• Emacs 30:
  • What are your favorite changes in emacs 30?
• Upcoming events:
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Nov 20 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 21 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Nov 23 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Nov 27 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 28 0130 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: Basics of Emacs manual documentation
• Emacs configuration:
  • JD Codes: Transient Menus in Emacs pt. 1
  • bcardoso/knitter: A declarative dotfiles manager in Emacs Lisp (@cryptk@mastodon.social)
  • https://github.com/chrislo/emacs
  • genehack's Emacs Config
  • spwhitton's Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Discovering functions and variables in Elisp files
  • Paredit, a Visual Guide - Calva User Guide
  • timeblock.el - Emacs library for visualizing time data via interactive blocks (Reddit, communick.news)
  • Emacs creando un widget para controlar mi enchufe inteligente | Programador Web Valencia (@maxxcan@mastodon.social)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: the Modus themes palette previews are tabulated
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 1.9.0
  • 🌲 Emacs color theme inspired by the woods
  • Why I like using bitmap fonts in Emacs – Rodrigo Morales
• Navigation:
  • Neat behavior of M-x occur (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Getting Comfortable with Emacs Registers - System Crafters Live! (02:06:11)
  • easysession.el: Easily persist and restore your Emacs editing sessions (Release 1.1.1) (r/emacs, r/planetemacs)
• Writing:
  • Emacs Shortcuts To Show Nitty Gritty Details Of Selected Buffer Section 2024_11_09_16:22:27 count-words-region
  • Irreal: Writing A Book
• Org Mode:
  • Organizing My Life with org-mode
  • Prikaz98/foreign: Simple vocabulary trainer app for Emacs (Reddit) - Org
  • My configuration for org-roam-capture-templates – Rodrigo Morales
  • Styling Text via Keyboard in Org and Markdown (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Changing Org Mode underlines to the HTML mark element
  • punchagan: Responsive Auto Export for Org Hugo
  • James Dyer: Org Table From Org Headings using a Babel Block
  • Annouce: Org-zettel-ref-mode 0.5 Release
  • Org development: Add options to skip extra processing in org-babel-comint-with-output
• Denote:
  • Package for those who use Denote as a Zettelkasten: denote-zettel-interface
• Completion:
  • Exploring Emacs Completion Styles - System Crafters Live! (02:03:03)
• Coding:
  • Jupyter notebooks update: drafting a package
  • ansible-doc.el: read ansible plugin documentation in a buffer (Reddit)
  • Opening any CLI in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Integrar ruff, linter de python, en emacs
  • ahg: Alberto's Emacs interface for Mercurial (Hg)
  • t0yv0/gh-autolinks.el: Support GitHub autolinked references and URLs in Emacs - updated to use overlays for issue titles (@t0yv0@vmst.io)
• Web:
  • Emacs: A non-intrusive browser (Reddit, YouTube) - based on EWW, SVG rendering
• Multimedia:
  • My subed customizations for editing captions of Emacsconf 2024 – Rodrigo Morales
  • Sacha Chua: Yay Emacs 7: Using word timing in caption editing with subed-word-data
  • Sacha Chua: Checking caption timing by skimming with Emacs Lisp or JS
• AI:
  • Emacs is well positioned in the LLM era
  • GitHub - karthink/gptel: A simple LLM client for Emacs (03:45)
  • Extract vocab from your screen - chatgpt-shell-japanese-lookup
  • PSA: chatgpt-shell splits into multiple repositories (preparing for multi-model support) (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2024-11-13 / week 46
  • How is emacs useful in practical life? (Irreal)
• Other:
  • TIL: auth-sources integrates password-store
  • [ANN] Uniline minor mode
  • About Blee (ByStar Libre-Halaal Emacs Environment) — Emacs Conf 2024 (45:30)
  • Linux Space Cadet Style Remapping for Emacs
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Proposal to unify make-closure, make-interpreted-closure, and make-byte-code
    • Removing redisplay-dont-pause - background info
  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'refs/remotes/origin/master'
  • * cus-face.el: Provide completion for font families (bug#74362)
  • Add new `header-line-active' and `header-line-inactive' faces
  • New user option bibtex-entry-ask-for-key
  • Preserve selected candidate across Completions update
  • Add song viewer to 'mpc' (Bug#74200)
  • (cl-labels): Add support for (FUNC EXP) bindings (bug#59786)
• New packages:
  • compile-angel: Compile Emacs Lisp libraries automatically (MELPA)
  • crc: Cyclic Redundancy Check (MELPA)
  • disproject: Dispatch project commands with Transient (MELPA)
  • edts-mode: EDTS setup and configuration (MELPA)
  • evedel: Instructed LLM programmer/assistant (MELPA)
  • mathjax: Render formulas using MathJax (GNU ELPA)
  • miasma-theme: Miasma: color theme inspired by the woods (MELPA)
  • plumber: Run different commands depending on the text format (MELPA)
  • quick-sdcv: Interface for the sdcv command (StartDict cli dictionary) (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, communick.news, 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!

