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2026-03-09 Emacs news

Mar 9, 2026| emacs, emacs-news

If you use kubernetes-el, don't update for now, and you might want to check your installation if you updated it recently. The repo was compromised a few days ago.

I've occasionally wanted to tangle a single Org Mode source block to multiple places, so I'm glad to hear that ob-tangle has just added support for multiple targets. Niche, but could be handy. I'm also curious about using clime to write command-line tools in Emacs Lisp that handle argument parsing and all the usual stuff.

If you're looking for something to write about, why not try this month's Emacs Carnival theme of mistakes and misconceptions?

Enjoy!

Security:
- First (?) hacked Emacs package: kubernetes-el (Reddit)
Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Mar 10 1900 Europe/Berlin
- OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Mar 11 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs - Protesilaos Stavrou - FLOSS@Oxford https://ox.ogeer.org/event/computing-in-freedom-with-gnu-emacs-protesilaos-stavrou Thu Mar 12 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Mar 13 0200 Asia/Singapore
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Mar 13 1800 Europe/Paris
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Mar 18 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 19 0000 Asia/Singapore
Beginner:
- Emacs: Buffers, Frames, and Windows, A Brief Introduction « Here's The Beef (@BeefGriller@dice.camp)
Emacs configuration:
- Elpaca Version 0.1.0 (Reddit) accepts use-package :vc keyword
- Sacha Chua: Emacs Lisp: defvar-keymap hints for which-key
- Re-imagining the Emacs user experience with Casual Suite (Reddit, Irreal)
  - Charles Choi: Casual now available on NonGNU ELPA (Irreal)
- Two Years of Emacs Solo: 35 Modules, Zero External Packages, and a Full Refactor (Reddit)
Emacs Lisp:
- cosmicz/clime: Build real CLI tools in pure Emacs Lisp. Declare commands, options, and args in a single form — clime handles parsing, –help, error messages, and dispatch. ./myapp.el just works. · GitHub (Reddit)
- Async link fetching in Emacs
- Progress (GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual) (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
- Emacs Internal #02: Data First — Deconstructing Lisp_Object in C | The Cloudlet (HN)
- [19] Working on Canvas API Patch - 3/8/2026, 2:28:14 PM - Dyne.org TV
- [19] Working on Canvas API Patch - 3/8/2026, 3:49:58 PM - Dyne.org TV
Appearance:
- Emacs Redux: Customizing Font-Lock in the Age of Tree-sitter
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: four new themes are coming to the ‘doric-themes’
Navigation:
- My first meaningful hack of Emacs (proper isearch) - search with recenter after threshold
- Emacs Redux: expreg: Expand Region, Reborn (Reddit, Irreal)
- Emacs Redux: Transpose All The Things (Irreal)
Dired:
- Chris Maiorana: The Emacs Way: Copying Files
Writing:
- Wai Hon: Introducing markdown-indent-mode (Reddit)
Org Mode:
- Curtis McHale: Stop Mixing DONE and TODO in Org — Auto-Sort Like a Pro (YouTube 05:15)
- a niche emacs productivity system (28:31)
- Irreal: Abrams On Literate Programming Redux
- We Should Revisit Literate Programming in the Agent Era | silly business (lobste.rs)
- TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Display images with Org-attach and org-insert-link quickly and effectively
- Latex preview on Emacs tty
- Toward the Org Mode future: distributed notebooks (Reddit)
- Jeremias-A-Queiroz/chrono-org: extract logbooks for sleek, Clockify-style web visualizations using Chart.js and org-publish (Reddit)
- naiquevin/clockwise: visualize time records from org clock entries (@naiquevin@fosstodon.org)
- (update) org-supertag 5.8 & 5.8.1 - Board, Graph UI & Relation Index Optimization
- Remember to set org-latx-hyperref-template to nil if you're writing an anonymous referee report
- lazyblorg updates: tag feeds, random articles on this day, list of external URLs (@publicvoit@graz.social)
