• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs: un editor del pasado para el futuro (in person) https://gpul.org/eventos/2026/emacs/ Thu Feb 5 1200 America/Toronto
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/312922157/ Thu Feb 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Feb 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Feb 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Feb 7 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Feb 11 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Feb 13 1800 Europe/Paris
• Beginner:
  • Essential Tips and Tricks for Efficiency – Emacsfr (@unixbhaskar@mastodon.social)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Post your favorite DWIM commands, packages, or own hacks
  • Using Minimal Emacs with Nix (@totherme@tech.lgbt)
  • Kickstart.emacs: Got a huge update. (Reddit)
  • Startup Changes in Emacs 31.1 The "user-lisp" Directory
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Use Batch Mode to Test Your Dot Emacs File (02:36)
  • Listful Andrew: ISO week dates in Emacs Lisp and Bash
  • Trevoke/elk: project management tool for emacs lisp - Codeberg.org (Reddit)
  • duckdb-query.el - DuckDB SQL/Elisp: query parquet, CSV, org-tables, alists in the same SQL statement seamlessly (Reddit, Reddit)
  • [17] Emacs Reader: Cursors, PALE, Canvas API and More! - 2/2/2026, 2:33:39 PM - Dyne.org TV
  • [17] Emacs Reader: Cursors, PALE, Canvas API and More! - 2/2/2026, 2:26:28 PM - Dyne.org TV
  • #80281 - 31.0.50; FR: Canvas object as display property - GNU bug report logs (@tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz)
  • pale: Picture and animation library for Emacs (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
• Appearance:
  • halych/sans-mono: Configure proportional fonts for editing text in emacs - Codeberg.org (@halych@mastodon.sdf.org)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 2.1.0
• Navigation:
  • Irreal: When Should You Use Visual-line-mode?
  • Tip about using hs-minor-mode for code folding
  • Recursion and Quitting in Emacs (07:06)
• Writing:
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs and French: Focus flycheck-grammalecte on the narrowed part of the buffer
• Denote:
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Why I use Denote?
• Org Mode:
  • Stefan van der Walt: org-mode Day Planning with Time Blocks
  • Irreal: Starting A Journal
  • James Dyer: Auto-Populating Weekly Dates in Org-Mode Tables
  • 我是如何构建这个站点的
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Org files to beautiful docx files with Pandoc (Irreal)
    • dwim-shell-command-pandoc-org-to-docx
  • PSA searching org mode notes for tags even with org roam? use 'org-match-sparse-tree' instead of 'org-roam-node-find'
  • bradmont/org-roam-tree: organize backlinks in the org-roam buffer as a tree (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • New option (org-latex-use-sans): Control using Sans as default font
    • Update all the links to savannah to use nongnu.org
    • ox-man: Add support for footer-inside and header-middle
    • org-lint: Add check for priorities
    • speed-commands: Adapt priority commands to user options
• Completion:
  • Snippy.el: VSCode/LSP snippet support for Emacs with Yasnippet. (Reddit)
  • James Cherti: ultisnips-mode.el (*.snippets files) (Github, Reddit) mode for editing Vim-compatible snippets (can be translated to Yasnippet for use with Emacs)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival February 2026: Completion
• Coding:
  • Paxedit - a complement to Paredit (Reddit)
  • Maryanne Wachter: Configuring a C Development Environment in Emacs
  • Heads-up for CIDER users: Elisp sources are now under lisp/ (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • Magnus: More on the switch to eglot
  • Marcin Borkowski: git-link
  • Mike Olson: First Week with Jujutsu VCS
• Math:
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Some Minor eplot Tweaks for CSV Files
  • Automatically Export Emacs SES Files to TSV - Lemmy.World
• Shells:
  • Charles Choi: Getting Eshell nth History to Work
• Web:
  • Converting Mozilla Firefox bookmarks to Org Mode (@totherme@tech.lgbt)
