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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /></head><body class="default" lang="en"><header><a class="logo" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SiteMap"><img alt="[Home]" class="logo" src="https://www.emacswiki.org/images/logo218x38.png" /></a><nav><span class="gotobar bar"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SiteMap">SiteMap</a> <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Search">Search</a> <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ElispArea">ElispArea</a> <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HowTo">HowTo</a> <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Glossary">Glossary</a> <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/RecentChanges">RecentChanges</a> <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/News">News</a> <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Problems">Problems</a> <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Suggestions">Suggestions</a> <a href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs?action=random" rel="nofollow">Random</a></span><form method="get" action="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs" enctype="multipart/form-data" accept-charset="utf-8" class="search"><p><label for="search">Search:</label> <input type="text" name="search" size="15" accesskey="f" id="search" /> <label for="searchlang">Language:</label> <input type="text" name="lang" size="5" id="searchlang" /> <input type="submit" name="dosearch" value="Go!" /></p></form></nav><h1><a href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs?search=%22News%22" rel="nofollow" title="Click to search for references to this page">News</a></h1></header><div class="wrapper"><div class="content browse" lang="en"><p>This page collects the last ten news items.</p><p>Newsworthy are interesting threads on the <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsMailingLists">EmacsMailingLists</a> or <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsNewsgroups">EmacsNewsgroups</a>, interesting quotes from the <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsChannel">EmacsChannel</a>, and general chat between the members of this community. It is our <strong>community blog</strong>. (For an overview of our personal blogs, check <a class="url https outside" href="https://planet.emacslife.com">Planet Emacslife</a>.)</p><p>Subscribe to the <a class="inter EmacsWiki outside" href="/emacs?action=rss;match=%5E%5Cd%5Cd%5Cd%5Cd-%5Cd%5Cd-%5Cd%5Cd">RSS feed</a>.</p><p>Anybody can <a class="inter EmacsWiki outside" href="/emacs?action=new">add a new entry for today</a>. Older entries can be found in the <a class="inter EmacsWiki outside" href="/emacs?action=calendar">Archive</a>.</p><p>See also <a class="url http outside" href="http://sachachua.com/blog/category/emacs-news/">Emacs News Weekly</a> for more updates from the <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryCommunity">Emacs Community</a>.</p><div class="journal h-feed"><article class="h-entry"><h1 class="p-name"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/2021-11-27">2021-11-27</a></h1><div class="e-content" lang="en"><p><a class="url https outside" href="https://emacsconf.org/2021/">Emacs Conference 2021</a>, today and tomorrow!</p></div><p class="comment"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Comments_on_2021-11-27">Comments on this page</a></p></article><article class="h-entry"><h1 class="p-name"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/2021-07-13">2021-07-13</a></h1><div class="e-content" lang="en"><div class="color one level0"><p> The first edit of the Emacs Wiki Site Map was 2001-05-14… more than 20 years ago! Well, maybe somebody will remind me in time for 2031-05-14! 😆 <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Alex_Schroeder">Alex Schroeder</a></p></div><div class="color two level0"><p> Congratulations, Emacs Wiki! - <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DrewAdams">DrewAdams</a> </p></div></div><p class="comment"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Comments_on_2021-07-13">Comments on this page</a></p></article><article class="h-entry"><h1 class="p-name"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/2021-06-03">2021-06-03</a></h1><div class="e-content" lang="en"><div class="color one level0"><p> The site was down for a few hours. After some attempts at connecting to the server I decided to reboot it. I hope everything is back as it should be. If there&#x2019;s something amiss, <a class="url https outside" href="https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Contact">let me know</a>. Alex</p></div><div class="color two level0"><p> Thanks for taking care of this, Alex. &#x2013; <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DrewAdams">DrewAdams</a></p></div></div><p class="comment"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Comments_on_2021-06-03">Comments on this page</a></p></article><article class="h-entry"><h1 class="p-name"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/2020-12-24">2020-12-24</a></h1><div class="e-content" lang="en"><div class="color one level0"><p> I&#x2019;ve been making some changes to the wiki engine, adding header, nav, and footer elements instead of using divs with classes. This means that some <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CSS">CSS</a> files might break in unexpected ways. If you notice anything weird, please let me know by leaving a comment, here.