2025-02-24 Emacs news

[Sacha Chua]

2025-02-24 Emacs news

• Emacs 30:
  • Emacs 30.1 released (Reddit, lobste.rs, HN, lemmy.ml)
  • Emacs 30.1 RC1 is available (Reddit, Irreal, lemmy.ml)
  • What's New in Emacs 30.1? (Reddit, HN)
  • J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: Emacs 30.1 released including which-key
  • Tim Heaney: Emacs 30
  • What's New in Emacs? (Feb 2025) - System Crafters Live! (01:47:02)
  • Rahul Juliato: Compiling Emacs 30.1 from the source on Debian
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Feb 26 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 27 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/306023632/ Wed Mar 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Thu Mar 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Mar 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Mar 8 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Emacs From Scratch Tamil [ep1]​ (01:28:42)
• Emacs configuration:
  • vifon/lazy-guard: Emacs config validator - Codeberg.org
  • Using same .emac.d/ on different hosts: Recipe for gitignoring ignore potentially host-specific files
• Emacs Lisp:
  • What you need to know about variables in Emacs
  • Emacs Skeletons: The Missing Manual - EINVAL: Valid solutions for invalid problems
  • Benjamin Slade: C-c-c-conjecturing, and dealing with recursion in Emacs (more excursus)
  • Lambda Calculus and Lisp, part 2 (recursion excursion) (Reddit)
  • Introduzione al Emacs Lisp
• Appearance:
  • Making tab line tabs pretty
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: fontaine version 3.0.0
  • I made my Emacs look like Vscode and now I feel like a sinner (Reddit)
  • Ruslan Bekenev: Emacs: glasses-mode
  • Re: Structured color specifications to simplify color themes (was: [elpa - emacs-devel discussion, Prot will work on stuff
• Navigation:
  • Peter Povinec: Speed Dialing Your Favorite Files (Reddit)
  • Emacs: ediff basics
  • (Released) float-narrow-indirect, provides floating window support for narrow-indirect operations (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: dired-preview version 0.4.0 (lemmy.ml)
• Writing:
  • Charles Choi: macOS Native Emoji Picking in Emacs from the Edit Menu (Irreal)
  • Cognitive joy tooling #3: Closing the creation-application gap of my knowledge base using auto-segmentation, colors, and semantic search | lgmoneda (@brunoarine@hachyderm.io)
• Org Mode:
  • ASCII Line Art with Orgmode and Python (@petervennemann@nrw.social)
  • ASCII Line Art with Orgmode and SvgBob (@petervennemann@nrw.social)
  • Migrando mi sistema de notas a Emacs | ~/srmorita (@srmorita@rebel.ar)
  • Comprehensive 12 Part Org-Agenda Course in One #emacs #coding #scheduling #org (01:34:06)
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] org-read-date-style
  • Import, export, and intogration:
    • The auto-org-md package #org #markdown #coding #programming #emacs (01:03)
    • Blogging with Emacs, Hugo, and Github Pages (03:41)
    • (Release) Chrome version of Copy as Org-mode (Reddit)
    • Matt Maguire: Org Mode Beamer Presentations