• Upcoming events:
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/304301988/ Sat Nov 16 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Nov 20 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 21 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Nov 23 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Emacs Tutorial – Tristan's Zettelkasten (Midirus)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Displaying just the package names when prompting for updates
  • Demonstration of `package-autosuggest-mode` in Emacs - Spectra Video (@pkal@commenting.onthe.incoherenceofthe.net)
  • Emacs: control where buffers are displayed (the 'display-buffer-alist')
  • Emacs minimalism revisited (Reddit)
  • Building Your First Emacs Config (Reddit)
  • nehrbash's Emacs Config
  • swhalemwo's Emacs Config (Reddit)
  • jvillasante's Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • package-docgen: A documentation generator for Emacs simple packages (Reddit)
  • James Cherti: The compile-angel Emacs package: Byte-compile and Native-compile Emacs Lisp libraries Automatically (Github, Reddit, Irreal)
• Navigation:
  • Emacs Shortcuts To Show Nitty Gritty Details Of Selected Buffer Section 2024_11_09_16:22:27 - YouTube (@unixbhaskar@mastodon.social)
  • pokemacs-layout: A window layout utility package (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Replace spaces in dired
• Org Mode:
  • org-music: Play music from your music library in org-mode (Reddit)
  • Thrilled to announce: org-zettel-ref-mode 0.4 release
  • Excerpts from a conversation with John Wiegley (johnw) and Adam Porter (alphapapa) about personal information management - Sacha Chua (Reddit)
  • Programación literaria en Emacs. 1ª Parte.
• Denote:
  • Tomando Notas con Emacs - FTV
• Completion:
  • completion.tap/after-init.el at main · steve-downey/completion.tap · GitHub - vertico, consult, cape, etc.
• Coding:
  • Tip about setting up etags languages
  • Getting Emacs Treesiter to parse multiple languages
  • pizzatorque/uv-menu: Emacs Transient menu for Python UV (@pizzatorque@mastodon.social)
  • Kaka Farm: Adding Extra Syntax Indentation To GNU Emacs Scheme Mode.
  • Emacs set up for C
  • Using Emacs for Container Development: Configuring Emacs for Podman and Docker Support (Reddit)
  • Tip: you can use magit-find-file to find any version of a file quickly
  • Thanos Apollo: Why I Prefer VC Over Magit [Video]​
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Aimé Bertrand: Mu4e - save attachments faster - an update
  • Thanos Apollo: RSS Mastery with RSS-Bridge & Elfeed [Video]​
  • rcirc-sqlite 1.0.4: browse URL in selected message with b (@mattof@functional.cafe)
  • Insert Mastodon emojis (@mekeor@mastodon.catgirl.cloud)
• Evil mode:
  • Emacs/Evil, snake case and camel case (@bbbscarter@mastodon.gamedev.place)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Jack Baty: A Doom Emacs status update after several days
• Multimedia:
  • Crop images with uniquely-generated filenames (@xenodium@indieweb.social)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs: Extract part of an image to another file
  • Sacha Chua: Interactively recolor a sketch
• Fun:
  • Displaying time as Emoji - Org file (Reddit)
• AI:
  • Using emacs as an interface to llm's: ellama and gptel
  • llm version 0.18, with image & media handling, batch embeddings, Azure, and more! (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2024-11-06 / week 45
  • What are your bad habits?
  • "Emacs is not a text editor…"
  • Irreal: Why Isn’t There An Emacs 2?
  • Ryan Rix: Two Updates: Org+Nix dev streams, and my new DNS resolver
• Other:
  • GPG pinentry configuration
  • ~leon_plickat/iwd-el - emacs major mode for interfacing with iwd - wireless networks (@lhp@mastodon.social)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Discussion about the pros and cons of lexical binding
    • yank-media - issues to ponder
  • Add color-blend to blend two RGB lists
  • Update vtable documentation
  • Tramp: Support different proxies for the same destination
  • Always print the expanded directory name for Eshell's "pwd" command
  • New input methods for Northern Iroquoian languages
  • Support :transform-smoothing on images (MS-Windows) (bug#57166)
  • Make 'yank-media' on MS-Windows require native image APIs
• New packages:
  • el-job: Call a function using all CPU cores (MELPA)
  • inhibit-mouse: Deactivate mouse input during editing (MELPA)
  • recall: Recall Emacs subprocess (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, communick.news, 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!