</p><p>I also changed the default CSS to automatically pick the dark theme if your browser says it prefers the dark theme. <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Alex_Schroeder">Alex Schroeder</a></p></div></div><p class="comment"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Comments_on_2020-12-24">Comments on this page</a></p></article><article class="h-entry"><h1 class="p-name"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/2020-12-18">2020-12-18</a></h1><div class="e-content" lang="en"><div class="color one level0"><p> <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SachaChua">Sacha Chua</a> wrote a blog post where she said: “Id love to make all these wonderful posts and tutorials and videos more findable. Not just <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsConf">EmacsConf</a>, but also the wonderful things that cross our radar in <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsNews">EmacsNews</a>. I think the <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsWiki">EmacsWiki</a> could be a great way to do that. Imagine if people took the links from Emacs News and organized them under various topic pages (and maybe even in some kind of logical order) so that people could come across them… And when we start organizing the resources that are out there, we can map the things people want to learn (ooh! skill trees!) and then see where the missing pieces are.” <a class="url https outside" href="https://sachachua.com/blog/2020/12/emacsconf-2020-emacs-news-highlights/">EmacsConf 2020: Emacs News Highlights and a wishlist</a></p><p>I&#x2019;d love to see this as well! 😃 Alex</p></div><div class="color two level0"><p> Hear! Hear! - <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DrewAdams">DrewAdams</a> </p></div><div class="color one level0"></div></div><p class="comment"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Comments_on_2020-12-18">Comments on this page</a></p></article><article class="h-entry"><h1 class="p-name"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/2020-12-09">2020-12-09</a></h1><div class="e-content" lang="en"><p>Prompted by <a class="url https outside" href="https://mastodon.social/@tarsius/105350332415706685">@tarsius@ mastodon.social</a>: Who wants a new theme? Should we redesign the CSS? Do you want the old logo back?</p><p><img alt="https://www.emacswiki.org/pics/EmacsWiki.png" class="url https" loading="lazy" src="https://www.emacswiki.org/pics/EmacsWiki.png" /></p><p>Personally, I dont care enough about the logo and I dont want to spend too much time on CSS fiddling. And you can always switch themes on an individual basis on the <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CSS">CSS</a> page. So I guess Im looking for somebody who both feels strongly about and will take it upon themselves to do what <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BrianBurns">Brian Burns</a> did for us, years ago (<a class="url https outside" href="https://github.com/bburns/emacswiki-light-theme">got repo</a>).</p><p> Alex</p><div class="color one level0"><p> I&#x2019;m OK with whatever&#x2019;s done.</p><p>Personally, I prefer the <a class="inter EmacsWiki outside" href="/emacs?action=browse;id=CSS;theme=;css=/css/emacs.css">Classic CSS</a> theme.</p></div></div><p class="comment"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Comments_on_2020-12-09">Comments on this page</a></p></article><article class="h-entry"><h1 class="p-name"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/2020-11-29">2020-11-29</a></h1><div class="e-content" lang="en"><p>Second day of <a class="url https outside" href="https://emacsconf.org/">Emacs Conf</a>! &#x1F60A;</p></div><p class="comment"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Comments_on_2020-11-29">Comments on this page</a></p></article><article class="h-entry"><h1 class="p-name"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/2020-10-28">2020-10-28</a></h1><div class="e-content" lang="en"><p>As a fun little side project Ive been involved in some Gemini-protocol wiki programming and therefore you can “enjoy” a transmogrified Emacs Wiki via gemini:<i>emacswiki.org with an appropriate Gemini client. There's a Gopher and Gemini client for Emacs called [https:</i>thelambdalab.xyz/elpher/ Elpher] that I like to use.</p><p>No web browser I know of has implemented the Gemini protocol. There are a bunch of other clients that you could use instead. <a class="url https outside" href="https://gemini.circumlunar.space/clients.html">Gemini Clients</a> has a list.