• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/311781816/ Tue Nov 18 1800 Europe/London
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Nov 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 20 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • FSF Hackathon https://www.fsf.org/events/fsf40-hackathon-1 Fri Nov 21 0700 America/Vancouver - 0900 America/Chicago - 1000 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1600 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Nov 22 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Formation fondamentale (2 jours) - Paris, in-person https://emacsboost.com/ - lundi 24 au mardi 25 novembre 2025
  • Formation avancée (2 jours) - Paris, in-person https://emacsboost.com/ - lundi 27 au mardi 28 novembre 2025
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Nov 26 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 27 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsConf will be in less than month!
• Beginner:
  • GNU Emacs do Zero - Episódio 02 (19:18)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Configure Emacs to accept short answers (Irreal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • marcoxa/magiciel: Emacs Lisp implementation of UN*X magic(5) and file(1) handling. (@marcoxa@mastodon.social)
  • Creating an Emacs Package from Concept to MELPA (Part 1) (55:56) - rare-words.el
  • Ep712 Emacs Lisp, Move File to Parent Dir. car cdr cons, Supreme Functional Programing No Variable (01:11:25)
• Appearance:
  • Workaround to get whitespace-mode to highlight long lines with overlays
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: new Doric themes ‘doric-siren’ and ‘doric-mermaid’
• Navigation:
  • Tip about using ff-find-other-file to jump to related files
  • Irreal: Setting avy-timeout-seconds To A More Reasonable Value
• Writing:
  • Paul Jorgensen: Emacs spell check in Windows 11 & MacOS
  • Ancient Greek Tweaks in Emacs (05:01)
• Org Mode:
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Handling project in Emacs - the 2025 version (Irreal)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Showing size of Org mode subtrees
  • TAONAW: org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift (Irreal)
  • Emacs carnival: Ode to org Babel (@ericsfraga@fediscience.org)
  • How to disable GNOME notifications during org-pomodoro focus sessions
  • (Update) org-supertag: Fixes Database Corruption & Improves Node View UX
  • turning Org Social posts into RSS feeds
  • Org development: ol-bbdb: Pre-populate the description for BBDB links
• Completion:
  • Crafting Your Own Snippets with Emacs Built-In Abbrev Mode (Reddit)
  • New releases of Consult, Vertico, Corfu and more
  • vertico-timer, my opinionated approach to vertico-indexed and candidate selection (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • IDEmacs: aimed at Common Lisp and Scheme programmers, similar to Portacle or Guile Studio. (HN)
  • Simple Rust Guix Emacs development environment (Reddit)
  • eglot-header-line.el: Show language server protocol breadcrumb information in the Emacs header-line using Eglot.
  • Tip about changing magit-list-refs-sortby to sort by commit date
• Shells:
  • Open Emacs Eshell in the Current Directory (@tiang@mastodon.social)
  • Pipe to Emacs buffer | Dave’s Blog (@davemq@fosstodon.org)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Tip about setting notmuch-search-oldest-first to nil
  • Release v0.17 · alphapapa/ement.el (Matrix client for Emacs) (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Want a WhatsApp Emacs client? Will you fund it?
• Fun:
  • amadaluzia/theo.el: Theo de Raadt lives inside your Emacs and he is pissed about it.
