2025-11-10 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news- Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- 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
- London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/311781816/ Tue Nov 18 1800 Europe/London
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Nov 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 20 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Nov 22 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
- Formation fondamentale (2 jours) - Paris, in-person https://emacsboost.com/ - lundi 24 au mardi 25 novembre 2025
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs For Writers Unit 9: Installing Packages (06:43)
- Hacking on Emacs #4 (38:06) - Making sure window configuration stays the same after finishing Magit commit (when using `current-window-only`)
- Paul Jorgensen: OS Abstraction with Emacs
- emacs literate org mode config for your init.el (59:54)
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- no-distraction.el - my attempt to reduce visual noise in code using tree-sitter (Reddit)
- Impress other writers with productive transparency (slightly hacky but works for me) (Reddit)
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: modus-themes version 5.1.0
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 2.0.0
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ‘standard-themes’ version 3.0.0
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: complete examples for Modus themes derivatives
- Magnus: Making a theme based on modus
- tusharhero: ANN: Modus Gotham is here
- Navigation:
- Dired:
- Org Mode:
- Emacs For Writers Unit 7: Advanced Text Markup in Org Mode (08:19)
- Sidebar for Emacs Org Mode (Reddit)
- Brainiac v1.1 released (Reddit) - minimal GTD workflows, notes, and task management using Org Mode
- Arch Install for Doom Emacs in org mode…
tel:custom link typename:custom link type for defining HTML anchors- Org Mode requests: [RFC] How do you use org-export-with-entities? (was: question: protect latex macros for export)
- Listful Andrew: Org tables in comments and docstrings: in Emacs Lisp and Bash (Irreal)
- Markdown to Org | Zenie’s Qis (@Zenie@piaille.fr)
- alvarmaciel/org-screenshot-grim: Take screenshots in org-mode using grim (Wayland)
- org-social.el 2.5: poll improvements, infinite scroll pagination, random order, etc. (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Release CIDER 1.20 ("Lanzarote") - small improvements (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io) - Clojure
- Eglot, Ruby LSP and StandardRB
- Emacs eglot and language servers for auto completion (25:08)
- snakemacs: an emacs30 setup for Python and Jupyter with pixi (Reddit)
- Emacs Indigo: bindings for the Indigo cheminformatics library (Reddit)
- Effective Golang in Emacs (34:18, Reddit, @skybert@hachyderm.io)
- home/.config/emacs/recipes/go-rcp.el at master · Crandel/home · GitHub (@crandel@fosstodon.org)
- Swift development - a complete package for building iOS/macOS apps using Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
- George Huebner: disaster.el + zig cc = Budget godbolt
- gfm-alerts.el: Syntax highlighting for quote blocks that become alerts on GitHub (Reddit)
- Tip: Customize magit-margin-settings to show more info in the magit margins
- Web:
- Multimedia:
- Fun:
- AI:
- Community:
- Other:
- How I am Deeply Integrating Emacs (YouTube 19:53, Reddit, lots of discussion on HN, lobste.rs)
- A bunch of small tools to enhance the built-in help-mode (Reddit)
- Why I Use Emacs for Ontologies (and How to Memorize a HUGE Knowledge Graph) [AMA #1] (19:30)
- Eldoc-mouse demo for emacs lisp (00:18)
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
- Re: emacs-30 a71ba898db8: ; Update the MinGW URLs in w32 FAQ and nt/INSTALL - Eli Zaretskii challenges of mingw environment setup
- Inhibiting frame parameter changes - martin rudalics
- Re: An idea for modifying the strategy for determining positions in byte compile warning/error messages - Stefan Monnier
- Re: Extending seq.el with splice functionality - Eli Zaretskii - expanding/splitting seq.el?
- Zone multi-window and -frame support
- ; * etc/NEWS (hs-hide-block-behavior): Explain the replacements.
- (diff-refine-threshold): New custom var (bug#79546)
- Don't discard empty string arguments from emacsclient
- Unify constants that are equal-including-properties in compiler
- Add option to auto-refresh the lossage buffer. (Bug#79732)
- hideshow: Rewrite 'hs-special-modes-alist'
- emacs-devel:
- New packages:
- dag-draw: Draw directed graphs using the GKNV algorithm (MELPA)
- fuzzy-clock: Display time in a human-friendly, approximate way (MELPA)
- maccalfw: Calendar view for Mac Calendars (MELPA)
- org-mcp: MCP server for Org-mode (MELPA)
- typst-preview: Live preview of typst (MELPA)
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