• Emacs configuration:
  • quelpa: Build and install your Emacs Lisp packages on-the-fly directly from source
  • Watch “Using Emacs – 1 – setting up the package manager” on YouTube
• Emacs Lisp:
  • hierarchy: Emacs library to create, query, navigate and display hierarchy structures
  • ElispCheatSheet: Quick reference to the core language of Emacs —Editor MACroS.
• Emacs development:
  • Towards a cleaner build
  • Emacs figures in ‘Hall of Shame for Linux IME Support – Fcitx’
  • How about funding magit’s libegit2
  • Allow zero-argument rx `or’ and `seq’ forms
  • Avoid polling in global-auto-revert-mode (bug#35418)
  • New buffer display action function ‘display-buffer-in-direction’
  • Don’t use file notification on non-file buffers
  • Distribute test cases in tarballs by default
  • Accept NO-PROPERTIES in thing-at-point aliases (Bug#35491)
  • Add standard unmatchable regexp
  • * lisp/progmodes/project.el (project-read-file-name-function): Fix type.
  • Default to disabling ImageMagick (Bug#33587)
  • Allow customizing the display of project file names when reading
• Appearance:
  • Gruvbox is a retro groove color scheme for Emacs. Port of the Vim version. http://bit.ly/1lRByNh
  • Emacs, plain text and large high-resolution monitors
  • show-eol: Show end of line symbol in buffer.
• Navigation:
  • It never occurred to me – showing only parts of occur matches
  • better-jumper: A configurable jump list implementation for Emacs that can be used to easily jump back to previous locations.
  • hydra 0.15.0 is out
  • loccur: loccur is Emacs minor mode for navigating through the file like occur does, but without opening a new window.
  • Using Emacs – 7- Navigation with Avy – A video tutorial from Mike Zamansky
  • iflipb: iflipb.el – interactively flip between recently visited buffers
• Org Mode:
  • Markdown in Org-mode
  • Adding :target option for the TOC keyword in Org Mode
  • Displaying Inline Images in Emacs org-mode | Blog
  • New link features in Org 9
  • org-editmarks: Edit marks for Org mode
  • Emacs Org mode support for VSCode – Visual Studio Marketplace
  • Diego Zamboni, a leanpub author, uses Orgmode to write his books
  • function for DWIM insertion of new entries
• Coding:
  • nix-haskell-mode: Automatic Haskell setup in Emacs, for Nix users
  • coverage.el: Emacs minor mode for displaying code coverage
  • seml-mode: Major mode for editing SEML (S-Expression Markup Language) files
  • emacs_latex_class: En ajoutant un classe de latex dans le fichier de configuration d’emacs, cela permet de generer des fichiers pdf géniaux comme celui-ci.
  • Live Stream Setting up Docker for a new PHP app using Emacs (1:06:47)
  • sly-asdf: SLY contrib that adds support for editing ASDF systems. Ported from slime with changes to support package-inferred-system. P
  • “2019-04-03: Emacs as a C++ IDE – Jeff Trull, Ben Deane, Dirk Jagdmann”: YouTube
  • (with-emacs – Show matching lines when parentheses go off-screen (Reddit)
  • realgud-node-inspect: realgud support for newer “node inspect”
  • Portacle – A Portable Common Lisp Development Environment
  • rusty-tags: Create ctags/etags for a cargo project
  • Janet lang Repl Support emacs (Reddit)
  • realgud-lldb: lldb module for realgud
  • Hard CIDER: Keeping your REPL Tidy
  • Version control:
    • Magit in Spacemacs
    • Magit: The Absolute Minimum you need to know (Reddit)
    • Emacs optimization for monorepos?
• Community:
  • Emacs Together: An Organization for Crowdfunding Emacs Projects?
  • Baltimore Splunk Meetup: May 20, 2019
• Other:
  • Adding Your YouTube Subscriptions to Elfeed
  • An Emacs Journey
  • leetcode.el: An Emacs LeetCode client.
  • indian-ext: Extension to Emacs’ Indian languages support. Current focus is on Sanskrit.
  • emacs-live-preview: Live preview by any shell command while editing
  • Emacs Web Server (web-server) User Manual
  • tldr.el: tldr client for Emacs
  • emacs-whois: Extends the whois functionality of Emacs
  • Workaround Fcitx issues within Emacs – ArchWiki
  • pullover: Pull text from other apps into Emacs to edit (macOS) (Reddit)
  • From register feature in Emacs to I3Wm (for i3 guys) (Reddit)
  • libmpdel: Emacs library to communicate with Music Player Daemon (MPD)
  • elpher: Full featured Gopher client in Emacs Lisp.
  • boon: Ergonomic Command Mode for Emacs
  • shell-here: Open an Emacs shell in the current directory
  • Emacs fish completion: Extend the pcomplete completion framework with completion from the fish shell.
  • Quickly find Syncthing conflicts and resolve them with ediff
  • Emacs Doom E03 – A short intro to Dired (Reddit)
  • send-emacs-fifo: A cheaply implemented non-waiting emacsclient replacement
  • ledger-import: Fetch OFX files and convert them into Ledger format
  • vdirel: Manipulate vdir (i.e., vcard) repositories from Emacs
  • Screenwriter-mode is a plug-in for GNU Emacs, a free, cross-platform, text editor. Download it to get started writing, freely, today.
  • Working with Coding Systems and Unicode in Emacs
  • exwm-edit: Edit mode for EXWM
• New packages:
  • ameba: An interface to Crystal Ameba linter.
  • flycheck-ameba: Add support for Ameba to Flycheck
  • hl-block-mode: highlighting nested blocks
  • mu2tex: Convert plain text molecule names and units to TeX
  • phpt-mode: Major mode for editing PHPT test code
  • realgud-lldb: Realgud front-end to lldb
  • realgud-trepan-ni: Realgud front-end to trepan-ni
  • show-eol: Show end of line symbol in buffer.
  • realgud-ipdb: Realgud front-end to ipdb

