• 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
  • 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)
• 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)
  • 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
• 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)
  • 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!