• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
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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, 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!

I often want to copy the toot URL after posting a new toot about a blog post so that I can update the blog post with it. Since I post from Emacs using mastodon.el, I can probably figure out how to get the URL after tooting. A quick-and-dirty way is to retrieve the latest status.

(defvar my-mastodon-toot-posted-hook nil "Called with the item.")

(defun my-mastodon-copy-toot-url (toot)
  (interactive (list (my-mastodon-latest-toot)))
  (kill-new (alist-get 'url toot)))
(add-hook 'my-mastodon-toot-posted-hook #'my-mastodon-copy-toot-url)

(defun my-mastodon-latest-toot ()
  (interactive)
  (require 'mastodon-http)
  (let* ((json-array-type 'list)
         (json-object-type 'alist))
    (car
     (mastodon-http--get-json
      (mastodon-http--api
       (format "accounts/%s/statuses?count=1&limit=1&exclude_reblogs=t"
               (mastodon-auth--get-account-id)))
      nil :silent))))

(with-eval-after-load 'mastodon-toot
  (when (functionp 'mastodon-toot-send)
    (advice-add
     #'mastodon-toot-send
     :after
     (lambda (&rest _)
       (run-hook-with-args 'my-mastodon-toot-posted-hook (my-mastodon-latest-toot)))))
  (when (functionp 'mastodon-toot--send)
    (advice-add
     #'mastodon-toot--send
     :after
     (lambda (&rest _)
       (run-hook-with-args 'my-mastodon-toot-posted-hook (my-mastodon-latest-toot))))))

I considered overriding the keybinding in mastodon-toot-mode-map, but I figured using advice would mean I can copy things even after automated toots.

A more elegant way to do this might be to modify mastodon-toot-send to run-hook-with-args a variable with the response as an argument, but this will do for now.

I used a hook in my advice so that I can change the behaviour from other functions. For example, I have some code to compose a toot with a link to the current post. After I send a toot, I want to check if the toot contains the current entry's permalink. If it has and I don't have a Mastodon toot field yet, maybe I can automatically set that property, assuming I end up back in the Org Mode file I started it from.

(defun my-mastodon-org-maybe-set-toot-url (toot)
  (when (derived-mode-p 'org-mode)
    (let ((permalink (org-entry-get-with-inheritance "EXPORT_ELEVENTY_PERMALINK")))
      (when (and permalink
                 (string-match (regexp-quote permalink) (alist-get 'content toot))
                 (not (org-entry-get-with-inheritance "MASTODON")))
        (save-excursion
          (goto-char (org-find-property "EXPORT_ELEVENTY_PERMALINK"
                                        permalink))
          (org-entry-put
           (point)
           "EXPORT_MASTODON"
           (alist-get 'url toot))
          (message "Toot URL set: %s, republish if needed" toot))))))
(add-hook 'my-mastodon-toot-posted-hook #'my-mastodon-org-maybe-set-toot-url)

If I combine that with a development copy of my blog that ignores most of my posts so it compiles faster and a function that copies just the current post's files over, I can quickly make a post available at its permalink (which means the link in the toot will work) before I recompile the rest of the blog, which takes a number of minutes.

(defun my-org-11ty-copy-just-this-post ()
  (interactive)
  (when (derived-mode-p 'org-mode)
    (let ((file (org-entry-get-with-inheritance "EXPORT_ELEVENTY_FILE_NAME"))
          (path my-11ty-base-dir))
      (call-process "chmod" nil nil nil "ugo+rwX" "-R" (expand-file-name file (expand-file-name "_local" path)))
      (call-process "rsync" nil (get-buffer-create "*rsync*") nil "-avze" "ssh"
                    (expand-file-name file (expand-file-name "_local" path))
                    (concat "web:/var/www/static-blog/" file))
      (browse-url (concat my-blog-base-url (org-entry-get-with-inheritance "EXPORT_ELEVENTY_PERMALINK"))))))

The proper blog updates (index page, RSS/ATOM feeds, category pages, prev/next links, etc.) can happen when the publishing is finished.

So my draft workflow is:

1. Write the post.
2. Export it to the local NODE_ENV=dev npx eleventy --serve --quiet with ox-11ty.
3. Check that it looks okay locally.
4. Use my-org-11ty-copy-just-this-post and confirm that it looks fine.
5. Compose a toot with my-mastodon-11ty-toot-post and check if sending it updates the Mastodon toot.
6. Re-export the post.
7. Run my blog publishing process. NODE_ENV=production npx eleventy --quiet and then rsync.

