* 2024-08-05 Emacs news
- Help wanted:
  - [[https://tweesecake.social/@pixelate/112903904515367081][Request for an LLM package to describe images, which is good for accessibility]]
  - [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-07/msg01072.html][emacs-devel needs help with MS Windows support]]
    - [[https://texandfriends.wordpress.com/2024/07/30/emacs-ohne-maintainer-fuer-macos-und-windows/][also macOS]] ([[https://muenster.im/@christoph/112877236490618836][@christoph@muenster.im]])
    - [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-07/msg01222.html][Some discussion of the challenges with supporting Emacs on non-free operating systems]]
- Upcoming events:
  - EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/302002457/ Wed Aug 7 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT -- Thu Aug 8 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
  - Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Aug 9 1800 Europe/Paris
  - OrgMeetup (virtual) https://bbb.emacsverse.org/b/iho-h7r-qg8-led Wed Aug 14 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata -- Thu Aug 15 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Beginner:
  - [[https://machaddr.substack.com/p/emacs-tutorial-a-comprehensive-guide][Emacs Tutorial: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners]] ([[https://mastodon.sdf.org/@machaddr/112892410239297631][@machaddr@mastodon.sdf.org]])
- Emacs configuration:
  - [[https://zellyn.com/2024/08/emacs-packages/][Emacs packages: How the pieces fit together]]
  - [[https://www.jamescherti.com/minimal-emacs-d/][Efficient Emacs configuration and startup with minimal-emacs.d]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1ej8zxt/efficient_emacs_configuration_and_startup_with/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://www.snamellit.com/blog/emacs-refactor/][Refactoring my Emacs Config]]
  - [[https://site.sebasmonia.com/posts/2024-07-30-emacs-config--big-or-small.html][Hoagie's corner of the internet - Emacs config: big or small]] ([[https://irreal.org/blog/?p=12349][Irreal]])
- Emacs Lisp:
  - [[https://www.leonrische.me/pages/mouse_events_on_images_in_emacs.html][Mouse Events on SVG Images in Emacs [2022]​]]
- Appearance:
  - [[https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-08-05-emacs-lin-1-1-0/][Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Lin version 1.1.0]]
- Navigation:
  - [[https://www.jamescherti.com/easysession-el-persist-restore-emacs-session/][James Cherti: easysession.el – Easily persist and restore your Emacs editing sessions]] ([[https://github.com/jamescherti/easysession.el][Github]], [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1eilz20/easily_persist_and_restore_your_emacs_editing/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://mbork.pl/2024-07-27_How_to_make_Emacs_not_scroll_from_the_current_position][Marcin Borkowski: How to make Emacs not scroll from the current position]]
- Writing:
  - [[https://kaka.farm/posts/gnu-emacs-surrealism-mode-is-a-writing-tool-that-stops-you-from-editing-your-words.html][Surrealism Mode is a writing tool that stops you from editing your words]] ([[https://emacs.ch/@kakafarm/112904489096040500][@kakafarm@emacs.ch]])
- Org Mode:
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/1ehmafb/im_using_orgmode_as_a_makeshift_crm_its_so_good/][I'm using Orgmode as a makeshift CRM. It's so good.]]