- Thanos Apollo: Gnosis: Design Mistakes Roam-inspired note-taking system, 0.8.0 release notes
- Org development: ob-tangle.el: Support tangling a source block to multiple targets
Completion:
- gggion/let-completion.el: Let-binding values in Elisp completion · GitHub (Reddit)
- Sacha Chua: Expanding yasnippets by voice in Emacs and other applications
Coding:
- Emacs Redux: Mastering Compilation Mode
- Tip on using built-in vc-mode with C-x v (useful: C-x v d, C-x v v, C-x v L)
- James Cherti: pathaction.el: execute pathaction rules, the universal Makefile for the entire filesystem (Github)
- gcv/julia-snail: An Emacs development environment for Julia · GitHub
- [EMACS LAB #2] Do zero a uma IDE para programar em C (parte 2) (01:17:59)
- Marcin Borkowski: Lispy and Iedit
- Meta Redux: What’s Next for clojure-mode?
- The Emacs Cat: Emacs, Software Development, and LLM
Math:
- Why did I create ESR (my thoughts on ESS) | Teoten's blog (@teoten@social.linux.pizza)
Evil mode:
- Sid Kasivajhula: On “Tempo” in Text Editing - normal Emacs commands in insert mode (Reddit)
Fun:
- Launching Brogue from Emacs via transient
AI:
- Bozhidar Batsov: Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
- simple LLM text and images meets org-mode
- Claude Code + Org Mode + Git + Hooks
- Transformei meu segundo cérebro em uma IA em 4 minutos (08:43) - with org-roam
- Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 13: agent-shell charting (YouTube 28:11, Reddit)
- James Dyer: Ollama Buddy - Web Search Integration (YouTube 02:12)
Community:
- My Emacs Misconceptions — Where Are The Wise Men? (@mikehoss@appdot.net)
- Protesilaos Stavrou: I talk with Joshua Blais about Emacs and life issues
- Org Social social network summary, 2.11 update with bugfixes
- Org Social - Reading (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
Other:
- koreader json to org: convert KOReader JSON highlights to Org mode, also here (@srijan@indieweb.social)
- For Mac users: pbcopy.el spawns two subprocesses on every C-y - suggests alternate implementation
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
  - notes on CEDET and EDE
  - Re: Sending `quit` to a batch Emacs process - Eli Zaretskii Thinking about how to interrupt batch processes
- New user option and function 'recentf-exclude-ignored-extensions'
- New user option vc-display-failed-async-commands
- Make 'frame-use-time' more reliable. (bug#80397)
- Rename 'any' to 'member-if' and deprecate 'cl-member-if'
- New command 'unfill-paragraph'
- Revert "Rename 'any' to 'member-if' and deprecate 'cl-member-if'"
- Add mirroring for special glyphs (bug#80440)
- Rename 'any' to 'member-if' and deprecate 'cl-member-if'
- Make tree-sitter thing navigation handle nested parsers
New packages:
- emacs-lisp-intro-es: ELisp intro manual in Spanish (GNU ELPA)
- hackernews-modern: Hacker News client with modern widget UI (MELPA)
- helm-eca: Helm UI for ECA chats/workspaces (MELPA)
- let-completion: Show let-binding values in Elisp completion (MELPA)
- magit-browse-commit: Browse pull/merge requests from magit-blame (MELPA)
- markdown-indent-mode: Dynamic indentation for Markdown (MELPA)
- mathprog-ts-mode: Major mode for the GNU MathProg modeling language (MELPA)
- md-ts-mode: Major mode for Markdown using tree-sitter (MELPA)
- mutype: Type into stillness (MELPA)
- org-eval: Execute named org-mode blocks on load/save (MELPA)
- php-fill: Additional fill commands for PHP code editing (GNU ELPA)
- rtf-view: View Rich Text Format files (MELPA)
- solo-rpg: Solo roleplaying games support functions (MELPA)
- yomikata: Annotates Japanese text with reading tooltips (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, 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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2026-03-02 Emacs news

Mar 2, 2026| emacs, emacs-news

Hello folks! Last month's Emacs Carnival about completion had 17 posts (nice!), and Philip Kaludercic is hosting this month's Emacs Carnival: Mistakes and Misconceptions. Looking forward to reading your thoughts!

Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #3 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/3147760f-1a8b-4996-9b3c-2773d7d360ca Mon Mar 2 1900 CET
- Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Thu Mar 5 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Mar 6 0030 Asia/Singapore
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/313161406/ Thu Mar 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Mar 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Mar 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Mar 7 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Mar 10 1900 Europe/Berlin
- OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Mar 11 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs - Protesilaos Stavrou - FLOSS@Oxford https://ox.ogeer.org/event/computing-in-freedom-with-gnu-emacs-protesilaos-stavrou Thu Mar 12 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Mar 13 0200 Asia/Singapore
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Mar 13 1800 Europe/Paris
Beginner:
- Emacs: (My) First Steps « Here's The Beef (@BeefGriller@dice.camp)
- Emacs is Installed! Try These 3 Ways to Start It Now (Zero Init! | CLI Hacks) (2) - [7-ish minutes] (07:11)
- Emacs Is Installed! Your User Directory Explained (.emacs.d Deep Dive) (3) - [5:36] (05:36)
- Emacs Is Installed! How Can I Create A Shortcut That Just Starts This Baby up? (5) - [10:12] (10:12)
Emacs Lisp:
- truename-cache: Efficiently de-dup file-names (Reddit)
- andros/async-http-queue-fetch-urls-el - Lightweight, parallel HTTP fetching library for #emacs using url-retrieve (native) with configurable concurrency limits (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
- [09] Emacs Reader's Development: Working on Text Selection and Highlighting - 8/10/2025, 3:03:09 PM - Dyne.org TV (@reeltubes@mstdn.party)
Appearance:
- Emacs Redux: Soft Wrapping Done Right with visual-wrap-prefix-mode
Navigation:
- Elegant implementation of other-window-mru
- Emacs Redux: Preview Regex Replacements as Diffs
TRAMP:
- Christian Tietze: Media Transfer Protocol Tools
Writing:
- Sacha Chua: Using speech recognition for on-the-fly translations in Emacs and faking in-buffer completion for the results
Denote:
- Cycle through Denote journal entries, trash empties (@zyd@yap.zyd.lol)
Org Mode:
- Dave's blog: Calculating RAGBRAI training actual vs. planned mileage (@davemq@fosstodon.org)
- Prettifying org-agenda (Reddit)
- Elsa Gonsiorowski: Emacs Carnival: Org Mode Completions
- Sacha Chua: Sorting completion candidates, such as sorting Org headings by level
- org-repeat-by-cron.el v1.1.2 released - compatibility with built-in repeaters and habits, deadline recurrence
- Exporting org-roam notes to Hugo and Quartz
- colonelpanic8/org-window-habit - A more flexible habit system (Reddit)
- lordnik22/org-link-battery: It's the missing battery using bookmark+ adding jump-to- and completion-candidates to org (Reddit)
- pjones/org-inline-image-mode: Update displayed images as an org-mode buffer changes. (@devalot@hostux.social)
- skx/org-people: Contact management for org-mode
- lordnik22/org-link-battery: using bookmark+ adding jump-to- and completion-candidates to org (Reddit)
- schrenker/org-agecrypt: Encrypt org entries with age - Codeberg.org (Reddit)
- Thanos Apollo: Gnosis 0.7.0 Release Notes - knowledge management system
- Migrating website to orgmode - roosnaflak.com (@kf@sonomu.club)
- TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: I think I found what crashed my Emacs on macOS
- Org development:
Completion:
- Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival Feb 2026 wrap-up: Completion
- Eric MacAdie: Emacs Carnival: Completion
- Sacha Chua: Emacs completion and handling accented characters with orderless
- Using Pinyin initials with orderless in Emacs (@SouthFox@foxsay.southfox.me)
- A Year Without Vertico - System Crafters Live! (01:14:56)
Coding:
- Moving to Structural Diffs | Trying out Difftastic (01:29:57, @abcdw@fosstodon.org)
- Keybinding for easily comparing with upstream in Magit