Let's see if this works…

Nudged by Dave Winer's post about old-school bloggers and my now-nicely-synchronizing setup of NetNewsWire (iOS) and FreshRSS (web), I gave Claude AI this prompt to list bloggers (with the addition of "Please include URLs and short bios.") and had fun going through the list it produced. A number of people were no longer blogging (unreachable sites or inactive blogs), but I found a few that I wanted to add to my feed reader.

Here is my people.opml at the moment (slightly redacted, as I read my husband's blog as well). This list has some non-old-school bloggers as well and some sketchnoters, but that's fine. It's a very tiny slice of the awesomeness of the Internet out there, definitely not exhaustive, just a start. I've been adding more by trawling through indieblog.page and the occasional interesting post on news.ycombinator.com.

It makes sense to make an HTML version to make it easier for people to explore, like those old-fashioned blog rolls. Ooh, maybe some kind of table like indieblog.page, listing a recent item from each blog. (I am totally not surprised about my tendency to self-nerd-snipe with some kind of Emacs thing.) This uses my-opml-table and my-rss-get-entries, which I have just added to my Emacs configuration.

(defun my-opml-table (xml)
  (sort
   (mapcar
    (lambda (o)
      (let ((latest (car (condition-case nil (my-rss-get-entries (dom-attr o 'xmlUrl))
                           (error nil)))))
        (list
         (if latest
             (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d" (plist-get latest :date))
           "")
         (org-link-make-string
          (or (dom-attr o 'htmlUrl)
              (dom-attr o 'xmlUrl))
          (replace-regexp-in-string " *|" "" (dom-attr o 'text)))
         (if latest
             (org-link-make-string
              (plist-get latest :url)
              (or (plist-get latest :title) "(untitled)"))
           ""))))
    (dom-search
     xml
     (lambda (o)
       (and
        (eq (dom-tag o) 'outline)
        (dom-attr o 'xmlUrl)
        (dom-attr o 'text)))))
   :key #'car
   :reverse t))

(defun my-rss-get-entries (url)
  "Return a list of the form ((:title ... :url ... :date ...) ...)."
  (with-current-buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously url)
    (set-buffer-multibyte t)
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (when (re-search-forward "<\\?xml\\|<rss" nil t)
      (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
      (sort
       (let* ((feed (xml-parse-region (point) (point-max)))
              (is-rss (> (length (xml-get-children (car feed) 'entry)) 0)))
         (if is-rss
             (mapcar
              (lambda (entry)
                (list
                 :url
                 (or
                  (xml-get-attribute
                   (car
                    (or
                     (seq-filter (lambda (x) (string= (xml-get-attribute x 'rel) "alternate"))
                                 (xml-get-children entry 'link))
                     (xml-get-children entry 'link)))
                   'href)
                  (dom-text (dom-by-tag entry 'guid)))
                 :title
                 (elt (car (xml-get-children entry 'title)) 2)
                 :date
                 (date-to-time (elt (car (xml-get-children entry 'updated)) 2))))
              (xml-get-children (car feed) 'entry))
           (mapcar (lambda (entry)
                     (list
                      :url
                      (or (caddr (car (xml-get-children entry 'link)))
                          (dom-text (dom-by-tag entry 'guid)))
                      :title
                      (caddr (car (xml-get-children entry 'title)))
                      :date
                      (date-to-time (elt (car (xml-get-children entry 'pubDate)) 2))))
                   (xml-get-children (car (xml-get-children (car feed) 'channel)) 'item))))
       :key (lambda (o) (plist-get o :date))
       :lessp #'time-less-p
       :reverse t))))

(my-opml-table (xml-parse-file "~/Downloads/people.opml"))

I'm rebuilding my feed list from scratch. I want to read more. I read the aggregated feeds at planet.emacslife.com every week as part of preparing Emacs News. Maybe I'll go over the list of blogs I aggregate there, widen it to include all posts instead of just Emacs-specific ones, and see what resonates. Emacs people tend to be interesting. Here is an incomplete list based on people who've posted in the past two years or so, based on this work-in-progress planetemacslife-expanded.opml. (I haven't tweaked all the URLs yet. I stopped at around 2023 and made the rest of the elements xoutline instead of outline so that my code would skip them.)