</p><p>One would think that eww is better suited for browsing Emacs Wiki via the web, but whenever I visit HTTPS sites using eww, I suffer a two or three second delay.</p><p>Anyway. Give Gemini a try, if youre curious.</p><p> Alex</p><p><a class="image" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Screenshot_for_2020-10-28"><img alt="Screenshot_for_2020-10-28" class="upload" loading="lazy" src="https://www.emacswiki.org/pics/static/Screenshot_for_2020-10-28" /></a></p></div><p class="comment"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Comments_on_2020-10-28">Comments on this page</a></p></article><article class="h-entry"><h1 class="p-name"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/2020-09-05">2020-09-05</a></h1><div class="e-content" lang="en"><p><a class="url https outside" href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">Emacs 27.1</a> was released on August 10, 2020!</p><p>It has a wide variety of new features, including:</p><ul><li>Built-in support for arbitrary-size integers</li><li>Text shaping with <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HarfBuzz">HarfBuzz</a></li><li>Native support for JSON parsing</li><li>Better support for Cairo drawing</li><li>Portable dumping used instead of unexec</li><li>Support for XDG conventions for init files</li><li>Additional early-init initialization file</li><li>Built-in support for tab bar and tab-line</li><li>Support for resizing and rotating of images without <a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ImageMagick">ImageMagick</a></li></ul><p>See the full list of user-visible changes in the <a class="url https outside" href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/news/NEWS.27.1">NEWS</a> file.</p></div><p class="comment"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Comments_on_2020-09-05">Comments on this page</a></p></article><article class="h-entry"><h1 class="p-name"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/2020-07-25">2020-07-25</a></h1><div class="e-content" lang="en"><p>And another problem. I was getting SSL errors every now and then, using Firefox. Calling <code>openssl s_client www.emacswiki.org:443</code> did in fact say that it was expired:</p><pre>depth=0 CN = emacswiki.org
verify error<span class="builtin">:num</span>=10<span class="builtin">:certificate</span> has expired
notAfter=Jul 25 03:49:05 2020 GMT
</pre><p>But my ACME client disagreed:</p><pre>Processing emacswiki.org with alternative names: www.emacswiki.org
+ Hook: Nothing to do...
+ Checking domain name(s) of existing cert... unchanged.
+ Checking expire date of existing cert...
+ Valid till Sep 26 03:48:59 2020 GMT (Longer than 30 days). Skipping renew!
+ Hook: Nothing to do...
</pre><p>Uhhhh&#x2026; What?</p><p>Then I remembered&#x2026; Restarting Apache fixed the issue.</p><p>I still don&#x2019;t get it. I do a <code>service apache2 reload</code> when a new cert is deployed. But somehow that doesn&#x2019;t work. Ill switch to a restart. Hopefully that does it.</p><p>Anyway, I&#x2019;m sorry if this caused you any issues.</p><p> Alex</p></div><p class="comment"><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Comments_on_2020-07-25">Comments on this page</a></p></article></div><p class="more"><a class="more" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs?action=more;num=10;regexp=%5e%5cd%5cd%5cd%5cd-%5cd%5cd-%5cd%5cd;search=;mode=;offset=10;variation=journal" rel="nofollow">More...</a></p><hr /><p><a class="local" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryEmacsWikiSite">CategoryEmacsWikiSite</a></p></div><div class="wrapper close"></div></div><footer><hr /><span class="translation bar"><br /> <a class="translation new" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs?action=translate;id=News;missing=de_es_fr_it_ja_ko_pt_ru_se_uk_zh" rel="nofollow">Add Translation</a></span><div class="edit bar"><a accesskey="c" class="comment local edit" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Comments_on_News">Talk</a> <a accesskey="e" class="edit" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs?action=edit;id=News" rel="nofollow" title="Click to edit this page">Edit this page</a> <a class="history" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs?action=history;id=News" rel="nofollow">View other revisions</a> <a class="admin" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs?action=admin;id=News" rel="nofollow">Administration</a></div><div class="time">Last edited 2019-10-19 17:03 UTC by <span class="ip-code" title="Anonymous"><span class="orange">1</span><span class="blue">4</span><span class="violet">6</span><span class="orange">1</span></span> <a class="diff" href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs?action=browse;diff=2;id=News" rel="nofollow">(diff)</a></div><div style="float:right; margin-left:1ex;">
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