• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jun 18 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jun 25 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jun 26 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Jun 28 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Challenges in rebinding Emacs to "modern" shortcuts (Irreal)
  • I wrote a simple and minimal emacs config for developement (Reddit) - based on Doom Emacs
  • sirjoaogoncalves/ProEmacs: A modern, fast, and beautiful Emacs configuration for developers who want power without the complexity. (Reddit)
  • My Emacs Keyboard bindings (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Automatically converting timestamps in Emacs
  • Emacs lisp as an interface definition language · Aleksandr Petrosyan (@tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Convert UNIX file permission octet (ex: 754) to string (ex: rwxr-xr—)
  • Emacs Reader development livestream, working on multi-threading-no-svg branch
• Appearance:
  • tarsius/minions: A minor-mode menu for the mode line (@m@helvede.net)
  • doom-two-tone-themes: Visual harmony through constraint - 12 carefully crafted themes for Doom Emacs
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: modus-themes version 4.8.0
• Navigation:
  • Listful Andrew: Focused navigation in Markdown
  • Better Grep Defaults for Emacs (04:19)
  • Placing Anchors In Emacs And What eev Is
• Dired:
  • My Emacs Journey (1) - Dired
  • James Dyer: Emacs dired with Ultra-Lightweight Visual Icons (Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • Whiteboard workflow for Org-mode Using Inkscape (Reddit)
  • Showing org mode link at point in echo area
  • Task management with org-roam Vol. 5: Dynamic and fast agenda
  • pivot-table.el: Build org-mode pivot tables
  • [BLOG] #18 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]​] on Wed, May 14, 19:00 UTC+3 - Ihor Radchenko (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
• Completion:
  • A small package to add slash-command to Emacs (Reddit)
  • completion experiment - hotfuzz-with-orderless (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • compile error right from a term in emacs (01:12)
  • Making Emacs lsp-mode work with Rust conditional features (Reddit)
  • Srijan Choudhary: Generating an Emacs TAGS file for an Erlang project
  • magit-emacs-Q-command - runs an uncustomized Emacs with only Magit loaded
  • fj.el (forgejo client) 0.10 update: jump from fork to parent, bugfixes, add server-side sorting/ordering
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Browsing & Searching HackerNews (and Reddit) in Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Paul Jorgensen: My Emacs Elfeed Configuration
• AI:
  • Testers wanted for macher - project-aware multi-file editing with gptel
  • Adventures in babysitting coding agents with Steve Yegge, co-author of Vibe Coding (Changelog & Friends #96) (@dotemacs@mastodon.xyz)
  • goose.el – A minimal Emacs interface to Goose, the open-source AI agent
  • jwiegley/gptel-prompts: Code to make it easier to manage many prompts in GPTel (Reddit)
  • Announcing aider.el 0.12.0, LLM work with flycheck, better magit integration, and better file management.
  • The Emacs Org-Ai Package: Three Key Features #ai #chatgpt #dalle3 (04:38)
  • 022 Ollama Buddy - Prototyping autocompletion #emacs #ollama (00:38)
• Community:
  • Dr. Neckbeard, or how I learned to stop worrying and love Emacs (Irreal)
  • Jeremy Friesen: Emacs: Take Two
  • Jeremy Friesen: Re: The Cult of Hard Mode
  • A programming system · Andrey Listopadov (2023, lobste.rs)
• Other:
  • TIL Info-hide-note-references hides inserted "see" before links in Emacs Info
  • Save the Last Recorded Macro in Emacs to the Registry (03:45)
  • Anand Tamariya: Plan 9 Remote File Access from Emacs (YouTube 1:06)
  • early demo of SVG GUI implemented in Emacs
  • Build emacs on ubuntu · GitHub
  • Step-by-step instructions to build Emacs for Windows 64 bit with MSYS2 and MinGW-w64. Now `native-comp` supported. · GitHub
  • setting up Emacs as an OpenRC service (and installing it on Alpine Linux) (12:19)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • RFC: symbol versions (related to bug#78737)
    • Possible advantages of an LSP server for Emacs Lisp
      • Idea about introducing Emacs Lisp to people using other editors with LSP support
  • world-clock: Add user option to control order of entries
  • calc: Allow strings with character codes above Latin-1
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce support for semantic-linefeed filling.
  • Add 'treesit-sexp-thing' to use instead of 'treesit-sexp-type-regexp'.