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

Now that A- can be counted on to happily play with a babysitter for several hours once a week, I’ve decided to alternate consulting and personal projects. Two weeks ago, I used my personal time to make a script that renewed my library books automatically. This week, I set aside time to look at Org Mode. DC had asked me to update the patch I made to allow people to specify a target for the table of contents, and I was curious about whether I could hack something together.

Patch for adding :target to TOC keyword

Here’s a sample file that shows what I mean:

#+OPTIONS: toc:nil
* Not this section
** Heading X
** Heading Y
* Target
  :PROPERTIES:
  :CUSTOM_ID: TargetSection
  :END:
** Heading A
** Heading B
* Another section
#+TOC: headlines 1 :target "Target"

Here’s the core of how to make it work for HTML exports:

(defun org-html-keyword (keyword _contents info)
  "Transcode a KEYWORD element from Org to HTML.
CONTENTS is nil.  INFO is a plist holding contextual information."
  (let ((key (org-element-property :key keyword))
  (value (org-element-property :value keyword)))
    (cond
     ((string= key "HTML") value)
     ((string= key "TOC")
      (let ((case-fold-search t))
  (cond
   ((string-match "\\<headlines\\>" value)
    (let ((depth (and (string-match "\\<[0-9]+\\>" value)
          (string-to-number (match-string 0 value))))
    (scope
     (cond
      ;; link
      ((string-match ":target +\"\\([^\"]+\\)\"" value)
       (let ((link (with-temp-buffer
         (save-excursion
           (insert (org-make-link-string (match-string 1 value))))
         (org-element-link-parser))))
         (pcase (org-element-property :type link)
           ((or "custom-id" "id") (org-export-resolve-id-link link info))
           ("fuzzy" (org-export-resolve-fuzzy-link link info))
           (_ nil))))
      ;; local
      ((string-match-p "\\<local\\>" value) keyword))))
      (org-html-toc depth info scope)))
   ((string= "listings" value) (org-html-list-of-listings info))
   ((string= "tables" value) (org-html-list-of-tables info))))))))

It was a lot of fun Doing the Right Thing(s): writing documentation, adding tests, and making it work for more than just HTML export. I found out where to make the changes by using grep to search for TOC in the Org Mode source code. All the heavy lifting was already done by org-export-collect-headlines, so it was just a matter of passing the right scope. It took me a while to figure out that I needed to pass an Org link element. An easy way of making that element work for both fuzzy and ID-specific links was to insert the target text into a temporary buffer (remembering to use org-make-link-string) and then calling org-element-link-parser.