• Emacs 30 and Emacs 31:
  • Emacs 30.0 pretest packages for Fedora (Reddit)
  • Build Emacs 31 for Windows · GitHub (@ldbeth@mastodon.sdf.org)
• Upcoming events:
  • 200ok: EmacsConf 2024: Join Us in Lucerne for a Celebration of Free Software!
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Nov 5 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Wed Nov 6 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #14 2024 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/4e3c90f8-e673-40a9-8825-d3717ba8237e Thu Nov 7 1900 CET
  • EmacsSF: Emacs Hacking: Packaging (Hybrid) https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/304301979/ Thu Nov 7 1800 America/Vancouver - 2000 America/Chicago - 2100 America/Toronto – Fri Nov 8 0200 Etc/GMT - 0300 Europe/Berlin - 0730 Asia/Kolkata - 1000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Nov 8 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsSF: coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/304301988/ Sat Nov 16 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2000 Europe/Berlin – Sun Nov 17 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs Notes: Enable completions for `Font Family’ field in `M-x customize-face RET’
  • Essential Emacs Packages for Efficient Software Development and Text Editing (Reddit)
  • Minimal ~/.emacs.d - Better Vanilla Emacs Defaults and Optimized Startup (Release 1.1.1) (Reddit)
  • Much Ado about Emacs 001 - god-mode, doom-modeline, M-RET in Org Mode
  • Don't bind M-O in terminal Emacs
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Command alternatives (Irreal)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Persisting variables across Emacs sessions
  • Interactively browse lisp objects (even self-referencing ones) with data-debug
  • As I run into it: Symbol’s value as variable is void. Emacs Lisp lexical binding - YouTube
  • GNU Emacs comes with a book-length introduction to computer programming | Hacker News
  • A little fun lisp thing: "evaluatable pseudocode"
  • Xah Talk Show 2024-10-29, Ep594, Emacs Lisp Coding, Command to Search YouTube (01:03:15)
• Appearance:
  • The 8 colors I use in emacs (12:53)
  • Emacs 31 can use Direct-Write for font-rendering on Windows
• Navigation:
  • Intro to Bookmarks (Reddit)
  • shortcuts-mode for accessing last 10 buffers
  • Announcing auto-tab-groups: Effortless Tab Group Management for Emacs
  • Dedicated compilation frame
• Org Mode:
  • How to add custom sections to the agenda (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Generate Current Year tag in an Org Capture Template (Irreal)
  • Sacha Chua: Org Mode: Prompt for a heading and then refile it to point
  • TIL about org-table-header-line-mode
  • Hacking on org-graph-view: View Org files as Graphviz graphs with outline structure and links between nodes (WIP) (Reddit)
  • Basic Obsidian Dataview functionality unlocked - org-ql dynamic block
  • Emacs - Org mode (Tamil) (03:05)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Sacha Chua: Org Mode: Format Libby book highlights exported as JSON
    • Irreal: TSV To Table
    • emacs-various/org-latex-export-memoir.el (@tennoseremel@lor.sh)
    • Sacha Chua: Yay Emacs 7: Rewriting and copying custom Org Mode links
  • Org Roam:
    • Org Roam: The Best Way to Keep a Journal in Emacs
    • Diving back into Org-roam | Baty.net (@jbaty@social.lol)
  • Org development: NEWS entry for the new argument of org-babel-comint-async-register
• Denote:
  • Denote Project Tasks (@purplg@fosstodon.org)
• Coding:
  • "SHELL = emacs" in a makefile (Reddit)
  • emacs-sideline/sideline-flymake: Show flymake errors with sideline - works well with eglot for LSP dev (@kris@todon.eu)
  • shadow-css for personal use - Emacs, Browser, Clojure, REPL Screencast (02:06:51)
  • Java: Create a Kafka producer and consumer in Emacs (16:48)
  • Adopting Gomponents for Work Project // Take on Rules (@takeonrules@dice.camp) - includes tip on using scopeline
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mastodon.el 1.1.5: bugfixes, read less
  • Hacking on Mastodon Emacs Package to Narrow Viewing // Take on Rules (@takeonrules@dice.camp)
• Multimedia:
  • muu - Emacs turned into a music player!
