There was another meeting a couple of weeks ago of EmacsATX, the Austin Emacs Meetup group. For this month we had no predetermined topic. However, as always, there were mentions of many modes, packages, technologies and websites, some of which I had never heard of before, and some of this may be of interest to you as well. I was only on for an hour before I had to drop off; hopefully people did not save their bon mots for the period after my departure.
#1 was the organizer, but was not there.
#2 was a developer in the Dallas area.
#3 was someone whose Meetup profile said they are in Katmandu, Nepal.
#4 was the professor in OKC.
#5 was a developer in Seattle.
There were a couple of other people there who (based on my notes and what I remember) did not speak to much. One was in Austin, and one was in Nova Scotia.
I dialed in about ten minutes late, so I missed some of the discussion. There was some discussion of LLMs. I am not interested in them, so I just waited until that topic passed. I did talk about my Emacs package and using the Elisp Repo Kit. #5 said he tried erk on Windows, and it did not work. Since I used my package in Eshell, there was some talk of Eshell. We also talked about changing the name of the group, and possibly live-streaming.
The member in Katmandu posted some notes in the chat, so I am going to be efficient and just use that for the bulk of this post:
- Simple notes with an efficient file-naming scheme
https://github.com/protesilaos/denote - Loving Emacs Writing Studio
https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1j4370o/loving_emacs_writing_studio/ - Ag Ibragimov’s config
https://github.com/agzam/.doom.d/ - GPTel: A simple LLM client for Emacs
https://github.com/karthink/gptel - Transient
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/transient.html - A repo for Common Lisp, perhaps other Lisp variants.
https://codeberg.org/EMacAdie/lisp-apps/src/branch/main/ - Eshell : https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.html
https://github.com/agzam/.doom.d/blob/main/modules/custom/shell/autoload/eshell.el
This post was created in Emacs with Org Mode and Love. You’re welcome. And stop looking at your stupid phone all the time.
I give people numbers since I do not know if they want their names in this write-up. Think of it as the stoner’s version of the Chatham House Rule. I figured that numbers are a little clearer than “someone said this, and someone else said that, and a third person said something else”. Plus it gives participants some deniability. Most people’s numbers are based on the order they are listed on the call screen, and the same person may be referred to by different numbers in different months.
I am not the official spokesperson for the group. I just got into the habit of summarizing the meetings every month, and adding my own opinions about things. The participants may remember things differently, and may disagree with opinions expressed in this post. Nothing should be construed as views held by anyone’s employers past, present or future. That said, if you like something in this post, I will take credit; for things you don’t like, blame somebody else.
Image from Ms DF III 3, a 10th-century manuscript housed in the Strahov Monastery in the Czech Republic; image from Wikimedia, assumed allowed under Public Domain.