the non-Emacs News and non-weekly/monthly-review posts since April 2017. I had kept a blog index as a way to quickly organize my posts into finer-grained categories without mucking around too much with WordPress. Updating it was pretty easy since I had built an Org Mode list view into my theme eight years ago. A URL like https://sachachua.com/blog/2020/?org=1 gets me a list like:

- [[https://sachachua.com/blog/2020/01/2020-01-06-emacs-news/][2020-01-06 Emacs news]] 
- [[https://sachachua.com/blog/2020/01/weekly-review-week-ending-december-13-2019/][Weekly review: Week ending December 13, 2019]] 
- [[https://sachachua.com/blog/2020/01/weekly-review-week-ending-december-20-2019/][Weekly review: Week ending December 20, 2019]] 
- [[https://sachachua.com/blog/2020/01/weekly-review-week-ending-january-3-2020/][Weekly review: Week ending January  3, 2020]] 
- [[https://sachachua.com/blog/2020/01/weekly-review-week-ending-december-27-2019/][Weekly review: Week ending December 27, 2019]] 
- [[https://sachachua.com/blog/2020/01/2020-01-13-emacs-news/][2020-01-13 Emacs news]] 
- [[https://sachachua.com/blog/2020/01/2020-01-20-emacs-news/][2020-01-20 Emacs news]]
...

which is easy to narrow to in Emacs with narrow-to-region (C-x n n) and filter with flush-lines to get rid of all the fairly routine weekly reviews and Emacs news posts. Then I could use my/org-file-blog-index-entries from my Emacs config to file things to the high-level trees, and (while t (my/org-move-current-item-to-category (completing-read "Category: " (my/org-get-list-categories)))) to file things within a list.

Yay Emacs!

• Emacs configuration:
  • New tool for faster emacs startup (on linux) (emacs-devel) – emacs-ludicrous-speed
  • nixpkgs: My Nix and Emacs setup using org-babel.
  • Emacs Setup – Alexandru Nedelcu
  • Justin Abrahms’ Emacs configuration
  • codygman’s human computer interface based on Emacs, org-mode, and fuzzy incremental narrowing
• Emacs development:
  • EUDC: Add macOS Contacts backend
  • Adjust Eldoc documentation after Eli’s review
  • Better handle asynchronous Eldoc sources
• Appearance:
  • color-identifiers-mode: Emacs minor mode to highlight each source code identifier uniquely based on its name
  • Tory Anderson: Missing font for insert-character utf8 characters?
• Navigation:
  • Do-what-I-mean Helm buffer selector (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • My org-mode agenda, much better now with category icons! (Reddit)
  • org-roam-server-light: compatible org-roam-server written in python for better performance with large network graphs
  • Converting all of my vimwiki to org-mode
  • orgba: Better APIs for org mode (2018)
  • nobiot/Zero-to-Emacs-and-Org-roam (Reddit)
  • How I Tackle Projects With org-mode · The Art of Not Asking Why
  • Inline arbitrary LaTeX snippets as PNGs in Emacs (•̀ᴗ•́)و (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Prepare GNU/Emacs to code in Rust
  • The magit git client is the “killer feature” of Emacs
  • Small blog post on how I use Rails console remotely within Doom Emacs (Reddit)
  • Interactive OCaml development with utop in Emacs
• Mail and news:
  • Elfeed configuration to display in next window, and star articles.
  • John Herrlin: Mail in Emacs with mu4e and mbsync
• Community:
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
  • I use emacs because…
  • Example of Org/Emacs folks going out of their way to be helpful
  • Sponsor @jethrokuan on GitHub. He is the author of org-roam
• Network:
  • Eigenbahn: Painless Emacs remote shells
  • Emacs keeps surprising me
  • Notifications in SSH client triggered by Emacs running on the server
• Other:
  • Getting fountain-mode in Emacs working with imenu-list-mode and writeroom-mode
  • Lines of code in my Emacs packages | Random effect (Reddit)
  • I wrote a small elisp package for keeping track of watched videos. Hope you find it useful. (Reddit)
  • John Herrlin: Emacs, GnuPG and Pass
  • session-manager.el — Support for the Gnome Session Manager
  • How I use Emacs as a supplemental editor (Reddit)
  • Eigenbahn: Emacs shell interpreter configuration
  • Eigenbahn: Magically ressurect Emacs shell buffers
  • Emacs Game Engine Sample Project (2020-07-13) – YouTube (0:19)
  • Switch from Vim to Emacs in 20 minutes with evil-mode ! – YouTube (19:38)
• New packages:
  • comby: Emacs comby integration
  • erblint: An interface for checking HTML ERB files using Erblint
  • evil-pinyin: Evil search Chinese characters by pinyin
  • flymake-kondor: Linter with clj-kondo
  • ivy-emms: Ivy interface to emms tracks
  • lsp-sonarlint: Emacs Sonarlint lsp client
  • most-used-words: Display most used words in buffer
  • ob-latex-as-png: Org-babel functions for latex-as-png evaluation
  • orgit-forge: Org links to Forge issue buffers
  • prettier: Code formatting with Prettier
  • pspp-mode: Major mode for editing PSPP files
  • rainbow-fart: Checks the keywords of code to play suitable sounds
  • transwin: Make window/frame transparent
  • udev-mode: Major mode for editing udev rules files

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file and emacs-devel.