• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Sep 3 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #12 2024 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/ae9730f1-bb73-4621-a4b1-f31ee395c8c9 Thu Sep 5 1900 CET
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Sep 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Sep 13 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • Updating Built-In Emacs Packages (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Doom is too much
  • It's fine to use plain Emacs and a simple config
  • Never have an error in your init file again: A function that runs a seperate emacs process and checks for errors on save in .emacs
  • 💻 Faster Emacs Init (2023)
  • Emerging from dotemacs bankruptcy the hard way: Prelude (post 1 of 6) (Reddit)
  • Shell script to look up default Emacs keybindings (Reddit)
  • bharathpalavalli's literate Emacs Config
  • dawranliou's Emacs config targeting emacs master build on OSX.
  • Gabriel's config
  • domsch1988's Emacs Config
  • enzuru's Emacs Config
  • skyler544's Emacs Config
  • zyd's Emacs Config
  • Artawower's Emacs Config
  • theschmocker's Doom Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Gene Goykhman: Speeding up Emacs Lisp functions by disabling garbage collection (Irreal)
  • I implemented a splay tree in Emacs Lisp (Reddit)
  • Writing Emacs Lisp compiler intrinsics
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 1.8.0
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: pulsar version 1.1.0 - supports function aliases, more commands; pulsar-pulse-region
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: fontaine version 2.1.0 - font configurations: fontaine-toggle-preset
  • An Emacs icon for macOS Sonoma
• Navigation:
  • emacs-projtree: A project file explorer.
  • Release 1.1.0 - easysession.el – Easily persist and restore your Emacs editing sessions (Reddit)
  • Sum of non contiguous regions in a buffer, feat Embark, Multiple Cursors and benchmark-init - YouTube (0:45, Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Setting the right dictionary for ispell/flyspell based on input method
  • Insert a screenshot image in latex-mode with the help of org-download · Snippets · GitLab
• Org Mode:
  • pprevos/emacs-writing-studio: Emacs configuration for authors who research, write and publish articles, books and websites (Reddit, Protesilaos, Irreal)
  • Improving my org-capture workflow with shortcuts for moving from inbox to todo - toggling TODO
  • OrgMeetup #10 notes (@yantar92@emacs.ch)
  • Magnus: Improving how I handle secrets in my work notes (Reddit)
  • Tekki/ob-cobol: Org-Babel support for evaluating COBOL code. (@tekki@swiss.social)
  • First literate R program with Emacs + Org-mode (08:13)
  • Release v0.6 · alphapapa/org-make-toc (Automatic tables of contents for Org-mode files)
  • Embedding Mastodon comments with org-static-blog and Emfed (@jameshowell@emacs.ch)
  • org-zettel-ref-mode 0.2 released
  • If you use Orgzly, take a look at Orgzly Revived (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • agentultra/hiedb-mode - lightweight mode to use with haskell-mode to query hiedb databases (@agentultra@types.pl)
  • Emacs setup | C++ Programming Language
  • Emacs: Maintaining proper indentation in indentation-sensitive languages such as Python or YAML (Reddit)
  • flymake-bashate.el: A Flymake backend for bashate, a Bash style checker
  • More vc tips: editing hunks, C-x r t, git blame, etc.
• Shells:
  • James Dyer: Streamlining eshell with popper, capf-autosuggest, and Enhanced Autocompletion
• Fun:
  • A poem about Emacs
• AI:
  • Ben Simon: gptel: Mindblowing integration between Emacs and ChatGPT
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Just found the 1st exact date when Emacs got announced on the Earth (Reddit)
• Other:
  • How Emacs undo works (2017) (@floppy@fosstodon.org)
  • Symbol Selector (Reddit) - selecting symbols from a symbol font
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: tmr version 1.0.0 - timers
  • emacs-calendar - download Google Calendar ICS and turn into diary (@nicksiv@mastodon.social) - example of using icalendar-import-file
  • Emacs server with tiling window manager - using multiple emacsclients instead of multiple windows/frames
  • Using Emacs in a Terminal (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Emacs + Termux on Android: Code, Org-mode and Agenda, Dired, Magit and more…
  • Don't blame Emacs (pointless rambling) - sometimes it's the hardware
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • More thoughts on child frames on ttys
    • Profiling: profiler.el for Lisp, perf for C code
  • Adds NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription to Info.plist.in
  • New macro `with-work-buffer'.
  • Document 'cond*'
• New packages:
  • casual-agenda: Transient UI for Agenda (MELPA)
  • constants: Enter definition of constants into source code (GNU ELPA)
  • evangelion-theme: A dark colour scheme inspired by Neon Genesis Evangelion (MELPA)
  • flymake-bashate: A Flymake backend for bashate, a Bash scripts style checker (MELPA)
  • org-node: Link org-id entries into a network (MELPA)
  • otpp: One tab per project, with unique names (MELPA)

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