    • Use org-download to download image links in an org-mode file.
    • Bookmarklets (and Custom URL Schemes) Are Criminally Underrated | silly business - note that the current org-protocol documentation is at Protocols (The Org Manual)
• Completion:
  • The M-x menu is probably the least talked about feature of Emacs.
  • Emacs Counsel M X Is A Bloody Good Way To Find Commands 2025_02_23_16:29:00 (07:00)
  • Simple Functions for Making Hippie-Expand More Intuitive to Use
• Coding:
  • which language is one for which emacs is godly at?
  • herbertjones/nushell-ts-mode (@nnungest@fosstodon.org)
  • Release CIDER 1.17 ("Cologne") · clojure-emacs/cider · GitHub (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • Scala Development with Emacs (Reddit)
  • New release for ts-fold and treesit-fold
  • Norm: XPath server 0.0.2
  • James Dyer: Why I Switched from Magit to VC-Mode (and How It Works for Me) (Irreal)
• Shells:
  • Made a start on a little elisp to open a Kitty terminal and execute the program from the current buffer.
• Web:
  • Want to post code on a web page? Here's a cute snippet to quickly "entitify" it.
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: HTML, but not too HTML (Irreal)
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Inserting Images Automatically in ewp - Wordpress
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • I think I have to go back to Mu4e - Baty.net (@jbaty@social.lol)
  • Turning Markdown files into emails - Baty.net
• Multimedia:
  • Watch YouTube with Emacs Elfeed and GNU EMMS (01:20)
• Fun:
  • Bad Apple! Played In Emacs (03:43)
• AI:
  • Tool Use + Translation RAG in Emacs Using GPTel and a Super Crappy LLM (Reddit)
  • gptel-aibo updates
  • RAGmacs - Pt. 2: Re-Tooling Emacs With GPTel (09:32)
  • Vibe coding in Emacs (13:12)
  • The ChatGPT Shell Package #emacs #ai #coding #programming #openai #llama (08:25)
• Community:
  • What Questions are Worth Asking Emacs-Newcomers?
  • "I would be SO happy to kick emacs to the kerb!" (Reddit) - unhappiness about performance; profiling tips in comments
• Other:
  • advanced emacs: revert-buffer-function (03:57)
  • buffer-terminator (Release 1.1.1): Automatically terminate unused buffers to enhance Emacs' performance by reducing open buffers, thereby minimizing active modes, timers, processes… (r/emacs, r/planetemacs)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Inserting Ledger transactions even faster
  • Emacs Application Framework - This is amazing!
  • Emacs Athena on OpenBSD (@mostlypat@mastodon.sdf.org)
  • Использование Emacs под Windows (@zeppelin@lor.sh)
• Emacs development: (savannah.gnu.org is down for me right now, so no updates)
• New packages:
  • bray: Lightweight modal editing (MELPA)
  • denote-agenda: Integrate Denote and Org-Agenda (MELPA)
  • gptel-aibo: An AI Writing Assistant (MELPA)
  • gptel-fn-complete: Complete the function at point using gptel (MELPA)
  • lithium: Lightweight modal interfaces (MELPA)
  • ollama-buddy: Ollama Buddy: Your Friendly AI Assistant (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Bluesky #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!