I tried figuring out how to make it work with a link to another file, but I didn’t get very far, so I figured I’d just wrap things up nicely there.

I wasn’t sure if my original post made it through because I sent it through Gmane and Cc:d DC, who got it with an empty To:, so I ended up submitting it twice. I just realized I forgot to add test-ox-ascii.el. I don’t want to spam the list, so I’ll send that along with other changes if people have feedback.

But look! Open source contributions! I’m so excited. I wonder what I’ll get to do in two weeks from now. =)

Update: Added link to Paris meetup on May 21.

• Emacs configuration:
  • Finding Emacs Distributions and trying them out
  • How I built a minimal Spacemacs-like version, with some basic key binding:
  • dakra’s Literate Emacs configuration
  • Atman50’s literate emacs configuration for C#, python, ivy, yasnippet, …
  • angrybacon’s Emacs configuration
  • emacs.d: My emacs configuration, optimized for creative writing.
  • My minimal Emacs config (Reddit)
  • auto-answer.el: Answer automatically to prompt
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Are there any features of lisp that make it uniquely well suited for an editor like emacs?
  • multi.el – multiple dispatch for Emacs Lisp
  • Testing Emacs programs with Buttercup
  • Prototype-based Elisp Objects with @
• Emacs development:
  • Long discussion of RFE Migration to gitlab
  • * lisp/emacs-lisp/packages.el: Add `all` to package-check-signature
  • * lisp/progmodes/flymake.el: Obsolete variable flymake-start-on-newline
  • Clarify what constitutes an event (bug#35238)
• Appearance:
  • doom-modeline 2.1.0
  • unicode-fonts: Configure Unicode fonts for Emacs
  • How to preview fixed width (mono spaced) fonts in an editable Emacs buffer? | FZ Blogs
  • gotham-theme: Code never sleeps in Gotham City.
  • Enabling Font Ligatures in emacs-mac-port
  • Emacs-Tron-Legacy-Theme: Custom Theme inspired by Tron: Legacy
  • Using all-the-icons for Treemacs
• Navigation:
  • useful new avy features (Reddit)
  • emacs-neotree: A emacs tree plugin like NerdTree for Vim.
  • highlight-symbol.el: Automatic and manual symbol highlighting for Emacs
  • Fixing the mark commands in transient mark mode – Mastering Emacs
  • Refactoring using iedit and helm-edit in Spacemacs (Reddit)
  • helm-swoop: Efficiently hopping squeezed lines powered by Emacs helm interface
  • pdf-view-restore: Support for opening last known pdf position in pdf-view-mode provided by pdf-tools.
  • goto-last-point: Record and jump to the last point in the buffer.
  • puntoblogspot: preview files/links without changing the focus
  • ztree: Directory tree comparison mode for Emacs
  • Treemacs – a tree layout file explorer for Emacs
  • Emacs Doom E02 – Projects with Projectile, File Explorer with Treemacs & EShell (Reddit)
  • ncdu vs dired-du-mode
  • dired-ranger.el: Add features present in the ranger:(http://bit.ly/2WwoqmL) file manager to dired.
• Org Mode:
  • A gentle introduction to Org mode
  • Getting Started with Org Mode in Spacemacs (tutorial) (Reddit)
  • Bernt Hansen’s Org-mode tutorial
  • Org-mode Hidden Gems 1 – Document structure (Reddit)
  • Org-mode Hidden Gems 2 – Tables (Reddit)
  • Org-mode Hidden Gems 3 – Hyperlinks (Reddit)
  • Let’s Get Going With Org mode – beorg
