People 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, Irreal, HN)
  • What are the must have emacs packages in August 2025? (Irreal)
  • 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:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Who moved my text? - after-change-functions (Irreal)
  • James Cherti: pre-commit-elisp – Pre-commit hooks for Emacs Lisp (Elisp) Git repositories (Github)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: show-font version 0.4.0
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: doric-themes version 0.4.0
  • mastro35/year-1984-theme: a vintage theme for Emacs (@mastro35@hachyderm.io)
• Navigation:
  • Share your tips for FAST movements and navigation
  • The Emacs Cat: My Emacs IBuffer Configuration (Irreal)
  • Buffers Are the BEST Emacs Feature (08:22)
• Dired:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Dired buffers with media overlays (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Example of changing ispell dictionary on input-method-activate-hook or input-method-deactivate-hook
  • preview-point: Local previews around point for AUCTeX preview (Reddit)
  • Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead (Irreal)
• 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
    • ActivityPub source-property example (@cwebber@social.coop)
  • A Stealth Flex: Browse Reddit at Work Using Emacs (02:16)
• Evil mode:
  • My Solution for Evil Mode: Only enable evil-normal-state in editable buffers
• 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 (Irreal)
  • 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:
  • ANSI escaping is a mess (or, why Emacs adds [] to my file?) | Kyou is kyou is kyou is kyou
  • Why Rewriting Emacs Is Hard | Kyou is kyou is kyou is kyou (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
• 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
• New packages:
  • directory-slideshow: Simple slideshows from files (MELPA)
  • indentinator: Automatically indent code (MELPA)
  • ticktick: Sync Org Mode tasks with TickTick (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!