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Lots of discussion around Emacs is a Lispboard (HN ) and Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You (HN ). Also, last call for Emacs Carnival posts for June (theme: Programming ). The theme for August is The Search for Knowledge . Enjoy!
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fnm : Manage Node versions using fnm (MELPA)
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snippy : Vscode snippet support with Yasnippet (MELPA)
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Completion seems to be the topic of the day. Check out the new videos
and resources people have shared on both completion in buffer and in
the mini-buffer. Also, there's been lots of discussion for or against
Human Emacs; links are in the Community sectio.
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flex-x : Extended flex completion style (MELPA)
hnview : Standalone Hacker News client (MELPA)
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nostr-publish : Publish Markdown to Nostr (MELPA)
org-habit-ng : Full RRULE recurrence for org-habit (MELPA)
org-history : Show Dates for Org headers from vcs + auto-commit (MELPA)
org-mindmap : Editable mindmap visualization in org-mode (MELPA)
sema-mode : Major mode for editing Sema files (MELPA)
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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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synaxis : Feed reader with SQLite storage (MELPA)
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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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kusanagi-theme : Ghost in the Shell inspired dark theme built on Modus (MELPA)
ol-locate-file : Locate-based file links for Org mode (MELPA)
sendai-theme : A cool blue color theme (GNU ELPA)
srs : Spaced repetition in plain text (MELPA)
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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.
Enjoy!
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clatter : An IRCv3-compliant IRC client (MELPA)
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leadkey : Translate leader keys to key sequences (MELPA)
notmuch-multi : Prettified Notmuch UI For Multiple Accounts (MELPA)
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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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