  • I made a library to sort orgmode tasks
  • An Agenda for Life With Org Mode
  • How do you use org-agenda?
  • Toggling modeline clock display
  • ros: My (yet another) Org-Mode Screenshot (Reddit)
  • Using org-ref to keep your bibtex files in order
  • Orgzly, Outliner for notes and tasks in plain-text is now on F-Droid
  • scimax-inkscape.el — Using inkscape in org-mode
  • Making awesome user manuals using draw.io and emacs org mode (1:03:33)
• Coding:
  • gtags (GNU global) in emacs for Scala
  • pipenv.el: A Pipenv porcelain inside Emacs for virtual environments, packages, and build dependencies
  • ensime-emacs: ENhanced Scala Interaction Mode for Emacs
  • omnisharp-emacs: A port of omnisharp-roslyn server – IDE-like features for editing C# files in Emacs
  • rtags: server indexer for c/c++/objc++: with integration for Emacs based on clang.
  • emacs-elixir: Emacs major mode for Elixir
  • battle-haxe: Full Haxe support inside Emacs: code completion, find references, Eldoc and more…
  • yasnippet-snippets: a collection of yasnippet snippets for many languages
  • Emacs setup for C++ with emacs-lsp and ccsl (Reddit)
  • Faster Elfeed Search Through JIT Byte-code Compilation
  • Version control:
    • ANN: magit-todos: new version with branch to-do list
    • Run M-x magit-diff-flycheck in magit-diff for a filtered list of errors for added/modified lines only
    • diffview-mode: View diffs side-by-side in Emacs
• Mail:
  • wavexx / mu4e-jump-to-list.el – GitLab
  • gnus-article-treat-patch.el: Gnus addon to beautify patch-like emails.
  • mu4e-patch: Colorize patch emails in mu4e
• Community:
  • Emacs Meetup in Erlangen, Germany
  • Emacs Meetup in Paris, France – May 21
• Other:
  • Updating GNU ELPA keys
  • emacs-backup-file: Automatically back up all changes made from emacs to a git repo in ~/.backups
  • emacs-bash-completion: Add programmable bash completion to Emacs shell-mode
  • Emacs Diary reminder using desktop notification (Reddit)
  • Releases – arbv/emacs-msi-installer – GitHub
  • Emacs in practice: binding macros to keys and rectangular selections (7:06)
  • Emacs27 on macOS – Now (Again❓) With Emoji!‼️ | David Crook (Reddit)
  • From Vim to Emacs in Fourteen Days
  • Development environment with emacs, xmonad and nixos
  • What are the most useless default Emacs keybindings?
• New packages:
  • android-env: Helper functions for working in android
  • better-jumper: configurable jump list
  • elpher: Full-featured gopher client.
  • ewal: A pywal-based theme generator
  • ewal-evil-cursors: `ewal’-colored evil cursor for Emacs and Spacemacs
  • ewal-spacemacs-theme: No description available.
  • gopher: easily access and navigate Gopher servers
  • gsettings: GSettings (Gnome) helpers
  • gvariant: GVariant (GLib) helpers
  • indian-ext: Extension to Indian language utilities
  • leetcode: An leetcode client.
  • live-preview: Live preview by any shell command while editing
  • nix-haskell-mode: haskell-mode integrations for Nix
  • seml-mode: major-mode for SEML file
  • shroud: Interface for Shroud
  • sly-asdf: ASDF system support for SLY
  • soar-mode: A major mode for the Soar language
  • vterm: This package implements a terminal via libvterm
  • whois: Extra functionality for WHOIS domain name queries
  • advice-patch: Use patches to advise the inside of functions