  • Add simpler binds for calendar month/year navigation
  • vc-next-action: Leave files unregistered if user aborts the checkin
  • Improve repeat-continue property handling
  • Clean up text properties in 'visual-wrap-prefix-mode'
• New packages:
  • magik-company: Magik backend for company-mode (MELPA)
  • mcp-server-lib: Model Context Protocol server library (MELPA)
  • ordered-set: Insertion-order sets (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!

• Christian Tietze: Emacs Carnival 2025-06: Take Two (EmacsWiki, Reddit, @ctietze@mastodon.social) shared topic for writing
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Jun 10 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #6 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/2aee6b90-4a76-4fb4-93f5-aa503e475ea7 Tue Jun 10 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jun 11 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jun 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jun 13 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/307759219/ Sat Jun 14 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jun 18 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Escola de verán de Enxeñería Sen Fronteiras – Banco de Reciclaxe Electrónica de ESF Galicia - 14 de julio (@raivenra@mastodon.social)
• Beginner:
  • Your first taste of emacs
• Emacs configuration:
  • Repeat Mode, now with hints
  • abougouffa/emacs-vim-file-locals: Set Emacs editor options from Vim modeline (Reddit)
  • Emacs Redux: Little known macOS keybindings
  • My emacs-mac macOS keybindings – Paul Jorgensen (Irreal)
  • casual 2.5.3 - bugfixes (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • lakkiy's Emacs Config
  • Emacs: Mi fichero configuración 2024 – El Blog de Lázaro
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Benchmarking line movement (Reddit)
  • Ep663 emacs lisp coding, html show duplicate links (01:38:36)
• Appearance:
  • TIL emacs-mac can change the color of the cursor based on some themes (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Copy or move files or directories from one dired buffer to another · GitHub (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • When I get lost among the hierarchical headings in Org mode | 止于至善 (@hypersingular@mastodon.social)
  • My Orgmode compatible iOS Shortcuts Meeting Capture Workflow with Beorg – Paul Jorgensen
  • ob-gdb.el – org babel support for interacting with gdb in org-mode · GitHub
• Denote:
  • Transient setup for Denote (Reddit)
• Completion:
  • James Dyer: Building Your Own Orderless Style Completion in Emacs Lisp
• Coding:
  • Tree-sitter powered code completion (Reddit)
  • Emacs HDF5 Viewer Mode with a dired-like interface - hierarchical data format
  • clojure-ts-mode 0.5 (@batsov.net on Bluesky) font-lock custom def-likes, font-locking JS in ClojureScript, tree-sitter completion
  • Emacs Org Mode as the Ansible Control Tower – Tom's IT Cafe (@TomsITCafe@mastodon.social)
• Web:
  • elpher-smart-follow
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mastodon.el 2.0.1 update - minor fixes
  • DarkBuffalo/flarum.el: Paquet emacs pour acceder au forum emacs fr (@DarkBuffalo@mastodon.social)
• Multimedia:
  • uniline - new version drawing package
  • SDL2 and Emacs (Reddit) - see discussion for screenshot
  • Compressing mp4 files while keeping better quality with dwim in Emacs (Irreal)
• AI:
  • On code completions via LLMs | fn.ht
  • Capture Tasks from Emacs to OmniFocus | Greg Newman (@greg@masto.gregnewman.io) - using Claude to generate elisp
  • gptel: Emacs上で動作するシンプルなLLMクライアントがとても便利 | DevelopersIO (@dev_classmethod@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-06-03 / week 22
• Other:
  • How to sort lines of text with Emacs - philnewton.net (2021)
  • Announcing Casual Timezone (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Tracking your finances with Reckon, Ledger and Emacs
  • Personal Finance Management using Ledger CLI
  • Irreal: Why Does Emacs Take So Long To Load
  • my/update-calendar-location-from-corelocationcli – Paul Jorgensen
  • Emacs Lucid vs GTK: Debunking the Lightweight Myth (03:50)
  • How I Fixed Emacs Performance Issues on Raspberry Pi Zero 2
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Benchmarking buffers vs strings for process filters, more discussion, might be good to prefer buffers
  • ; Document recent VC changes regarding file removal
  • Add option for not highlight parens inside comments or strings
  • Add optional inherit argument to 'face-all-attributes' (bug#77945)
  • VC: Deprecate log-incoming and log-outgoing backend functions
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Call out incompatible change in 'date-to-time'.
