Emacs 30:
- Emacs 30.0.91 pretest is available (Reddit, Irreal, lemmy.ml)
- Why Emacs Is the Best: 10 Key Advantages – Tristan's Zettelkasten (@tristanC@functional.cafe) - includes notes on upgrading to Emacs 30
Upcoming events:
- Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, September 28, 2024
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Sep 18 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Sep 25 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 26 0030 Asia/Singapore
- EmacsSF: Emacs Hangout: Potpourri (Hybrid) https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/303385779/ Thu Sep 26 1800 America/Vancouver - 2000 America/Chicago - 2100 America/Toronto – Fri Sep 27 0100 Etc/GMT - 0300 Europe/Berlin - 0630 Asia/Kolkata - 0900 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Sep 28 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
Beginner:
- The Emacs Newbie Project (@summeremacs@fashionsocial.host, emacs-devel)
Emacs configuration:
- Emacs and kmonad (keyboard manager with multi-tap functionality and s-exps config)
- Minimal ~/.emacs.d - Emacs Starter Kit with Better Defaults and Optimized Startup (Release 1.1.0) (Reddit)
- rexim's Emacs Config
- waymondo's Emacs Config
- galahad's Emacs Config
- funk443's Emacs Config
- jokem59/personal-configs · GitHub
- ektaynot's Doom Emacs Config
Emacs Lisp:
- Alvaro Ramirez: Spiffing up those echo messages (Reddit) - displaying SVGs in the echo area
- Lightning Talk: Latest from GNU Emacs (05:35) Andrea Corallo, European Lisp Symposium
- Ep585, Emacs Lisp, Find and Replace in a Dir, and Undo All (01:25:55)
Appearance:
- How to show row (line) numbers in Emacs - TuxeduTV
- How to change theme in Emacs - TuxeduTV
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: show-font version 0.1.0
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: cursory version 1.1.0
- [auto-dark] 0.13 - Support multiple themes (breaking-changes) (Reddit) - multiple themes, changed default way, added examples
- The Modus Operandi theme on Emacs 30 is so elegant
- El paquete adaptive-wrap para Emacs (@GK_S@mastodon.social)
Navigation:
- pivaldi/nefle: Emacs package to search the nearest file from a given file-system location (@pi@emacs.ch)
- La función Dedicated Windows en Emacs (@GK_S@mastodon.social)
- Emacs 30.1 highlight - intuitive tab line (Reddit)
TRAMP:
- Short video on TRAMP (Reddit)
Dired:
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: dired-preview version 0.3.0
Writing:
- Chris Maiorana: Introducing a Word Diff Counter in Emacs
- Silently save personal dictionary after inserting a new word: (setq ispell-silently-savep t)
Org Mode:
- Why and How I use "Org Mode" for my writing and more (2022, Reddit, Irreal)
- Insert a screenshot image in latex-mode with the help of org-download (@mmonga@mathstodon.xyz)
- Conditional tangling in org mode based on tags · GitHub (@zondo@mathstodon.xyz)
- How I use :dbconnection in org files (@eslr@mastodon.social)
- A quick hack to convert org/org-roam links from ID to filename with optional pandoc conversion to other formats
- Irreal: Babel and Python
- Guide to creating a multilingual website with org-publish (@len@toot.si)
- Org-zettel-ref-mode release 0.3.1 (Reddit) - More elegant names for overviews, improved sync
- Conversion script: Logseq to org roam (Reddit)
Denote:
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: consult-denote version 0.2.0
Coding:
- Announcing Casual Symbol Overlay (Reddit, Irreal)
- csr-maker.el: Make CSR requests for SSL certs (@trevdev@fosstodon.org)
- Unlock the Power of Tree-sitter in Emacs with Combobulate (13:29)
- Magnus: Followup on secrets in my work notes
- emacs-blame Update 0.2, New feat: support highlight all lines with the same commit information. (Reddit)
- ~akagi/vc-pijul (@fd9a@fosstodon.org)
- A function that checks if a file is committed to Git
Shells:
- #175 - Add menus for eat - akib/emacs-eat - Codeberg.org (@rudi@hachyderm.io)
- Save shell history per project.el (@tristanC@functional.cafe)
Mail, news, and chat:
- Andrea: Adding utilities to open urls to emacs-slack
- Sacha Chua: Combining Mastodon timelines using mastodon.el
Evil mode:
- Sanel Zukan: evil-mode in terminal without Alt/Meta
EXWM:
- Firefox in my EXWM (YouTube 01:04, Reddit) - includes some commands
Fun:
- Emacs on the Scene (Reddit, Irreal)
AI:
- meain/yap: Your Assistant for Prompting LLMs (@meain@toot.community)
- Speech Dictation Mode for Emacs (Reddit, HN)
Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
- Trying Emacs as a Neovim User // Just Chatting (01:35:29)
- Part Four of My Battles with Emacs
- Genuine Question, aren't some things better in other apps? (long discussion on Reddit)
Other:
- eee.el: Extended Emacs With External Tui application (Reddit)
- Extending ekg with structured data
- Anand Tamariya: The Oval Editor (Emacs) (YouTube 02:06, Reddit)- combine text with formatting and drawings
- I got Emacs to run in iTerm on Mac!
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
  - The role of the last_marked array in understanding rare crashes during GC
- Allow 'kill-region' to kill the last word when there is no region (actually kill-region-dwim)
- Provide a modified xref backend for TeX buffers
- New commands unix-word-rubout, unix-filename-rubout
- ; * etc/NEWS: Announce the improvements in w32 GUI dialogs.
- Make the grep buffer editable
- Improve accuracy of character categories
- Update Emacs sources for Unicode 16.0
- Allow to disable symbolic links check in Dired
- Add Ediff feature for copying all differences
- Allow comments to organizer in icalendar event replies (Bug#72831)
New packages:
- astute: A minor mode to redisplay `smart' typography (MELPA)
- codex-theme: Codex theme, a simple high contrast theme (MELPA)
- elysium: Automatically apply LLM-created code-suggestions (MELPA)
- geiser-overlay: Overlay Scheme evaluation results (MELPA)
- glass-tty-theme: Reverse video-like theme for the Glass TTY VT220 font (MELPA)
- kanagawa-themes: Elegant theme inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa (MELPA)
- on: Hooks for faster startup (MELPA)
- org-node-fakeroam: Stand-ins for org-roam-autosync-mode (MELPA)
- py-vterm-interaction: A mode for Python REPL using vterm (MELPA)
- show-font: Show font features in a buffer (GNU 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!

2024-09-16 Emacs news