(my-opml-table (xml-parse-file "~/Downloads/planetemacslife-expanded.opml"))

Making this table was fun. It's nice to see a lot of people also writing and learning out loud. This reminded me a little of EmacsConf - 2020 - talks - Sharing blogs (and more) with org-webring. TODO: Could be fun to have a blogroll page again.

I notice I tend to like:

• posts about adapting technology to personal interests, more than posts about the industry or generalizations
• detailed posts about things I'm currently interested in (Emacs, personal knowledge management, some Javascript), more than detailed tech posts about things I've decided not to get into at the moment
• "I" posts more than "You" posts: personal reflections rather than didactic advice
• curiosity, fun, experimentation

Looking forward to discovering more!

Related:

• Old-school blogger

See discussion on Mastodon

I usually summarize Mastodon links, move them to my Emacs News Org file, and then categorize them. Today I accidentically categorized the links while they were still in my Mastodon buffer, so I had two lists with categories. I wanted to write some Emacs Lisp to merge sublists based on the top-level items. I could sort the list alphabetically with C-c ^ (org-sort) and then delete the redundant top-level item lines, but it's fun to tinker with Emacs Lisp.

Example input:

• Topic A:
  • Item 1
  • Item 2
    • Item 2.1
• Topic B:
  • Item 3
• Topic A:
  • Item 4
    • Item 4.1

Example output:

• Topic B:
  • Item 3
• Topic A:
  • Item 1
  • Item 2
    • Item 2.1
  • Item 4
    • Item 4.1

The sorting doesn't particularly matter to me, but I want the things under Topic A to be combined. Someday it might be nice to recursively merge other entries (ex: if there's another "Topic A: - Item 2" subitem like "Item 2.2"), but I don't need that yet.

Anyway, we can parse the list with org-list-to-lisp (which can even delete the original list) and recreate it with org-list-to-org, so then it's a matter of transforming the data structure.

(defun my-org-merge-list-entries-at-point ()
  "Merge entries in a nested Org Mode list at point that have the same top-level item text."
  (interactive)
  (save-excursion
    (let* ((list-indentation (save-excursion
                               (goto-char (caar (org-list-struct)))
                               (current-indentation)))
           (list-struct (org-list-to-lisp t))
           (merged-list (my-org-merge-list-entries list-struct)))
      (insert (org-ascii--indent-string (org-list-to-org merged-list) list-indentation)
              "\n"))))

(defun my-org-merge-list-entries (list-struct)
  "Merge an Org list based on its top-level headings"
  (cons (car list-struct)
        (mapcar
         (lambda (g)
           (list
            (car g)
            (let ((list-type (car (car (cdr (car (cdr g))))))
                  (entries (seq-mapcat #'cdar (mapcar #'cdr (cdr g)))))
              (apply #'append (list list-type) entries nil))))
         (seq-group-by #'car (cdr list-struct)))))

A couple of test cases:

(ert-deftest my-org-merge-list-entries ()
  (should
   (equal
    (my-org-merge-list-entries
     '(unordered ("Topic B:" (unordered ("Item 3")))))
    '(unordered ("Topic B:" (unordered ("Item 3"))))))
  (should
   (equal
    (my-org-merge-list-entries
     '(unordered ("Topic B:" (unordered ("Item 3")))
                 ("Topic A:"
                  (unordered ("Item 1")
                             ("Item 2"
                              (unordered ("Item 2.1")))))
                 ("Topic A:"
                  (unordered
                   ("Item 4" (unordered ("Item 4.1")))))))
    '(unordered
      ("Topic B:" (unordered ("Item 3")))
      ("Topic A:"
       (unordered ("Item 1")
                  ("Item 2" (unordered ("Item 2.1")))
                  ("Item 4" (unordered ("Item 4.1")))))))))

