• Emacs Carnival 2025-08: Your Elevator Pitch for Emacs - Take on Rules (@takeonrules@dice.camp, Irreal)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/308826076/ Thu Aug 7 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Aug 8 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Aug 8 1800 Europe/Paris
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #8 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/660761d6-862d-43a1-9fb4-955d4e3e1066 Tue Aug 12 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Aug 13 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 14 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • James Dyer: View-Mode - Emacs's Hidden Modal Editing Gem?
  • Some global submap keybindings (VC, vundo, browse-url-at-point)
  • A Transient for Help
  • How I would manually generate my current default emacs setup (usually it is in an init file) (05:05)
  • Rahul Juliato: Emacs Kick 0.3.0: Floating Docs, Snappy Completion, and Corfu Goodness (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • vecdb: A package for vector search (YouTube 09:32)
  • Videos on using Emacs Lisp and Eshell for system administration (code, Reddit for video 1, 2, 3)
  • snippets/elisp-native-modules/ppm-overlay at master - drawing on top of a PPM image (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Building log verbosity control UI for Ares/Arei Guile Scheme IDE (01:37:36)
• Appearance:
  • buffer-background – change your buffer background colors interactively (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • File too long? Show some love for follow-mode 🥰 (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Charles Choi: Unleashing the Editing Superpower of Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Randy Ridenour: Emacs Writing Experience (@randyridenour@zirk.us)
  • Jeremy Friesen: On Writing in Emacs
• Org Mode:
  • Marcin Borkowski: org-copy-visible
  • Jeremy Friesen: On Organizing My Notes
  • Emacs Org mode as a word processor: Emacs Writing Studio (18:08, Reddit)
  • (Released) org-workbench: A thinking exploration space for temporarily organizing ideas and concept (Reddit, Irreal)
  • (Update) org-supertag: logseq-style query block, embed-block
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Mark Tomczak: Screenshots into emacs org files in Windows
    • Dealing with APIs, JSONs and databases in org-mode | isamert.net (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
    • Whisper Engine - static site publishing from Org Mode (@TomsITCafe@mastodon.social)
    • (Update) org-luhmann: exporting heading as org-mode links (Reddit) also Reddit discussion about workbench
    • Jakub Nowak: Exporting Wikis with Orgmode
  • Org development:
    • lisp/ox-html.el: Use time element for timestamps in fancy html5
• Denote:
  • TAONAW: Denote with a different root directory on Linux only
  • Zac Romero: Searching Denote Notes With p-search
• Completion:
  • Modern Emacs Part 1: Consult, Marginalia, Vertico, Orderless and Embark - VOD (01:20:50)
• Coding:
  • eglot + pyright made simple thanks to uvx! (Reddit)
  • fj.el updates: improvements to PR reviews, syntax highlighting, cycle views, comment and close issue, unwatch, list
  • kn66/lsp-installer.el - installs language servers (Reddit)
• Math:
  • How to adjust numbers in the journal with Emacs Calc - General - Plain Text Accounting forum (@simonmic@fosstodon.org)
  • Listful Andrew: CFrac — Convert from/to continued fractions (Emacs package)
• Fun:
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: In a genre of speaking
• AI:
  • [New Package]⚡️ gptel-watch — Auto-complete your thoughts with GPT when you type lines like "AI!" (Reddit)
  • Don't Generate, Retrieve and Transform (GPTel Tools Published) (Reddit)
  • GitHub - steveyegge/efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs (Reddit, programming.dev)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-07-29 / week 30
  • Stackoverflow developer survey 2025 - Emacs doesn't make the list of most popular Dev IDEs (Reddit) - Emacs was not on the list of options; write-in only
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Deep dive with @linkarzu about Emacs, NeoVim, Linux, keyboards, and philosophy (YouTube 02:24:27, Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Rudy about Emacs for game development, Lisp hacking, and learning (YouTube 01:47:10)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Diego about Emacs use, head of engineering, industry’s state, and combat sports
• Other:
  • Emacs: The MacOS Bug (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • Emacs: A Deep Dive into Its Internals (05:09)
  • Perfect Speech to Text in Emacs - YouTube (2:19)
• Emacs development:
  • Add 'other-window-backward' for a default binding (bug#78803)
  • Improve region deletion handling in python.el
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Move read-directory-name entry; a compatible change.
  • tab-line: Add close button for modified tabs (bug#79046)
  • Add support for AUTH=PLAIN to imap.el
  • cperl-mode.el: Support syntax of Perl version 5.42
• New packages:
  • magit-prime: Prime cache before Magit refresh (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!

