Hello folks! Last month's Emacs Carnival about completion had 17 posts (nice!), and Philip Kaludercic is hosting this month's Emacs Carnival: Mistakes and Misconceptions. Looking forward to reading your thoughts!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #3 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/3147760f-1a8b-4996-9b3c-2773d7d360ca Mon Mar 2 1900 CET
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Thu Mar 5 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Mar 6 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/313161406/ Thu Mar 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Mar 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Mar 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Mar 7 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Mar 10 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Mar 11 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs - Protesilaos Stavrou - FLOSS@Oxford https://ox.ogeer.org/event/computing-in-freedom-with-gnu-emacs-protesilaos-stavrou Thu Mar 12 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Mar 13 0200 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Mar 13 1800 Europe/Paris
• Beginner:
  • Emacs: (My) First Steps « Here's The Beef (@BeefGriller@dice.camp)
  • Emacs is Installed! Try These 3 Ways to Start It Now (Zero Init! | CLI Hacks) (2) - [7-ish minutes]​ (07:11)
  • Emacs Is Installed! Your User Directory Explained (.emacs.d Deep Dive) (3) - [5:36]​ (05:36)
  • Emacs Is Installed! How Can I Create A Shortcut That Just Starts This Baby up? (5) - [10:12]​ (10:12)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • truename-cache: Efficiently de-dup file-names (Reddit)
  • andros/async-http-queue-fetch-urls-el - Lightweight, parallel HTTP fetching library for #emacs using url-retrieve (native) with configurable concurrency limits (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • [09] Emacs Reader's Development: Working on Text Selection and Highlighting - 8/10/2025, 3:03:09 PM - Dyne.org TV (@reeltubes@mstdn.party)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Redux: Soft Wrapping Done Right with visual-wrap-prefix-mode
• Navigation:
  • Elegant implementation of other-window-mru
  • Emacs Redux: Preview Regex Replacements as Diffs
• TRAMP:
  • Christian Tietze: Media Transfer Protocol Tools
• Writing:
  • Sacha Chua: Using speech recognition for on-the-fly translations in Emacs and faking in-buffer completion for the results
• Denote:
  • Cycle through Denote journal entries, trash empties (@zyd@yap.zyd.lol)
• Org Mode:
  • Dave's blog: Calculating RAGBRAI training actual vs. planned mileage (@davemq@fosstodon.org)
  • Prettifying org-agenda (Reddit)
  • Elsa Gonsiorowski: Emacs Carnival: Org Mode Completions
  • Sacha Chua: Sorting completion candidates, such as sorting Org headings by level
  • org-repeat-by-cron.el v1.1.2 released - compatibility with built-in repeaters and habits, deadline recurrence
  • Exporting org-roam notes to Hugo and Quartz
  • colonelpanic8/org-window-habit - A more flexible habit system (Reddit)
  • lordnik22/org-link-battery: It's the missing battery using bookmark+ adding jump-to- and completion-candidates to org (Reddit)
  • pjones/org-inline-image-mode: Update displayed images as an org-mode buffer changes. (@devalot@hostux.social)
  • skx/org-people: Contact management for org-mode
  • lordnik22/org-link-battery: using bookmark+ adding jump-to- and completion-candidates to org (Reddit)
  • schrenker/org-agecrypt: Encrypt org entries with age - Codeberg.org (Reddit)
  • Thanos Apollo: Gnosis 0.7.0 Release Notes - knowledge management system
  • Migrating website to orgmode - roosnaflak.com (@kf@sonomu.club)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: I think I found what crashed my Emacs on macOS
  • Org development:
    • ox-latex: Add `org-latex-default-example-environment'
    • ox-latex: Pass :options to #+begin_example
    • org-mouse: Add actions to priority menus
    • org-mouse: Separate tag and priority menus
• Completion:
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival Feb 2026 wrap-up: Completion
  • Eric MacAdie: Emacs Carnival: Completion
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs completion and handling accented characters with orderless
  • Using Pinyin initials with orderless in Emacs (@SouthFox@foxsay.southfox.me)
  • A Year Without Vertico - System Crafters Live! (01:14:56)
• Coding:
  • Moving to Structural Diffs | Trying out Difftastic (01:29:57, @abcdw@fosstodon.org)
  • Keybinding for easily comparing with upstream in Magit
  • Emacs Redux: So Many Ways to Work with Comments (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • [EMACS LAB #1] Do zero a uma IDE para programar em C (parte 1) (01:00:27)
  • yaml-language-server added CRD auto-detection (Reddit)
  • calsys456/lisp-semantic-hl.el: Semantic Syntax Highlighting for Common Lisp & Elisp (Reddit)
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Setting up Emacs for OCaml Development: Neocaml Edition (Github, HN)
  • I'm amazed by how good emacs is for game development (Irreal)
  • overcast-software/glnt-ts-mode: emacs lsp-glint (Reddit)
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Building Emacs Major Modes with TreeSitter: Lessons Learned (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • LuciusChen/clutch: MySQL, PostgreSQL & SQLite; paginated result browser, record view, inline editing, schema browser, and REPL. (Reddit, @Lucius_Chen)
• Math:
  • symbol-cruncher: Computer algebra system for computations in differential geometry, built on top of GNU Maxima and maxima-interface.