• AI:
  • [Discussion] AI assisted programming in Emacs
  • gptel: a simple LLM client for Emacs | Hacker News
  • A Guide to Self-Hosted LLM Coding Assistants - Semaphore
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Compilation of the most highly voted tips from all the "Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c." threads (Reddit)
  • Deeply, thank you for C-h t, Emacs devs
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: ‘Ask me anything’ live stream on 2024-10-31 at 14:00 Europe/Athens about Emacs or life in general (YouTube, 02:33:21)
  • Quotes from RacketCon 14 keynote
  • Irreal: Who Created Emacs
• Other:
  • Creating Info Manuals And Adding Them Into Emacs (2023)
  • How to install and use files with pdf-view-mode
  • Fixing pdf-tools after updating poppler
  • inhibit-mouse.el - Deactivate mouse input in Emacs (Reddit, related emacs-devel)
  • Unified way to toggle input methods in X11 and Emacs
  • Emacs Lisp was used to calculate hard-coded DST data for Africa/Casablanca and Asia/Gaza because their DST is based on Ramadan (@citizen428@chaos.social)
    • Also, note about the Calendrical Calculations book
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Summary of yank-media thread so far
    • Proposal for detecting physical keyboard events (ex: double or triple-tap on shift)
    • Note that Perl does not distribute info manuals any more
    • Breaking change proposal: Default lexical-binding to t
    • string-pixel-width and avoiding relative :align-to
  • Add support for range objects in Eshell "for" loops
  • Mark IDLWAVE as obsolete
  • Add support for 'yank-media' on MS-Windows
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce 'greek-polytonic'. (Bug#73909)
  • New `tmm-menubar' shortcut display style
  • Fix and improve behavior of 'eshell/clear'
• New packages:
  • claudia: Claude AI integration (MELPA)
  • coc-dc: A Clash of Clans damage calculator (MELPA)
  • dumber-jump: Jump to definition for 50+ languages without configuration (MELPA)

Reminder: Emacs News is moving to info-gnu-emacs instead of emacs-tangents. If you're subscribed through emacs-tangents, you may want to subscribe to info-gnu-emacs as well.

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UPDATE: I'm moving Emacs News to the info-gnu-emacs mailing list instead of emacs-tangents. If you're subscribed to Emacs News through emacs-tangents, you may want to switch your subscriptions. Emacs News will also continue to be available on the web and through RSS. I'll post to both info-gnu-emacs and emacs-tangents for a little while.

• Emacs 30.0.92 pretest is available (Reddit, Irreal)
• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Oct 30 1030 America/Vancouver - 1230 America/Chicago - 1330 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 31 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Nov 1 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Nov 2 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Nov 5 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Wed Nov 6 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #14 2024 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/4e3c90f8-e673-40a9-8825-d3717ba8237e Thu Nov 7 1900 CET
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Nov 8 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsConf 2024 schedule Dec 7 and 8 (@sacha@social.sachachua.com)
• Beginner:
  • How to Install Emacs on macOS: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners (05:33)
  • TheMKat: Read documentation from the comfort of Emacs - man-pages, developer documentation and more
• Emacs configuration:
  • Quicker access to Emacs Info manuals (@spnw@gts.plexwave.org)
  • Summer Emacs: Universal Keybind
  • Charles Choi: Announcing Casual (Redux) and Reorganization (Irreal)
  • Emacs Twist - reproducible package and configuration management for Emacs (@arialdo@mastodon.online)
  • Bz01: Optional dependency loading in Emacs, a good idea?
• Emacs Lisp:
  • A fork of restclient with graphql support & graphql explorer/builder (YouTube, Reddit)
  • Emacs Lisp is pleasant after hash-table and list libraries and plenty of macros | Hacker News
• Appearance:
  • Function for toggling between wrapping and truncating of lines
  • A progress bar in the echo area (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: selected-window-accent-mode with window colour blending options
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: modus-themes version 4.6.0
• Navigation:
  • [New Package] empx.el is Extended xref.el forward and backward navigation, more ways to mark the current point.
