2025-06-02 Emacs news

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/307852772/ Wed Jun 4 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Thu Jun 5 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jun 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jun 11 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jun 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jun 13 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/307759219/ Sat Jun 14 1100 America/Los_Angeles
• Emacs configuration:
  • Tim Heaney: R programming in Emacs - learning more about use-package-expand-minimally
  • jjba23/welkomscherm.el: Simple elegant welcome screen / dashboard for Emacs - Codeberg.org (@jjba23@mastodon.social)
  • jjba23/sss: Supreme Sexp System - SSS v3.1.11: more modularized (@sss_project@mastodon.social)
  • Help wanted: maintaining and hosting the Emacs Configuration Generator (HN)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Converting integers to ISO-8601 timestamps
  • Emacs and Pairs
  • Implementing Löb’s theorem in Emacs Lisp (Reddit, HN)
  • Emacs Package Development: The Emacs Reader (II: Making Overlays Centered and Zoomable) - Dyne.org TV
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: spacious-padding version 0.7.0
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: doric-themes version 0.1.0
• Navigation:
  • Tim Heaney: Go to definition in Emacs
• TRAMP:
  • TRAMP workaround for fido-vertical-mode: setting tramp-completion-use-auth-sources to nil, tweaking connection profiles
• Org Mode:
  • Help wanted: feedback on better multilingual support for Org Mode - all-tex-fonts feature branch, trying to figure out babel font management challenge
  • Benefits of writing textbook in Org Mode: view by unit or by assignment type
  • bcardoso/org-backlinks - added support for arbitrary link types (@cryptk@mastodon.social)
  • laertida/sync-docs.el: An Emacs package to publish org-mode files—including images and attachments—directly to Atlassian Confluence via its REST API. (Reddit)
  • org-ics-import.el - Import iCalendar files to org agenda without external tools (r/orgmode, r/emacs)
  • Meeting `verb.el` —HTTP Requests from within Org mode
  • /home/lucio.albenga.es - How To Create and Publish Your Website With Emacs and Org Mode (@lfa@hostux.social)
  • Building a blogging flow using Emacs and Emacs only (Reddit, @peregrinator@toot.cat)
  • How I take notes in org-roam #emacs (07:23)
  • Irreal: GitHub As A Notebook
• Completion:
  • My GNU Emacs settings for the vertico package (as of mid 2025) (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Setup Emacs for JavaScript Development with LSP (@tiang@mastodon.social)
  • Emacs treesitter lexical analysis of javascript (01:44)
  • glyph-venv.el · GitHub - creating direnv based on naming convention (@glyph@mastodon.social)
  • Emacs eev and common lisp McCLIM (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
  • emacs clkitten parenscript eev kitten of tutorial 2 (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
• Math:
  • Custom Emacs qalc REPL Pop-Up (@lhp@mastodon.social)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Note on SHR fonts for Elfeed etc. (@laotang@mastodon.social)
  • mastodon.el 2.0.1: minor fixes
  • gnus-mast.el - read-only Gnus interface to Mastodon threads (@viz@mastinsaan.in)
• Evil mode:
  • enhanced-evil-paredit.el - Improved Emacs Paredit support with Evil keybindings (Release 1.0.2 of the maintained fork of evil-paredit) (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • [ANN] Uniline, new version
  • Image Viewing Workflow with NSXIV + Emacs Lisp + Dired (07:49)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Adding directories to EMMS playlist from Dired
• AI:
  • gptel-autocomplete: Inline code completion using gptel (HN)
  • eden v1.20: a simple ChatGPT client for Emacs that focuses on conversations
  • Tiny Models, Local Throttles: Exploring My Local AI Dev Setup - nilenso blog (lobste.rs)
  • Making the Prompt Dynamic in Requests to OpenAI Chat Completion API - Emacs Lisp | lesson 08 (08:33)
  • Time To Format Chat Interactions With Markdown Mode - Emacs Lisp | lesson 09 (09:42)
  • Agentic LLM use in Emacs using Model Context Protocol (MCP) (46:55)
• Community:
  • Irreal: A Mansion That Changes Itself To Suit You
  • Sacha Chua: Working on the plumbing in a small web community
• Other:
  • Emacs Redux: Let’s make keyboard-quit smarter (Reddit)
  • nfdn: Announcing Casual Timezone (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • divyaranjan/emacs-reader v0.2.7: better scrolling, global dark mode (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Emacs on Android is pretty good (Reddit)
  • TrAPT 1.0 - transient for the apt package manager
  • Matt Maguire: Plain Text Accounting with Emacs – Part 3
  • James Dyer: Bank Buddy - Your Financial Analysis Companion for Emacs!
  • drink-water.el: An Emacs package to remind you of the importance of Hydration (Reddit)
  • bible-gateway: A BibleGateway Client for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Awesome Emacs on macOS (Reddit, lobste.rs, Irreal)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Filtering out process filters - performance notes
    • Help wanted: Re: Feature request: character based scrollbars
  • project-remember-project: Support calling it interactively
  • New user option vc-dir-hide-up-to-date-on-revert
  • Have 'delete-frame' delete initial daemon frame only if FORCE is non-nil
• New packages:
  • beluga-mode: Major mode for Beluga source code (MELPA)
  • bible-gateway: A Simple BibleGateway Client (MELPA)
  • daselt: Module for the Daselt configuration scheme (MELPA)
  • json5-ts-mode: Major mode for JSON5 (MELPA)
  • mcp: Model Context Protocol (MELPA)
  • ob-athena: Run AWS Athena queries from Org Babel (MELPA)
  • polish-holidays: Polish holidays (MELPA)
  • p-search: Emacs Search Tool Aggregator (MELPA)
  • rasi-mode: Major mode for editing RASI configuration files (MELPA)

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