There were lots of Emacs-related discussions on Hacker News, mainly because of two posts about Emacs's extensibility: an Org Mode example and a completion example. This guide on connecting to databases from Org Mode Babel blocks started a few discussions. There were a couple of Emacs Carnival posts on obscure packages, too. Also, if you want to present at EmacsConf 2025 (great way to meet like-minded folks), please send your proposal in by this Friday (Sept 19). Thanks!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • London Emacs (in person): M-x drinks https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/310874314/ Tue Sep 16 1800 Europe/London
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Sep 17 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Sep 24 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 25 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Sep 27 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs meetup in person in Novosibirsk, Russia ichernyshovvv@gmail.com - Sept 27 20:00 - 23:00 Asia/Novosibirsk
• Emacs configuration:
  • dandrake/casual-eww: Emacs transient "casual" menu for the emacs web browser eww (@ddrake@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Emacs workflow ideas: How I use Hydra in a minor mode (15:50, Reddit)
  • ZeniesQis/Emacsn: Installation and multiple configuration management for Emacs - Codeberg.org (@Zenie@piaille.fr)
  • Everything with Emacs (@jnpn@mastodon.social) - vianney.leboutellier's Emacs configuration
  • meow-edit/meow: Yet another modal editing on Emacs / 猫态编辑 (recent discussion on HN)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Sharing some thoughts on page-ext and building your own alternatives to packages (Reddit)
  • Listful Andrew: Mondo — World's scripts, languages, places in any language (Emacs package)
  • Listful Andrew: Vexil — Create flags of countries and subdivisions (Emacs package)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs and dom.el: quick notes on parsing HTML and turning DOMs back into HTML
  • Ep699 Emacs Lisp defvar-keymap, define-keymap , part 2 (01:01:15)
  • [12] Emacs Reader's Development: Working on Partial & Tiled Rendering (Part III) - 9/14/2025, 2:31:27 PM - Dyne.org TV
  • How to Create and Test an Emacs Tree-Sitter Major Mode (emacs-devel)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs vim-tab-bar.el: A Vim-Inspired Emacs Tab-Bar That Automatically Adapts to Any Theme (Release 1.0.9)
• Navigation:
  • localauthor: Managing Emacs Tabs with 'tab-sets.el'
• Writing:
  • Powerful emacs hacks: patching markdown-mode (HN) - getting images from a different directory
  • Powerful emacs hacks: paste images to markdown from clipboard
  • Irreal: Semantic Line Breaks
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs: a paradigm shift (Reddit, HN, HN) - automatically sorting in Org Mode
  • Jeremy Friesen: Dynamic Org-Mode Block to List Books Read
  • (Update) org-supertag 5.1: Implement Interactive Schema View for Tag Management (Github)
  • Using Emacs Org-Mode With Databases: A getting-started guide (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • RangHo/svelte-preprocess-org: Svelte preprocessor for Org, the most superior markup language. (Reddit)
  • Sync Emacs Org Agenda and Google Calendar with the Org-Gcal Package (06:30)
  • Generating a website/blog from Org files with Hakyll
  • Org Social Preview Generator
• Coding:
  • dotemacs/lisp-comment-dwim.el: Do What I Mean mode for toggling comments in Lisp (@dotemacs@mastodon.xyz)
  • tomekw/doom-ada: Doom Emacs Ada language module with syntax highlighting, LSP and Alire support (HN) - also usable from vanilla Emacs
  • Elisp For Clojure Developers
  • Clojuredocs.el from within emacs
  • A baseline indent rule for tree-sitter major modes (Reddit)
  • Integrate Emacs and Jira with Ejira3
  • James Dyer: Debugging Software Breakage with Git Stash and Emacs
  • Magit 4.4, Forge 0.6, Ghub 5.0 and Transient 0.10 released
• Shells:
  • Tip about using exec-path-from-shell-initialize to set the PATH
• Web:
  • Making use of Webmentions // Just a Summary (@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org)
  • Teaching Emacs to recognize thing-at-point (17:53)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Getting Started With Doom Emacs (16:34)
  • Doom Emacs And Creating A Literate Config (24:06)
• Fun:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Emacs Artist clock
• AI:
  • (Release) SuperChat: A friendly, Claude Code–style chat UI for gptel in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Introducing acp.el (Reddit)
    • Alvaro Ramirez: So you want ACP (Agent Client Protocol) for Emacs?
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-09-09 / week 36
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: port19 about RSI, keyboard ergonomics, dictation tools, and geriatric nursing
  • Lobsters interview with Susam
  • Tell me you use emacs (without telling me you use emacs) (Irreal)
• Other:
  • Tip about using M-x decipher to solve cryptoquotes (single alphabet substitution ciphers)
  • Improved emacsclient-wrapper.sh. to be used as $VISUAL, $EDITOR
  • buffer-terminator.el: Safely terminate Emacs buffers automatically to enhance performance and reduce clutter in the buffer list (Release 1.2.0) (Reddit)
  • Announcing Numeri - an Emacs package for Roman number translation (Reddit, Irreal)
  • stripspace.el: Ensure Emacs Automatically removes trailing whitespace before saving a buffer (Release 1.0.2) (Reddit)
  • arkoinad/autopaste: Autopaste clipboard to current buffer - polls the MacOS clipboard with pbpaste
  • September Emacs Carnival: Obscure Packages
    • Emacs Obscure Package: transient — Where Are The Wise Men? (@mikehoss@appdot.net)
    • An obscure Emacs Package: Chart.el
    • An obscure Emacs package: decide | Dave’s Blog (@davemq@fosstodon.org)
    • Obscure packages (Paquetes raros)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • long-term issue with emacs-devel search not showing recent messages
    • Another alternative Emacs logo proposal; side discussion about librsvg and Rust
  • Introduce auth-source-ignore-non-existing-file
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Fix last change.
  • Update to Unicode 17.0
  • Ignore non-existing or empty files in auth-sources
• New packages:
  • async1: Unroll chain of async callbacks, parallel and sequencial (MELPA)
  • blue: BLUE build system interface (MELPA)
  • consult-gh-nerd-icons: Nerd icons Integration for consult-gh (MELPA)
  • doxymacs: Emacs integration with Doxygen (MELPA)
  • meep: Lightweight modal editing (MELPA)
  • quick-fasd: Integration for the command-line tool `fasd' (MELPA)
  • thanks: Say thanks to the authors of all your installed packages (MELPA)
  • verse-mode: Major mode for Verse (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!