• New packages:
  • esb: Emacs Simple Bookmark (MELPA)
  • evil-keypad: Modal command dispatch for evil-mode (MELPA)
  • nerd-icons-grep: Add nerd-icons to grep-mode (MELPA)
  • ob-llm: Use `llm' as an Org Babel language (MELPA)
  • scallop-mode: Major mode for editing Scallop programming language (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!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • 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
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jun 11 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jun 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jun 13 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/307759219/ Sat Jun 14 1100 America/Los_Angeles
• Emacs configuration:
  • Tim Heaney: R programming in Emacs - learning more about use-package-expand-minimally
  • jjba23/welkomscherm.el: Simple elegant welcome screen / dashboard for Emacs - Codeberg.org (@jjba23@mastodon.social)
  • jjba23/sss: Supreme Sexp System - SSS v3.1.11: more modularized (@sss_project@mastodon.social)
  • Help wanted: maintaining and hosting the Emacs Configuration Generator (HN)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Converting integers to ISO-8601 timestamps
  • Emacs and Pairs
  • Implementing Löb’s theorem in Emacs Lisp (Reddit, HN)
  • Emacs Package Development: The Emacs Reader (II: Making Overlays Centered and Zoomable) - Dyne.org TV
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: spacious-padding version 0.7.0
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: doric-themes version 0.1.0
• Navigation:
  • Tim Heaney: Go to definition in Emacs
• TRAMP:
  • TRAMP workaround for fido-vertical-mode: setting tramp-completion-use-auth-sources to nil, tweaking connection profiles
• Org Mode:
  • Help wanted: feedback on better multilingual support for Org Mode - all-tex-fonts feature branch, trying to figure out babel font management challenge
  • Benefits of writing textbook in Org Mode: view by unit or by assignment type
  • bcardoso/org-backlinks - added support for arbitrary link types (@cryptk@mastodon.social)
  • laertida/sync-docs.el: An Emacs package to publish org-mode files—including images and attachments—directly to Atlassian Confluence via its REST API. (Reddit)
  • org-ics-import.el - Import iCalendar files to org agenda without external tools (r/orgmode, r/emacs)
  • Meeting `verb.el` —HTTP Requests from within Org mode
  • /home/lucio.albenga.es - How To Create and Publish Your Website With Emacs and Org Mode (@lfa@hostux.social)
  • Building a blogging flow using Emacs and Emacs only (Reddit, @peregrinator@toot.cat)
  • How I take notes in org-roam #emacs (07:23)
  • Irreal: GitHub As A Notebook
• Completion:
  • My GNU Emacs settings for the vertico package (as of mid 2025) (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Setup Emacs for JavaScript Development with LSP (@tiang@mastodon.social)
  • Emacs treesitter lexical analysis of javascript (01:44)
  • glyph-venv.el · GitHub - creating direnv based on naming convention (@glyph@mastodon.social)
  • Emacs eev and common lisp McCLIM (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
  • emacs clkitten parenscript eev kitten of tutorial 2 (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
• Math:
  • Custom Emacs qalc REPL Pop-Up (@lhp@mastodon.social)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Note on SHR fonts for Elfeed etc. (@laotang@mastodon.social)
  • mastodon.el 2.0.1: minor fixes
  • gnus-mast.el - read-only Gnus interface to Mastodon threads (@viz@mastinsaan.in)
• Evil mode:
  • enhanced-evil-paredit.el - Improved Emacs Paredit support with Evil keybindings (Release 1.0.2 of the maintained fork of evil-paredit) (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • [ANN] Uniline, new version
  • Image Viewing Workflow with NSXIV + Emacs Lisp + Dired (07:49)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Adding directories to EMMS playlist from Dired
• AI:
  • gptel-autocomplete: Inline code completion using gptel (HN)
  • eden v1.20: a simple ChatGPT client for Emacs that focuses on conversations
  • Tiny Models, Local Throttles: Exploring My Local AI Dev Setup - nilenso blog (lobste.rs)
  • Making the Prompt Dynamic in Requests to OpenAI Chat Completion API - Emacs Lisp | lesson 08 (08:33)
  • Time To Format Chat Interactions With Markdown Mode - Emacs Lisp | lesson 09 (09:42)
  • Agentic LLM use in Emacs using Model Context Protocol (MCP) (46:55)
• Community:
  • Irreal: A Mansion That Changes Itself To Suit You
  • Sacha Chua: Working on the plumbing in a small web community
• Other:
  • Emacs Redux: Let’s make keyboard-quit smarter (Reddit, Irreal)
  • nfdn: Announcing Casual Timezone (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • divyaranjan/emacs-reader v0.2.7: better scrolling, global dark mode (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Emacs on Android is pretty good (Reddit)
  • TrAPT 1.0 - transient for the apt package manager
  • Matt Maguire: Plain Text Accounting with Emacs – Part 3
  • James Dyer: Bank Buddy - Your Financial Analysis Companion for Emacs!
