• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • 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 Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jan 28 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 29 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #2 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/d6225b76-8f80-46c7-bc14-35d21b0c5ef0 Mon Feb 2 1900 CET
  • ELS 2026, Kraków and online - European Lisp Symposium - May 11-12 (@ThierryStoehr@framapiaf.org)
• Beginner:
  • Primeiros passos no GNU Emacs (@iui@organica.social)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Suggestions wanted for the next version of the Bedrock starter kit
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Lisp: Editing one file twice at the same time (Irreal)
  • The Emacs Widget Library: A Critique and Case Study (Reddit, HN)
  • [16] Emacs Reader: Fixing Memory Leaks and Isearch Integration - 1/18/2026, 2:42:15 PM - Dyne.org TV
  • Re: [ELPA] New package: vui - Boris - reactive user interface; comparison with widget.el
• Appearance:
  • honmaple/emacs-maple-modeline: Beautiful emacs modeline (Reddit)
  • [ANN] show-inactive-region now on MELPA (Reddit)
  • Picking an emacs colour theme (@totherme@tech.lgbt)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: doric-themes version 0.6.0
  • How to get Emacs to look like the Pulsar Editor (02:13)
• Navigation:
  • Old New Stock: Grouping and navigating buffers using Torus
• Dired:
  • Hide unwanted files and folders in Emacs (03:45)
• Writing:
  • Chris Maiorana: The 10-Commit Rule: how git version control can improve writing quality
• Org Mode:
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: org-mode capture: menu inside a menu
  • noa ks: The eternal struggle against org's overenthusiastic keybindings
  • Org Mode Tags +Agenda: My Real Meeting Workflow – Curtis McHale (@curtismchale@mastodon.social, YouTube)
  • Chris Maiorana: Workout tracking with Org Mode bounced up to HTML file (YouTube 13:46, GitHub)
  • Cute menu-bar pomodoro timer integrated with org-mode - typester.dev (@typester@pdx.social)
  • This Org Agenda View Replaced my Meeting Notes (05:51)
  • [Prototype] org-roam-calendar: A visual and chronological browser for your notes (Reddit)
  • What’s New in Org Social! (Jan 2026)
  • Introducing org-habit-ng (needs beta testers) (Reddit)
  • How are you liking vulpea ecosystem? database layer for org-mode
  • org-agenda-api + mova: Mobile org-mode without compromises
  • connormclaud/emacs_org_roam_calendar (Reddit)
  • GerardoCendejas/ox-reveal-layouts: Professional layouts for ox-reveal (Grids, Splits, Stickers) (Reddit)
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] ensure that org-support-shift-select can conform fully to emacs defaults
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Build a flat list of HTML files out of Org Mode (@zyd@yap.zyd.lol)
  • org-social update: notifications, post previews
• Denote:
  • Tracking Time With Denote Journal and Org Clock (11:13)
• Completion:
  • Note about consult–source-… not being a command: see related commit (@wdenton@cosocial.ca)
  • Consult breaking change - options can be specified at the start
• Coding:
  • Tip about projectile-other-file-alist for switching to related files - @sigxcpu.org on Bluesky
  • A minor mode supporting Advent of Code puzzle solving in Emacs
  • ~dieggsy/scheme-ts-mode - Scheme tree-sitter mode for Emacs - sourcehut git (@ieugen@mas.to)
  • Tip about lsp-workspace-blocklist-remove
  • Rahul Juliato: Eglot with multiple LSP servers per buffer using rassumfrassum (HN)
  • Magnus: Trying eglot, again
  • Chris Maiorana: Git changes and commits in Emacs modeline (Irreal)
  • Open Jive Friday Night | More git foolishness in Emacs (21:39)
  • Hacking on Emacs #5: Allow linking the current Magit commit buffer using git-link (42:32)
• Math:
  • Plotting data with Emacs Calc (@Air4x@mastodon.uno)
• Shells:
  • Dave's blog: Tmux and the mouse
• Web:
  • Link checker for Gemini (@GF493D@mastodon.social)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Customizing The Emacs Email Experience With Mu4e | Brain Baking (@jefklak@dosgame.club)
  • E-Mails mit GNU Emacs und mu4e - GNU/Linux.ch (@gnulinux@social.anoxinon.de)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs: Updating a Mailchimp campaign using a template, sending test e-mails, and scheduling it
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: notmuch-indicator version 1.3.0
  • punchagan: Safari and invalid HTTP/2 headers
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: Visualizing and managing Pipewire audio graphs from Emacs
• Fun:
  • Cookie monster! - taxman game (@gargle@floss.social)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Toy train timetable clock
• AI:
  • sczi/opencode.el: Emacs interface to opencode - Codeberg.org
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 10: agent-shell (YouTube 36:35, Reddit, Irreal)
  • Create ComfyUI pictures straight from Emacs (01:08)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-01-13 / week 02
  • Christian Tietze: Emacs Carnival 2026-01: “This Year, I’ll …”
  • Why Emacs in 2026? 10+ Powerful Reasons Developers Still Swear By It (08:48)
  • John Rakestraw | Why plain text? (@johnrakestraw@mastodon.online)
  • Quelques années d'Emacs - (@tykayn@mastodon.cipherbliss.com)
• Other:
  • [ANN] Emacs Docs: An Emacs documentation website with more colors (and shortdoc cheat sheets, and also docstrings, and elisp-demos examples…) (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Speed Reading in Emacs: Building an RSVP Reader
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: easily set timers with TMR (YouTube 14:32)
  • [PSA] `pdf-tools` now supports continuous scrolling (experimental)
• Emacs development:
  • Disable diff-restrict-view by default
  • New minor mode center-line-mode
  • New D-Bus functions to support systemd inhibitor locks
  • New IELM option to insert newline when inside sexp (bug#80123)
  • (make-progress-reporter): Tweak wording of CONTEXT doc
  • Optionally inhibit echo area progress reporting (bug#80198)
  • Allow Ispell to save corrections as abbrevs
  • Rename VC outgoing and incoming log commands to include "-root-"
  • Add frame identifiers (bug#80138)
• New packages:
  • alabaster-themes: Alabaster themes collection (MELPA)
  • evil-insert-plus: Use insert and append as evil operators (MELPA)
  • guava-themes: A pack of plant-inspired themes (MELPA)
  • info-nav: Browse info docs with a 2 pane layout (MELPA)
  • lichess: Client for Lichess.org (MELPA)
  • pyasm-mode: Mode for editing assembler code (MELPA)
  • timu-symbol-extract: Extract symbols to org table (MELPA)
  • use-package-treesit: Automatically use tree-sitter enhanced major modes (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!