• AI:
  • Release copilot.el v0.3.0 · small improvements (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • Stupid LLM Tricks: LLM-powered yes-or-no interpretation (Reddit)
  • Emacs lisp and gptel building custom llm tools to call emacs functions (01:15:38)
  • AI Augmented, Language Agnostic, SWE Workflow, in Emacs (37:03)
• Community:
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Burst-driven Development: My Approach to OSS Projects Maintenance
  • Thoughts on Funding Free Software Development (Reddit)
  • emacs.social is down. Is it time for… Org Social? (Reddit)
• Other:
  • Knockknock - Unobtrusive notifications for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Add a fuzzy clock to your modeline (Reddit)
  • Readonly Characters Are a Big Deal (lobste.rs)
  • ZeniesQis/screenshot-capture: An Emacs package to do Screen capture and Screenshots using ffmpeg, image-magick and scrot. (@Zenie@piaille.fr)
  • New package: dag-draw.el (draw DAGs in ASCII, SVG, DOT) on melpa (Reddit)
  • Easy Setup for Drew Adams' Essential Emacs Packages on Emacswiki - YouTube
  • A huge increase in windows EMACS startup speed
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • [PATCH 0/2] Proper XOAUTH2 support for smtpmail (Gnus pending) - Arsen Arsenović
    • Re: MS Windows menu lifecycle - Eli Zaretskii some notes on how menus are handled on Windows
  • New hideshow option 'hs-cycle-filter' for visibility-cycling with 'TAB'
  • Improve foldout-exit-fold with negative arg (bug#77370)
  • ; * etc/NEWS (Ibuffer): Announce new faces. (Bug#79786)
  • VC revert commands: Facilities to entirely delete revisions
  • Revised bindings for diff-revert-and-kill-hunk
• New packages:
  • cabal-mode: Support for Cabal packages (MELPA)
  • gptel-agent: Agentic LLM use for gptel (MELPA)
  • org-tag-tree: Define Org-mode tag hierarchies from Org subtrees (MELPA)
  • trailing-newline-indicator: Show an indicator for the trailing newline (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!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Nov 12 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 13 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Nov 14 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/311801687/ Sat Nov 15 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/311781816/ Tue Nov 18 1800 Europe/London
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Nov 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 20 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Nov 22 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Formation fondamentale (2 jours) - Paris, in-person https://emacsboost.com/ - lundi 24 au mardi 25 novembre 2025
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs For Writers Unit 9: Installing Packages (06:43)
  • Hacking on Emacs #4 (38:06) - Making sure window configuration stays the same after finishing Magit commit (when using `current-window-only`)
  • Paul Jorgensen: OS Abstraction with Emacs
  • emacs literate org mode config for your init.el (59:54)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Prototyping a Toolbar UI for Edebug (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Listful Andrew: Every emoji in one hash table: playing with Emacs' ucs‑names
  • Kisaragi Hiu: Is it faster to (read) Elisp or parse JSON from Emacs?
  • Xah Talk Show Ep710 Emacs Lisp Coding, lookup grokipedia, goto line in next pane (47:45)
• Appearance:
  • no-distraction.el - my attempt to reduce visual noise in code using tree-sitter (Reddit)
  • Impress other writers with productive transparency (slightly hacky but works for me) (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: modus-themes version 5.1.0
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 2.0.0
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ‘standard-themes’ version 3.0.0
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: complete examples for Modus themes derivatives
  • Magnus: Making a theme based on modus
  • tusharhero: ANN: Modus Gotham is here
• Navigation:
  • Ruslan Bekenev: Emacs: find-file-at-point trick (Irreal)
  • buffer-restore.el - Save and Restore Emacs Window Layouts with Named Sessions (03:49)
  • Emacs Perspective Topics | Zenie’s Qis (@Zenie@piaille.fr)
• Dired:
  • Emacs dired video thumbnails with ffmpegthumbnailer (42:23)
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs For Writers Unit 7: Advanced Text Markup in Org Mode (08:19)
  • Sidebar for Emacs Org Mode (Reddit)
  • Brainiac v1.1 released (Reddit) - minimal GTD workflows, notes, and task management using Org Mode
  • Arch Install for Doom Emacs in org mode…
  • tel: custom link type
  • name: custom link type for defining HTML anchors
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] How do you use org-export-with-entities? (was: question: protect latex macros for export)
  • Listful Andrew: Org tables in comments and docstrings: in Emacs Lisp and Bash (Irreal)
  • Markdown to Org | Zenie’s Qis (@Zenie@piaille.fr)
  • alvarmaciel/org-screenshot-grim: Take screenshots in org-mode using grim (Wayland)
  • org-social.el 2.5: poll improvements, infinite scroll pagination, random order, etc. (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Completion:
  • Emacs Grid Select | Zenie’s Qis (@Zenie@piaille.fr)
• Coding:
  • Release CIDER 1.20 ("Lanzarote") - small improvements (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io) - Clojure
  • Eglot, Ruby LSP and StandardRB
  • Emacs eglot and language servers for auto completion (25:08)
  • snakemacs: an emacs30 setup for Python and Jupyter with pixi (Reddit)
  • Emacs Indigo: bindings for the Indigo cheminformatics library (Reddit)
  • Effective Golang in Emacs (34:18, Reddit, @skybert@hachyderm.io)
  • home/.config/emacs/recipes/go-rcp.el at master · Crandel/home · GitHub (@crandel@fosstodon.org)
  • Swift development - a complete package for building iOS/macOS apps using Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • George Huebner: disaster.el + zig cc = Budget godbolt
  • gfm-alerts.el: Syntax highlighting for quote blocks that become alerts on GitHub (Reddit)
  • Tip: Customize magit-margin-settings to show more info in the magit margins
• Web:
  • Tip about browse-url-at-point, global-goto-address-mode
• Multimedia:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 5: Ready Player Mode (YouTube, Irreal)
  • How to set up emacs as an SVG editor - Monospace Games (2023)
• Fun:
  • Marcin Borkowski: ASCII art timeline diagrams
  • Meanwhile on Emacs life… - YouTube
• AI:
  • Auggie supports ACP–now available in Zed, Neovim, and Emacs - Augment Code
  • Agent Shell 0.17 Improvements (now shipping on MELPA) (Reddit)
  • gptel-magitのコミットメッセージを日本語にする #Emacs - Qiita (@ohtsuka@fedibird.com)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-11-04 / week 44
  • emacs.social shutting down soon
  • Por qué elegí Emacs como mi editor avanzado (1ª Parte) (@maxxcan@mastodon.social)
  • The Emacs for everything obsession (Irreal)
• Other:
  • How I am Deeply Integrating Emacs (YouTube 19:53, Reddit, lots of discussion on HN, lobste.rs)
  • A bunch of small tools to enhance the built-in help-mode (Reddit)
  • Why I Use Emacs for Ontologies (and How to Memorize a HUGE Knowledge Graph) [AMA #1]​ (19:30)
  • Eldoc-mouse demo for emacs lisp (00:18)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: emacs-30 a71ba898db8: ; Update the MinGW URLs in w32 FAQ and nt/INSTALL - Eli Zaretskii challenges of mingw environment setup
    • Inhibiting frame parameter changes - martin rudalics
    • Re: An idea for modifying the strategy for determining positions in byte compile warning/error messages - Stefan Monnier
      • also considering various macros that are frequently used
    • Re: Extending seq.el with splice functionality - Eli Zaretskii - expanding/splitting seq.el?
  • Zone multi-window and -frame support
  • ; * etc/NEWS (hs-hide-block-behavior): Explain the replacements.
  • (diff-refine-threshold): New custom var (bug#79546)
  • Don't discard empty string arguments from emacsclient
  • Unify constants that are equal-including-properties in compiler
  • Add option to auto-refresh the lossage buffer. (Bug#79732)
  • hideshow: Rewrite 'hs-special-modes-alist'
• New packages:
  • dag-draw: Draw directed graphs using the GKNV algorithm (MELPA)
  • fuzzy-clock: Display time in a human-friendly, approximate way (MELPA)
  • maccalfw: Calendar view for Mac Calendars (MELPA)
  • org-mcp: MCP server for Org-mode (MELPA)
  • typst-preview: Live preview of typst (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!

The Emacs Carnival blog theme for November is An Ode to Org Babel. Check out last month's posts about maintenance!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Thu Nov 6 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Nov 7 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/311589597/ Thu Nov 6 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Nov 7 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Nov 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Nov 8 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #11 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/b426cd44-410e-4fa6-848e-f9c863b9c4f8 Tue Nov 11 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Nov 12 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 13 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Nov 14 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/311801687/ Sat Nov 15 1100 America/Los_Angeles
• Beginner:
  • GNU Emacs do Zero - Episódio 01 - YouTube (@lobocode@hachyderm.io)
• Emacs configuration:
  • arjen/upiv: Emacs package to insert custom variables into the use-package form with their current value. - Forge The Arjen: Beyond coding. We Forge. (@credmp@fosstodon.org)
  • FunMacs version 0.1.2 (Reddit)
  • Emacs For Writers Unit 8: Your First Configuration (06:56)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Charles Choi: Prototyping a Toolbar UI for Edebug
  • kisaragi-hiu/read-timestamp: Elisp function for reading an ISO 8601 timestamp from the user (Kisaragi Hiu)
  • Hacking on Emacs #2: Enabling forge.fedoraproject.org support for git-link (34:39)
• Appearance:
  • "Pure GTK" Emacs will now respect GNOME's dark mode toggling for drawing the title bar and widgets (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: modus-themes version 5.0.0
  • ANN: An Emacs Catppuccin theme (based on modus-themes, and now usable) (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Charles Choi: Announcing Casual Ediff (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Tip: Use delete-pair to change surroundings similar to vim-surround, or to paste only the contents of surroundings (Irreal)
