• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • 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
  • FSF Hackathon https://www.fsf.org/events/fsf40-hackathon-1 Fri Nov 21 0700 America/Vancouver - 0900 America/Chicago - 1000 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1600 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 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
  • Formation avancée (2 jours) - Paris, in-person https://emacsboost.com/ - lundi 27 au mardi 28 novembre 2025
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Nov 26 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 27 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsConf will be in less than month!
• Beginner:
  • GNU Emacs do Zero - Episódio 02 (19:18)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Configure Emacs to accept short answers (Irreal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • marcoxa/magiciel: Emacs Lisp implementation of UN*X magic(5) and file(1) handling. (@marcoxa@mastodon.social)
  • Creating an Emacs Package from Concept to MELPA (Part 1) (55:56) - rare-words.el
  • Ep712 Emacs Lisp, Move File to Parent Dir. car cdr cons, Supreme Functional Programing No Variable (01:11:25)
• Appearance:
  • Workaround to get whitespace-mode to highlight long lines with overlays
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: new Doric themes ‘doric-siren’ and ‘doric-mermaid’
• Navigation:
  • Tip about using ff-find-other-file to jump to related files
  • Irreal: Setting avy-timeout-seconds To A More Reasonable Value
• Writing:
  • Paul Jorgensen: Emacs spell check in Windows 11 & MacOS
  • Ancient Greek Tweaks in Emacs (05:01)
• Org Mode:
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Handling project in Emacs - the 2025 version (Irreal)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Showing size of Org mode subtrees
  • TAONAW: org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift (Irreal)
  • Emacs carnival: Ode to org Babel (@ericsfraga@fediscience.org)
  • How to disable GNOME notifications during org-pomodoro focus sessions
  • (Update) org-supertag: Fixes Database Corruption & Improves Node View UX
  • turning Org Social posts into RSS feeds
  • Org development: ol-bbdb: Pre-populate the description for BBDB links
• Completion:
  • Crafting Your Own Snippets with Emacs Built-In Abbrev Mode (Reddit)
  • New releases of Consult, Vertico, Corfu and more
  • vertico-timer, my opinionated approach to vertico-indexed and candidate selection (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • IDEmacs: aimed at Common Lisp and Scheme programmers, similar to Portacle or Guile Studio. (HN)
  • Simple Rust Guix Emacs development environment (Reddit)
  • eglot-header-line.el: Show language server protocol breadcrumb information in the Emacs header-line using Eglot.
  • Tip about changing magit-list-refs-sortby to sort by commit date
• Shells:
  • Open Emacs Eshell in the Current Directory (@tiang@mastodon.social)
  • Pipe to Emacs buffer | Dave’s Blog (@davemq@fosstodon.org)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Tip about setting notmuch-search-oldest-first to nil
  • Release v0.17 · alphapapa/ement.el (Matrix client for Emacs) (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Want a WhatsApp Emacs client? Will you fund it?
• Fun:
  • amadaluzia/theo.el: Theo de Raadt lives inside your Emacs and he is pissed about it.
• AI:
  • Release copilot.el v0.3.0 · small improvements (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • Stupid LLM Tricks: LLM-powered yes-or-no interpretation (Reddit)
  • Emacs lisp and gptel building custom llm tools to call emacs functions (01:15:38)
  • AI Augmented, Language Agnostic, SWE Workflow, in Emacs (37:03)
• Community:
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Burst-driven Development: My Approach to OSS Projects Maintenance
  • Thoughts on Funding Free Software Development (Reddit)
  • emacs.social is down. Is it time for… Org Social? (Reddit)
• Other:
  • Knockknock - Unobtrusive notifications for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Add a fuzzy clock to your modeline (Reddit)
  • Readonly Characters Are a Big Deal (lobste.rs)
  • ZeniesQis/screenshot-capture: An Emacs package to do Screen capture and Screenshots using ffmpeg, image-magick and scrot. (@Zenie@piaille.fr)
  • New package: dag-draw.el (draw DAGs in ASCII, SVG, DOT) on melpa (Reddit)
  • Easy Setup for Drew Adams' Essential Emacs Packages on Emacswiki - YouTube
  • A huge increase in windows EMACS startup speed
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • [PATCH 0/2] Proper XOAUTH2 support for smtpmail (Gnus pending) - Arsen Arsenović
    • Re: MS Windows menu lifecycle - Eli Zaretskii some notes on how menus are handled on Windows
  • New hideshow option 'hs-cycle-filter' for visibility-cycling with 'TAB'
  • Improve foldout-exit-fold with negative arg (bug#77370)
  • ; * etc/NEWS (Ibuffer): Announce new faces. (Bug#79786)
  • VC revert commands: Facilities to entirely delete revisions
  • Revised bindings for diff-revert-and-kill-hunk
• New packages:
  • cabal-mode: Support for Cabal packages (MELPA)
  • gptel-agent: Agentic LLM use for gptel (MELPA)
  • org-tag-tree: Define Org-mode tag hierarchies from Org subtrees (MELPA)
  • trailing-newline-indicator: Show an indicator for the trailing newline (MELPA)

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