  • drink-water.el: An Emacs package to remind you of the importance of Hydration (Reddit)
  • bible-gateway: A BibleGateway Client for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Awesome Emacs on macOS (Reddit, lobste.rs, Irreal)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Filtering out process filters - performance notes
    • Help wanted: Re: Feature request: character based scrollbars
  • project-remember-project: Support calling it interactively
  • New user option vc-dir-hide-up-to-date-on-revert
  • Have 'delete-frame' delete initial daemon frame only if FORCE is non-nil
• New packages:
  • beluga-mode: Major mode for Beluga source code (MELPA)
  • bible-gateway: A Simple BibleGateway Client (MELPA)
  • daselt: Module for the Daselt configuration scheme (MELPA)
  • json5-ts-mode: Major mode for JSON5 (MELPA)
  • mcp: Model Context Protocol (MELPA)
  • ob-athena: Run AWS Athena queries from Org Babel (MELPA)
  • polish-holidays: Polish holidays (MELPA)
  • p-search: Emacs Search Tool Aggregator (MELPA)
  • rasi-mode: Major mode for editing RASI configuration files (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!

• 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_05_20_16:16:51 (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, Irreal)
    • 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!

• Emacs 30:
  • Emacs 30.1.90 released: this is Emacs 30.2 pretest #1 (Irreal)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed May 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat May 24 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • 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
• Emacs configuration:
  • Marie K. Ekeberg: Emacs Quick Tip: Disable key bindings with global-unset-key (Irreal)
  • ELPAs list: Cross archive package listing for looking up packages that may or may not be on MELPA (Reddit)
  • Emacs Repeat Commands (09:45)
  • Solving Emacs Garbage Collection Stutters (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Emacs' Transient.el — a bunch of practical examples. - YouTube (57:14, HN)
  • kickingvegas/casual 2.4.3: supports latest Transient breaking change (transient-define-group), update both; occur in re-builder, electric quotes (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • achyudh/evil-keypad: Modal command dispatch that speaks native Emacs keybindings (Reddit)
  • Rapport Emacs - literate config
  • Supreme Sexp System - SSS 2.3.23 (@sss_project@mastodon.social)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Speed up Emacs with features, requires, and autoloads (15:45)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Customization variables which require some computation after being set
  • Corwin Brust: Fork of restclient guarding uses of eval
  • Emacs Package Development: The Emacs Reader (III: Multi-Threading) - 5/18/2025, 5:32:23 PM - Dyne.org TV
  • Ep657 emacs lisp generic map functions (hashtable, asso list, property list), google https censor (01:28:16)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: my new Doric themes (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • The Emacs Cat: Windows Navigation in Emacs (Irreal)
  • TIL subword-mode
  • Gestión de proyectos en Spacemacs | Picando Código
• Dired:
  • James Dyer: The Smallest of Productivity Gains by Instantly Opening Dired Files when isearching (Reddit, Irreal)
• Writing:
  • Groff + Emacs = ☀️ (@bgtdsword@toot.io)
  • gn0/sigh-mode: Emacs minor mode to navigate the buffer sentence-by-sentence and highlight the current sentence
  • mattgemmell/pandoc-novel: Novel export configuration for pandoc (Markdown to ePub and PDF) (@mattgemmell@mastodon.scot)
• Org Mode:
  • Building an Org-mode Workflow: Basic TODOs - Jeff Bradberry (2022)
  • Anyone else use emacs + org-roam for maths notes? (Reddit)
  • Adding Canadian provincial holidays to Org Mode agenda: diary + org-agenda-include-diary
  • A richer Journelly org capture template (r/orgmode, r/emacs, Irreal) - capture location and weather
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Should we allow search options for all links types? (was: [PATCH] lisp/ox.el: Fix export of id links with search string)
  • Formatting Academic Papers in Emacs Orgmode (@kf@sonomu.club, lemmy.ml)
  • Changing the org babel execute function (ex: elixir-ts instead of elixir)
  • A little trick in my literary programming - export with a custom comment linking back to the file
  • @hajovonta@mastodon.online: cfw got org-table import/export functionality
  • Org-roam is not for me (Reddit)
• Denote:
  • Blogging with Sphinx and denote.el — Alex Carney (@alcarney@mastodon.social)
• Completion:
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: - consult-recent-file, consult-org-agenda.