EmacsConf 2019 (Nov 2, online): Propose a session: https://emacsconf.org/2019/cfp (before Aug 31) Share ideas: https://emacsconf.org/2019/ideas

• Emacs configuration:
  • (emacs-init-time): what's your emacs init time?
  • hardcoremacs: �� A lightweight emacs config
  • cus-edit+ - Let Customize know about changes made outside it {emacsmirror/GitHub} (Reddit)
  • What are the worst default emacs bindings that we usually don't change?
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Perceptron: a Lisp, Elisp, Clojure, Scheme implementation tutorial
  • Comparison between Magit's 'transient' and 'hydra'
  • prism.el: Highlight Lisp forms according to depth
  • makem.sh: Makefile-like script for building and testing Emacs Lisp packages
• Emacs development:
  • Instructions on how to test the portable dumper with Spacemacs. The portable dumper is a feature that will be available with Emacs 27.
  • Emacs and LLDB {LWN.net} (Reddit)
  • Say how to enable event designators in the eshell manual
  • Add conditional operator xor to subr.el
  • Move cl.el to lisp/obsolete
  • decode-time now returns subsec too
  • New function time-convert
  • * lisp/dired.el (dired-special): Rename face from dired-socket (bug#24547).
• Appearance:
  • GitHub - ahungry/fast-scroll: Emacs package to ensure scrolling remains fast (Reddit)
  • monokai-emacs: Monokai for Emacs is a port of the popular TextMate theme Monokai by Wimer Hazenberg.
• Navigation:
  • helm-find.el: helm interface for find command
  • ido-mode with eshell, shell, sql and more…
• Org Mode:
  • Great option for editing Org mode files on the go: org-web (Reddit)
  • Demo of integration between org-noter and org-pdftools (Reddit)
  • Shout-out to org mode for enabling seamless collaboration!
  • org-ruby: An Org mode parser written in Ruby.
  • I created a "Graduation Planner"
  • ANN: helm-org-rifle 1.7.0
  • org-ql-block integrates org-ql into Org Agenda custom commands
  • Emacs-reveal: A software bundle to create OER presentations | The Journal of Open Source Education
  • Pairing on simple todos and literate programming in org-mode with a vscode user (Reddit)
  • Running Mythic in Emacs' orgmode
  • Using Emacs as Presentation tool
  • Emacs Doom E14: Org Mode, Getting Organized with Tasks (Reddit)
  • Interested in testing Org2Blog v1.1.0?
  • Literate Dotfiles (Irreal)
  • datefudge and agenda testing
• Coding:
  • github-notifier.el: Displays your GitHub notifications unread count in Emacs mode-line
  • A stupid completion definer - Is it even worth putting on MELPA? (Reddit)
  • CalcTex: turn Emacs into a WYSIWYG LaTeX equation editor (Reddit)
  • company-fuzzy: Fuzzy matching for `company-mode'.
  • devdocs-lookup: Quick Emacs API lookup on devdocs.io
  • ivy-clojuredocs: Searching for help in ClojureDocs.org
  • Manuel Uberti: Open Magit from Ibuffer
  • terraform-doc, look up the Terraform documentation
  • Turtle+Notation3 mode for Emacs! (Reddit)
• Spacemacs:
  • Spacemacs #24 Customize Color Theme | 컬러 테마 커스터마이징 - YouTube
• Community:
  • Does anyone else much prefer emacs itself to GNU/Linux?
  • What blogs / sites do you follow?
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
• Other:
  • Playing emacs like an instrument - amazing video that covers emacs capabilities (Reddit)
  • `emacs-libvterm` is awesome
  • speed typing in emacs
  • Emacs Lisp: Record voice notes within GNU Emacs
  • Emacs Lisp: Record screen within GNU Emacs
  • home-row-control: Use big modifier keys in the home row for Ctrl
  • mpdel / libmpdel: Emacs library to communicate with Music Player Daemon (MPD), a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music.
  • helm-suggest: Web suggest (autocomplete) with helm
  • define-word: Display the definition of word at point in Emacs (Reddit)
  • youtube-dl-emacs: Emacs youtube-dl download manager
  • Emacs Lisp: Send Status to your GNU Social instance via XMPP or Jabber protocol
  • Pandoc support for DocView: editing Markdown with preview (Reddit)
  • Next browser v1.3.0 release
  • EXWM alternatives?
  • dot-mode.el: Minor mode for GNU Emacs / XEmacs that emulates the '.' command in vi. the '.' command in vi simply repeats the last edit made
  • Edit and author Markdown and PDF files from Emacs - YouTube
  • Emacscalc Script
  • Why Emacs (Irreal)
  • An Emacs Tale From Bizarro World
• New packages:
  • 0x0: Upload to 0x0.st
  • ellocate: The locate command reimplemented in Emacs Lisp
  • evil-ruby-text-objects: Evil text objects for Ruby code
  • flutter-l10n-flycheck: Flycheck checker for intl_translation
  • flycheck-indicator: A fancy mode line indicator for `flycheck-mode'
  • flymake-quickdef: Quickly define a new Flymake backend
  • marquee-header: Code interface for displaying marquee in header.
