I'm experimenting with commentary and formatting! =) The Emacs Carnival blogging theme of elevator pitch seems to have resonated with a lot of people: 18 entries so far, which is perfect timing because there's also a new online book for Emacs beginners. Also, if you're looking for a "Can your text editor do this?!" sort of example, there was a lively discussion about clipping videos with Emacs on Hacker News. (Be prepared for bewilderment, though.) On the other hand, if you're here for serious stuff and want a technical deep dive, check out Yuan Fu's post on Emacs tree-sitter integration. Here are the other links:

• Help wanted:
  • London Emacs meetup looking for a meeting room
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 27 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 28 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Sep 2 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/310417272/ Thu Sep 4 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Sep 5 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Sep 5 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • cloudstreet-dev/Emacs-for-Goodness-Sake: Emacs for Goodness' Sake
• Emacs configuration:
  • standard-keys-mode: A minor mode for emulate "modern" and common keybindings from modern editors (Reddit)
  • `OpenEmacs`, humanized and intuitive, simple Emacs configuration, guides users to use Emacs immediately. (Reddit)
  • Yi Tang: Multiple Working Emacs
  • [OC] package-retry.el - Automatic retry for failed package installations (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • [ANN] grid.el - Two-dimensional layout system for Emacs (Release 0.1) (Reddit)
  • [10] Emacs Reader's Development: Working on Partial & Tiled Rendering - 8/24/2025, 3:42:15 PM - Dyne.org TV
• Appearance:
  • mastro35/year-1984-theme: a vintage theme for Emacs (@mastro35@hachyderm.io)
  • Book like grayscale light and dark themes for GNU Emacs
  • Kitty/Emacs/Gnome theme switching
• Navigation:
  • Jakub Nowak: Make Neotree "Tab-Local"
  • Quickly navigate in man pages, using emacs, neovim or w3m. (Reddit) - g for subsection, r to follow link
• Org Mode:
  • Stop renting your life - own it - Org Mode and tasks
  • TIL: Org Mode Can Sort Lists Automatically! C-c ^ (org-sort)
  • Randy Ridenour: Creating Attendance Sheets with Org Mode
  • Marcin Borkowski: Counting Org mode headlines
  • Screenshots into emacs org files in Windows | Mark's Project Blog (@mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)
• Completion:
  • completions-overlay.el Overlays for completion candidates (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • A new powerful Emacs workflow (a Neovim alternative) (Reddit, YouTube 12:51)
  • Review of Emacs tree-sitter integration (Reddit)
  • Announcing subtree-package: interactively manage packages as git subtrees (Reddit)
• Math:
  • BEESi: Emacs and R with Tree-sitter and LSP (@schuemaa@ecoevo.social)
  • A proof of concept to put a better Emacs UI on top of Gnuplot (Reddit, @kickingvegas@sfba.social)
• Web:
  • TIL that EWW can launch POST requests directly
• Multimedia:
  • Marcin Borkowski: 2025-08-18 Cutting clips from videos with Emacs (Hackaday)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs as your video-trimming tool (170 comments on HN including this humorous one-upping, lobste.rs, Reddit, Irreal, Github)
• Fun:
  • My other email client is a daemon (Reddit) - mu4e and nethack-el
  • Listful Andrew: llamascii art
  • Mail Amusements (GNU Emacs Manual) (HN)
• AI:
  • A tiny upgrade to the LLM model picker (@xenodium@indieweb.social)
  • Wiring Claude Code Into Emacs - System Crafters Live! (01:45:40)
  • S1E8: Show And Tell: Efrit: When Steve Gives Claude Full Access To 50 Years of Emacs Capabilities (40:14)
• Community:
  • New: search.emacslife.com (Announcement)
  • Eric MacAdie: 2025-08 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • Emacs Tip Jar: Weekly Prize Fund for People Who Do Good Emacs (Reddit)
  • Elevator pitches:
    • M-x apropos Emacs: Elevator pitch (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
    • Emacs – The Editor of the Revolution (@realCheGnuevara@mastodon.social)
    • Charles Choi: Emacs Elevator Pitch (Reddit, Irreal)
    • Jeremy Friesen: Elevator Pitches for Emacs (Irreal)
    • Ross A. Baker: Emacs Elevator Pitch
    • bare metal (the emacs essay) | wax banks
    • Emacs is violent passion (Reddit, lobste.rs)
    • My Elevator Pitch for Emacs
    • emacs elevator pitch
    • Emacs carnival: Elevator pitch (or How I learned to love RSS for the fediverse)
    • Emacs as an alternative computing paradigm
    • Adventures with Emacs - high12noon blog
    • Elevator pitch for Emacs (Discurso de ascensor para Emacs)
  • Interviews:
    • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Dimos about Emacs interconnectedness, collective work, and The Conspiracy Club (YouTube 01:12:57)
    • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Ronnie about free software, privacy, parenting, and life in Iraqi Kurdistan (YouTube)
    • Amin Bandali: Lispy Gopher Climate with screwlisp
• Other:
  • Tip about using rectangular selection to copy columns from ASCII tables
  • rtrppl/emacs-trans: Emacs wrapper for translate-shell. (@laotang@mastodon.social)
  • pivaldi/emacs-passfile: Very simple Emacs package allowing to view and edit securely a GnuPG encrypted file (@_PI_@fosstodon.org)
  • Termux APK signed for Android Emacs, works on Android 15 (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Feedback Directed Optimization of Emacs With Clang For Great Justice (Reddit)
  • emacs-devel:
    • Should we add a section about "Semantic Linefeed Filling" to the Emacs user manual?
    • Dmitry and Spencer volunteering to help with threads, yay
    • More Nextstep details Re: Emacs-mac as an alternative to NS
    • Copyleft considerations re: LLVM and MacOS
    • use-package: Discussion of potential :hook-after/:hook-add/:hook* keyword
  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'savannah/master' into master-android-1
  • * etc/NEWS: Mention 'lua-mode' merge.
  • Disallow string data resizing (bug#79784)
  • Have project-switch-to-buffer use a distinct completion category
  • Add NEWS entry for project-switch-buffer change from bug#77312
  • Use better temporary file names under 'file-precious-flag'
  • flymake: stop trying to automatically fall back to margins
  • project: Improve pruning of zombie projects.
  • Speed up JSON parsing by not maintaining line and column (bug#79192)
  • Rename some incoming & outgoing diff commands
• New packages:
  • bracket-face: A face for brackets (MELPA)
  • cond-let: Additional and improved binding conditionals (MELPA)
  • electric-list-directory: Lightweight popup directory browser (MELPA)
  • eprolog: Native Prolog engine implementation (MELPA)
  • lobsters: A Lobsters client (MELPA)
  • ol-bible: Org Link support for Bible Passages (MELPA)
  • org-srs: A flexible spaced repetition system for Org-mode (MELPA)
  • parenthesis-face: A face for parentheses (MELPA)
  • project-cmake: A cmake backend for project.el (MELPA)
  • rcirc-mentions: Log mentions of your nick or keywords in a separate buffer (GNU ELPA)

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!