  • Linkding: Add URLs from Emacs, open bookmark in preferred browser (@mmk2410@fosstodon.org) integration with linkding self-hosted bookmarking service
  • Vibe Coding an Emacs-Style Hugo Theme | Arthur's blog (Github, HN)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • punchagan: Why my Elfeed index was 0 bytes (Irreal)
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: Queuing multiple transcriptions with whisper.el speech recognition
  • Sacha Chua: Using Silero voice activity detection to automatically queue multiple transcriptions with natrys/whisper.el
  • Rendering 30FPS Video Inside Emacs Text Buffer (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • All codes lead to Home (Reddit)
  • minad/doom-on-emacs: DOOM on Emacs (Reddit, HN)
  • lichess.el: Watch Lichess games and play against Stockfish (HN)
  • Script for getting Emacs, Emacspeak, and Elmud running on Termux (@pixelate@tweesecake.social)
• AI:
  • Evan Moses: Yak Power-Shears: LLMs are pretty good at Emacs
  • Alternative transient documentation - also discussion about using AI to generate documentation
  • James Dyer: Ollama buddy now supports cloud models! (YouTube 01:04, Reddit)
  • ECA: AI pair programming in your editor - Dallo (32:33)
  • alvarmaciel/amp-emacs: Deep integration of Sourcegraph Amp with Emacs, inspired by amp.nvim. (Reddit)
  • I tested Claude Code today - And it built a proper agent package in emacs for me. (Reddit)
  • Stefan van der Walt: Using Gemini for Code Patches in Emacs
  • So, I "vibe-coded" features missing in Backpack Emacs, yet another GNU Emacs distribution (Reddit)
  • Short HN discussion about agent-shell
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-01-27 / week 04
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Reflection on my Emacs experience
  • Amy's story behind Org Real and the boxy layout system
  • Michal Sapka: RTE - Return to Emacs (Irreal)
  • Christian Tietze: Emacs Carnival 2026-01: “This Year, I’ll …”
    • Zimblo: Emacs Carnival Jan 26: “This Year, I’ll de-obfuscate” | zimblog
    • George Jones: This Year I'll… · Curious Musings
    • Arjen Wiersma: This year, I'll…..
    • Sacha Chua: Emacs: This year, I will… / Cette année, je vais…
    • John Rakestraw | Emacs Carnival: This year, I'll …
    • Neil Mather: Emacs Carnival: This year I'll…
    • Kana: This year, I will write a shitty GUI for my Emacs clone
    • Sebastian Larsen Prehn: This Year, I'll …
    • Christian Cleberg: Emacs Carnival: “This Year, I Will…”
    • Lio Novelli: This year I'll …
• Other:
  • Sorting Lines by Fields in Emacs (02:57)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: tmr version 1.3.0
  • Irreal: Gruber On File Saving Ease
  • Irreal: Emacs Performance on macOS
  • teamtype/teamtype at emacs-plugin (@teamtype@fosstodon.org)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Some notes on stylistic sets and how shaping works
    • Trying to split feature/igc into smaller pieces
  • display-time: Add option to customize help-echo format
  • Add new input method for Tuscarora
  • New function 'truncate-string-pixelwise' (bug#80244)
  • Make diff-hunk-kill respect an active region
  • Bind 's' to diff-split-hunk in read-only diff-mode
  • New function 'checkdoc-batch' (bug#80199)
  • New key 'M-j' for 'icomplete-mode' (bug#62108)
  • New C-x v T l and C-x v T L commands (vc-log-outgoing-base, vc-root-log-outgoing-base) show corresponding revision logs
  • (minibuffer-message): Do not block while displaying message.
  • Move outstanding changes commands from 'o' to 'T'
  • Add 'select-frame-by-id' and 'undelete-frame-by-id' (Bug#80192)
  • Support cons cell for 'line-spacing'
  • New bindings for vc-revert
  • Flymake support for yaml-ts-mode.
  • Add JSON path utility command to json-ts-mode
  • (garbage-collect-heapsize): New function
  • * lisp/tab-bar.el (tab-bar-split-tab): New command.
• New packages:
  • dialog-mode: Major mode for editing Dialog files (MELPA)
  • duckdb-query: DuckDB query results as native Elisp data structures (MELPA)
  • eldc: Emacs Lisp Dictionary Converter (MELPA)
  • lazy: Lazy evaluation library (MELPA)
  • magit-pre-commit: Magit integration for pre-commit (MELPA)
  • org-window-habit: Time window based habits (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!