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: beframe version 1.2.0
  • Emacs Treemacs auto-toggling in text and prog-modes. Author: @ichernyshovvv (@shegeley@fosstodon.org)
• Dired:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Hide another detail (Irreal, lobste.rs)
• Writing:
  • Minor modes for flagging poor grammar (@howard@pdx.sh)
• Org Mode:
  • Search other org headings with a link to the current one - org-ql (@Re420@tooting.ch)
  • Erik L. Arneson: Examining To-Do Lists in Org-mode
  • Emacs as your Intellectual HQ (01:02:48)
  • MOOC on reproducible research, includes a path for Emacs (French with French and English subtitles)
  • Deep linking with Org mode and Zotero (@spnw@gts.plexwave.org)
  • org-catch: A concise and more flexible alternative to org-capture (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Insert a link to an Org Mode heading from an org-refile prompt
  • You don't need org-alert, Emacs has it built-in (kinda) (Reddit)
  • hyperdrive-org-transclusion v0.3.0
  • TheMKat: How I blog with Emacs - Org-Mode, Jekyll, Github Actions and interesting tidbits
• Coding:
  • Magit amend commit author (@xenodium@indieweb.social)
  • woolsweater/gambol.el: Emacs text actions using LSP symbol information - Codeberg.org (@woolsweater@social.lol)
  • Andrea: A useful function to contribute to Scala Metals lsp server with Emacs (Reddit)
  • Prolog大好きおじさん　ver3.36で仕切り直しです。Emacsは無理かも。 (04:39)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mastodon.el 1.1.0: link cards, grouped notifications, lots of updates
  • Summer Emacs: ERC Flipping Buffers
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • [BLOG] #12 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]​] on Wed, Oct 9, 19:00 UTC+3
  • Irreal: What Keyboard Are You Using With Emacs
  • Keynote presentation by Hal Abelson and Gerald Sussman at the fourteenth RacketCon - YouTube (@hadi@fosstodon.org)
    • "The real thing I love is Emacs" - Gerald Sussman (Reddit)
  • Neovim Origin Story, An Emacs User's Perspective
  • Hofstadter on Lisp: Atoms and Lists, re-printed in Metamagical Themas. · GitHub (1983, lobste.rs)
• Other:
  • Using sort-regexp-fields to sort a list of device serial numbers (letters + numbers) by numerical part only
  • Revisitng and refactoring demo-it - demonstrations in Emacs, Part II (@howard@pdx.sh)
  • Code to modify PDF metadata (such as its outline and pagination) (Reddit)
  • trueroad/tr-emacs-ime-module: Emulator of GNU Emacs IME patch for Windows (tr-ime) (@aoetk@fedibird.com)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • "Final" version of tty child frames
    • Discussion of buffer synchronization as a user-visible feature
    • Comparing EIEIO with org-element plists, also this note
    • Why it's hard to implement truncate-string-to-pixel-width
    • Asking for ALPN support for GnuTLS connections
  • vc-git-log-edit-toggle-amend: Honor vc-allow-rewriting-published-history
  • Add delete-selection-local-mode.
  • cond*: Add support for Pcase patterns
  • Implement drawing text with DirectWrite on MS-Windows.
  • Improve drag and drop on MS-Windows (bug#3468)
  • vc-clone: Make interactive; call vc-guess-url-backend
  • Mark if-let and when-let obsolete
  • ; Update the NEWS entry to mention project-prompter correctly
  • Support modifying VC change comments for Git
  • Add 'native-compile-directory' (bug#73303)
  • Fix a race condition when running Eshell startup scripts
• New packages:
  • earl: Erlang distribution protocol implementation (MELPA)
  • visual-replace: A prompt for replace-string and query-replace (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, communick.news, 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!

• Emacs 30:
  • New stuff in Emacs 30 (July 2024)
  • Twitch video on latest Emacs features from master, buffer/file registers, golang ts tests features and more (@pizzatorque@emacs.ch) (video available temporarily)
• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Oct 26 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Oct 30 1030 America/Vancouver - 1230 America/Chicago - 1330 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 31 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Nov 1 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Nov 2 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Exploramos las opciones para instalar paquetes en Emacs con package.el
  • diegs' Emacs Config: nix, Emacs .el, meow
  • BuddhiLW's Emacs Config: Doom Emacs
  • jjba23's Emacs Config: nix, Emacs init.el
  • Developers Have Jobs to Do (Part 2) - someone sharing notes on a product-manager-ish way of approaching making a new distribution focused on Python and React development
  • Instalar paquetes en Emacs (0x0004) - FTV (@barocio@techhub.social)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • TheMKat: Write your own Emacs Lisp macros - a short introduction
  • Marcin Borkowski: substitute-command-keys (Irreal)
  • show-conses.el (2024)
  • Lección 1: Introducción | Curso de UI Emacs Lisp (@csantosb@sigmoid.social)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: remap font size in the minibuffer
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: the Modus themes have a new ‘rotate’ command
  • No more drugs, punch-line is here - mode line
  • Emacs purple theme inspired by Plasma cookies
  • HTML Renderer: CSS Support
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs para ciencias del dato (@Jose_A_Alonso@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Sacha Chua: Thinking about 12 aspects of personal information/knowledge management
  • Sacha Chua: Shuffling my Org Mode unscheduled tasks
  • Sacha Chua: Change Org Mode TODO keyword color based on the state and the current Modus theme
  • Function for calculating all TBLFM lines for the current table in order
  • James Dyer: Transforming Dired File Paths into Org Links (Irreal)
  • rtrppl/website2org: Turn any website into a minimal Orgmode buffer or .org file (@laotang@mastodon.social)
  • Como exportar desde orgmode a pdf en castellano - Cyberiadas (@hispa@emacs.ch)
• Completion:
  • Alex Popescu: An Intro to Emacs packages Vertico, Consult, Marginalia, Orderless, Embark by Protesilaos Stavrou
• Coding:
  • Using Emacs Lisp in a Makefile by setting SHELL=emacs and setting SHELLFLAGS (@mekeor@mastodon.catgirl.cloud)
  • Insert bug ticket cookie in vc-log for the current thread being read in Gnus (@viz@mastinsaan.in)
  • Arne Bahlo: Jujutsu in practice - version control
• Web:
  • Sacha Chua: Yay Emacs 6: Inserting links with consult-omni
• Multimedia:
  • shenshou (subtitle downloader) 0.2.0 is published (Reddit) - support OpenSubtitles.com REST API
  • Irreal: Emacs Drawing Tools
• EXWM:
  • Emacs: edytor jako window manager? Oct 26 2024, Rybnik (@JesienLinuksowa@fosstodon.org)
• AI:
  • Spiffying up automatic smerge insertions + animated regions M-x chatgpt-shell-quick-modify-region, M-x chatgpt-shell-fix-error-at-point (@xenodium@indieweb.social)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread: key combos, repeat, exwm, use-package
  • That Lightbulb Moment with Emacs - novelist/filmmaker who switched from NeoVim (Irreal)
  • Why do you think emacs is so low in popularity?