  • myrddin-mode: Major mode for editing Myrddin source files
  • ox-json: JSON export backend for Org mode
  • proced-narrow: Live-narrowing of search results for proced.
  • scihub: Sci-Hub integration
  • wisp-mode: Tools for wisp: the Whitespace-to-Lisp preprocessor

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file and emacs-devel.

• Help wanted:
  • EmacsWiki: Carnival - looking for a host for August (@ctietze@mastodon.social)
  • #123 - Reader stutters and consumes high memory on High res scaled display - divyaranjan/emacs-reader - Codeberg.org (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz) - help wanted testing high-resolution monitors with fractional scaling
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jul 30 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 31 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Aug 1 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/308826076/ Thu Aug 7 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Aug 8 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Aug 8 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • use-package-extras.el Additional keywords for use-package (Reddit)
  • use-package :eglot keyword
  • Ten things to try with Embark (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
  • minimal-dashboard.el : a clean, centered Emacs startup screen
  • Announcing Casual Compile, Elisp, and Eshell (Reddit, Irreal)
  • About testing packages in emacs - using a minimal config with --init-directory
• Emacs Lisp:
  • launching processes that survive Emacs exiting, crashing, or restarting
  • Emacs Package Development: The Emacs Reader (VIII: Highlighting & Text Selection) - 7/27/2025, 2:29:58 PM - Dyne.org TV
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: cursory version 1.2.0
• Navigation:
  • Donovan R.: Multiple ways of selecting text
• Dired:
  • Getting filenames from a Dired buffer in an arbitrary order
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Interactive ordering of dired items (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Writing Experience - my eev & org comparison for emacs carnival (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
  • Writing experience: Emacs, you won | aviskase (@aviskase@infosec.exchange)
  • Emacs carnival: Writing experience (@ericsfraga@fediscience.org, Irreal) - Org Mode, gnuplot, plantuml
  • Emacs Carnival 2025-07: Writing Experience · (@nickanderson@fosstodon.org)
  • Chris Maiorana: Summer Productivity Reset: Emacs functions to streamline your writing workflow (Irreal)
  • Sacha Chua: Finding the shape of my thoughts
  • Sacha Chua: My Emacs writing experience
  • Ross A. Baker: Writing in Emacs: two out of three ain't bad (Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • i switched to emacs for notetaking (and i'm never going back) (06:09) Org Roam
  • Org tutorials on Worg (@e11bits@mastodon.social) including a list of topics needing tutorials
  • Emacs Org mode as a LaTeX editor - YouTube (@danderzei@aus.social)
  • Writing experience: My decade with Org (Emacs Carnival) (Reddit, Irreal)
  • (Update）org-supertag 4.1.0 - kanban view, card style (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Using web searches and bookmarks to quickly link placeholders in Org Mode
  • Introducing Org mode exports - Emacs Writing Studio (11:10)
  • orgmode-linked-by-id (Reddit)
  • The Emacs Cat: My Emacs Org Configuration (Irreal)
  • Ruslan Bekenev: Emacs: Keep journaling on the go
  • Org development:
    • lisp/org.el: Allow `org-yank-image-save-method' to be a function
    • org-capture-place-plain-text: Fix when target is on headline
• Denote:
  • Emacs + Hugo Blogging Refactored (Reddit)
• Completion:
  • chmouel/consult-vc-modified-files new version (@chmouel@fosstodon.org) - new command consult-vc-log-select-files
  • Sacha Chua: Finding my blog posts with consult-omni
• Coding:
  • Swanky Python: Interactive development for Python based on emacs' SLIME mode for Common Lisp (Reddit)
  • Steel bank common lisp, slime and save-lisp-and-die and not being ahistorical (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
  • [UPDATE] Improved C++ method stub generation with cpp-func-impl.el
  • kanata-kbd-mode: Major mode for editing Kanata .kbd file (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Finding entities with given uuids in the current project
  • Development shells with Nix: four quick examples - Michael Stapelberg (lobste.rs)
  • magit-prime: a small package to speedup magit refresh.
