2022-11-14 Emacs news
Help wanted: org-vcard: seeking new maintainer Emacs User Survey (emacs-devel, Reddit, HN, lobste.rs) Prot is asking for help to move countries Upcoming events: CANCELLED Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs...
View ArticleLogging sent messages to Org Mode with message-sent-hook
I wanted to e-mail all the EmacsConf speakers who had already uploaded their videos, and I wanted to keep track of the fact that I'd mailed them by adding a note to the :LOGBOOK: drawer in their talk...
View ArticleSolving the mastodon.el error mastodon-auth--access-token: invalid
If you get mastodon-auth--handle-token-response: Mastodon-auth--access-token: invalid_grant: The provided authorization grant is invalid, expired, revoked, does not match the redirection URI used in...
View Article2022-11-21 Emacs news
Update 2022-11-21: added new packages Upcoming events: Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Nov 26 0030 Vancouver / 0230 Chicago / 0330 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 0930 Berlin /...
View Article2022-11-28 Emacs news
EmacsConf is this weekend Upcoming events: Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Nov 30 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1730 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2300 Kolkata –...
View Article2022-12-05 Emacs news
Emacs 29: Release branch emacs-29 The emacs-29 release branch was just cut by the amazing Eli Zaretskii! (Reddit) Trying Out Emacs 29, Part 2 - System Crafters Live! (23:47) Trying New Emacs 29...
View Article2022-12-12 Emacs news
Upcoming events: Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, December 24, 2022 Hispa Emacs (virtual) https://hispa-emacs.org/ Wed Dec 14 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000...
View Article2022-12-19 Emacs news
Upcoming events: M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Dec 20 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700...
View ArticleCollect my recent toots in an Org file so that I can refile them
I want to use my microblog posts on Mastodon as building blocks for longer posts on my blog. Getting them into an Org file makes it easier to link to them or refile them to other parts of my Org files...
View ArticleCollect my recent toots in an Org file so that I can refile them
I want to use my microblog posts on Mastodon as building blocks for longer posts on my blog. Getting them into an Org file makes it easier to link to them or refile them to other parts of my Org files...
View ArticleUsing Emacs and Python to record an animation and synchronize it with audio
The Q&A session for Things I'd like to see in Emacs (Richard Stallman) from EmacsConf 2022 was done over Mumble. Amin pasted the questions into the Mumble chat buffer and I copied them into a...
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Comparison-shopping with Org Mode
I don't like shopping. We're lucky to be able to choose, but I get overwhelmed with all the choices. I'm trying to get the hang of it, though, since I'll need to shop for lots of things for A- over...
View Article2022-12-26 Emacs news
Emacs 29: A few new things in Emacs 29 (Reddit, HN) Irreal: Vivek Haldar on Emacs 29 Upcoming events: Mastering Emacs Book Club (Reddit) Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/...
View Article2023-01-02 Emacs news
Help wanted: Philip K.: Taking a Break from Emacs Development - packages looking for maintainers Help with Android port? (+ gnulib question) Upcoming events: M-x Research (contact them for password):...
View ArticleEmacsConf backstage: Using TRAMP and timers to run two tracks semi-automatically
In previous years, organizers streamed the video feeds for EmacsConf from their own computers to the Icecast server, which was a little challenging because of CPU load. A server shared by a volunteer...
View ArticleLinking to and exporting function definitions in Org Mode
I'd like to write more blog posts about little Emacs hacks, and I'd like to do it with less effort. Including source code is handy even when it's missing some context from other functions defined in...
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Display a calendar heat map using Emacs Lisp
I was curious about how to quickly visualize my date-related data in Emacs, such as when I sketched my thoughts or which days had journal entries or how often A- had tantrums. (It's hard to be 6 years...
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Using the calendar-date-echo-text variable to help plot a heatmap on a...
Figure 1: Sketch heatmap from 2008-2023 Building on Display a calendar heat map using Emacs Lisp, I figured out how to use calendar-date-echo-text to store the date so that I can pick it up when...
View ArticleOrg Mode: Including portions of files between two regular expressions
I'd like to refer to snippets of code, but lines are too fragile to use as references for code and posts that I want to easily update. I'd like to specify a from-regexp and a to-regexp instead in...
View ArticleMoving my Org post subtree to the 11ty directory
I sometimes want to move the Org source for my blog posts to the same directory as the 11ty-exported HTML. This should make it easier to update and reexport blog posts in the future. The following...
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