  • Why you switched to Emacs?
  • Kent Pitman's memories of TECO and the early history of Emacs (@kentpitman@climatejustice.social)
  • Eric MacAdie: 2024-10 Austin Emacs Meetup - new organizers; smex, amx, org-jira, eat, dslide, org-sidebar (lemmy.ml)
  • encontro emacs brasil? - Lemmy
• Other:
  • Making the Most of Terminal Emacs - System Crafters Live! (02:07:05)
  • jh-mustache-csv.el: Convert CSV to Text using Mustache templates - also has decide-with-probabilities
  • The Ultimate Collection of Emacs Resources (2011, Reddit)
  • martianh/nc.el: Work with Nextcloud shares in Emacs - Codeberg.org (@mousebot@todon.nl) - work in progress
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Re: Improving Emacs' iCalendar support - looking for feedback on ical library, esp. from Org/Gnus/diary developers
  • Add ability to crossfade between songs in 'mpc'
  • Hide default-directory absolute file name in dired-hide-details-mode
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Shorten find-function-mode entry back to single line.
  • Add notifications support to 'mpc' (Bug#73538)
  • Add support for chaining conditionals in Eshell
• New packages:
  • just-ts-mode: Justfile editing mode (MELPA)
  • tp: Utilities for transient menu that POST to an API (MELPA, NonGNU ELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, communick.news, 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!

• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, October 26, 2024
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 16 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Oct 26 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Thaodan/use-package-transient - Codeberg.org (@thaodan@mastodon.social)
  • Announcing Emacs-Kick: A Kickstart for Emacs focused on Vimmers
  • Configuración de Emacs Vanilla - Hardlimit
  • Customizing Emacs And Eshell - DT LIVE (01:08:51)
  • Irreal: Emacs Configuration Can Be Easy
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Autoloads
  • Trying eev with a sexp (2024)
  • Aprendendo Emacs Lisp - Corte 6: Escrevendo em buffers (53:02)
• Appearance:
  • Theme loading macros for light/dark
  • konrad1977/cocaine-line: A minimal mode-line for emacs which is not highly configurable and doesn't work in terminal (Reddit)
  • Hack: Use pixel-scroll for all scrolling and recentering functions/commands
• Navigation:
  • Centaur Tabs - The best tab (UI) system for Emacs! (Jan 2024)
  • speedrect v0.5: modal tools during rectangle selection, now with column fill (Reddit)
  • Emacs tip: Use windmove to navigate open buffer windows (Irreal)
  • Re: Add function to rotate/transpose all windows
  • Making Killing Nicer in Emacs (04:22, July 2024)
• Hyperbole:
  • Doing a Research Project and using GNU Hyperbole's Integrated Features
• Writing:
  • James Cherti: Emacs: Automating Table of Contents Update for Markdown Documents (e.g., README.md)
  • Marcin Borkowski: mrr-replace-mode - multi-replace regexps
  • Grammar tools for Emacs [LWN.net]​ (2016, Reddit)
  • Chris Maiorana: Second Brain, Second Nature - build your own system
• Org Mode:
  • organize your life, with orgmode (30:12)
  • Tip about using org-agenda-include-diary to display the diary
  • Referencing Org Table Cells with Text Regions (Reddit)
  • Using Org Mode to write and organize a book (@Jose_A_Alonso@mathstodon.xyz, Irreal)
  • Building a blog from Org Mode files using only Emacs (@evgandr@mas.to)
  • Summary of org and org-roam statistics
  • Org development:
    • Add repeat-mode keymap for navigation commands
• Completion:
  • James Dyer: Simple Directory and File Creation Using Vertico Completion Exit With Input
  • sway-completing-read
• Coding:
  • Tip: customize cycle-spacing-actions
  • Edit code chunks from multiple files in one buffer (a prototype) (Reddit, HN)
  • SamuelVanie/entr-runner.el: An emacs package that will facilitate hot reloading of custom process or command (Reddit)
  • pythonic-emacs/djangonaut: Emacs minor mode for Django.