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

• Emacs configuration:
  • configuration: My Emacs configuration, dotfiles and more. Mirror of http://bit.ly/2GSDWEm, might lag behind slightly.
  • EModule: Manage personal configuration by splitting it into manageable modules, inspired by Spacemacs’ layers
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Lui, the Linewise User Interface for programs that want to look like common chat clients
  • things.el: makes implementing text objects simple (no dependence on evil), based on thingatpt.
  • Casting SPELS in Lisp: Emacs Lisp Edition | A Comic Book by Conrad Barski
  • Use lexical-binding by default for M-:, –eval, and scratch (Reddit)
  • benchmark-init-el: Benchmark your Emacs initialization
  • multi.el: multiple dispatch “Swiss army-knife” for Emacs Lisp
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-mruby-test: Emacs with mruby
  • Emacs supporting pure-gtk3: working to make Emacs support pure-gtk3, in order to support Wayland.
  • nim-emacs-module: Use Emacs Dynamic Module feature from Nim language.
  • * lisp/progmodes/flymake.el: Rename flymake-start-on-newline (bug#34294)
  • Rename shell-command-width to async-shell-command-width (bug#35055)
  • Added fill-column-indicator manual documentation
  • Display-fill-column-indicator NEWS info.
  • Don’t poll auto-revert files that use notification (bug#35418)
• Appearance:
  • Theme: So I made a cyberpunk futuristic Emacs theme. (Link in comments) (Reddit)
  • emacs-nova-theme: A dark, pastel Emacs color theme
  • zone-matrix-wake-up: The Matrix wake up scene as an Emacs zone/screen saver
  • slime-repl-ansi-color.el — Turn on ANSI colors in REPL output;
  • emacs-monokai-pro-theme
• Navigation:
  • targets.el: Extension of evil text objects
• Org Mode:
  • Multiple timestamps in one Org headline
  • Using org-mode as a quick-and-dirty issue tracker.
  • poporg: Emacs programming tool for editing strings or comments in Org mode
  • Youtube2org. Añadir la imagen de un vídeo de Youtube, en un Orgmode o markdown
  • org-export: batch export of org-mode files from the command line
  • org-pomodoro: pomodoro technique for org-mode
  • org-msr: Minimal Spaced Repetition with todo keywords
  • Design documentation with org-mode – Christian Blades
  • Syncing Emacs with Orgzly
  • ORG-NEWS: Mention new variable org-attach-commands – fb866077db – Gogs
  • Logging Money In Org Mode (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • `poly-mode` is damn awesome
  • idris-mode: Idris syntax highlighting, compiler-supported editing, interactive REPL
  • Indium: A JavaScript development environment for Emacs
  • Tips and Tricks for R programming in Academia using Emacs/ESS
  • emacs-python-black: Emacs package to reformat Python using black-macchiato
  • dhall-mode: Work with Dhall configuration language. Dhall is an alternative to YAML
  • android-env.el: Emacs helper functions for working in android
  • repl-toggle: Use one keystroke to jump from a code buffer to the repl buffer and back again.
  • Quick Tip: Getting Emacs and IntelliJ to play together – Atlassian Developer Blog
  • emacs-gvariant: GVariant (GLib) helper library for Emacs
  • tla-tools: TLA+ tools for Emacs
  • A Guide to Agda2 Mode in Emacs
  • Version control:
    • A few Magit tips
    • libgit2: experimental libgit2 bindings to Emacs, intended to boost the performance of magit.
• Mail:
  • My notes on setting up notmuch-emacs with mbsync (Reddit)
  • mu4e-alert: Desktop notifications and modeline display for mu4e
• Spacemacs:
  • Creating packages in Spacemacs for the programmer in a hurry
  • Spacemacs Intro (Installation, Configuration, Navigation) – YouTube
  • What Spacemacs layers have significantly improved your productivity?
  • Org mode with Spacemacs: The Absolute Minimum (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Looking for Emacs Meetup in the Atlanta Area
• Other:
  • Yet Another Emacs Cheat Sheet
  • release 26.2 – d12frosted/[email protected] – GitHub
  • emacs-gsettings: Emacs library for Gnome GSettings
  • elcord: connect with a local Discord client to update your status via the Discord Rich Presence API.
  • EMACSPEAK The Complete Audio Desktop: Emacspeak 50.0 (SageDog) Unleashed!
  • Land of Lisp- The Music Video! – YouTube
  • Vim user wanting to try emacs with a question on long term best practice
  • tramp-term.el: create an ansi-term with an ssh session with remote directory tracking
  • exec-path-from-shell: ensures environment variables inside Emacs look the same as in the user’s shell.
  • jdenen/mastodon.el: Emacs client for Mastodon (Reddit)
  • Improving ansi-term
  • sylvia.el – Rhyming engine, phonetic regular expressions, and other poetry/lyrics editing tools for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Running Shells in Emacs: An Overview By Mickey Petersen
  • homebrew-emacs-plus: Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager
  • macports-ports portfile for Emacs
  • Compare Doom-emacs, Spacemacs, and vanilla Emacs
  • Sublime Text Vs Emacs:. A item-by-item comparison of features
  • Wanted to share my joy re: this book (Reddit)