(defun my-org-package-export (link description format &optional arg)
  (let* ((package-info (car (assoc-default (intern link) package-archive-contents)))
         (package-source (and package-info (package-desc-archive package-info)))
         (path (format
                (cond
                 ((null package-source) link)
                 ((string= package-source "gnu") "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/%s.html")
                 ((string= package-source "melpa") "https://melpa.org/#/%s")
                 ((string= package-source "nongnu") "https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/%s.html")
                 (t (error 'unknown-source)))
                link))
         (desc (or description link)))
    (if package-source
        (cond
         ((eq format '11ty) (format "<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"%s\">%s</a>" path desc))
         ((eq format 'html) (format "<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"%s\">%s</a>" path desc))
         ((eq format 'wp) (format "<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"%s\">%s</a>" path desc))
         ((eq format 'latex) (format "\\href{%s}{%s}" path desc))
         ((eq format 'texinfo) (format "@uref{%s,%s}" path desc))
         ((eq format 'ascii) (format "%s <%s>" desc path))
         ((eq format 'org) (org-link-make-string (concat "package:" link) description)) ;; added this line
         (t path))
      desc)))

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
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  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/306610734/ Sat Mar 22 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Mar 26 1030 America/Vancouver - 1230 America/Chicago - 1330 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 27 0130 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs 30:
  • emacs-mac v30 experimental build: seeking experienced contributors/testers
  • emacs-30.1-on-android-termux-vs-android-linux-terminal.txt — paste.sr.ht (@gnomon@mastodon.social)
  • Emacs 30 Now On Android - fossHQ
  • EmacsWiki: Emacs On Android
• Beginner:
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  • Emacs என்பது யாதெனில் - அத்தியாயம் ஒன்று - Sakhil (01:00:55)
• Emacs configuration:
  • inhibit-mouse.el - A package for disabling the mouse in Emacs (Release: 1.0.1) (Reddit)
  • Dotfiles Check-Up: Emacs and Guix Tweaks - System Crafters Live! (01:38:38)
  • sss config: everfrost theme support (@sss_project@mastodon.social)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • New package raq.el: HTTP Library Adapter for Emacs, suport url.el and plz.el, and can be extended. (Reddit)
  • compile-angel - Ensure all Elisp files are both Byte and Native-Compiled (Alternative to: auto-compile) - Release 1.0.6 (Reddit)
  • tip about get-mru-window (most recently used)
  • Some problems of modernizing Emacs (incomplete - slides 0 to 6 only) (20:39)
• Appearance:
  • Tip about using consult-theme from the consult package to preview themes quickly
  • Announcing Calle 24 (Reddit, Irreal) - substitutes the default tool bar icons with those from SF Symbols, a library of images provided by Apple
  • tomorrow-night-deepblue-theme (Release 1.2.1): A deep blue Emacs theme, inspired by the Tomorrow Night theme
  • My Unique Emacs Theme Pack – Now Available for Download! (Reddit) - screenshots are in the Details heading
• Navigation:
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• Writing:
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  • quick-sdcv.el (Release 1.0.1): Turn Emacs into an offline dictionary with sdcv (Reddit)
  • Editing Overleaf Documents with Emacs | Valentin Boettcher (Reddit) - nice! live editing, might be useful for collaboration too
  • Chung-hong Chan: Miscellaneous talk #45 Quarto guy, Overleaf’s markdown mode?, Flymake, Mailing lists, CRAN - ESS also
  • Wherein I Explain Why Emacs Is The Best Tool For WordPress (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Meet Harper | A Grammarly Alternative for Neovim | Emacs, Obsidian, Zed, VScode and Helix (deez) (21:16)
• Org Mode:
  • Using Emacs Org mode to manage my appointments
  • Calendar.org (Reddit)
  • Org-anizing My Fragrance Collection with Emacs – literatelisp.eu (@theesm@social.tchncs.de)
  • Sacha Chua: Remove open Org Mode clock entries
  • a template for writing OWL ontologies as Org Mode documents, with supporting functions and scripts
  • org-expose-emphasis-markers: A new package used to automatically show hidden emphasis markers at point in org mode when `org-hide-emphasis-markers` is on. (Reddit)