• Coding:
  • TIL which-function-mode shows the current function in modeline
  • Copy and paste tracebacks into emacs with clickable links
  • Ruby: sane sorbet-ls setup in Emacs → Gosha Tcherednitchenko
  • How to insert pairs without fancy packages in Emacs (04:14)
  • Emacs Electric-Pair-Mode (04:59)
  • REPL Driven Development in Python with emacs
  • Starting uv.el – an Emacs frontend package for the uv Python package and project manager
  • (within parens…): Getting into a rabbit's hole and - maybe - getting out: Emacs Make Compile (EMC) (@marcoxa@mastodon.social, Github, Reddit)
  • fj.el fixes: item view, notifications, PR item view
  • New Package: Eljira - An Emacs Interface for Jira (programming.dev)
• Math:
  • applied-science/emacs-vega-view: A mode to facilitate interactive data visualization using Vega from within emacs
• Web:
  • Joar von Arndt: Web browsing in Emacs (Irreal)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • TIL message-dont-reply-to-names
• Doom Emacs:
  • My Literate Doom Emacs Configuration ·
• Fun:
  • Packages related to Magic the Gathering
  • Emacs transpose buffer (Reddit)
• AI:
  • Make Your First Request to OpenAI/ChatGPT From Emacs Lisp | lesson 06 - YouTube (also, course, Reddit discussion)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: LLM text chat is everywhere. Who’s optimizing UX? (Reddit, lobste.rs)
  • Letting LLMs search my bbdb, and compose emails - Lemmy
  • Using gptel tools to let gpt control a turtle for drawing (Reddit)
• Community:
  • emacs.si srečanje maj 2025 (@len@toot.si)
• Other:
  • divyaranjan/emacs-reader 0.2.0 LispIndus - Codeberg.org - beginnings of a fast and smooth document reader (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Emacs weather for wttr.in in modeline.
  • weather-metno, a weather forecast package gets a major overhaul
  • Best keyboard for Emacs? (Irreal)
    • My Emacs Keyboard – Paul Jorgensen - Karbiner Elements on MacOS (Irreal)
  • An FAQ for the Emacs Widget Manifesto · Aleksandr Petrosyan
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Has anyone worked on porting Emacs to run under Plan 9?
  • Prettify and improve hideshow (bug#78234)
  • New pulse functions for pulse faces and new file for ring bell fns
  • New top-level buffer-local value functions
  • Scroll with mouse wheel in calendar (bug#78298)
• New packages:
  • aidev-mode: Minor mode for AI-assisted development (MELPA)
  • cppinsights: Integration with cppinsights tool (MELPA)
  • epx: Manage and run project-specific shell commands (MELPA) (Reddit)
  • org-mem: Fast info from a large number of Org file contents (MELPA)
  • overleaf: Sync and track changes live with overleaf (MELPA)
  • pdd: HTTP library & Async Toolkit (MELPA)
  • sol-mode: Major mode for editing Solidity code (MELPA)
  • too-wide-minibuffer-mode: Shrink minibuffer if the frame is too wide (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 and thanks to tusharhero for some links as well. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #5 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/5302f53d-05cd-437b-b885-80f07d307f31 Tue May 13 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed May 14 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu May 15 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed May 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat May 24 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, May 24, 2025
• Emacs configuration:
  • A few tweaks to Emacs (without elisp) to make it nicer (03:45)
  • Hiding Buffers in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Opening the Emacs Initialization File, or First Impressions Matter (Reddit, Irreal)
  • New Emacs Distribution: Nox Emacs
  • James Dyer: Discovering Treasures in Emacs-solo
  • dotfiles/.spacemacs at main · basteez/dotfiles (@basteez.bsky.social)
  • jjba23/sss: Supreme Sexp System - SSS 2.3.15 (@sss_project@mastodon.social)