  • TIL: vc-region-history
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • A bug fix for splitting the subject in Gnus summary subject lines | Dave’s Blog (@davemq@fosstodon.org)
• AI:
  • GitHub - steveyegge/efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs
  • Claude Code IDE v0.2.0: Now with Emacs aware MCP and Transient menu (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Ollama Buddy v1.0: A Simple AI Assistant (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Eric about Emacs, Lisp, music, aesthetics, and Minnesota
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Ihor about maintaining Emacs Org mode, history, travels, and material science (YouTube 1:21:30)
  • Lobsters Interview with Technomancy | Lobsters (text)
  • Neovim vs Emacs | Roundtable w/ TJ DeVries, DistroTube, Greg Anders & Joshua Blais (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: I will talk about Emacs on the @linkarzu YouTube channel
  • Amin Bandali: Mirroring Protesilaos' videos to Internet Archive (Prot)
• Other:
  • 📦 [OC] embark-sidebar.el - A Small Addition to the Amazing Emacs Sidebar Ecosystem
  • Introducing Mindstream for Emacs (Reddit) - quickly start writing/coding, automatic versioning
  • How to open a file in Emacs (2021, Reddit)
  • Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024) (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • Ep685 Emacs Xah Fly Keys News, Function Keyword Parameter, and Random Rant (01:09:20)
  • zathura.el - a tiny package for integration with zathura document viewer (Reddit)
  • How to configure X11 in a simple way | Dragon’s notes (@evgandr@mas.to) includes Emacs as a file manager
  • Patching Emacs Plus (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: macOS dictation returns to Emacs (fix merged) (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Discussion about what to do when PATH is unset
  • cperl-mode.el: Support syntax of Perl version 5.42
  • Add a new user option to hide the header of old newsticker feeds
  • Add post-save actions for Rmail attachments
  • Enabled macOS dictation post NSTextInputClient migration in v30
  • * lisp/url/url-queue.el: Better compatibility with 'url-retrieve'
  • Add new function 'dom-inner-text'
  • VC: New support for other working trees
  • Bind vc-rename-file to C-x v R
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Move 'exec-path' entry to its proper place.
  • PATH defaults now act more like GNU and POSIX
  • Add function exec-suffixes
• New packages:
  • claude-code: Run Claude Code sessions (MELPA)
  • gt: Translation framework, configurable and scalable (MELPA)
  • helm-raindrop: Raindrop.io with helm interface (MELPA)
  • org-agenda-dock: Integrate org-mode with Gnome's Dock or KDE's taskbar (MELPA)
  • outli: Org-like code outliner (MELPA)
  • scratch-plus: Better Scratch Buffer Behavior (MELPA)
  • zathura: Summary (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 APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Jul 26 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 Jul 30 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 31 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Aug 1 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Customizing the Emacs Help Menu (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Suppressing warning messages with (setq native-comp-async-report-warnings-errors 'silent)
  • kn66/package-git.el - automatic Git version control for Emacs packages (Reddit)
  • William Denton: I'm sticking with Emacs stable releases
  • Updating my home Emacs config | Dave’s Blog (@davemq@fosstodon.org)
  • Skewed Emacs (Reddit)
  • Single Emacs Config for Multiple Environments, Machines, and Users
  • Bedrock version 1.5.0 released (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • James Dyer: Building a New Package From Scratch - Cursor Heatmap Pt1
  • viglioni/l-el: l.el is a series of lisp functions and macros in order to make emacs-lisp more modern and functional (@laura.viglioni.com)
• Appearance:
  • [auto-dark] 0.13.3 - New minor version released!
