2025-09-01 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-newsPeople continue to share interesting Emacs elevator pitches. The Emacs Carnival September theme is "Obscure packages." Recommend a hidden gem!
- Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- 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
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #9 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/3421ffb7-043c-4c7a-a6cc-5aaad4a956eb Tue Sep 9 1900 CET
- OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Sep 10 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 11 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Sep 12 1800 Europe/Paris
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs bankruptcy – fix your Emacs and your life (13:13, Reddit)
- What are the must have emacs packages in August 2025?
- Ultra Ergonomic Emacs Workflow (navigation wise and Undo) (07:52, Reddit) - key-chords
- Meep: lightweight modal editing system (Reddit)
- jjba23/sss: Supreme Sexp System 3.4.8 (@sss_project@mastodon.social)
- @tennoseremel's Emacs config (@tennoseremel@gts.skobk.in)
- salvari's Emacs config (includes Python IDE configuration) (@salvari@mastodon.gal)
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Dired:
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: A quick overiew about how I write instructions in org-mode (Irreal)
- Fiddling with structural templates in Org-mode // Just a Summary (@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org)
- ]b, [b 키바인딩을 추가해 org block 단위로 점프 - (emacsian ohyecloudy) (@ohyecloudy@mastodon.social)
- Org Mode requests: [RFC] displaying the ':narrow' value in clocktable
- (Update) org-supertag: Now have a custom option to disable AI server
- Code to use Zotero links in Emacs (on a Mac)
- Zac Romero: Integrating Google Work Calendar With Emacs
- Coding:
- James Dyer: A Better Way to Indent Your Entire Buffer in Emacs?
- ddavis.io | Python & Emacs, 2025
- Jakub Nowak: Controlling Godot with Emacs
- Christian Tietze: Clickable Swift Testing Failure Messages in Emacs compile-mode
- Writing a Lisp JIT Interpreter with GraalVM Truffle | Kyou is kyou is kyou is kyou
- Jujutsu mode for Emacs (Reddit)
- Small package with extra vc-git commands: https://git.sr.ht/~sebasmonia/stubvex (Reddit)
- isamert/lab.el: Emacs-GitLab integration (@isamert@mastodon.social)
- Shells:
- Eshell + Windows + Coreutils (16:12)
- Mail, news, and chat:
- tanrax/org-social.el 1.3: mentions, replies (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
- La red social de org-mode (@Notxor@masto.es)
- Christine Lemmer-Webber / soci-el (@cwebber@social.coop) - ActivityPub posting from Emacs in 2016
- A Stealth Flex: Browse Reddit at Work Using Emacs (02:16)
- Evil mode:
- AI:
- ECA: Best AI tools for Emacs (Reddit)
- kgthegreat/protagentic: Emacs plugin for kiro like functionality - structured feature planning
- gpt-responses.el - Minimal OpenAI Responses API
- Will Schenk: Claude Code in Emacs
- MaGPT — Git Assistant for Emacs (Reddit)
- [gptel-watch] Releases v0.2.2 ==> Add feat: Flexible context extraction
- Community:
- Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-08-26 / week 34
- August Emacs Carnival: Elevator pitch:
- tusharhero: Emacs Elevator Pitch
- Emacs is like a living, breathing creature - not a relic from another era | Quijote Libre (@quijote_libre@mastodon.social)
- Eric MacAdie: Emacs Carnival: Elevator Pitch and Post-Pitch Talking Points (Irreal)
- Sacha Chua: Emacs elevator pitch: tinkerers unite
- Philip Kaludercic: An “Elevator Pitch” for Emacs: Commentary Edition
- Looking for an Emacs meetup in Boston
- Article on "Malleable software" describes what I love about emacs (Reddit)
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Alex about LSP, Elisp programming, Guix, cycling, Go game, philosophy, and SwayWM (YouTube 01:12:57)
- Other:
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
- Optimizing the Emacs Binary and Follow-up work
- Re: Should accept-process-output reliably return early? - discussion about improving throughput
- Re: [NSApp] Memory usage anomalies - continued.. - progress on memory allocator experiments
- Re: Emacs-mac as an alternative to NS - development goals
- New user option 'tab-line-define-keys'
- * doc/emacs/modes.texi (Choosing Modes): Document 'treesit-enabled-modes'.
- Errors signaled by 'emacsclient' connections can now enter the debugger.
- Document and test 'let-alist' support for indexing
- New commands for outgoing diffs including uncommitted changes
- Add edebug-bounce-to-previous-value
- Add user option to inhibit Calc startup message (bug#79143)
- Make RET choose the selected completion
- emacs-devel:
- New packages:
- directory-slideshow: Simple slideshows from files (MELPA)
- indentinator: Automatically indent code (MELPA)
- ticktick: Sync Org Mode tasks with TickTick (MELPA)
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