  • Seam: personal wiki system based on Org mode (@spnw@gts.plexwave.org)
  • Using an Org-mode README on SourceHut (@tiang@mastodon.social)
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Denote is becoming many packages
• Coding:
  • using hideshow minor mode in all programming modes so you can toggle code sections (@dotemacs@mastodon.xyz)
  • Announcing Casual Make (Reddit, Irreal)
  • eglot-inactive-regions - eglot extension to dim inactive preprocessor branches - release: 0.6.4 (Reddit)
  • I found an easy way to make code comments appear in other mode's syntax
  • A story of mystery involving LS, clangd and a very easy fix
  • flymake-bashate.el (1.0.2) - A Flymake backend for bashate: Real-time style checking for Bash shell scripts
  • Bozhidar Batsov: neocaml: a new Emacs package for OCaml programming
  • swyddfa/esbonio.el: Integrating the esbonio language server into Emacs (@alcarney@fosstodon.org)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • twtxt.el updates: notifications, user interface, fixes (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• AI:
  • gptel 0.9.8 released (tool-use, support for "reasoning" output, dry-run options and more) (Reddit)
  • gptel-aibo update: new complete at point
  • GitHub - rajp152k/fabric-gpt.el: Fabric Prompts for emacs gpt.el
  • Aidermacs v1.0 Released. Available Now on Melpa and Non-GNU Elpa! (Reddit) (also 0.5.0 discussion)
  • James Dyer: Ollama-Buddy 0.8.0 - Added System Prompts, Model Info and simpler menu model assignment
  • James Dyer: Ollama-Buddy 0.7.1 - Org-mode Chat, Parameter Control and JSON Debugging
  • claude-code.el (Reddit)
  • lizqwerscott/mcp.el: An Mcp client inside Emacs (Reddit) - model context protocol servers
  • Introducing forge-llm: Generate PR descriptions automatically with LLMs in Emacs Forge
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-03-11 / week 10
  • Eric MacAdie: 2025-03 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • Irreal: From Neovim to Emacs
• Other:
  • Bible Verse of the Day as Emacs dashboard footer
  • gtd-E: new GTD app (Reddit)
  • SYD-EMACS(1): sandboxed editor environments (@alip@mastodon.online)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Improving the Tools menu
    • Re: Semantic: update or remove?
      • Re: Semantic: update or remove? - more thoughts on tree-sitter and the Emacs ecosystem
    • Re: Markers in a gap array - sorted array with gap
  • Make marking conflicted files as resolved upon saving opt-out
  • ; Add NEWS entry for java-ts-mode-method-chaining-indent-offset
  • ; etc/NEWS (remember-prefix-map): Suggest a key reserved to users.
  • New project-save-some-buffers command
  • Add a new command `speedbar-window'.
  • dired-copy-filename-as-kill: Support project-relative names
  • Make turn-on-flyspell/turn-off-flyspell obsolete
  • Improve tramp-*-with-sudo commands
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce the larger number of sub-processes on w32.
  • New configure option –with-systemduserunitdir
  • Allow control of indicating empty rectangular selections
  • Turn 'remember-mode' into a minor mode
  • diff-apply-buffer now considers the region and can reverse-apply.
  • Fix capitalization ELisp -> Elisp
  • Automatically document when setopt is needed
  • New user option follow-mode-prefix-key
  • Remove variable aliases obsolete since Emacs 23.2
  • New user variable `exchange-point-and-mark-highlight-region`
• New packages:
  • aider: Interact with Aider: AI pair programming made simple (MELPA)
  • company-forge: Company backend for assignees and topics from forge (MELPA)
  • denote-journal: Convenience functions for daily journaling with Denote (GNU ELPA)
  • denote-markdown: Extensions that better integrate Denote with Markdown (GNU ELPA)
  • denote-org: Denote extensions for Org mode (GNU ELPA)
  • denote-sequence: Sequence notes or Folgezettel with Denote (GNU ELPA)
  • denote-silo: Convenience functions for using Denote in multiple silos (GNU ELPA)
  • indexed: Cache metadata on all Org files (MELPA)
  • jira: Emacs Interface to Jira (MELPA)
  • ob-aider: Org Babel functions for Aider.el integration (MELPA)
  • org-expose-emphasis-markers: Automatically show hidden org emphasis markers (MELPA)

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Pedro pointed out that I had some incomplete clock entries in my Emacs configuration. org-resolve-clocks prompts you for what to do with each open clock entry in your Org agenda files and whatever Org Mode files you have open.

If you don't feel like cancelling each clock with C, I also wrote this function to delete all open clocks in the current file.