  • Hercules theme (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Tip: follow-mode, two-column editing
• Dired:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: dired-preview version 0.6.0
• Writing:
  • Omar Antolin: Writing Experience (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
  • From Obsidian to Emacs — Where Are The Wise Men? (@mikehoss@appdot.net)
  • Eric MacAdie: Emacs Carnival: Writing Experience (Irreal)
  • Writing Tools in Emacs - Emacs Writing Studio (19:22)
• Org Mode:
  • Chris Maiorana: Ask me about my Org Mode agenda (YouTube 5:50, Irreal)
  • better-org-habit.el: ️GAME-CHANGING package for org-habit (Reddit)
  • llcc/org-table-highlight: Highlight Org-mode table columns and rows using colored overlays (Reddit)
  • Polymacs - A SuperMemo-like package for incremental learning in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Org export: expanding links to included files - feature request
  • maybe executing Org Babel blocks in other modes
  • (Updated) org-supertag 4.0
  • Suppressing warnings in org-latex-preview
  • Org development:
    • Use Graphviz Dot mode if available
    • Fall back to Fundamental mode when editing code
• Completion:
  • Is the Default Emacs Completion UI Good? - System Crafters Live! (01:53:35)
• Coding:
  • kn66/project-checker.el - project-wide and file-specific checks in Emacs (Reddit)
  • treesitter note about ABI version change
  • Navigating Julia source code files using Xref in Emacs (@ericsfraga@fediscience.org)
  • Guile Stack Viewer, Metacommands in Arei, New Ares CLI, Custom Ports Backport | RDE Meetup #6 (26:35)
  • dheerajshenoy/cpp-func-impl.el: Emacs package to insert a C++ method implementation in the corresponding source file. (Reddit)
  • Leonardo Calculus Knowledge Representation: Object Oriented Simulation Simulation Lisp Useage (Great Example if I do say) (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
  • Some scripts for automating Magit
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Splitting the subject in Gnus summary subject lines | Dave’s Blog (@davemq@fosstodon.org)
• Multimedia:
  • The EMMS filter system | Zenie’s Qis (@Zenie@piaille.fr)
  • elfeed-tube now fetches YouTube video transcripts again (@gnomon@mastodon.social)
• Fun:
  • I made pomo-cat.el – A pomodoro timer that shows a chill cat in the center of your Emacs (Reddit)
• AI:
  • localredhead/ob-aider.el (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-07-15 / week 28
  • Pain Thread: Recount Your Awful, No-Good Needless Suffering
  • Emacs changed my life as a fully blind programmer and part-time writer (Irreal)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Common questions about the ‘Prot Asks’ videos on Emacs and Life
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Thomas about Emacs writing, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, sport culture, and manga
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Gino about Emacs for data engineering, Open Source, and Chile
  • Zac Romero: Emacs Discoverability
• Other:
  • Send To Buffer Minor Mode
  • TAONAW - yank-pop
  • twitchy-ears/metoffice-datahub-lib: Emacs package to query, display, and cache information from the Metoffice Datahub service (@morix@loci.onl)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Artist mode and Venn diagrams
  • DeadSwitch404/ds-vault: ds-vault is a minimal, hardened Emacs Lisp utility for encrypting, decrypting, and managing a KeePassXC-compatible password database using GnuPG. (@TomsITCafe@mastodon.social)
  • Thanos Apollo: Emacs Everywhere, even in Wayland (Irreal)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs send-to (aka macOS sharing) merged upstream (r/emacs, also here, Irreal)
  • #79070 - [PATCH] Fix macOS dictation post NSTextInputClient migration in v30 - GNU bug report logs (@xenodium@indieweb.social) - testers wanted
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Discussion about thread-join, signal, and thread-signal
    • MacOS/NS Events Processing Queue - help wanted figuring out performance issue
  • Improve documentation of 'quit-window'
  • Remove the variable load-convert-to-unibyte
  • Add "Send to…" context menu item to mouse.el
  • Add more ways to exclude buffers in tab-line-mode. (Bug#78988)
• New packages:
  • awqat: Islamic prayer times (MELPA)
  • dock: Integration for desktop environment's taskbar/dock (MELPA)
  • emc: Invoking a C/C++ (et al.) build toolchain from ELisp (MELPA)
  • js-ts-defs: Find JavaScript variable definitions using tree-sitter (MELPA)
  • ninetyfive: NinetyFive (MELPA)
  • python-tdd-mode: Modern TDD Mode for Python (MELPA)
  • savefold: Persistence for various folding systems (MELPA)
  • vecdb: An interface to vector databases for embeddings (GNU ELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Bluesky #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, 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 Carnival writing theme for July: Writing experience
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jul 16 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 Jul 26 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • 3 Ways to Manually Install Emacs Packages (03:36)
  • Configuring Emacs (01:44:41)
  • Brainiac v1.0 released — Kemal's Braindump (Reddit)
  • minimal-emacs.d - Better Defaults and Faster Startup (Release: 1.3.0) (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • distichum/datagrid: Work with grids of data in Emacs. (Reddit)
  • Ep679 Emacs Lisp JSON, Serialize Idiocy, Crimes of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge (01:06:40)
  • Ep680 JSON in Emacs Lisp and Wolfram Language (57:30)