  • 33 CL, Add C-c C-j Functionality from Slime to Sly in Emacs (23:42)
  • Debugging GameCube applications/games (in Emacs) (2023)
  • emacs-bazel-mode: Emacs mode for Bazel
• Shells:
  • Emacs package highlight - vterm (2023)
  • pull-shell - a simple utility to run emacs shell from outside of emacs. (Reddit)
• Web:
  • theesm/chrewwmium.el: Open/bookmark/capture links/pages from Chromium in Emacs (@theesm@social.tchncs.de)
  • Send browser URLs to Emacs EWW (Mac)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Release v0.16 · Ement.el (Matrix chat client for Emacs)
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: Yay Emacs 5: Tweaking my video workflow with WhisperX and subed-record
• Fun:
  • Using decide-mode to help with games
• AI:
  • For better or worse, ChatGPT can be your #emacs #orgmode helper… - George Jones (@eludom@fosstodon.org)
  • Integrando AI con mi herramienta de trabajo preferida: Google Gemini, Emacs Lisp y GNU/Linux!!
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread - write-region, eglot-stay-out-of, C-x in transients, blamer-bindings
  • 5 Reasons Why I Love and Use Emacs in Linux - Make Tech Easier (Reddit)
  • Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently? (Reddit)
  • "Philosophical" question: Is elisp the only language that could've made Emacs what it is? If so, why?
  • Irreal: 🥩 Red Meat Friday: Is Lisp Syntax Boring
• Other:
  • Tip: delete-duplicate-lines (@mstempl@mastodon.social)
  • Head & Tail in EmacsLisp (Reddit)
  • a useful snippet to bring emacs client to the front on OS X
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Problems with using Unicode or non-ASCII in text terminals Re: Question regarding tty special glyphs display defaults
    • Some discussion about minibuffer, child frames (Posframe), and cursors
    • First Posframes on tty
  • Add foldout command for widening to current fold
  • Remove buttons when disabling 'button-mode'
  • Add unbuttonize-region
  • Add imenu support for ODF files in doc-view
  • Make revision completion in vc-diff and vc-root-diff more predictable
  • Implement drag-n-drop for w32 with support for files and text
  • New command-line options for 'etags'
  • Support file creation and deletion in diff-apply-hunk
  • Support calling 'project-current' with custom prompt
• New packages:
  • copilot-chat: Copilot chat interface (MELPA)
  • org-inline-pdfcomment: Export Support for Inline Tasks as PDF Comments (MELPA)
  • sml-ts-mode: SML major-mode using tree-sitter (MELPA)
  • uniline: Draw lines, boxes, & arrows with the keyboard (MELPA)
  • wollok-mode: Major mode for the Wollok programming language (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, communick.news, 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!

• Upcoming events:
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://bbb.emacsverse.org/b/iho-h7r-qg8-led Thu Oct 10 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Oct 11 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Oct 11 1800 Europe/Paris
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 16 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Call for proposals - European Lisp Symposium 2025: May 19-20 Zürich, deadline March 2
• Beginner:
  • 🤪 emacs tutorial (06:20)
  • Understanding Emacs modes - YouTube (58:19)
  • Wizbango Episode 3 [Emacs Basics]​ (27:02)
  • Emacs link map (@sacha@social.sachachua.com)
  • ¿Se sigue utilizando y desarrollando GNU Emacs en 2024? Una "Breve" Intro de solo 2 horas (02:08:53)
  • Emacs 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 (03:36) (in Spanish; part of a series)
• Emacs configuration:
  • [Emacs-Kicks Project] - For all Neovim users - Seeking Feedback & Interest!
