• 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)
  • 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) - 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
• 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!