The Emacs Carnival blog theme for November is An Ode to Org Babel. Check out last month's posts about maintenance!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Thu Nov 6 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Nov 7 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/311589597/ Thu Nov 6 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Nov 7 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Nov 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Nov 8 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #11 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/b426cd44-410e-4fa6-848e-f9c863b9c4f8 Tue Nov 11 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Nov 12 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 13 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Nov 14 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/311801687/ Sat Nov 15 1100 America/Los_Angeles
• Beginner:
  • GNU Emacs do Zero - Episódio 01 - YouTube (@lobocode@hachyderm.io)
• Emacs configuration:
  • arjen/upiv: Emacs package to insert custom variables into the use-package form with their current value. - Forge The Arjen: Beyond coding. We Forge. (@credmp@fosstodon.org)
  • FunMacs version 0.1.2 (Reddit)
  • Emacs For Writers Unit 8: Your First Configuration (06:56)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Charles Choi: Prototyping a Toolbar UI for Edebug
  • kisaragi-hiu/read-timestamp: Elisp function for reading an ISO 8601 timestamp from the user (Kisaragi Hiu)
  • Hacking on Emacs #2: Enabling forge.fedoraproject.org support for git-link (34:39)
• Appearance:
  • "Pure GTK" Emacs will now respect GNOME's dark mode toggling for drawing the title bar and widgets (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: modus-themes version 5.0.0
  • ANN: An Emacs Catppuccin theme (based on modus-themes, and now usable) (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Charles Choi: Announcing Casual Ediff (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Tip: Use delete-pair to change surroundings similar to vim-surround, or to paste only the contents of surroundings (Irreal)
• Writing:
  • Fill Commands (GNU Emacs Manual) - options for customizing (@CyrilBrulebois@mamot.fr)
• Org Mode:
  • [ANN] Contribute to Org mode during FSF40 hackathon [online], Nov 21-23, 2025
  • Tip about using org-remark for text highlights
  • efficiently parsing org-mode files (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Donald Hunter: Emacs Carnival 2025-11 — An Ode to Org Babel
    • org-babel is ROOT (@lukascbossert@mastodon.social)
    • Jakub Nowak: Org Babel for TTRPG Automation
  • Marcin Borkowski: Org mode burst timer
  • Marcin Borkowski: Beeminder Org timer
  • Listful Andrew: Append2Org — Send your clipboard to an Org file as a subtree (Bash package)
  • Sacha Chua: Playing around with org-db-v3 and consult: vector search of my blog post Org files, with previews
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: org-timeblock and compat
  • Org development:
    • ob-ditaa.el: ditaa executable, SVG output, and output type control
    • ox-odt: Add option to specify path of generated MathML files
    • ox-odt: Allow LaTeX fragment conversion from any preview method
    • ob-core: Fix noweb tangle recursive expansion
    • DND: Follow link format defined in org-attach-store-link-p
• Denote:
  • Aimé Bertrand: Quick Capture Safari content into a Denote file
• Completion:
  • Yasnippet: A Useful Templating System in Emacs (09:21)
  • Sacha Chua: consult + org-db-v3: Approximate search of my sketches using text, and a multi-source consult command for approximately searching sketches and blog posts
• Coding:
  • snakemacs: an emacs30 setup for Python and Jupyter with pixi
  • I found this helpful for getting going with Python, after frustrations with language servers (2022, Reddit)
  • Using Emacs and json-par-mode to navigate through records in a JSON file (00:47)
  • Quick Git Tip Using Magit Inside Emacs 2025_11_04_02:55:35 - YouTube
  • forgejo client fj.el 0.28: display attachments as links, add attachments, download
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Elfeed Curate Update: Two new features (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • Writing Music in Emacs - YouTube (2020)
• AI:
  • agent-shell 0.17 improvements + MELPA: OpenCode and Gwen Code, send files, send screenshots, and lots more (@xenodium@indieweb.social)
  • org-mcp: an MCP server allowing LLMs to work with Org items (Reddit
• Community:
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Emacs and mental challenges (Irreal)
  • Irreal: Living In The Browser Vs. Living In Emacs
  • Sharpening the axe (or preparing the soil for the harvest) | Quijote Libre
    • Afilar el hacha (o preparar la tierra para la cosecha) | Quijote Libre
  • Emacs Carnival: Praise the patchers
  • Sharpening the Saw with Emacs • Christian Tietze (Irreal)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Logan about fiction, conflict, escapism, and life lessons
• Other:
  • On top of Emacs' god-mode (@petes_bread_eqn_xls@mastodo.neoliber.al)
  • James Dyer: The Ping Localhost Hack for Emacs Shell on Windows
  • Listful Andrew: Creating emoji flags in Emacs Lisp and Bash
  • [ANN] gtasks.el - Google Tasks API wrapper for Emacs (MELPA, v0.2.2) (Reddit)
  • It's Fall. Time to clean up my emacs clutter. - George Jones
  • Alvaro Ramirez: time-zones now on MELPA. Do I have your support? (Reddit)
  • Jack Baty: Creating posts for Zola in Emacs
  • tusharhero: GNU Emacs needs a virtual keyboard
  • Thanos Apollo: Daily Driving a Raspberry Pi 5
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • [NSApp] Memory usage anomalies - status update - Przemysław Alexander Kamiński
      • Explanation of problem
    • Re: An idea for modifying the strategy for determining positions in byte compile warning/error messages - Pip Cet
  • Change tree-sitter query predicate names (bug#79687)
  • Handle resizing of fullscreen frames more consistently (Bug#79704)
  • Automatically toggle between dark and light mode PGTK widgets
  • 'map-y-or-n-p' now uses the minibuffer to read a char (bug#79664)
  • 'read-multiple-choice' now uses the minibuffer to read a char (bug#79664)
• New packages:
  • agent-shell: A single native shell experience to interact with agentic providers (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Goose, Codex, OpenCode, Qwen, etc.) (MELPA)
  • creamy-theme: A simple creamy theme (MELPA)
  • isl: Simple incremental search in current-buffer (NonGNU ELPA)
  • minimal-dashboard: A very minimal dashboard plugin (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, 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!