(defun my-org-delete-open-clocks ()
  (interactive)
  (flush-lines
   (rx
    line-start
    (zero-or-more space)
    "CLOCK:"
    (one-or-more space)
    (regexp org-ts-regexp-inactive)
    (zero-or-more space)
    line-end)))

• Emacs 30:
  • How to Get Started with Emacs 30.1 on Linux (@derdreschi85@mastodon.social)
  • GNU Emacs 30.1 läuft auf Android (@hgdrn@nrw.social)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #3 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/333236a9-d51f-4646-9630-4d42a820f1f0 Tue Mar 11 1900 CET
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Mar 14 1800 Europe/Paris
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Mar 19 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 20 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Mar 22 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore announcement
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/306610734/ Sat Mar 22 1100 America/Los_Angeles
• Upcoming events:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Live @ 2025-03-15, 14:00 Europe/Athens: ‘Ask Me Anything’ about Emacs, Linux, and Life in general
• Emacs configuration:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Persisting variables across Emacs sessions revisited
  • Building Your First Emacs Config | Sophie Bosio (@bignose@fosstodon.org)
  • minimal-emacs.d - A Customizable Emacs init.el and early-init.el that Provides Better Defaults and Optimized Startup (Release 1.2.0) (Reddit)
  • peregrinator's literate Emacs configuration
  • my auto-bootstrapping emacs config, powered by straight.el
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Grant Rettke: Refactoring a Simple Example of Simultanously User-Friendly and Debuggable Code
  • el-job: An async library for some high-performance needs (Reddit)
  • How to extract the Filename from an Emacs buffer and include it in a Yasnippet (06:10)
• Appearance:
  • Charles Choi: Announcing Calle 24 - use SF Symbols for icon bar
  • Installing color scheme in Emacs (06:27)
• Navigation:
  • Navigating between points with registers
  • Better registers in Emacs #coding #programming #emacswiki (06:17)
  • Nested projects in Eglot (@donaldh@hachyderm.io) - project-rootfile-try-detect
  • [Release v2.0.0] Disproject: Dispatch project commands with Transient
• Dired:
  • Jack Baty: Toggle hidden files in Dired buffers
  • Marcin Borkowski: Applying some modification to selected files in a directory
• Org Mode:
  • Collecting and Categorizing Web Links in Org-mode | Plain DrOps (@spacecadet@masto.plaindrops.de)
  • (Update) org-supertag 2.5: A new way think about Tag system (r/emacs, r/orgmode)
  • Thanos Apollo: Emacs Note Taking & Journaling using org-gnosis [Video]​ (YouTube)
  • Sacha Chua: Getting an Org link URL from a string; debugging regex groups
  • My First Emacs Lisp Code - org-create-and-open-file-link
  • The Emacs Cat: Using Emacs Org Mode for Reproducibility Testing
  • Loving Emacs Writing Studio (Irreal)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • My static website is generated from Org Mode, and I'm quite pleased with how it turned out
    • /home/lucio.albenga.es - Como crear y publicar tu sitio web con Emacs y Org Mode (@victorhck@mastodon.social)
    • one.el - static site generator for Emacs Lisp programmers (HN)
    • org-embd: An Emacs package for embedding various content in Org-mode (Reddit)
    • (update) org-zettel-ref-mode 0.5.4: Improved highlight mechanism and Improved sorting functionality
    • chenyanming/paw_org_protocol: Emacs Org Protocol Factory (Reddit)
• Denote:
  • Jack Baty: Denote and Howm, sitting in a tree
  • Jack Baty: Denote-search, a simple search utility for Denote
  • Emulating Howm Notes with Denote and Consult - System Crafters Live! (01:39:32)
  • Blogging using Denote and Hugo (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Amit Patel: Emacs Tree-sitter custom highlighting, part 2
  • Amit Patel: Emacs Tree-sitter custom highlighting, part 3
  • Andrey Listopadov: Dynamic font-lock for Fennel
  • Erlang shell in Emacs (01:19)
• Math:
  • esquellington/LatexInComments: Emacs package to render LaTeX math blocks in code comments as overlays (@ocivitf@mastodon.gamedev.place)
• Shells:
  • Mickey Petersen: Replacing tmux and GNU screen with Emacs (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Jack Baty: Using Gnus for email
