If you want to review packages before upgrading them, check out the new package.el feature for reviewing diffs (Reddit, Irreal).

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/312727757/ Tue Jan 13 1800 Europe/London
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jan 14 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 15 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/312735622/ Sat Jan 17 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jan 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 22 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Jan 24 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • package.el - Package diff/review feature has landed (Reddit, Irreal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Small experiment with a template library (Reddit)
  • The Emacs Widget Library: A Critique and Case Study - Boris Buliga
  • vui.el: Declarative, component-based UI library for Emacs (Reddit)
  • New testing framework: e-unit.el
• Appearance:
  • Peek as you go (Reddit) - highlight symbol on double space
  • [ANN] show-inactive-region now on MELPA (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • James Dyer: A single function ripgrep alternative to rgrep
• Dired:
  • Chris Maiorana: The Emacs Way: Listing Directory Contents (Irreal)
  • Create Directories in Emacs Dired (Tips) (01:26)
  • New package dired-video-thumbnail on MELPA for image-dired style thumbnail viewing for video files (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Mike Olson - Automatic Arrow Characters in Emacs (@mikeozen@mastodon.social)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Making fill-paragraph more flexible
• Org Mode:
  • Keeping appointments from my Org agenda updated | Dave’s Blog (@davemq@fosstodon.org)
  • Creating weekly diary-style timestamps in Org Mode | Dave’s Blog (@davemq@fosstodon.org)
  • 200ok: Building Consistent Habits (Just in Time for New Year's Resolutions)
  • Tip about starting a list with - 0:00:00 :: for automatic org-timer-item handling
  • Emailing org-mode "TODO" Reminders with XProc
  • [BLOG] #25 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, December 10, 19:00 UTC+3 - Ihor Radchenko (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Behaviour of ‘org-agenda-clock-goto’ with ‘repeated’ tasks
  • Org development:
    • ob-core.el: Respect no/nil value in :wrap header argument
    • org-html-style-default: Add lowercase c to src languages
    • Rename org-edit-src-content-indentation to org-src-content-indentation
    • Revert "Clocktables: Indent inline tasks under their heading"
    • org-table.el: Cache invisibility spec for `org-string-width'
• Completion:
  • consult-ripfd: live finding + searching with an fd + rg consult mashup (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Emacs minor mode for bacon background compiler code checker (@cehteh@social.tchncs.de)
  • How to insert pairs without fancy packages in Emacs (03:49)
  • Announcing Casual HTML & CSS (Irreal)
  • Mike Olson: Announcing eglot-python-preset
  • eglot-python-preset: Python LSP support with PEP-723 scripts for Emacs (@mikeozen)
  • Open jive Friday night | Getting Python into Git (40:20)
  • Chris Maiorana: Selective staging in Magit
  • Tip about using magit-diff-visit-prefer-worktree
  • I made a pre-commit companion for Magit (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • harald/terminal-frame: Dedicated terminal frame for Emacs' M-x shell - Codeberg.org (@HaraldKi@nrw.social)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • James Endres Howell: Custom sorting of mu4e headers (Irreal, @jameshowell@fediscience.org)
  • punchagan: An offline-friendly Elfeed web UI
• Evil mode:
  • I use Emacs' cursor model in evil-mode's normal state. (19:29)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Jack Baty: Dropping back to Doom Emacs
• Fun:
  • Download Anime From Nyaa from within Emacs (04:08)
• AI:
  • Fritz Grabo: How I Talk to Books and Source Code
  • pi-coding-agent: AI-assisted coding in Emacs (HN)
• Community:
  • Christian Tietze: Emacs Carnival 2026-01: “This Year, I’ll …”
  • My People of Emacs – Curtis McHale (@curtismchale@mastodon.social)
  • Eric MacAdie: 2025-12 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • What is your insanely hidden official shortcut that people can never find out?
• Other:
  • gvalson/mir.el: An incremental reading package for emacs. (@gvalia@merveilles.town)
  • life-calendar.el – Your entire life as a grid of weeks (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 9: World times (Irreal, YouTube 06:32, Reddit)
  • Listful Andrew: Restful #03 - history, ordinal dates
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: my ‘oxford-calendar’ package
  • abaj8494/bytelocker.el: Buffer and Region Encryption Plugin for Emacs with 3 Cipher implementations (Reddit, HN)
  • Running emacs daemon with style – Ahoi Blog (Irreal)
  • How have I only just discovered detached.el??
  • Using gtrash from Emacs · mkt3’s Notebook
  • Slides from a university course on interactive programming environments (@elb@social.sdf.org)
  • Complete Build: Emacs From Source, Reproducible Builds in Docker, WSL, and macOS (41:57)
  • Emacs Build Dependencies: Everything You Need Installed First (18:26)
  • Emacs AppImage Builder - Portable Emacs with Native Integration
  • emacs-plus now offers pre-built binaries - native compilation included
  • Bring your Emacs to Android (Reddit)
  • android emacs 30.2 (Reddit)
  • Emacs on Android as eBook reader and language learning tool
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: master 68418691267: In Elisp manual warn about unpredictable changes of point (Bug#79927) - Richard Stallman - clarifying points
    • Re: Package Keywords Ontology - Juri Linkov - current package keyword frequency
    • Re: Alternative handling of constants in .eln files - Andrea Corallo - garbage collection tradeoffs
    • Re: mode-line untrusted content indicator - Stéphane Marks
    • Tail recursion (was: bug#78872: Byte compiler: warning message lacks line and column numbers) - Stefan Monnier - challenges
    • Re: elpa.git and nongnu.git have moved - Collin Funk (no changes needed for most users, this is mostly a dev thing)
    • Re: LLM-coauthored contributions - Eli Zaretskii - probably best not to take risks for now
  • Update cursor display using Xterm escape sequences
  • Bind 'apropos-user-option' to C-h u
  • Allow 'package-isolate' to fetch missing packages
  • Allow reviewing packages before installaion
  • shadowfile.el uses eqhemeral buffer names now
  • External Tramp methods can be used in multi-hops
• New packages:
  • consult-vulpea: Use Consult in tandem with Vulpea (MELPA)
  • git-sync-mode: Automatically commit and sync local changes (MELPA)
  • go-template-mode: Major mode for Go templates (MELPA)
  • life-calendar: Display your life in weeks (MELPA)
  • mock-fs: Virtual filesystem for Emacs Lisp tests (MELPA)
  • pdffontetc: Display `pdffont' and other PDF information (MELPA)
  • pi-coding-agent: Emacs frontend for pi coding agent (MELPA)
  • show-inactive-region: Highlight the inactive region (MELPA)
  • vulpea-journal: Daily note interface for vulpea (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!