  - [[https://www.snamellit.com/blog/enable-real-idletime-for-org-mode-on-ubuntu/][Enable real idletime for Org Mode on Ubuntu]] (2011)
  - [[https://psibi.in/posts/2024-08-04-rustic-babel.html][Rustic: Enhanced Org Babel integration]]
  - [[https://github.com/emacsomancer/org-roam-daily-reflection][emacsomancer/org-roam-daily-reflection: comparing N org-roam dailies at M intervals (years, months, fortnights, weeks, days)]] ([[https://types.pl/@emacsomancer/112888847395419780][@emacsomancer@types.pl]], [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1einc51/org_roam_daily_reflection_a_new_package_for/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://github.com/rtrppl/orgrr/][orgrr 0.9, changes under the hood]] ([[https://emacs.ch/@laotang/112897346729280539][@laotang@emacs.ch]])
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1ehpwe3/hack_automatically_installing_the_development/][Hack: automatically installing the development version of org on new machine]]
- Denote:
  - [[https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-08-01-emacs-denote-luhmann-signature-sort/][Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: sort Luhmann-style signatures with ‘denote-sort-dired’]]
  - [[https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-07-30-emacs-denote-exclude-dirs-org-blocks/][Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: exclude directories in Denote’s Org dynamic blocks]] (09:56 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvKK5vLQiuQ][YouTube]])
- Completion:
  - [[https://emacs.dyerdwelling.family/emacs/20240804075952-emacs--finding-files-using-completing-read/][James Dyer: Efficient File Searching in Emacs: Leveraging completing-read with Customizable Methods]]
- Coding:
  - [[https://www.snamellit.com/blog/dape/][Emacs Debugging with Dape]] (2023)
  - [[https://fosstodon.org/@mykhaylo/112903746198859009][cider-eval-and-reload-browser - @mykhaylo@fosstodon.org]]
  - [[https://eshelyaron.com/posts/2024-07-31-crafting-kubectl-commands-in-style-with-kubed.html][Composing Kubectl Commands in Style with Kubed]] ([[https://emacs.ch/@eshel/112882314272366713][@eshel@emacs.ch]])
  - [[https://github.com/eshelyaron/kubed][eshelyaron/kubed: Kubernetes, Emacs, done!]]
- Shells:
  - [[https://mastodon.social/@lhp/112906055468315899][adapting eshell/make to other compilation tools]]
- Web:
  - [[https://jao.io/blog/eww-to-org.html][jao: eww to org]]
- Mail, news, and chat:
  - [[https://codeberg.org/bram85/elfeed-export][bram85/elfeed-export: Export the Elfeed database to more generic data formats.]] ([[https://emacs.ch/@bram85/112899951225881357][@bram85@emacs.ch]])
- Multimedia:
  - [[https://tweesecake.social/@pixelate/112905298742989725][Emacspeak and EMPV coolness - playing an audio book in one ear and using the other ear for something else]]
- Fun:
  - [[https://takeonrules.com/2024/08/03/releasing-v080-of-random-tableel/][Jeremy Friesen: Releasing v0.8.0 of random-table.el]]
- Community:
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1eghspj/weekly_tips_tricks_c_thread/][Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread]]
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1ej28w9/is_it_time_for_the_remacs_community_to_find/][Discussion of Reddit alternatives]] - IRC, Mastodon, federated news aggregators, ...
  - [[https://onlisp.co.uk/Systems-and-community.html][J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: Systems and community]] - quotes from 1983-1984
- Other:
  - [[https://sr.ht/~trs-80/beancount-txn-elisp/][beancount-txn-elisp]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1ek0m5w/beancounttxnelisp/][Reddit]], [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41140547][HN]])
  - [[https://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2024/07/emacspeak-speech-odyssey.html][T. V. Raman: Emacspeak --- A Speech Odyssey]]
  - [[https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2024/08/02/text-dimensions-are-hard/][Lars Ingebrigtsen: Text Dimensions Are Hard]]
  - [[https://www.snamellit.com/blog/running-emacs-with-wsl2-xrdp/][Running Emacs with wsl2-xrdp]] (2021)
- Emacs development:
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=f70a6ea0ea86ef461e40d20664a75a92d02679ea][Add support for variable-pitch fonts in 'visual-wrap-prefix-mode']]
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=4437d730a5fff6dca61f99a146c99aefd0f67577][Remove misspelled rx category `chinse-two-byte`]]
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=27381d71c65bd0ba93ed61f57011dbc66bd5bfab][Improve window/buffer handling code]]
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=e4cd26defc0e1a6deafbe4b2310ebdb3ffa4578f]["Separate" tree-sitter parser list for indirect buffers]]
- New packages:
  - http://melpa.org/#/outline-indent: Outline and fold text using indentation (MELPA)
  - http://melpa.org/#/vsh-mode: Alternate PTY interface for complex terminal sessions (MELPA)

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