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

• Emacs configuration:
  • Rediscovering vanilla Emacs’ text editing (Reddit)
  • Where is the proper way of rewriting or replacing an emacs library function?
  • More modern Emacs defaults?
• Emacs Lisp:
  • comint-process-echoes
  • emacs-websocket: A websocket implementation in elisp, for emacs.
  • Vivek Haldar: Global Variables | Irreal
  • aio: async/await for Emacs Lisp. aio is to Emacs Lisp as asyncio is to Python.
• Emacs development:
  • Garbage Collector Magic Hack (Reddit)
  • Export major version of latest Emacs supported by emacs-module.h.
  • Update multicolor font support status
  • Fix Bug#33618; define search path variables for grep, byte-compile
  • Use lexical-binding by default for M-:, –eval, and scratch
  • Add module functions to convert from and to big integers.
  • Add conversions to and from struct timespec to module interface.
• Appearance:
  • theme-magic will extract the colors from your Emacs theme and apply them to the rest of Linux with Pywal.
  • parchment: A light editor theme for Vim and Emacs, inspired by Acme and Leuven
  • power-line: A new implementation of Powerline for Emacs
  • mood-line: A minimal mode-line configuration for Emacs, inspired by doom-modeline.
  • emacs-theme-darktooth: Darktooth : From the darkness… it watches.
• Navigation:
  • ‘fd’ is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
  • isearch-project: Incremental search through the whole project.
  • goto-char-preview: Preview character position in buffer when executing goto-char command.
  • sublimity: smooth-scrolling and minimap for Emacs (inspired by sublime editor)
  • New package: Pepita, run a Splunk search, get results in a buffer
• Org Mode:
  • Literature Management with Emacs
  • Orgmode-TV: How I Plan My Days
  • EmacsCast 9: Writing in Emacs and Org mode, part 2 (Reddit)
  • Blogging with Emacs and Org-mode (Reddit)
  • ORG-NEWS: New LATEX_ATTR ‘:scale’
  • poly-org: Polymode for org-mode (Reddit)
  • Automate refiling according to tag?
  • Intro to Org Babel Tangle
  • The Org Mode 9.1 Reference Manual by Carsten Dominik (FSF): Brief Review of the Hard Copy
• Spacemacs:
  • Literate Emacs (Spacemacs) configuration
  • Spacemacs intro tutorial (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • With the exception of C and lisps, which programming languages have the most complete, mature and multi-platform support on Emacs?
  • flymake-eslint: Flymake backend for Javascript using eslint
  • GN-mode: Edit GN (ninja generator) config files common in Chromium-derived projects like Chrome and (Anaheim) Edge.
  • Emacs Live is designed from the ground up to create an insane Clojure hacking experience
  • Helm Dash: Use Dash docsets inside emacs to browse documentation
  • Evaluation overlays in slime for common lisp
  • ac-php: emacs auto-complete & company-mode for php
  • nasm-mode: Major mode for NASM x86 assembly programs
  • helm-compile: Select/edit compilation command using Helm
  • The Ultimate Guide To Indentation in Emacs (Tabs and Spaces)
  • Preview in emacs using Chemdraw
  • Phantom Inline Comment: Add Inline Comments That Do Not Affect the Source Code (Reddit)
  • Anyone doing Android development?
  • docker.el: Manage docker from Emacs.
  • Your opinion on best config for python development?
  • snakemake-mode: support for Snakemake for create reproducible and scalable data analyses.
  • company-coq: IDE extensions for Proof General’s Coq mode
  • Version control:
    • multi-magit: Multi-repo support for Magit
• Mail:
  • An Easy Tutorial for Setting Up Mu4e and Mbsync
  • A quickguide to connecting emacs and Protonmail Bridge
  • 2019 – Which e-mail client to use?
  • Helm-mu – A Helm front-end for the maildir indexer mu and the mail user agent mu4e
  • gnus-summary-repo: Import and export files between IMAP and local by using GNUS
• Community:
  • Emacs Meetup ;; May 3 ;; Hamilton ;; Ontario ;; Canada
• Other:
  • New Dashboard of Centaur Emacs (Reddit)
  • How to turn-off Emacs frame refocus on macOS
  • Inscrutability of C-x 4 and C-x 5 (Reddit)
  • emacs-giphy: An emacs function for generating markdown links to giphy
  • emacs-chat: emacs wrapper for pidgin instant messager
  • gopher.el: An Emacs mode to browse Gopher.
  • Basic Emacs Command Explained in Detail
  • aerique’s EXWM Functions ($1850375) – Snippets – GitLab
  • Episode 1: The Right Mindset for Emacs | EmacsCast
  • Now that Homebrew has removed build options, how do I get Imagemagick support for emacs on Mac OS?
  • Doubt about how hard is to get into emacs.
  • Emacspeak: How the blind use Emacs
  • What’s the current wisdom for keeping configs synced across multiple machines?
  • I wished GNU Emacs had… – Sebastian Wiesner (Reddit)
  • sv-kalender-namnsdagar: Calendar function for the swedish celebrated name of the day
  • Best way to learn emacs? Vanilla, Spacemacs, or something else?
  • which-key-posframe: Let emacs-which-key use posframe to show its popup.
  • counsel-spotify: Control Spotify App through Emacs
  • taskpaper-mode: Emacs TaskPaper Mode (Reddit)
  • Emacs vs VI: Which is better | Unixmen
• New packages:
  • github-explorer: Explore a GitHub repository on the fly
  • helm-bitbucket: Search Bitbucket with Helm
  • helm-catkin: Package for compile ROS workspaces with catkin-tools
  • jq-format: Reformat JSON and JSONLines using jq
  • json-reformatter-jq: reformat json using jq
  • monokai-pro-theme: A simple theme based on the Monokai Pro Sublime color schemes
  • mood-one-theme: A dark color scheme inspired by the Doom One theme.
  • mu4e-overview: Show overview of maildir
  • ovpn-mode: an openvpn management mode
  • parchment-theme: Light theme inspired by Acme and Leuven
  • perfect-margin: auto center windows, work with minimap and/or linum-mode
  • slime-repl-ansi-color: Turn on ANSI colors in REPL output;
  • gnu-elpa-keyring-update: Update Emacs’s GPG keyring for GNU ELPA