2025-02-17 Emacs news

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Feb 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 20 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Feb 22 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Feb 26 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 27 0130 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Lesson on Controlling Emacs Windows (Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Etenil/emacs-substrate: Bare-bones emacs configuration starter (@etenil@toot.cat)
  • viglioni/lauremacs at new-lauremacs (@laura.viglioni.com)
  • orzechowskid/duomacs at next (@danorz.com)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Irreal: Elisp Abstraction
  • Xah Talk Show 2025-02-16 Ep614 emacs lisp coding, keyword parameters (01:01:10)
• Appearance:
  • Mark Tomczak: Unstick Terminals in Emacs
  • Emacs Redux: Customizing Color Themes
  • Anand Tamariya: Emacs Font is wider
  • I have created some Emacs themes and would love your feedback to finalize and submit them. Your critique on which looks good would be highly appreciated.
• Navigation:
  • Marcin Borkowski: isearch-forward-thing-at-point (Irreal)
  • Composiphrase: Composable editing language like Vim, but moreso (@willghatch@mastodon.social)
  • An emacs macro to transform DTOs (@chamook@hachyderm.io)
  • Projectile 2.9 released! (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Introduction to Emacs Writing Studio - YouTube (@danderzei@aus.social)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] org-read-date-style
  • Recurring checklists using org mode in emacs (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
  • Irreal: Using Emacs For Research Notes
  • New literature notes package (Reddit) - citar-org-mode
  • Org dynamic block for calculating sprint points (@trevdev@fosstodon.org)
  • Organizing my Emacs config with Org-Babel
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • (Released) Org-headline-card, convert org-mode headlines and their contents into beautiful visual cards. (Reddit)
    • (Update) org-supertag: Enhanced the org-supertag-node-add-reference Command
    • A Few More Thoughts on Literate Programming (2022, Reddit)
    • Fizzbuzz battle: Orgmode versus THE REPL for lazy lisp series, an emacs story | by screwlisp | Feb, 2025 | Medium (@screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)
    • how to blogpost directly from emacs | visd0m.dev (@screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org) - ox-hugo, GitHub actions
    • Maintaining a youtube list as an org-table: yt-playlist
    • org-reminders : An Emacs plugin for interacting between macOS Reminders and org mode.
    • Show Emacs org-timer countdown in macOS menubar (@charlbotha.com)
    • Comments via Mastodon (@noctuaminervae@toot.si) - and moderation in Org Mode
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: I am in the process of splitting Denote into many packages
• Coding:
  • My personal emacs slime useage examples | by screwlisp | Feb, 2025 | Medium (@screwlisp@me.dm)
  • VHDL-LS toml generator (Reddit)
  • Demo of how to set up Emacs dap-mode for Swift debugging
  • Emacs Major Modes for Power BI · A #dataOp ramblings
  • Norm: XPath server
  • Magit now natively supports adding icons in the status buffer
  • On Jujutsu and Magit · Antoine Martin (lobste.rs)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • twtxt.el update: viewing profiles
• Spacemacs:
  • Is spacemacs the best emacs distro? (25:57)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Installing Doom Emacs on Windows #emacs #doomemacs #keybinds (10:29)
• AI:
  • writing elisp with ellama (Reddit)
  • Ollama Buddy Updates! - Individual models can be assigned to individual commands + more!
  • Aidermacs: Aider AI Pair Programming in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Copilot-chat v2 is here
  • gptel-fn-complete.el (formerly gptel-manual-complete) updates
  • Using ChatGPT via gptel to make my Emacs nutrition tracker smarter (05:58)
  • Emacs Lisp Live Code | quick gemini API integrration (35:58)
• Community:
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: More Emacs would be nice, but… (Irreal, follow-up)
  • A veces todo nos lleva a Emacs y por qué adoro el blog de Irreal (@maxxcan@mastodon.social)
  • Live Interview With Kent Pitman Recorded! - screwlisp - Medium (@screwlisp@me.dm) - Emacs history
  • Глупая война между Vim и GNU Emacs (22:46)
• Other:
  • Arthur A. Gleckler: LLM Unlock - using pass to store secrets
  • calibredb.el new update: support folder metadata
  • Inferior lisp emacs unicode lookup. EDIT: I GOT LEARNED SOME EMACS | by screwlisp | Feb, 2025 | Medium (@screwlisp@me.dm)
  • guile on emacs+termux fails to run. this was my solution - Brasil
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • #76120 - [PATCH] Expose the native sharing dialog (macOS) - GNU bug report logs - Philosophical considerations regarding proprietary OS features
    • Notes on process for getting FTP access to upload Emacs binaries
    • Re: igc: Info manual for MemoryPoolSystem - kludge for easy access to local info
  • Make the rx `eval` form use lexical binding when active
  • vc-revert-file: Support reverting directories
  • Add mhtml-ts-mode.
  • New functions oddp and evenp
  • completing-read-multiple: CRM indication and prompt customization
  • (smerge-refine-exchange-point): New command
  • Teach gnus/message about international Re: variants
  • Bind sieve-refresh-scriptlist to 'g' in sieve-mode
  • Add optional PREDICATE argument to read-directory-name
  • Change the project-switch-project prompt to include the dir name
  • New command project-find-matching-file
  • Mark package-x.el as obsolete
  • Add go-work-ts-mode for Go workspace files
  • image-dired: Add extra keybinds for navigation
  • Eliminate bookmark-maybe-historicize-string duplicates
  • Don't warn for packages without a footer line
  • Set process-adaptive-read-buffering to nil by default
• New packages:
  • hatty: Query positions through hats (MELPA)
  • ob-pic: Org babel functions for pic language (MELPA)
  • org-gnosis: Roam-like Knowledge Management System (GNU ELPA)
  • package-x: Package extras (GNU ELPA)
  • perl-ts-mode: Another Major mode for Perl (MELPA)
  • radio: Listen to Internet radio (NonGNU ELPA)
  • sideline-eglot: Show eglot information with sideline (MELPA)
  • treesit-fold: Code folding using treesit (NonGNU ELPA)
  • typst-ts-mode: Tree Sitter support for Typst (NonGNU ELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Bluesky #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!

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