Emacs news

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I've noticed that there are a fair number of Emacs fans here. (Emacs is a text editor with tremendous super-cow capabilities, even if it looks like a wooden toy when it ships). So I thought I'd point out the weekly “Emacs news” from Sacha Chua. Chua has something for everyone, beginners and pros alike. We write quite a lot of plan text here and next door, you could also call I2P text-heavy, because every gimmick requires JS and thus represents a potential danger, and Emacs with Org Mode can be a great help here. Org Mode is inconspicuous but can manage more than just notes and appointments, so it is also used by scientists and authors. It's best to have a look for yourself. Below is the current version for you to try out.
(pandoc html -> org, Emacs Org M-x ox-bb-export-as-bbcode -> bbcode.)


2025-05-26 Emacs news
Autor: Sacha Chua

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed May 28 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata -- Thu May 29 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • 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
• Emacs configuration:
  • How to remove commands from the M-x menu by setting their completion-predicate to 'ignore
  • Spartan Emacs, a more minimal doom or spacemacs alternative (Reddit)
  • dotfiles/common/emacs/config.org at main · mauromotion/dotfiles · GitHub (@mauro@mograph.social)
  • My Emacs config - Michal Sapka (@mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe)
• Appearance:
  • Automagic Dark Mode -- Automatically create a dark (or light mode) for your existing emacs theme. (Reddit)
  • Ryan Fleury inspired theme ported on Emacs. (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Emacs Nested Projects Redux (@donaldh@hachyderm.io)
  • The Emacs Easy-Find Package #filemanagement #types #search (02:47)
  • Nifty Isearch Commands in Emacs (01:13)
  • Emacs Code Folding And Unfolding Via hs-minor-mode 2025:16:51 (10:45)
  • QiangF/emacs-winnie: Emacs winner-mode replacement (Reddit)
• Hyperbole:
  • A Taste of Hyperbole ---Automatically linking to Org targets, and more
• Dired:
  • [Guix] Emacs dired-mode as a file manager (lobste.rs, Irreal, @lynn@a.bloodyno.se)
  • dired-multi-copy.el v1.2.16 with New dired-rsync Integration (Reddit)
  • misohena/dired-file-info: Alternative to dired-show-file-type(y) to display more detailed file information. (@Cnoceda@mastodon.social)
• Writing:
  • TIL markdown-narrow-to-subtree
• Org Mode:
  • Chris Maiorana: Make everything a note
  • Building an Org-mode Workflow: Timestamped Notes - Jeff Bradberry (Reddit)
    • Priority Cookies - Jeff Bradberry (Reddit)
    • Epic Organization - Jeff Bradberry (2023)
    • Lists and Checklists (2022)
    • Scheduling and Deadlines (2022)
    • Multiple Files and Archiving (2022)
    • Basic TODOs (2022)
  • Single-click time tracking with links
  • Tip: Automatically set org-agenda-files to those files with relevant content
  • Introducing codetabs.el -- Clément Jean (Reddit) - Org Babel source blocks in tabs in export
  • [Emacs + Polymode + Org-mode] fix unfolding on source block entry (01:08)
  • org-roam v2.3.0: performance, bug fixes
  • Putting org-roam-dailies in one long journal file
• Coding:
  • git-link: link to a specific line number in a file hosted on a git forge (@shapr@recurse.social)
  • Jupyter-Ascending --- новый способ работы с Jupyter Ноутбуками в Emacs / Хабр (@habr@zhub.link)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Christian Tietze: Insert Cc and Bcc Mail Headers Conditionally in Emacs message-mode
• Multimedia:
  • ahihi/strudel.el: proof-of-concept Strudel mode for Emacs (@ahihi@anticapitalist.party) for https://strudel.cc tunes
• AI:
  • Refactoring chatgpt.el - Emacs Lisp lesson 07 (06:04)
  • 021 Ollama Buddy - Using a vision model to extract some text #emacs #ollama (02:43)
  • 019 Ollama Buddy - First Steps into User System Prompt Management #emacs #ollama (03:18)
  • Emacs AIPlus -- Blee enhancements to aidermacs and gptel. (06:44)
  • Introducing DSel: The Distinctively Sensible Elisp LLM framework (Reddit)
  • Announcing aider.el 0.10.0, added new tools / enhance existing tools
  • Sandboxing AI Tools and Emacs: How Guix Containers Keep Your Host Safe While Empowering LLMs (Reddit)
  • MCP servers in Emacs
  • James Dyer: Ollama Buddy 0.12.0: User Prompt Library, File Attachments, Vision and Context Tracking
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions --- 2025-05-20 / week 20
  • Eric MacAdie: 2025-05 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy (lobste.rs)
  • Obsidian User Curious About Emacs -- What Should I Know?
• Other:
  • ‘peval' parallelism for arbitrary Elisp as forked Linux processes in a C dynamic module (Reddit)
  • Emacs on windows is so painfull, its actualy making me not wanna use emacs anymore...
  • Emacs: Nintendo Switch Edition
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: Introduce .early-init.desktop (inspired by early-init.el) -- needed - for consideration?
    • Re: feature/igc: pdump segment never freed - considering other systems with fancy garbage collection
    • Re: MPS inclusion in IGC branch - Re: License ramifications of distribut - alsu opdateco ncerns
    • Re: Build break on Emacs MPS build on Windows in the latest master - need people with experience with WSL
  • * lisp/tab-line.el (tab-line-close-other-tabs): New command.
  • * lisp/tab-line.el (tab-line-move-tab-forward): New command.
• New packages:
  • doric-themes: Minimalist themes (GNU ELPA)
  • evil-god-toggle: Toggle Evil and God Mode (MELPA)
  • kdl-mode: Major mode for editing KDL files (MELPA)
  • list-projects: List of known projects (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, 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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