• Help wanted:
  • Emacs Lisp Developer job posting
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Dec 17 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Dec 18 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Dec 27 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Emacs expliqué à mes enfants
• Emacs configuration:
  • Adithya Kumar - Consistent Emacs Key Bindings Across Terminals (Reddit, Irreal)
  • senchawizard/whompmacs: An Emacs configuration called W.H.O.M.P., standing for nothing at the moment. - Codeberg.org (@senchawizard@mstdn.social)
  • gregnewman/gmacs: My emacs configuration for org-mode, python, javascript and react development. (@greg@masto.gregnewman.io)
  • dotfiles/nixos/emacs/init.el at main · scovl/dotfiles · GitHub (@lobocode@hachyderm.io)
  • Hey everyone, this is my emacs configuration. I call it witchmacs. (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: ‘Emacs Lisp Elements’ book version 2
  • Video about writing the wiktionary-bro package and getting it on MELPA (1:11:26, Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • change-font.el — paste.sr.ht (@zyd@yap.zyd.lol)
  • Einar Mostad: The good side-window side
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: spacious-padding version 0.8.0
• Navigation:
  • Jeremy Friesen: Extending Core Emacs Bookmark Package
  • Srijan Choudhary: 2025-12-15-001: kill-region-or-backward-word
• Dired:
  • When your beloved Dired works as expected - dired-create-dir-or-file, dired-goto-dir-or-file
• Writing:
  • Christian Tietze: Join the All-Virtual EmacsConf December 6 and 7 and Check out My Zettelkasten Talk (Irreal)
• Writing:
  • Jour 11 : orthographe et grammaire · Emacs expliqué à mes enfants
• Org Mode:
  • Wisdom - Writing literate Emacs Lisp with Org Mode (16:52, Reddit)
  • org-transclusion-blocks: transclude from src block headers, scroll through source blocks and more (Reddit)
  • (Update) org-supertag 5.3.0: Import Property to Field (good for first-time user) (Reddit)
  • Update on my word-processor like page view minor mode for org! (Reddit)
  • Jack Baty: Finding Howm notes with Org-node
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Allow empty headlines without trainling space (was: Fwd: [PATCH] Allow empty headlines without trailing space)
  • Joar von Arndt: Handwritten notes in Emacs using Xournal++
  • Org Calendar Server (Reddit)
  • org-social.el 2.8 - notifications, post preview (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Completion:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 8: completing-read (YouTube 17:05, Reddit, Irreal)
  • Comparison of different templating packages
• Coding:
  • magit-insert-worktrees improves status buffers (Reddit)
  • Catch2 emacs mode (Reddit) - wrapper for the Catch2 C++ testing framework
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Gijs Hillenius: Emacs Gnus: specify which mail folders to see at all times
  • Email in Emacs (2024)
• Multimedia:
  • Release v0.10 · alphapapa/listen.el (music player for Emacs) (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • xenodium talking about Emacs zones (screensavers)
  • Jeremy Friesen: Extending Emacs to Play Mythic Bastionland
  • DnD Character tracking with typst & emacs (01:41)
• AI:
  • Introducing gptel-forge: LLM-Powered Pull Request Descriptions for Forge (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Expanding Ollama Buddy: Mistral Codestral Integration
  • Eric Dallo talks about ECA ~55 min (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Emacs Carnival, December 2025 - "The People of Emacs" - George Jones (@eludom@fosstodon.org)
    • Eric MacAdie: Emacs Carnival: People Of Emacs
    • Back to the egg - Emacs in the 70s · Curious Musings (@eludom@fosstodon.org)
  • why jlamothe likes Emacs
  • Irreal: What Happened To Abo-abo? - parenting
• Other:
  • NANO Calendar v1.0 (update) (Reddit)
  • tanrax/quick-weather.el: Sparkline weather forecasts in Emacs (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • ZeniesQis/screenshot-capture: Screen capture and Screenshots using ffmpeg, image-magick and scrot (@Zenie@piaille.fr)
  • Some problems of modernizing Emacs (eev @ EmacsConf 2025) (25:23)
  • posacs - dynamic module that exposes a few POSIX functions to Elisp including getenv, setenv, and unsetenv (Reddit)
  • Access infisical secrets in Emacs with infisical.el (Reddit)
  • Living inside Emacs: sending receipts to my accountant
  • I made a (rudimentary) major mode for interacting with devices
  • Marcin Borkowski: Improving Emacs screenshots
  • The Annoying Usefulness of Emacs - YouTube (@jnpn@mastodon.social)
  • Emacs and (Apple) Shortcuts (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Installing Emacs in CRUX
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Proposal: Releasing ELPA package upgrades after re-reviews (@pkal@social.sdfeu.org)
    • Re: Generic functions for VC - elisp tradeoffs between writing and debugging
  • Add NEWS and auto-load entry for antlr-mode
  • Warn about uses of the 'any' atom in rx
• New packages:
  • dired-video-thumbnail: Display video thumbnails from dired (MELPA)
  • lumos-mode: Major mode for LUMOS schema language (MELPA)
  • nael: Major mode for Lean (MELPA)
  • unison-ts-mode: Tree-sitter support for Unison (MELPA)
  • wiktionary-bro: Lookup Wiktionary entries (MELPA)
  • zk-consult: Consult integration for zk (MELPA)

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