  • Emacs Package Development: The Emacs Reader (VII: Manipulating Pages in Multiple Windows) - Dyne.org TV (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
• Appearance:
  • South: A bright, summery Emacs theme 🌱☀️🌊 (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Chris Maiorana: Keep your flow with a “back” button for Emacs (Irreal)
• Writing:
  • TAONAW - Harper: quick, light and private grammer check for Emacs
• Org Mode:
  • Donovan R.: My Emacs journey (3) - Agenda for everyone
  • Jakub Nowak: Architecting a Better Org Workflow
  • Capturing Org Source Blocks (Reddit)
  • more general version of org-babel-demarcate-block
• Denote:
  • How I use Emacs + Denote to take notes as a researcher (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: reorder Denote file name components
• Coding:
  • konrad1977/flyover: A beautiful inline overlay for Emacs (Flycheck | Flymake) (Reddit, Irreal)
  • forgejo fj.el release 0.16: reactions, fixes
  • rough elisp Swagger API client codegen update
  • C++ development in Emacs: clangd and eglot (13:45)
  • Using Python in Emacs (@danliden.com on Bluesky)
  • Release CIDER 1.19 ("Skiathos") · clojure-emacs/cider · GitHub
  • Coding "Static Site Generator" | Emacs - Rhhen - Python | Pt. 2 (47:38)
• Shells:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Interacting with an unreliable process
  • showcase of outline-minor-mode and imenu in the eshell buffer (02:27)
• Web:
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs: Open URLs or search the web, plus browse-url-handlers (Irreal)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • gnus local IMAP pipeline config for dovecot 2.4 (breaking changes)
• Evil mode:
  • TIL: evil-respect-visual-line-mode
• Multimedia:
  • Emacs Magical Music Showcase (with EMMS, Embark, and Dired) (00:42)
• AI:
  • Steve Yegge: Emacs comes to life (coding agent inside Emacs; no code shared)
  • macher 0.2.0: integration with gptel presets
  • Adding images to gptel Org chat from system clipboard
  • creating quick github issue out of code via gptel and mcp
  • The Most Simple Emacs Mode to Interact With OpenAI/ChatGPT API | lesson 11 (16:58)
• Community:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Join me for ‘Prot Asks’ public video calls about Emacs and life in general (Reddit)
    • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Carlos about Emacs for engineering, free software, and Spain
• Other:
  • Emacs Ninja - CVE-2025-1244: From Emacs URL Handler to RCE
    • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Me, after reading the first half of the bug#66390 thread
  • Updating to Emacs v30 (16:22)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Launching a script with a keyboard shortcut on a Mac?
  • Fix to Longstanding Pdf-Tools Bug #emacs (00:49)
  • nobody knows that using Emacs in the terminal is so great (05:18, Reddit)
  • Comparing Emacs Reader's Performance With Other Document Readers - Dyne.org TV
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: More discussion about submitting bug reports for Emacs or packages
  • * src/xdisp.c (tab-bar-truncate): New variable (bug#78953).
  • tramp-file-name-with-method can be set connection-local
  • New global minor mode vc-auto-revert-mode
  • ; * etc/NEWS (log-edit-maybe-show-diff): Undo recent change.
  • Allow duplicate menu entries in Imenu
  • Add option 'ffap-prefer-remote-file' (bug#78925)
  • Revert "Add option 'ffap-prefer-remote-file' (bug#78925)"
  • Add option 'ffap-prefer-remote-file' (bug#78925)
  • New command 'mode-line-invisible-mode'
  • Add public interfaces for accessing builtin package info (Bug#78844)
  • Update documentation and NEWS with SVG changes (bug#77841)
  • Add NEWS entry for abbreviating Git revisions in 'vc-annotate'
• New packages:
  • asdf-vm: ASDF-VM porcelain (MELPA)
  • consult-hn: Hacker News search with Consult (MELPA)
  • exec-in-buffer: Choose programs to execute on buffers in projects (MELPA)
  • org-table-highlight: Highlight Org table columns and rows (MELPA)
  • repeat-ring: Structured and configurable repetition (MELPA)
  • repo-grep: Project-wide grep search (MELPA)
  • ultra-scroll: Fast and smooth scrolling (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.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #7 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/0fb2dc00-8cea-4365-a6ca-ab1a3e76f0ee Tue Jul 8 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jul 9 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 10 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jul 11 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/308773527/ Sat Jul 12 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jul 16 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Mario Jason Braganza: Emacs Package Updation Checklist
  • The case against which-key: a polemic (Reddit)
  • Emacs keymaps can have helpful and even dynamic prompts (lemmy.ml)
  • Bare-bones Emacs starter setup (02:43)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Using funcall and kmacro to execute keybindings
  • Running Emacs Lisp regression tests (ERT) in batch mode - get JUnit XML reports with EMACS_TEST_JUNIT_REPORT env var
  • Ep675 Golang vs Emacs Lisp Hashtable. Part 2 (01:12:40)
• Appearance:
  • Show All Faces Being Used in a Buffer (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: doric-themes version 0.2.0
• Navigation:
  • repo-grep.el – One-keystroke recursive grep in Emacs for Git/SVN and multi-repo setups
  • Efficient Multi-Project Hacking in Emacs - System Crafters Live! (01:50:20)
• Dired:
  • Bulk rename files in the terminal using emacsclient + wdired
• Writing:
  • Emacs Writing Studio paperback now available (@danderzei@aus.social)