• Writing:
  • Fill Commands (GNU Emacs Manual) - options for customizing (@CyrilBrulebois@mamot.fr)
• Org Mode:
  • [ANN] Contribute to Org mode during FSF40 hackathon [online], Nov 21-23, 2025
  • Tip about using org-remark for text highlights
  • efficiently parsing org-mode files (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Donald Hunter: Emacs Carnival 2025-11 — An Ode to Org Babel
    • org-babel is ROOT (@lukascbossert@mastodon.social)
    • Jakub Nowak: Org Babel for TTRPG Automation
  • Marcin Borkowski: Org mode burst timer
  • Marcin Borkowski: Beeminder Org timer
  • Listful Andrew: Append2Org — Send your clipboard to an Org file as a subtree (Bash package)
  • Sacha Chua: Playing around with org-db-v3 and consult: vector search of my blog post Org files, with previews
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: org-timeblock and compat
  • Org development:
    • ob-ditaa.el: ditaa executable, SVG output, and output type control
    • ox-odt: Add option to specify path of generated MathML files
    • ox-odt: Allow LaTeX fragment conversion from any preview method
    • ob-core: Fix noweb tangle recursive expansion
    • DND: Follow link format defined in org-attach-store-link-p
• Denote:
  • Aimé Bertrand: Quick Capture Safari content into a Denote file
• Completion:
  • Yasnippet: A Useful Templating System in Emacs (09:21)
  • Sacha Chua: consult + org-db-v3: Approximate search of my sketches using text, and a multi-source consult command for approximately searching sketches and blog posts
• Coding:
  • snakemacs: an emacs30 setup for Python and Jupyter with pixi
  • I found this helpful for getting going with Python, after frustrations with language servers (2022, Reddit)
  • Using Emacs and json-par-mode to navigate through records in a JSON file (00:47)
  • Quick Git Tip Using Magit Inside Emacs 2025_11_04_02:55:35 - YouTube
  • forgejo client fj.el 0.28: display attachments as links, add attachments, download
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Elfeed Curate Update: Two new features (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • Writing Music in Emacs - YouTube (2020)
• AI:
  • agent-shell 0.17 improvements + MELPA: OpenCode and Gwen Code, send files, send screenshots, and lots more (@xenodium@indieweb.social)
  • org-mcp: an MCP server allowing LLMs to work with Org items (Reddit
• Community:
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Emacs and mental challenges (Irreal)
  • Irreal: Living In The Browser Vs. Living In Emacs
  • Sharpening the axe (or preparing the soil for the harvest) | Quijote Libre
    • Afilar el hacha (o preparar la tierra para la cosecha) | Quijote Libre
  • Emacs Carnival: Praise the patchers
  • Sharpening the Saw with Emacs • Christian Tietze (Irreal)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Logan about fiction, conflict, escapism, and life lessons
• Other:
  • On top of Emacs' god-mode (@petes_bread_eqn_xls@mastodo.neoliber.al)
  • James Dyer: The Ping Localhost Hack for Emacs Shell on Windows
  • Listful Andrew: Creating emoji flags in Emacs Lisp and Bash
  • [ANN] gtasks.el - Google Tasks API wrapper for Emacs (MELPA, v0.2.2) (Reddit)
  • It's Fall. Time to clean up my emacs clutter. - George Jones
  • Alvaro Ramirez: time-zones now on MELPA. Do I have your support? (Reddit)
  • Jack Baty: Creating posts for Zola in Emacs
  • tusharhero: GNU Emacs needs a virtual keyboard
  • Thanos Apollo: Daily Driving a Raspberry Pi 5
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • [NSApp] Memory usage anomalies - status update - Przemysław Alexander Kamiński
      • Explanation of problem
    • Re: An idea for modifying the strategy for determining positions in byte compile warning/error messages - Pip Cet
  • Change tree-sitter query predicate names (bug#79687)
  • Handle resizing of fullscreen frames more consistently (Bug#79704)
  • Automatically toggle between dark and light mode PGTK widgets
  • 'map-y-or-n-p' now uses the minibuffer to read a char (bug#79664)
  • 'read-multiple-choice' now uses the minibuffer to read a char (bug#79664)
• New packages:
  • agent-shell: A single native shell experience to interact with agentic providers (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Goose, Codex, OpenCode, Qwen, etc.) (MELPA)
  • creamy-theme: A simple creamy theme (MELPA)
  • isl: Simple incremental search in current-buffer (NonGNU ELPA)
  • minimal-dashboard: A very minimal dashboard plugin (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!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Oct 29 1030 America/Vancouver - 1230 America/Chicago - 1330 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 30 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/311589597/ Thu Nov 6 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Nov 7 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Nov 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Nov 8 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, October 25, 2025
• Beginner:
  • أساسيات إيماكس كمحرر نصوص | The Basics of Emacs as a Text Editor (19:35)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Configuring display-buffer-alist is absolutely worth it
  • Philip Kaludercic: Ini-style Emacs Configuration Files?
