2025-02-03 Emacs news

Help wanted:
- F-Droid are in need of a new maintainer for their Emacs package.
Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/305908631/ Wed Feb 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Thu Feb 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Feb 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Feb 8 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #2 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/36aa7507-8a4f-4ab4-bd1f-fa12b5d1accb Tue Feb 11 1900 CET
- OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Feb 12 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 13 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Feb 14 1800 Europe/Paris
Emacs configuration:
- Brief thoughts from my adventure into Emacs (@rickwysocki@mas.to) - under the section "Building It Yourself" - minimizing dependencies
- configuring emacs (04:13)
Emacs Lisp:
- Kris Carta: RTFM or: how I'm (re-)learning to love documentation
- Emacs Redux: Debugging Emacs Commands
- yaitskov/ert-scope: isolate buffers and files created within a scope of ert test (Reddit)
- If you have problems with parentheses randomly being deleted, come here - show-paren-context-when-offscreen
- Obteniendo datos asíncronos de una API con Emacs Lisp | Getting data from an API with Emacs Lisp
- Dibujando figuras con Emacs (@geekland@mastodon.social)
Navigation:
- Fix C-x 1 to maximize side windows instead of failing; toggle back if already maximized
- Emacs Sticky Buffer
- a winner mode replacement · Issue #2 · hoverwinter/kys · GitHub (Reddit)
- my/find-files-with-fd; also, I spent an entire day implementing a function that's already provided by consult
- Arialdo Martini: Emacs: a peek under Imenu’s hood (Reddit)
- Watch consult-git-grep_with-file-pattern | Streamable
- Projectile Introduces Significant Caching Improvements
Writing:
- Introduction to Emacs Writing Studio (25:28)
- Emacs Writing Studio: Ideation (Taking fleeting and permanent notes) (17:22)
- Emacs Writing Studio: Inspiration (Read e-books, manage a bibliography, surf the web and play music) (23:12)
- IAST input method for Emacs - International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST)
Org Mode:
- Org mode and Spacemacs: The Absolute Minimum you need to know
- My simple note taking system #emacs #orgmode #coding #programming #notes (05:39)
- Stupidly Simple Notes Taking With Emacs - TuxeduTV
- Jeremy Friesen: Seeking Inspiration from the Notes I've Taken
- Prevent Org-todo from messing with windows - Coping Mechanism (@jbaty@social.lol)
- (Update) org-supertag Implements Tag Completion
- Nuke em! Quick search and replace #emacs #org #markdown (01:08)
- lf-araujo/workbenchless: Single-file Emacs configuration for a powerful scientific Notebook system that works flawlessly over ssh. (Reddit)
- Construyendo el website Hispa-Emacs.org enteramente desde Emacs - FTV
- OrgMeetup meeting notes (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
- Syncing org-mode reading list to reMarkable tablet
- Using Emacs and Org-Roam/Org-Node on Android (with Termux Extra Keys and Org-Node)
- Erik L. Arneson: Configuring Orgzly Interaction with Directory Local Variables
- nitincodery/org-dex: A browser extension that copies open tabs to your clipboard in org-mode format, ready to use with your org-capture template (Reddit)
Denote:
- Emacs Writing Studio (Exploring your Denote digital knowledge garden) (31:17)
- Emacs Writing Studio (Create and manage literature notes with Citar-Denote) (28:13)
Completion:
- James Dyer: Copying completion candidate to the clipboard
Coding:
- User experience: eglot configuration - emacs-devel discussion on ideas for making eglot easier to configure
- Java programming in Emacs using Eglot - YouTube (Reddit)
- project-headerline: Customizable project headerline (Reddit)
- Emacs: introduction to VC (version control framework)
- piem - an Emacs tool for applying patches (01:07:18)
Math:
- Gene Goykhman: Quickly summing up the whole stack in Emacs Calc
Shells:
- [eshell-smart feature proposal] Preserve previous prompt includes code
Mail, news, and chat:
- Mu4e configuration diagram
Evil mode:
- Little trick on improving evil C-i and C-o (jump back/forward)
Multimedia:
- ahihi/sapf.el: Emacs major mode for sapf (@ahihi@anticapitalist.party) - sound as pure form
- A tour of Ready Player Mode (Reddit)
- Announcing Casual Image (Reddit, Irreal)
- Sacha Chua: Improving subed-vtt parsing; using dedicated windows in Emacs; training my intuition
Fun:
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: aLtCaPs version 1.3.0
AI:
- Introducing my package gptel-aibo: AI Writing Assistant for Emacs
Community:
- Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2025-01-29 / week 04
- Irreal: The Experiences Of A Non-technical Emacs User - logistics, Org Mode
- Why I still use Emacs (09:40)
- Returning to the Church (of Emacs) (20:55) (Reddit, Irreal)
- Interview With DistroTube - YouTuber, Opensource Advocate, Emacs User (01:44:50, Reddit)
- All hail our new overlords /u/mickeyp, /u/github-alphapapa, and /u/Psionikus! - Reddit mods
- Emacs wird 2025 vierzig! - The editor GNU Emacs will be forty years old in 2025.
- La Comunidad GNU Emacs - Retrospectiva: Orígenes - Pasado, Presente y Futuro - FTV
- 1era Hispa Emacs Conf 2025 - FTV (@libretics@mast.lat)
Other:
- Package of the ancien world: records-mode
- log-buffer: Buffers for displaying logs and debugging (Reddit)
- Marcin Borkowski: ketchup.el - alternative to Pomodoro timers
- Scraping Emacs Package Listings into SQLite - Real World Scheme Programming #2 (11:12)
- My experience with Emacs (2022)
- "New" emacs nightly build for Fedora
- [FIX] Compiling with tree-sitter in Fedora 41
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
  - Tips on understanding the igc branch
  - Re: [PATCH v3] Stop highlighting Python2 keywords. - gradually deprecating Python 2
  - A note that the pointer property overrides the cursor shape determined from other sources
  - FreeDOS patches?
- ; time-stamp: documentation, tests, NEWS
- Add auto save timer to save-place (bug#75837)
- New user option 'Buffer-menu-human-readable-sizes'
- Add new user option bookmark-bmenu-type-column-width
- Merge branch 'scratch/no-purespace' into 'master'
- Add new variable tab-bar-format-tab-help-text-function
- Add treesit-simple-indent-override-rules
- Add treesit-add-simple-indent-rules
- Add new user option tab-bar-define-keys
- Add abnormal hook tab-bar-post-undo-close-tab-functions
- Hideshow support for tree-sitter in hs-minor-mode (bug#75609)
New packages:
- pif: Prevent Initial Flash of Light (MELPA)
- stillness-mode: Prevent windows from jumping on minibuffer activation (MELPA)

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From:	Sacha Chua
Subject:	2025-02-03 Emacs news
Date:	Mon, 03 Feb 2025 12:26:00 -0500