- Emacs Redux: So Many Ways to Work with Comments (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
- [EMACS LAB #1] Do zero a uma IDE para programar em C (parte 1) (01:00:27)
- yaml-language-server added CRD auto-detection (Reddit)
- calsys456/lisp-semantic-hl.el: Semantic Syntax Highlighting for Common Lisp & Elisp (Reddit)
- Bozhidar Batsov: Setting up Emacs for OCaml Development: Neocaml Edition (Github, HN)
- I'm amazed by how good emacs is for game development (Irreal)
- overcast-software/glnt-ts-mode: emacs lsp-glint (Reddit)
- Bozhidar Batsov: Building Emacs Major Modes with TreeSitter: Lessons Learned (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
- LuciusChen/clutch: MySQL, PostgreSQL & SQLite; paginated result browser, record view, inline editing, schema browser, and REPL. (Reddit, @Lucius_Chen)
Math:
- symbol-cruncher: Computer algebra system for computations in differential geometry, built on top of GNU Maxima and maxima-interface.
Shells:
- cashmeredev/kitty-graphics.el: Display images in terminal Emacs (emacs -nw) via the Kitty graphics protocol. (Reddit)
- Eschewing Zshell for Emacs Shell (2014, HN)
Mail, news, and chat:
- andros/hackernews-modern-el (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
- martianh/mastodon.el 2.0.9, quote system, optional desktop notifications (@mousebot@todon.nl)
Multimedia:
- noa ks: Engraving sheet music with lilypond
AI:
- Joar von Arndt: Vibe-coding Brings the Power of Emacs to Everything
- Christian Tietze: Emacs Complete: Feedback Loops in Emacs, Feedback Loops in Computing
- Org Mode requests: [RFC] Pros and cons of using LLM for patches beyond simple copyright (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
- Org mode, agentic coding and ekg - YouTube
- Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 12: agent-shell + Claude Skills (YouTube 26:02, @xenodium@indieweb.social, Reddit)
- How I use agents in emacs: agent-shell + persp-mode + git worktrees (Reddit, Doom Emacs config)
- 037 Ollama Buddy - In-Buffer responses with in-line inspection #emacs #ollama (01:28)
- James Dyer: Ollama Buddy v2.5 - RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Support
- copilot.el 0.4 is out with many improvements! proper LSP, select model, balance parentheses (Reddit)
Community:
- Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-02-24 / week 08
- Who remembers XEmacs?
- Common Desktop Environment experience (XEmacs, Unix) in your browser (Reddit, Reddit, Irreal)
- Eric MacAdie: 2026-01 Austin Emacs Meetup
- Emacs Carnival March 2026: Mistakes and Misconceptions
- Goodbye #emacs #emacsnews (01:09) Emacs Elements
Other:
- Emacs Internal #01: is a Lisp Runtime in C, Not an Editor | The Cloudlet (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
- rossabaker/iec-mode-line.el: display buffer size in IEC units in the mode line (@rossabaker.com, @ross@social.rossabaker.com)
- GitHub - srs.el: Spaced repetition system for emacs. (BETA) (Reddit)
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel: Some notes on EIEIO vs cl-defstruct
- Teach Emacs on MS-Windows how to export frame screenshots
- New variable 'multiple-terminals-merge-keyboards'
- Allow more fine configuration of package retention
- Add option to keep previous package versions on upgrade
- New function multiple-command-partition-arguments
- Compare circular lists in 'equal' without error (bug#80456)
New packages:
- citar-typst: Typst support for citar (MELPA)
- conflict-buttons: Clickable buttons for smerge-mode conflicts (MELPA)
- d2-ts-mode: Tree-sitter support for D2 (MELPA)
- dorgygen: Source code documentation in org-mode (MELPA)
- elfeed-ai: AI-powered article summarization for elfeed (MELPA)
- lisp-chat: Emacs client for Lisp Chat (MELPA)
- lit-ts-mode: Lit-aware JS/TS modes with tree-sitter support (MELPA)
- org-people: Work with a contact-list in org-mode files (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, 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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2026-02-23 Emacs news