  • FunMacs - Yet Another Lightweight Emacs Configuration, Using KISS philosophy. The second release (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Tip about using corfu-popupinfo-mode to show docs for candidates (00:26, Reddit) For company, use company-quickhelp or company-box
  • Solution to how to eval both function definition and test case - putting inside a progn or let
• Appearance:
  • High Contrast Theme : towards increased -nw usability (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Tip about registering and restoring window configurations
• Dired:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 4: Batch renaming files (YouTube, Reddit, Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs For Writers Unit 6: Welcome to Org Mode (11:54)
  • Randy Ridenour: A Simple Emacs Dashboard (Irreal)
  • Marcin Borkowski: A class register in Org Mode
  • Let Emacs figure out when you're free. Useful Org Agenda custom Elisp.
  • org-grapher: Simple graph view for org-mode (r/emacs, r/orgmode)
  • Kana: Using Emacs Org-mode As My Package Manager
  • [BLOG] #22 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]​] on Wed, September 10, 19:00 UTC+3 - notes
  • Resilient Technologies. Why Decades-Old Tools Define the ROOT of Modern Research Data Management (@lukascbossert@mastodon.social, previous)
  • novoid/orgmode-ACM-template: Using new Emacs Org-mode LaTeX exporter to generate LaTeX/PDF files that meet the requirements of ACM (unmaintained!) (2012, @publicvoit@graz.social)
  • org-social 2.3: discover, edit, interactive Org Mode, my profile, improvements (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • Andros Fenollosa: Why your social.org files can have millions of lines without any performance issues (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • Org development:
    • etc/ORG-NEWS (Inline tasks in a clocktable…): Move to Miscellaneous section
    • Clocktables: Indent inline tasks under their heading
• Coding:
  • Tip about using emmet-mode to write HTML efficiently (@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social)
  • "It Works": More Adventures with Racket and Emacs (23:55)
  • Treesitter "show definition" in C with Emacs (06:21)
• Shells:
  • Piping In&Out of Emacs buffers in terminal. (Reddit) mx-piper (Irreal)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • MastodonEl + eev = Fediverse Programming (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
• AI:
  • agent-shell-manager.el (Reddit)
  • ECA: Hooks support and many more! (Reddit)
  • Emacs gptel and mcp-searxng enable web search for your llm's with searxng (01:11:34)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-10-21 / week 42
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Maxim about writing, thinking, criticism, narratives, and productivity
• Other:
  • boem-weather: A simple weather package (Reddit)
  • Emacs time-zones (lobste.rs)
  • Showcasing Some of My Essential Emacs and Shell Tools on GitHub - YouTube
  • Emacs Maintenance — Where Are The Wise Men? (@mikehoss@appdot.net)
  • Jiewawa: Trying to do the last 20% - org-workout, koreader-import, eww-filters, meow-paren, Chinese helpers
  • oil.el: easily batch-add new files (Reddit, Irreal)
  • starling-el update: support for multiple accounts (@draxil@social.linux.pizza) - banking
  • my/jieba-chinese-word-at-point
  • cal-persia.el disagrees with Iranian calendar in A.D. 2025 - how to fix (@omidmnz@functional.cafe)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Some progress on cond*
    • Speeding up image scrolling/clipping with the Cairo backend
    • An idea for modifying the strategy for determining positions in byte compile warning/error messages - Alan Mackenzie
  • Avoid face inheritance cycles
  • Revert recent additions of 'split-frame' and 'merge-frames'
  • Document and announce 'split-frame' and 'merge-frames'
  • (custom-initialize-after-file): New function
  • Allow renaming of frames to F<num> on text terminals
  • Improve Dired handling of file names with newlines (bug#79528)
  • hideshow: Add new option for control how the block should be hidden.