  • minimal-emacs.d - init.el and early-init.el with Better Emacs Defaults and Faster Startup (Release: 1.2.1) (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Enhancing Git Diff for Emacs Lisp: Better Git Diff of Elisp function or macro definitions (Reddit, Irreal)
• Appearance:
  • Colourless themes for Emacs
• Navigation:
  • Hoagie's corner of the internet - Emacs: toggle narrowing (Reddit, Irreal)
  • TIL sr-speedbar for navigation (@lhp@mastodon.social)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Emacs' windows navigations and some Emacs zen (Irreal)
    • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: window management, terminology
• TRAMP:
  • Tip: TRAMP supports Gnome online accounts, so you can use it for Nextcloud files
• Org Mode:
  • My Exobrain - This is how I'm keeping my Org-mode files organized (Reddit, @jworthe@fosstodon.org)
  • Consistent Technical Documents Using Emacs and Org Mode Applying Literate Programming to Technical Writing
  • Jack Baty: Set point at first heading when opening Org mode file
  • Org-mode: Select a heading for link with completion, but use ID property for link heading text as default description · GitHub
  • (release) org-include-inline
  • catsup: pomodoro timers, Org (@caranmegil@mastodon.social)
  • On Orgmode and Obsidian: PTPL 151 · Why the Openest of Open Formats Isn’t the One for Me - Ellane W
  • @noctuaminervae is the new Worg maintainer (@bzg@floss.social)
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Adding custom indices for Texinfo export (and maybe unaffiliated dual-value keywords?)
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Accept nil outline path for file+olp+datetree org-capture-templates target
• Completion:
  • Tim Heaney: Magic completions in rust-analyzer
• Coding:
  • Tip: jq-interactive lets you run and edit dynamic searches across the current json buffer (@choffee@mastodon.me.uk)
  • Improving Frappe Developer Experience in Emacs | Ruthra Kumar (33:46)
  • A New Way to Edit Jupyter Python Notebooks in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Coloring Git output in Magit
  • Introducing nix-flakes.el: A Simple Emacs Package for Managing Nix Packages
• Shells:
  • Shell Scripts in Emacs: The Cyber Ghost’s Shortcut to Flow – Tom's IT Cafe (@TomsITCafe@mastodon.social)
  • Tip: sh-execute-region
• Doom Emacs:
  • IT'S ALIVE !! Doom Emacs On Windows (23:12)
• Fun:
  • dynasty-reader.el: Read MANGA comics in Emacs
• AI:
  • Control Emacs with Model Context Protocol (MCP) (04:05, (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-05-06 / week 18
  • Emacs Elements channel is back!
• Other:
  • emacs — Matt Gemmell (@mattgemmell@mastodon.scott)
  • Jeremy Friesen: Migrating to Linux: Getting Emacs Installed (@takeonrules@dice.camp)
  • orgrr update: orgrr-super-compile-sequence (@laotang@mastodon.social)
  • The Emacs widget toolkit | Aleksandr Petrosyan (HN)
  • BSAG » All the editors (@bsag@social.lol)
  • Progress on Emacs Lisp interpreter in Scheme
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: Failure building Emacs master on MSYS2 [MSYS2 PKG]​ - x86_64-pc-cygwin seems to be the future
    • Third-Party url.el replacement or wrapper packages
    • Re: Failure building Emacs master on MSYS2 [MSYS2 PKG]​ - msys supposed to be used only to build tools required to build packages using Autoconf
  • Fall back `eww-switch-to-buffer' to `eww'
  • New vc-async-checkin user option
  • Recenter for the calendar (bug#78205)
  • Derived types (i.e. 'cl-deftype') can now be used as method specializers
  • lisp/register.el (register-read-with-preview-traditional): Use PRED
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Add 'comment-setup-function'.
• New packages:
  • bookmarks-menu: Add a Bookmarks menu to the menu bar (MELPA)
  • cuckoo-search: Content-based search and saved-searches for Elfeed (MELPA)
  • jsonp: Resolve JSON pointers in ELisp objects (MELPA)
  • tomlparse: A straight-foward tree sitter based parser for toml data (MELPA) (Reddit)

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!

• Help wanted:
  • Emacspeak: update to support TCL 9?