  • Ep672 Make Spell Checking in Emacs Windows Work Again, Part 2 (41:40)
  • Greg Newman: Emacs Carnival 2025-07: Writing Experience
  • Erik L. Arneson: Writing Experience (Emacs Carnival) (Irreal)
  • James Dyer: New Package! - Simply Annotate: A Lightweight Annotation System (Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • Markdown to Org: Ex-NeovimConf Speaker Converts Me | Theena Kumaragurunathan (07:41)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Mass resetting Org mode checkboxes (Irreal)
  • (Update) org-include-inline: fix overlay visibility on initial file load (Reddit)
  • Jakub Nowak: Mixing Code Styles with org-babel
  • UOMF: Linking Headings (updated 2025-06-23)
  • 🧠 Org-Jupyter Emacs Kit (Reddit)
  • Capturing an Org note via macOS Shortcuts (Reddit)
  • [BLOG] #19 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]​] on Wed, June 11, 19:00 UTC+3
• Completion:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: mct version 1.1.0
• Coding:
  • Announcing Flyover - modern aesthetic overlay for flymake and flycheck (Reddit)
  • Greg Newman: TIL Speed up Magit on MacOS (Irreal)
  • :screwlisps-knowledge/tangle common lisp asdf package markdown tangling and lisp pathnames (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
  • eepitch-send leading to in-emacs common lisp image automata flocking (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
  • Ep673 Format Python JavaScript Golang HTML CSS in Emacs, and Wolfram Language auto format (43:55)
• Shells:
  • Take Two: Eshell (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Casual 2.7 adds support for Eshell (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
• Fun:
  • What's your favorite emacs game?
• AI:
  • chatgpt-shell can now link/atttach files with M-x chatgpt-shell-insert-local-file-link (@xenodium@indieweb.social)
  • Planning sprint in Emacs with org-mode and gptel
  • Greger.el: Agentic coding in Emacs (Reddit, HN)
  • laurynas-biveinis/elisp-dev-mcp: Dev tools in Emacs MCP for agentic Elisp development with LLMs (Reddit)
  • Building personalized micro agents
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-07-01 / week 26
  • Christian Tietze: Emacs on Second Try (Irreal)
  • La dulce vuelta a casa (@maxxcan@mastodon.social)
• Other:
  • Emacs Widget toolkit – why not electron · Aleksandr Petrosyan (@tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Do we need safety abstractions over condition-variables? - long discussion about threads
  • Add file notification handler for Tramp's "smb" method.
  • Make elint obsolete (bug#78685)
  • Revert "New command 'mode-line-invisible-mode'"
  • Update NEWS with info about `fill-region-as-paragraph-function'
  • New command 'mode-line-invisible-mode'
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce check for Org in 'report-emacs-bug'.
  • VC: New incoming & outgoing diff commands (bug#62940)
• New packages:
  • ast-grep: Search code using ast-grep with completing-read interface (MELPA)
  • eca: AI pair programming via ECA (Editor Code Assistant) (MELPA)
  • flyover: Display Flycheck errors with overlays (MELPA)
  • mantra: A system for scripting and parsing activity beyond macros (MELPA)
  • mathsheet: Generate dynamic math worksheets (GNU ELPA)
  • qso: Customizable, Dynamic Amateur Radio QSO Logging (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!

• Call for Proposals open for EmacsConf 2025 (Reddit, lobste.rs)
• Emacs Carvival writing themes:
  • July: Writing Experience
  • June round-up: Take Two
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Jul 1 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/307923518/ Wed Jul 2 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Thu Jul 3 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jul 4 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #7 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/0fb2dc00-8cea-4365-a6ca-ab1a3e76f0ee Tue Jul 8 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jul 9 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 10 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jul 11 1800 Europe/Paris
• Beginner:
  • Dark mode Emacs Reference Card (@dennyhenke@social.coop)
• Emacs configuration:
  • My Emacs configuration (common parts) | Dragon’s notes (@evgandr@mas.to)
  • I just released my first package: Kakit - Kakoune/Helix like modal editing in Emacs
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs Package Development: The Emacs Reader (VI: v0.3.0 release and further triaging) - 6/29/2025, 2:55:40 PM - Dyne.org TV
  • Marcin Borkowski: Interacting with an external process via stdin and stdout
  • Xah Talk Show Ep669 emacs lisp and random (50:15)
• Appearance:
  • Rahul Juliato: Setting up Emacs native tab-bar and tab-bar-groups for a tmux-like experience (Reddit)
  • vim-tab-bar.el: Make the Emacs tab-bar Look Like Vim’s Tab Bar (Release: 1.0.8) (Reddit)
  • I created a set of macOS 26 "Liquid Glass" app icons for Emacs (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Searching and Editing in Buffers with Occur Mode - Mastering Emacs (@ljwrites@rage.love)
  • Amit Patel: Emacs: marking text
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: beframe version 1.4.0
  • Fold and Focus — Focused navigation in Org, Markdown, and Elisp (Emacs package) — Listful Andrew (Irreal)
    • Focused navigation in Markdown — Listful Andrew
• TRAMP:
  • Making TRAMP go Brrrr (Reddit, lobste.rs, Irreal)
• Writing:
  • #EXTENDEDCUT damaru+doug merritt on #emacs, #meditation, edrx's #eev #lispygopherclimate - Community Video (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
  • My 2025 Note-taking workflow | Donovan R.