• New packages:
  • acp: An ACP (Agent Client Protocol) implementation (MELPA)
  • auto-save-visited-local-mode: Buffer-local auto-save for visited files (MELPA)
  • ewm: Window manager (MELPA)
  • fj: Client for Forgejo instances (MELPA)
  • gtasks: Google Tasks API (sync) (MELPA)
  • org-social: An Org-social client (MELPA)
  • pretend-type: Reveal buffer as you pretend to type (MELPA)
  • renpy-mode: Major mode for editing Ren'Py files (MELPA)
  • starling: Starling bank interaction (MELPA)
  • time-zones: Time zone lookups (MELPA)
  • tts: Text-to-Speech (TTS) (MELPA)
  • zine-mode: Major mode for zine, the static site generator (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!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Oct 25 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 Oct 29 1030 America/Vancouver - 1230 America/Chicago - 1330 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 30 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • Formations Emacs en présenciel (à Paris) pour utilisateurs motivés - Nov 24/25 or 27/28
• Beginner:
  • Emacs For Writers Unit 5: Basic File Management and Navigation (06:18)
  • Emacs Adventure | Exploring Vanilla Emacs (06:50)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs as Microsoft Word killer part 3. Using Conditionals and Defvar to Simplify Multiple Configs Across Multiple Platforms. (25:25)
  • FunMacs lightweight modular Emacs configuration (Reddit, Reddit)
  • Medicated Emacs: A minimal, modern Emacs configuration that just works (Reddit, Irreal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Uncrustify config for Emacs
  • On Emacs theme precedence
  • Small utility package: lisp-toggle-docstrings (self explanatory) (Reddit)
  • [13] Emacs Reader's Development: Working on unmerged PRs and Catching Up - 10/19/2025, 3:01:36 PM - Dyne.org TV
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Theme: Tomorrow-Night-Deepblue (Release 1.2.3): A beautiful deep blue variant of the Tomorrow Night theme, which is renowned for its elegant color palette that is pleasing to the eyes (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • The outline-indent.el Emacs package: Effortless Indentation-Based Code Folding for Emacs, the Modern Successor to origami.el and yafolding.el (Release 1.1.4) (Reddit)
  • easysession.el Emacs package: Persist and Restore your Emacs Sessions effortlessly (Release 1.1.6) (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Directory-local Org Agendas
  • linkin-org, meet unbreakable links! (Reddit)
  • (udpate) org-luhmann: Now support shortcut key
  • dr.ops/keymacs: Tool that reads Org tables and creates Emacs keybindings from them - Codeberg.org (@spacecadet@masto.plaindrops.de)
  • Share with Org - Android with Tasker (2024)
  • Jay_Mitchell/pf2e-homebrew - Codeberg.org - Org source for a homebrew RPG (@amy@ice.ch3.st)
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Denote version 4.1.0
• Coding:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 3: Git clone (the lazy way) (YouTube, Irreal)
  • Linux Mint: Set Up Python, R , duckdb and Emacs (35:51)
  • My first emacs package: lsp-cargo-feature-switcher (Reddit)
• Web:
  • Simple elisp snippet for validating links in MD/HTML/… files
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Slack search with results in Org-mode buffer. (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • Norm: SVG? (Irreal)
  • tusharhero: SVG? Yes!
• Fun:
  • nethack-el version 0.15.0 released
• AI:
  • (released) superchat 0.4: add a simple workflow excutor
  • dm-gptel-simple-org-memory.el: an MCP tool use your org-notes as context
  • Fulltext, semantic text and image search in Emacs (18:20)
• Community:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Ovi about Clojure development and business, Emacs, and AI
  • How to use Emacs on the go (Reddit, Irreal)
• Other:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs time-zones (Reddit, Irreal)
  • GitHub - haji-ali/pretend-type: Reveal emacs buffer as you pretend to type (Reddit)
  • Emacs in the terminal: keybindings, client and more | Gribouillis (HN)
  • skangas/mentor: mentor is a GNU Emacs frontend for the rTorrent bittorrent client. (@onokoto@mastodon.social)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: continued discussion of cond-let*
  • Add any and all (bug#79611)
  • Add drop-while and take-while (bug#79611)
  • New value 'auto' of user option 'flymake-indicator-type' used by default
  • Uninstalling a package now removes its directory from `load-path'.