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue May 6 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/306966612/ Wed May 7 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Thu May 8 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri May 9 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/307404994/ Sat May 10 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #5 2025 (v #~ivo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/5302f53d-05cd-437b-b885-80f07d307f31 Tue May 13 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed May 14 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu May 15 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Add missing prefix-key descriptions to Which-key
  • Christian Tietze: My Current Compilation Window Display Settings in Emacs via display-buffer-alist
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Emacs window management tweaking
  • My first Elisp code: a package for per-project commands (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs Buffer Local Functions (01:54) - fset-local
  • el-pa parallel multithreading on multicore, Emacs-to-Emacs TCP solution for Elisp (Reddit)
  • Emacs Package Development: The Emacs Reader (II: Making Overlays Centered and Zoomable) - 5/4/2025, 5:34:51 PM - Dyne.org TV
  • Ep651 emacs lisp coding, text processing (57:21)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs zoom!
  • Emacs Themes Gallery for your Daily Procrastination Needs
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 1.10.0
  • Creamy Emacs (@mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe)
• Navigation:
  • Automatically Create Parent Directories on Visiting a New File in Emacs - Iqbal Ansari
• Dired:
  • Rahul Juliato: Improving Dired in Emacs Solo: Git Status and File Icons (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • 1000 words: Warn if you use any word that is not in one of the 1000 or 2000 words in Brown corpus; helps with writing prose in simple English
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] file+olp+datetree accepting function to select target file
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Accept nil outline path for file+olp+datetree org-capture-templates target
  • TIL: using C-c C-x C-d in #emacs #orgmode shows the clock in column view
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Tip for using ox-clip to copy formatted text in Org Mode
    • federicotdn/verb: HTTP client for Emacs (lobste.rs)
    • Generate Beamer Slides From Org Mode
    • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: org-mode, dired, and journelly
    • kanban.el 0.2.5: special handling for links within the file: do not add the file as prefix (@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social)
    • Charles Choi: Announcing Scrim - An Org Protocol Proxy for Emacs on macOS (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Org development:
    • Merge branch 'km/from-emacs-master'
    • Backport commit 702cb123f from Emacs
    • ox-html: Always wrap exported src block with <code> tag
• Coding:
  • How do you run common development tasks (tests, checks, migrations, environment…)? - includes snippet for use with .dir-locals.el
  • Meta Redux: CIDER 1.18 ("Athens")
  • devcontainer.el - Adding support for Visual Studio Code-compatible devcontainers (https://containers.dev/) to Emacs (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Improving my Emacs-Jira integration
• Web:
  • emacs-websearch: duckduckgo is now supported (Reddit, Irreal)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • twtxt.el 1.0: stable and final version
• Doom Emacs:
  • Slackware-15.0: Doom Emacs Install (v02) (22:19)
• AI:
  • Augmentation / Replacement | olano.dev
  • Emacs in the Golden Age of LLMs
  • Peter Povinec: Towards Auto-Generated ERT Unit Tests
  • James Dyer: Ollama-Buddy 0.9.38: Unload Models, Hide AI Reasoning, and Clearly View Modified Parameters on each request
• Community:
  • Are there any non-programmers who use Emacs? (Irreal)
  • Detecting Emacs Package Synergy - Crafter Hours (02:20:58)
• Other:
  • 25 Useful Tips for Emacs (for beginners and advanced users) (@revrari@mastodon.social)
  • oantolin/scimago: Download Scimago data, look it up in Emacs with completion (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
  • View Disk Partition in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Intstalling Emacs with systemd-sysext - Alex Carney (@alcarney@mastodon.social)
  • Tanimoto, Steven L. Challenges for Livecoding via Acoustic Pianos Proceedings 2017, (ICLC 2017, Morelia, Mexico.) (@frescosecco@mastodon.social)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: master 6b11687555c: New user option native-comp-async-on-battery-pow
    • Re: Enabling native-comp when frequently rebuilding master on a laptop - issues with recompiling
  • Add line-column tracking for tree-sitter
  • New user option native-comp-async-on-battery-power
  • New this-command buffer display action alist entry
  • Allow selecting what to copy when installing a local package
  • Fix custom type of 'flymake-show-diagnostics-at-end-of-line'
  • New log-edit-maybe-show-diff option for log-edit-hook
• New packages:
  • gptel-magit: Generate commit messages for magit using gptel (MELPA)
  • jupyter-ascending: Edit Jupyter Notebooks in plain text (MELPA)
  • weather-scout: Display weather forecast from MET Norway (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!