    • Request for Comment: Casual Package Consolidation (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • mehrad/.emacs.d: This is my attempt to put together my own emacs config (@Mehrad@fosstodon.org)
  • patrickdelliott's Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Major Mode Comfort Functions, Because I'm Lazy - how to add a mode to autoloads and auto-mode-alist
  • [ANN] f.el v0.21.0 has been released! (Reddit) file times, mkdir path, shortdoc
  • Aprendendo Emacs Lisp - Corte 5: Jogo da adivinhação (01:07:41)
• Appearance:
  • pulsic.el - Temporarily highlight the current line on window state change (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Syncing Tab Theme After Theme Load
  • Listing and setting installed coding/monospaced fonts function for your Emacs
• Navigation:
  • Simple ripgrep integration that reuses grep-mode (@jroimartin@fosstodon.org)
  • Combine orgrr-search and metasearch-search-set (@laotang@mastodon.social)
  • rtrppl/metasearch: Metasearch for Emacs (@laotang@mastodon.social)
  • project-root-initialize
  • Avyならなんでもできる | Emacs JP
• Writing:
  • [pdf] A quick guide on writing a book with Emacs Org-mode. (Reddit)
  • Writing with Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • SUMMARY - #11 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, Sep 11, 19:00 UTC+3 - Ihor Radchenko (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Beginner tip about tagging Org Mode headings and filtering them
  • Save buffer automatically with org-clock-out (@mocom@mastodon.social)
  • Literate Org Haskell
  • nix-shell-in-emacs-org-mode
  • Ross A. Baker: Creating and Styling Callouts in Hugo (@shom@fosstodon.org) - also ox-hugo
• Denote:
  • denote-capture
  • Bibliographic Notes with the citar-denote Emacs Package
• Completion:
  • Corfu section of an Emacs tutorial (@tristanC@functional.cafe)
  • From Ivy To Vert&co – Tristan's Zettelkasten
  • xvw - Expansion d'abréviations avec YASnippet
• Coding:
  • Emacs for Python and Poetry Using `basedpyright-langserver` (@webbureaucrat@floss.social)
  • Extending Emacs's Go Tree Sitter Mode’s Imenu Function to Include Test Run // Take on Rules (@takeonrules@dice.camp)
  • martianh/tp.el: Transient utilities for POSTing to an API (@mousebot@todon.nl)
  • `cargo-jump-xref.el`: Help you jump to cargo dependency's source file in `Cargo.toml` file
• Math:
  • [karthink] Emacs 💜 LaTeX (14:13, Reddit) - also Org Mode and Calc, very cool (@ctietze, @Nidish96@emacs.ch)
  • More LaTeX productivity tips
  • Emacs/math/latex twitch stream
• Shells:
  • Customizing Emacs And Eshell - DT LIVE (01:08:51)
• Web:
  • Open with EWW - The Great SummerEmacs Blog (Reddit, @summeremacs@fashionsocial.host)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Opening a remote mbox file from Emacs (@jroimartin@fosstodon.org)
• Fun:
  • my-3x4-mode: Pseudofonts in Emacs. (Reddit)
  • Zalgo Mode - A Minor mode for writing spooky looking text
• AI:
  • llm-apply.el: Modify buffer contents via LLMs
  • Introduce aider (AI programming in terminal), and emacs binding for it, aider.el
  • Go talk to the LLM (lobste.rs)
  • 最強ローカルLLM実行環境としてのEmacs
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread - ERT run at point
  • 5 Reasons Why I Love and Use Emacs in Linux - Make Tech Easier (@governa@fosstodon.org)
  • What are some advantages to using Emacs as a newbie?
  • On vim vs Emacs - Steve Purcell: emacs can be vim
  • Irreal: Why Emacs: The View From Vim
• Other:
  • Jiewawa: Useful Emacs commands for reading
  • Recommending side-notes and dot-mode
  • Emacs as Menu for Shell Commands, Passwords and Bluetooth Connections (01:04, @mekeor@mastodon.catgirl.cloud)
  • Recording and screenshotting windows: the lazy way - macosrec
  • How to get railwaycat's Mitsuharu 29.4 port in homebrew (Mac OS X)
  • PSA Night and day Mac Emacs builds: caldwell (night) vs. jimeh (day)
  • Emacs-plus PATH in macOS Sequoia | The Art Of Not Asking Why (@jtr@fosstodon.org)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Discussion about preconfigured Emacs
    • Preview of tty child frames in scratch/tty-child-frames
  • Add a shortcut to go up in the menu hierarchy.
  • Add file/buffer-to-register (Bug#73308)
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Document Python electric-layout-mode support.
  • Add imenu index function for DjVu files in doc-view
  • New minor mode find-function-mode replaces find-function-setup-keys
  • Add commands to interactively set/unset keyboard translations
  • New M-~ entry in save-some-buffers-action-alist
  • New function shell-command-do-open
  • New value 'permanent-only' for defcustom :local keyword
  • New command diff-delete-other-hunks
• New packages:
  • bitbake-ts-mode: A major mode to use bitbake tree-sitter (MELPA)
  • corsair: Text accumulation enhancements for GPTel (MELPA)
  • flymake-biome: A flymake plugin for SQL files using biome (MELPA)
  • genexpr-mode: Major mode for editing GenExpr files (MELPA)
  • varuga: Send ical calendar invites by email (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, communick.news, 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!