  • Add functions 'combine-windows' and 'uncombine-window'
  • Add support for su-rs and sudo-rs programs
• New packages:
  • agda-lib-mode: Major mode for Agda library files (MELPA)
  • calctape: Adding-machine, tape calculator, column sum-mer (MELPA)
  • eldoc-mouse: Display documentation for mouse hover (MELPA)
  • flymake-x: Simple flymake checker definitions (MELPA)
  • helm-elfeed: Helm interface for Elfeed (MELPA)
  • jbeam-mode: Major mode for JBeam files (MELPA)
  • romkan: Romaji/Kana conversion library (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!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/311459896/ Thu Oct 23 1830 Europe/London
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Oct 25 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Emacs For Writers Unit 4: Keybindings (06:17)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Why and how I ditched use-package? | Dragon’s notes (@evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe)
  • Use-Package, or Not! | Zenie’s Qis (@Zenie@piaille.fr)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 2: From vanilla to your flavor (YouTube 14:38, Reddit, Irreal)
  • D4lj337/Emacs-performance: Few of the settings for speeding up the Emacs. (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Nerding out about dotfiles, Qtile, Tmux, and Emacs (01:53:01)
  • Medicated Emacs: A minimal, modern Emacs configuration that just works
  • Emacs Backpack is a self-documenting GNU Emacs starter kit inspired after Bedrock and Doom. (Reddit)
  • Irreal: Red Meat Friday: Emacs Startup Time Again
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Marcin Borkowski: A debug helper in Elisp (Irreal)
• Appearance:
  • Rahul Juliato: Creating a Catppuccin-Mocha Theme in Emacs with Modus Themes (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • I recently discover "window-in-direction", for me this a game changer indeed.. share how you manage your window buffers if you like:D
• Org Mode:
  • Built a lightweight CLI for managing org-mode TODOs from the terminal
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: HTML export to work with TiddlyWiki
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Consider Org-social for community news feeds
  • org-social.el 2.1 release
• Denote:
  • How I as a PhD student use Emacs (and Zotero) to organize my research (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Emacs + Elixir Config (@edporras@c.im)
  • Steven Allen: Replacing Git-Link with Forge
• Shells:
  • Christian Tietze: Redirect Output to Buffers from Emacs Eshell (Irreal)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Irreal: RSS Readers
• Fun:
  • tmythicator/lichess.el: A minimal Emacs client for the Lichess API - game viewer at the moment
• AI:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: agent-shell 0.5 improvements (HN)
  • Some functions for gptel
  • (released) superchat 0.4: add a simple workflow excutor
  • At Last Someone I Can Work With. His Name is Claude. (01:46)
  • Modeling bioreactor data with an LLM in Emacs (12:03)
  • AI pair programming and LLM chats in Emacs (01:14:02)
  • Ollama tool use demo on Android Emacs 30.1 (04:00)
• Community:
  • Eric MacAdie: Emacs Carnival: Maintenance
  • Prot Asks: Christian about indie dev, philosophy of experiences, Zettelkasten (02:20:26)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Ag about Emacs, Lisps, LLMs, and story-telling
  • #climate, #gopher, catK, jns, hal9000 lots of guests live #lispyGopherClimate #lisp #gamedev #emacs #scheme, #books - Community Video
  • The IDEs we had 30 years ago… and we lost (some discussion of Emacs in the HN comments)
• Other:
  • Much Ado About Emacs 011 - Bicycle For Your Mind - md-capture, buffer-terminator, tab-sets, denote, books
  • Announcing a lightweight Emacs window manager for Mac OS
  • Emacs as a platform for bespoke software
  • Sacha Chua: Added multiple timezone support to casual-timezone-planner
  • Emacs Nov-mode and My Nov-highlights Package for EPUB Files (05:08)
  • My-whisper: A simple Emacs package that provides speech-to-text functionality using Whisper.cpp. (00:38)
  • draxil/starling-el: Access to Starling bank info, from Emacs! (@draxil@social.linux.pizza)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • 24-bit color support for TTY frames on MS-Windows Help wanted with testing
    • Re: [elpa] externals/tmr f38d1f0a20 1/5: Support sending notifications - waiting for alert.el copyright assignment
    • Re: feature/elisp-fontify-semantically 136c39438f7: Add optional semantic highlighting for Emacs Lisp
    • Re: Patch to vertically center line content when using line-spacing variable
    • Re: oauth2 redirect-uri & OOB flow - xoauth2 plugin helps
    • TIL wildcard-to-regexp - may be related to wildcard-to-regexp?
    • Re: Future history discoverability - tips for searching through future history
    • Shared margins
    • Re: master ae32e254191: Fix minibuffer-nonselected-mode when using recur some notes on frame-related variables
  • Document 'elisp-fontify-semantically' in the Emacs manual
  • defvar-keymap: New ':prefix t' abbreviation
• New packages:
  • mason: Package managers for LSP, DAP, linters, and more (MELPA)
  • minimail: Simple, non-blocking IMAP email client (GNU ELPA)
  • org-aws-iam-role: Browse, modify, and simulate AWS IAM Roles in Org Babel (MELPA)
  • org-links: Better manage line numbers in your org-mode links (MELPA)
  • quotient: A library for generating random quotes using a text corpus (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!

Why I Keep Blogging With Emacs is a short blog post that got a lot of comments on HN this week. Also, xenodium is trying out making videos, starting with batch-applying command-line utilities.