Feb 23, 2026| emacs, emacs-news

[2026-02-23 Mon]: Added m-x.app examples, moved el-init to AI category, added retrospective link.

Org Mode is a big part of why I enjoy Emacs, so I'm delighted that there's a new release out (Org 9.8). Thanks to all who contributed! If you would like to help out, Ihor is looking for several volunteers who can try to reproduce bugs and do initial feedback on the new patches.

Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/313006896/ Tue Feb 24 1800 Europe/London
- Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Feb 25 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 26 0130 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Feb 28 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #3 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/3147760f-1a8b-4996-9b3c-2773d7d360ca Mon Mar 2 1900 CET
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/313161406/ Thu Mar 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Mar 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Mar 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Mar 7 0000 Asia/Singapore
Beginner:
- A noob friendly start (Reddit)
Emacs configuration:
- Irreal: Let’s Play How Big Is Your Emacs Config?
- sstraust/shannonmax: maximize your keybinding efficiency in emacs! (HN)
Emacs Lisp:
Appearance:
- Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 11: winpulse (YouTube 08:46, Irreal)
Navigation:
- Magnus: Switching to project.el
Dired:
- emacs-dired filepicker for qutebrowser
Writing:
- Chai (拆) — an Emacs package for destructive reading
- How I Use Emacs to Take Notes (11:22)
- adoc-mode 0.8 is out with many new features - AsciiDoc
- bbatsov/asciidoc-mode: A modern Emacs major mode for editing AsciiDoc files, powered by TreeSitter (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io) - leaner alternative
Org Mode:
Coding:
- Forgejo, AGit, and Pull Request Templates (@lobsters@mastodon.social)
- andros/conflict-buttons.el - conflict-buttons.el - Andros's repositories (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
- eglot-multi-preset: Per-project language server presets for Eglot
- Meta Redux: Flycheck 36 (Reddit, Irreal) - also includes org-lint; security update for CVE in emacs-lisp checker
- Magnus: Using advice to limit lsp-ui-doc nuisance
- ablatedsprocket/emacs-dotnet - transient menu around the dotnet CLI (@ablatedsprocket@hachyderm.io)
- Clojure - State of Clojure 2025 Results (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io) - Emacs still dev tool of choice despite strong competition
- Release v5.21.0 · clojure-emacs/clojure-mode · GitHub (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
- Building RDE against latest Guix on CI (01:34:22)
- Maryanne Wachter: Six Months of C
Mail, news, and chat:
- Tip to help remember to wide reply on mailing lists in Gnus
Evil mode:
- D.V.F.P.: Vim… beyond Vim - mentions Evil Mode
Multimedia:
Fun:
- MonadicSheep/stk-code: Fork of STK (SuperTuxKart) with Emacs port (powered by Pale). Requires Canvas API (Reddit)
AI:
Community:
- How peeking at screens shaped my Emacs - typester.dev (@typester@pdx.social)
- Prot Asks: Ro about programmatic thinking, political discourse, and art as self-discovery (02:53:42)
Other:
Emacs development:
New packages:
- asciidoc-mode: Major mode for AsciiDoc markup (MELPA)
- consult-gumshoe: Consult integration for gumshoe (MELPA)
- edit-metadata: Edit embedded metadata (MELPA)
- elfeed-summarize: Add LLM-powered inline summaries to elfeed (MELPA)
- eselect-news: Read Gentoo eselect news (MELPA)
- evil-emacs-cursor-model-mode: Emacs' cursor model in evil-mode (NonGNU ELPA)
- kawacode: Kawa Code collaboration package (MELPA)
- lisp-semantic-hl: Semantic Syntax Highlighting for Lisp Languages (MELPA)
- magnus: Manage multiple Claude Code instances (MELPA)
- mark-graf: Modern WYSIWYG-style markdown editing (MELPA)
- ob-gleam: Org Babel functions for Gleam (MELPA)
- org-tempus: Enhance Org time tracking (MELPA)
- persp-gumshoe: Perspective support for gumshoe (MELPA)
- truename-cache: Efficiently de-dup file-names (MELPA)
- winpulse: Momentary window background flash animation (MELPA)

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2026-02-16 Emacs news

Feb 16, 2026| emacs, emacs-news

Lots of cool stuff this week! I'm looking forward to checking out the new futur library for async programming, and the developments around embedding graphics in a canvas in Emacs look interesting too (see the Multimedia section). Also, the discussion about making beginner configuration easier could be neat once the wrinkles are ironed out. Enjoy!