  • Jakub Nowak: Goodbye LanguageTool, Hello Harper
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs Org Mode Date Range Calculated 2025_06_26_08:31:09 - YouTube (@unixbhaskar@mastodon.social)
  • How I Use Org Mode Part One · 🌀 bledleys blog (@bledley@mastodon.social)
  • Guix and Org mode tutorial (@civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)
  • Using Emacs Org-Babel instead of Jupyter(Lab) Notebooks (32:57)
  • Built a simple Emacs package to sync Quip docs with Org-mode - looking for feedback!
  • Emacs org mode changelog for your github repositories (37:36)
  • Worg Org protocol page updated for 2025 (Reddit)
  • orgfetcher: Use Python to fetch data from any external source and track it in an Org file
  • Show HN: Ten Dollar Adventure, an interactive kids' book on entrepreneurship | Hacker News - Org Mode to Twinery (interactive fiction) and back again
• Completion:
  • pulu/tidal-completion.el: TidalCycles completion for Emacs - Codeberg.org (@ahihi@anticapitalist.party)
• Coding:
  • Powershell script to Update Tree Sitter langs to latest , for emacs on Windows
  • James Dyer: Setting up a C# Language Server (csharp-ls) on an Air-Gapped Windows System
• Shells:
  • Charles Choi: Take Two: Eshell
  • Irreal: How To Stop Emacs From Asking For Aliases change eshell-bad-command-tolerance or eshell-alternate-command-hook
• AI:
  • mcp-server.el - implementing MCP servers in elisp (Reddit)
  • [ANN] - Wingman: LLM-assisted Copilot-style text completion (Reddit)
  • Announcing Claude Code IDE: MCP based Claude Code and Emacs integration (Reddit)
  • Emacs AI plugins (40:06)
• Community:
  • Ross A. Baker: Take Two: Coming Home to Emacs (@ross@social.rossabaker.com)
  • Those who switched from Vim/Neovim - what's your story? (Reddit)
  • My Emacs journey (2) - Vanilla | Donovan R. (Irreal)
• Multimedia:
  • snowy-0wl/piper-mode: High-quality text-to-speech for Emacs using the Piper TTS engine. Natural-sounding voice synthesis, multiple voice commands, and automatic setup. macOS/Apple Silicon (HN)
• Other:
  • Announcing Casual Man & Help (Reddit, Irreal)
  • View and Annotate Your PDFS in Emacs – Pdf-tools and Org-noter (04:53)
  • Emacs Reader 0.3.0 (Lambdex) (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz) - refactoring, bugfixes, removed mupdf submodule
  • Peter Tillemans: Consolidating Secrets in Pass
  • Emacs trial & editor configuration (05:05:19)
  • How to Install Emacs on Windows 11 (02:39)
  • GNU Emacs【※音無し】 (03:17)
• Emacs development:
  • 'C-u C-x .' clears the fill prefix
  • New user option vc-dir-save-some-buffers-on-revert
  • Allow automatically delete non-existent projects. (Bug#77566)
  • Load site-start.el before early-init.el
• New packages:
  • conventional: Enable conventional syntax (MELPA)
  • deflate: The DEFLATE compression algorithm in pure Emacs LISP (MELPA)
  • easy-find: Simple file searching like Nemo (MELPA)
  • elisp-dev-mcp: MCP server for agentic Elisp development (MELPA)
  • gptel-commit: Generate commit message with gptel (MELPA)
  • greger: Agentic coding environment with tool use, using Claude (MELPA)
  • hdf5-viewer: Major mode for viewing HDF5 files (MELPA)
  • helix: A minor mode emulating Helix keybindings (MELPA)
  • nerd-icons-xref: Add nerd-icons to xref buffers (MELPA)
  • simply-annotate: Enhanced annotation system with threading (MELPA)
  • slothbar: Emacs X window manager status bar (MELPA)
  • virtual-ring: Fixed size rings with virtual rotation (MELPA)
  • wilson-ng-theme: A modernized version of the Wilson theme (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!