• Emacs 29.0.90 pretest is available (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
• Upcoming events:
  • London Emacs Hacking: Emacs London Meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/292808528/ Mon Apr 17 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/GMT - 2000 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Tue Apr 18 0200 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): Functional programming: an (Emacs) Lisp view (7/n) https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Apr 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Apr 21 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Apr 22 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Apr 22 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Apr 22 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Apr 23 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Apr 26 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Apr 27 0030 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Which package manager should I use?
  • What Emacs' package.el can learn from Neovim's packer.nvim
  • Literate Emacs Init with Org Babel (2020)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • owinebar/emacs-async-job-queue: Elisp package for managing an arbitrary number of queued async jobs (emacs-devel)
  • Exploring D-Bus with Emacs APIs - System Crafters Live! (01:58:08)
• Appearance:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: My Emacs eye candy (Reddit, Irreal, lobste.rs)
  • OS¹ Theme: A light, warm, modern theme inspired by cinematic color palettes
  • NANO Dialog : Emacs native dialog box (Reddit)
  • myron-themes: a set of light themes for emacs (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • James Dyer: Indexing My Emacs Init File - occur
  • James Dyer: Imenu Indexing My emacs Init File (Irreal)
  • Optimizing Project Selection in Emacs
• Writing:
  • Looking Up Words in a Dictionary (Reddit, Irreal)
  • codingquark: A Clean Writing Environment (Irreal)
  • codingquark: How to setup auctex with borg in emacs
  • Bibliography Management In Emacs With BibTeX
  • Emacs BibTeX Adds Convenience Part II 2023_04_05_17:32:24 (32:12)
• Org Mode:
  • How I'm Working With Tasks and My Agenda
  • Note-taking strategy 2023
  • Making a plaintext personal CRM with org-contacts
  • Emacs | Clean Up Your Org Mode Document With Org Indent Mode (08:08)
  • My first couple packages - KLP for Org naming, org-lectures
  • org-imgtog: Automatic inline image toggling similar to org-fragtog (Reddit)
  • Org-mode - Agenda file is not in org mode (04:16)
  • Org-Mode Export to Notion
  • Org development:
    • org-export–prune-tree: Ensure spaces when removing objects
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Mention the new \P entity - alias of ¶
• Completion:
  • Manuel Uberti: Tweaking Vertico candidates
• Math:
  • garid3000/Emacs-TeQ: Quail input-method for LaTeX in Emacs (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Emacs The Ultimate: Mail reader - Setting up notmuch with emacs - Pagefault
• Multimedia:
  • lorniu/mpvi: Integrated Video Tool on Emacs via MPV (Reddit) - includes OCR, subtitles, transcoding
• EXWM:
  • Ricing EXWM environment: Generate theme from music video in EMMS (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • Sacha Chua: Updating my Minecraft command book using Emacs, TRAMP, and mcf.el
• AI:
  • Control Emacs with ChatGPT (04:57)
  • Semantic search for Org-Roam using LLM. Demo: https://youtu.be/vHamsOQW_N4 (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • 916 days of Emacs (Reddit, HN) - nice graphs, including time breakdowns
  • Vimari and my Emacs origin story
  • I left Emacs and Org-Mode 8 months ago and switched to more modern note-taking tools. But yesterday I came back to it, and now I feel at home.
  • [NEW] post.tonyaldon.com
  • Emacs Redux Turns 10 (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Interview with Syntopikon on Emacs and life
  • Eric MacAdie: 2023-04 Austin Emacs Meetup
• Other:
  • Emacs as a Shell - trying to think of Emacs as a shell rather than an editor
  • Combo : Guix shell + Emacs envrc.el - .env files
  • Marcin Borkowski: Downcasing word at point in the whole buffer
  • Emacs Quick Productivity Enhance Tips - join lines, enclose, repeat, expand, kill sentence, etc.
  • deno-bridge (Reddit)
  • Anyone else using the Nextstep build of Emacs with GNUstep under Linux? (Reddit)
  • Taking screenshots or videos (gifs) of any macOS window
  • Jean-Christophe Helary: Launch files in Emacs.app
  • How To Install Emacs in Ubuntu (in 2023) (04:23)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel list:
    • Potential issues with Rust contributions Re: Consideration for Rust contributions in Emacs based on Rust Foundation draft
    • Impact of CVEs on Emacs in corporate environments (also here)
    • Explanation of signal handling and cleanup
    • Discussion about improving the flymake API
    • Discussion about thread challenges
    • Delaying feature/android
  • Disallow creation of circular variable alias chains
  • Flymake: add new flymake-show-diagnostics-at-end-of-line option
  • eshell: Add 'rgrep' builtin
• New packages:
  • code-compass: Navigate software aided by metrics and visualization (MELPA)
  • nerd-icons-ibuffer: Display nerd icons in ibuffer (MELPA)
  • nordic-night-theme: A darker, more colorful version of the lovely Nord theme (MELPA)
  • sentex: Regex-based sentence navigation rules (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, emacs-devel, and lemmy/c/emacs. 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!