2021-12-06 Emacs news
Emacs pretest 28.0.90 is out (Reddit) Help wanted: Looking to hire elisp hacker for small project Upcoming events: EmacsNYC: Discussion: Is VSCode Better?...
View ArticleEmacsConf backstage: chapter markers
Long videos are easier to navigate with chapter markers, so I've been slowly adding chapter markers to the Q&A sessions for EmacsConf 2021. I wrote an IkiWiki template and some Javascript code so...
View Article2021-12-13 Emacs news
Upcoming events: M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Dec 17 0700 Vancouver / 0900 Chicago / 1000 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1600 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300...
View ArticleAdding little nudges to help on the EmacsConf wiki
A number of people helped capture the talks for EmacsConf 2021, which was fantastic because we were able to stream all of the first day's talks with open captions and most of the second day's talks...
View ArticleThinking about Emacs community maintenance
2021-12-15 Emacs community maintenance Building on Bastien Guerry's talk on maintainers at the recent EmacsConf, I thought I'd reflect a little bit on what I do to help out with the Emacs community...
View ArticleWhy I Love Emacs - from Bob Oliver
Sometimes I post updates from people who don't have their own blog. Here's one from Bob Oliver. - Sacha This short article sets out why I, as an Emacs newbie, really, really love this software. But...
View Article2021-12-20 Emacs news
Upcoming events: Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Dec 25 0030 Vancouver / 0230 Chicago / 0330 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 0930 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore Emacs...
View Article2021-12-27 Emacs news
Upcoming events: Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Dec 29 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1730 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2300 Kolkata – Thu Dec 30 0130...
View ArticleDefining generic and mode-specific Emacs Lisp functions with cl-defmethod
2022-01-02: Changed quote to function in the defalias. I recently took over the maintenance of subed, an Emacs mode for editing subtitles. One of the things on my TODO list was to figure out how to...
View ArticleCoverage reporting in Emacs with Buttercup, Undercover, Coverage, and a Makefile
One of the things that I always wanted to get back to was the practice of having good test coverage. That way, I can have all these tests catch me in case I break something in my sleep-deprived...
View Article2022-01-03 Emacs news
Upcoming events: EmacsATX: TBD https://www.meetup.com/EmacsATX/events/282436104/ Wed Jan 5 1630 Vancouver / 1830 Chicago / 1930 Toronto – Thu Jan 6 0030 GMT / 0130 Berlin / 0600 Kolkata / 0830...
View Article2022-01-10 Emacs news
Upcoming events: Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, January 22, 2022 M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jan 21...
View Article2022-01-17 Emacs news
Help wanted: Re: [External] : Emacs pretest 28.0.91 is out - looking for people to help with Windows binaries (see also this post) Upcoming events: M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA...
View Article2022-01-24 Emacs news
Upcoming events: Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jan 26 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1730 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2300 Kolkata – Thu Jan 27 0130...
View Article2022-01-31 Emacs news
Upcoming events: M-x Research (contact them for password): "Functional programming: an (Emacs) Lisp view (1/n)" https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Feb 1 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto /...
View Article2022-02-07 Emacs news
Upcoming events: M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Feb 15 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata – Wed Feb...
View Article2022-02-14 Emacs news
Help wanted: Multi-tty todo list Upcoming events: M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Feb 15 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1600 GMT /...
View Article2022-02-21 Emacs news
Upcoming events: Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Feb 23 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1730 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2300 Kolkata – Thu Feb 24 0130...
View Article2022-02-28 Emacs news
Help wanted: Emacs orphanage - packages looking for maintainers Upcoming events: M-x Research (contact them for password): (Not official meeting due to Strikes in UK) https://m-x-research.github.io/...
View Article2022-03-07 Emacs news
Help wanted: Looking for a new contributors/a new maintainer for Kaolin themes (Reddit) Upcoming events: M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Mar 15 0900...
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