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

After A- headed out the door with the babysitter, I resisted the urge to work on consulting projects and picked a few personal projects instead. I organized and published another Emacs News post, then settled in for some coding.

I made good progress on using Puppeteer to automate renewing my library books. I even packaged it up as a Docker image, pushed it to my Linode server, and successfully ran it there. Hooray! That means we’re one step closer to getting A- her own library card, since I’ll be able to renew items on both of our cards without the hassle of logging in and out of various accounts on my phone.

So far, so good. The ROI doesn’t make straightforward sense – I wouldn’t each up enough overdue fines to balance the opportunity cost from not consulting – but learning how to automate headless browsers will open up a lot more web automation possibilities, and extra practice wrapping it in a Docker container was a nice bonus. And yeah, turning three minutes of mild annoyance every few days or so into something more automated will probably be worthwhile. The next steps are for me to turn it into a cronjob so that my server can run it daily, and to test to make sure it works when a book can’t be renewed.

I also wanted to prepare for doing Emacs Hangouts again. It turns out that my Logitech H800 Bluetooth headset microphone doesn’t work properly on Ubuntu Bionic. Something about HFP and PulseAudio. At least audio output works, so that will reduce the feedback. I just finished apt-get dist-upgrade when A- returned with the babysitter, so I’ll work on this again next time.

Alternating consulting sessions with personal projects seems like a good plan. It feels a little indulgent, but so did my experiment with semi-retirement when I was just starting, and that worked out really well for us.

This babysitting setup seems to work well for us considering A-‘s late schedule and shifting interests. A 5-hour session gives me enough time to dig into a challenge or learn a new skill. A- seems to need more connection time after babysitting (probably letting off the tension from behaving so well with a new person all afternoon), but that’s perfectly okay.

I’ve liked spending all this time with A-, and I like the little stories I pick up from watching her learn every day. At the playground, she was so proud of being able to climb over the top of the climbing structure by herself. But these moments belong to her, not to me, so it’s okay for me to step back and have my own moments. Part of her journey as a child is separating herself from me, and part of my journey as a parent is separating myself from her.

Slowly, slowly, slowly making time for my own things again!

Update 12:39 AM: It looks like Bluetooth headset microphones are not really working on Linux these days, so I’ll just use the headset to listen in order to reduce feedback, and I’ll use my Yeti microphone if I set up for an Emacs Hangout or Emacs Chat session.