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Oct 7 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 #10 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/b2ff9efd-eee0-414a-a933-90c4abc20dbe Tue Oct 7 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Oct 8 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 9 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Oct 10 1800 Europe/Paris
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Super simple Emacs config (05:51)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Guys, eldoc-mouse v1.0.0 released! (Reddit)
  • Listful Andrew: Democratize can now offer more than 6000 Emacs Lisp usage examples
• Appearance:
  • mini-posframe — mirror your minibuffer in a floating frame (demo inside) (Reddit)
  • Pragmatic Opacity w/ Emacs (10:49)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: building on top of the Modus themes
    • ‘modus-themes’ as a basis for other themes; ‘ef-themes’ is first
    • ‘standard-themes’ are also built on top of the ‘modus-themes’
• Navigation:
  • Disproject v2.2.0 released - Dispatch project commands with Transient (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Improving dired-show-file-type
• Writing:
  • Emacs Abbrev Mode vs Microsoft Word Autocorrect (33:22, Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Why I Keep Blogging With Emacs (HN, Irreal)
  • Sacha Chua: Org Mode: calculating table sums using tag hierarchies
  • (update) org-supertag: support org-link convert to embed-block, fixed table view filter
  • How to Manage AWS IAM Roles with Emacs Org Mode | Full Tutorial (05:23)
  • Irreal: Org-transclusion
  • Jack Baty: CalDAV to my Emacs Diary - getting Fastmail calendar to show up in Org Agenda
  • [BLOG] #21 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]​] on Wed, August 13, 19:00 UTC+3
  • org-social v2: new interface, avatars, thread nav, relays (@andros@activity.andros.dev, Reddit)
  • Orgdeep: Write plain Org Mode file and serve them as HTML without any explicit export step (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • etc/ORG-NEWS (Add completion for ID links): Mention `org-id-completion-targets'
• Denote:
  • Lambda Land: How I Organize the Papers I Read (Irreal) denote-citar
• Completion:
  • Hanno: Find recently modified files using vertico in Emacs
• Coding:
  • hare-mode updated for current language specs (@grafov@fosstodon.org)
  • Evil + Magit: evil-collection-magit-toggle-text-mode activates text-mode
• Math:
  • Disabling MathJax in Brightspace - Sociology, statistics and software (@bthalpin@mastodon.social) - includes Org snippet
• Web:
  • Talking to the Wayback Machine // Just a Summary (@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org)
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: Doodling icons in a grid
• AI:
  • Building workflows with gptel
  • Emacs RAG with LibSQL - Enabling semantic search of org-mode headings with Claude Code (18:57)
  • Emacs. Your Customizable AI Control Center with the llm Package (02:09)
  • Laurent Charignon: Building Software Faster with LLMs: Part 3 - Higher-Level Abstractions (org-roam via MCP)
    • Part 4 - The Way We Build Software Is Rapidly Evolving - code-review-logger
• Community:
  • Emacs philosophy thread (continued)
  • What is the point? | Zenie’s Qis (@Zenie@piaille.fr) - on writing an obscure package
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Christian about indie dev, philosophy of experiences, Zettelkasten
• Other:
  • My Morning Routine in Emacs | Andros Fenollosa (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 1: Applying CLI utils (YouTube 06:16, Reddit, Irreal)
  • RDF-editor: viewing, understanding and editing linked data in emacs (a work in progress)
  • GTD List Manager and Emacs (55:55) - low resolution video, though.
  • J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: Emacs Garbage collection improvements by using the GCMH package
  • File management with fsel, draft integration with dired
  • Announcing twen-twen-tw.el: A package to reduce eye strain (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: tmr version 1.2.0
  • Emacs users who bank with the UK Starling Bank - feat(starling.el): Added insight table by abdrysdaleGitHub (@draxil@social.linux.pizza)
  • Irreal: Eliminating Emacs “Bloat”
  • Getting meta-based Emacs shortcuts to work in Kitty terminals
• Emacs development:
  • Run buffer-local window change functions in their buffers now
  • Add fallback backend in auth-sources
  • VC: New commands for cherry-picking (bug#79408)
  • Improve log-view-copy-revision-as-kill
  • New command log-view-copy-revision-as-kill
  • New command log-view-unmark-all-entries
  • New command vc-kill-other-working-tree-buffers
  • VC: Allow deleting or moving current working tree
  • New value 'window' of 'global-hl-line-sticky-flag'
• New packages:
  • bmp: Version bumper for git projects (MELPA)
  • cacao-theme: Based on a image reversal (MELPA)
  • elkee: Keepass client (MELPA)
  • hare-mode: Hare mode (MELPA)
  • ob-ts-node: Org-Babel support for TypeScript via ts-node (MELPA)
  • ziggy-mode: Major mode for Ziggy, a data serialization language (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!