• Shells:
  • cashmeredev/kitty-graphics.el: Display images in terminal Emacs (emacs -nw) via the Kitty graphics protocol. (Reddit)
  • Eschewing Zshell for Emacs Shell (2014, HN)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • andros/hackernews-modern-el (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • martianh/mastodon.el 2.0.9, quote system, optional desktop notifications (@mousebot@todon.nl)
• Multimedia:
  • noa ks: Engraving sheet music with lilypond
• AI:
  • Joar von Arndt: Vibe-coding Brings the Power of Emacs to Everything
  • Christian Tietze: Emacs Complete: Feedback Loops in Emacs, Feedback Loops in Computing
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Pros and cons of using LLM for patches beyond simple copyright (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Org mode, agentic coding and ekg - YouTube
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 12: agent-shell + Claude Skills (YouTube 26:02, @xenodium@indieweb.social, Reddit)
  • How I use agents in emacs: agent-shell + persp-mode + git worktrees (Reddit, Doom Emacs config)
  • 037 Ollama Buddy - In-Buffer responses with in-line inspection #emacs #ollama (01:28)
  • James Dyer: Ollama Buddy v2.5 - RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Support
  • copilot.el 0.4 is out with many improvements! proper LSP, select model, balance parentheses (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-02-24 / week 08
  • Who remembers XEmacs?
  • Common Desktop Environment experience (XEmacs, Unix) in your browser (Reddit, Reddit, Irreal)
  • Eric MacAdie: 2026-01 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • Emacs Carnival March 2026: Mistakes and Misconceptions
  • Goodbye #emacs #emacsnews (01:09) Emacs Elements
• Other:
  • Emacs Internal #01: is a Lisp Runtime in C, Not an Editor | The Cloudlet (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
  • rossabaker/iec-mode-line.el: display buffer size in IEC units in the mode line (@rossabaker.com, @ross@social.rossabaker.com)
  • GitHub - srs.el: Spaced repetition system for emacs. (BETA) (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Some notes on EIEIO vs cl-defstruct
  • Teach Emacs on MS-Windows how to export frame screenshots
  • New variable 'multiple-terminals-merge-keyboards'
  • Allow more fine configuration of package retention
  • Add option to keep previous package versions on upgrade
  • New function multiple-command-partition-arguments
  • Compare circular lists in 'equal' without error (bug#80456)
• New packages:
  • citar-typst: Typst support for citar (MELPA)
  • conflict-buttons: Clickable buttons for smerge-mode conflicts (MELPA)
  • d2-ts-mode: Tree-sitter support for D2 (MELPA)
  • dorgygen: Source code documentation in org-mode (MELPA)
  • elfeed-ai: AI-powered article summarization for elfeed (MELPA)
  • lisp-chat: Emacs client for Lisp Chat (MELPA)
  • lit-ts-mode: Lit-aware JS/TS modes with tree-sitter support (MELPA)
  • org-people: Work with a contact-list in org-mode files (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!