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There's some more buzz about spell-checking with Jinx (Bozhidar Batsov , Marcin Borkowski ). Also, quite a few people have signed up for the Human Emacs initiative .
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Wow, the June Emacs Carnival gathered 22 entries on the topic of Underappreciated Emacs built-ins . Looking for something to write about next? "Programming" is the Emacs Carnival theme for July. Thanks to Ross for hosting in June and Andy for hosting in July. Also, there was a fair bit of discussion about The GNU Emacs Architecture : Unlocking the Core . Have fun!
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This week, lots of people were talking about FSF's policy of not
accepting LLM contributions to Emacs core (see the last two items in
the AI category). Comments seem generally supportive of FSF's caution.
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There was lots of discussion around Rahul's post on Emacs 31. It's the
first link in the list below, so I won't repeat the links here. Also,
I like visualizations, so I thought these force-directed graphs
(Reddit ) and text-based mindmaps (Reddit , lobste.rs ) were pretty cool.
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Lots of discussion around Karthik's latest blog post Even More Batteries Included with Emacs (Reddit , HN , lobste.rs ). Check it out!
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It's Emacs Built-ins appreciation month ! I'm coming to appreciate the menu bar more. What built-ins do you appreciate? Write about it and send Ross a link !
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There were 17 posts in the in the May carnival topic "May I recommend ", very cool! Looking for something to write about next? Check out the June theme Underappreciated Emacs Built-ins hosted by Ross A. Baker.
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