  • seanfarley/message-view-patch: Colorize patch emails in mu4e and gnus (@csantosb@sigmoid.social)
  • Irreal: The Power Of Elfeed
  • twtxt.el update: threads, long feeds, fixes (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Evil mode:
  • Much Ado about Emacs 008 - Bicycle For Your Mind - evil-mode, general
• EXWM:
  • gemini://sdf.org/sinza/log/20250304-still-happy-with-emacs.gmi - Emacs, Debian, and Exwm (@sinza@bitbang.social)
  • Emacs, czyli edytor tak wszechstronny, że może zostać Window Managerem - „Hakki” | JL 2024 (24:23)
• AI:
  • DeepSeek, Open Router, Kagi, and Perplexity now supported by chatgpt-shell (Reddit)
  • Speaking to Claude via Whisper and asking it to write an Emacs function (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Ollama-Buddy V0.5.1 - Session/History/Role Management, Real-Time Token Tracking and More!
  • Alvaro Ramirez: DeepSeek, Open Router, Kagi, and Perplexity join the chat
  • demajh/emacs_ai_extensions: AI extensions for Emacs. (Reddit)
  • What AI chat I currently use in emacs (05:13)
  • Aidermacs in Action: Emacs AI Pair Programming w/ Aider & Ediff (02:11, Reddit)
• Community:
  • How I use Emacs
• Other:
  • Jack Baty: I went a little nuts with Remember mode in Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • The role of the Escape key in Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Irreal: Is Emacs Privacy Friendly?
  • janestreet/ecaml: Writing Emacs plugin in OCaml (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • Solved! Terminal Emacs screen tearing/corruption with Unicode characters | Adam Compton
  • Plain Text Supremacy With Emacs (02:46) - Download a transcript from youtube and transform it using jq
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • What Questions are Worth Asking Emacs-Newcomers?
    • File sharing (macOS and GNU/Linux) - continued discussion
    • context-menu-mode and S-<down-mouse-1>
    • Re: master 02681b0fbf0 1/2: Don't claim that xftfont is being considered - Xft vs Cairo
    • Re: master a5f8ce9f1ea: Re-port to 32-bit systems without alignment prim - Restoring Sun C 5.8 support?
    • Re: alert.el status? - Help wanted to get alert.el working with Android
    • Treesit ranges and embedding for GNU LilyPond - starting work on treesit-based major mode for LilyPond, Scheme-related challenges
  • Make second arg to defvar-local optional
  • Restore find-function-mode-map (bug#76700)
  • Allow changing theme settings without reloading it
  • VC: New hook to strip CVS template lines when committing
  • Let repeated windmove override motion restrictions interactively
  • Add static-when, static-unless like static-if
  • mouse-face properties on tab-bar tab captions (bug#76394)
  • Add shell-mode bookmark support for local and remote shells (bug#65039)
  • Add new user option to exclude projects from being remembered
  • New user option checkdoc-arguments-missing-flag
  • Make byte-compile-cond-use-jump-table obsolete
  • Add ns-click-through option to control activation click handling
  • Don't accept strings in package-(install|upgrade)
• New packages:
  • aidermacs: AI pair programming with Aider (MELPA)
  • amber-glow-theme: A warm and inviting theme (MELPA)
  • berry-theme: A vibrant berry-colored theme (MELPA)
  • bilibili: Watch videos of BiliBili (哔哩哔哩) in org mode (MELPA)
  • c2-mode: Major mode for C2 programming language (MELPA)
  • calle24: Emacs Toolbar Support for SF Symbols (MELPA)
  • cond-star: Extended form of `cond' construct (GNU ELPA)
  • denote-journal-capture: Better Integration for Denote Journal and Org Capture (MELPA)
  • denote-project-notes: Link Denote notes to a project (MELPA)
  • ember-twilight-theme: Ember Twilight theme (MELPA)
  • gnome-dark-style: Sync theme with GNOME color-scheme (GNU ELPA)
  • marron-gold-theme: A rich marron-gold theme (MELPA)
  • noether: A modeline which plays hide and seek (MELPA)
  • ox-beamer-lecture: Beamer Lecture Back-End for Org Export Engine (MELPA)
  • roseline-theme: Roseline theme (MELPA)
  • sexy-theme: Sexy color theme (MELPA)
  • sixcolors-theme: Just another theme (MELPA)
  • solarized-gruvbox-theme: Solarized Gruvbox theme (MELPA)
  • spider-man-theme: A Vibrant Spider-Man Inspired Theme (MELPA)
  • thankful-eyes-theme: Theme for color blindness and visual impairments (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, 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!